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  Ruben Dias wins vote in advance of Manchester City team-mate Kevin De Bruyne and Tottenham's Harry Kane; Nine City players obtained votes which accounted for 50 per cent of whole votes cast; Fran Kirby named FWA Women's FOTY earlier this month. Manchester City's Ruben Dias has been topped Football Writers' Association (FWA) Footballer of the Year for the 2020/21 season. The Portugal defender picked up extra votes than Man City team-mate Kevin De Bruyne and Tottenham striker Harry Kane, to declare the honour. Manchester City's excellence on their way to the Premier League title this season used to be mirrored in the balloting as 9 of Pep Guardiola's players picked up votes which accounted for 50 per cent of the whole votes cast. Reflecting on his award, Dias said: "It's a massive privilege, I'm very, very happy. I should no longer have executed it besides the success of the team, barring all and sundry in the group deserving this award. Only via th

  Paul Farrell, 55, stored a diary of threats and bribes used to hold one of his victims underneath control, Wood Green Crown Court heard. Farrell admitted seventy six offences in opposition to eight victims, from 1985 to 2020. He have to spend at least 18 years in jail. He used an region of the health facility for abuse however did no longer goal patients. Prosecutors linked Farrell, of Camden, north London, to at least five hundred cases of abuse, though they estimate the actual determine is "likely to be in the thousands". His 35-year marketing campaign of abuse protected tried rape, sexual assault of a baby below thirteen and making indecent pix of children. Farrell, who pleaded responsible at a preceding hearing, acted as a babysitter to human beings he had befriended in order to obtain get entry to to their children. He saved a diary of threats and bribes made to one of his victims, who was once aged 12 when the abuse began. To quit the boy from telling every person abo

  Twenty-nine years ago, much less than a 12 months after he had taken the bench, Justice Clarence Thomas joined a dissent calling the landmark opinion Roe v. Wade "plainly wrong" and an "erroneous constitutional decision." Over the years Thomas would say Roe had "no foundation in the Constitution" and name out the court's abortion precedents as "grievously wrong." He additionally took purpose at challenges to the Second Amendment, accusing decrease courts and his very own colleagues of thumbing their noses at the proper to endure arms, calling it a "disfavored right." Now Thomas is seventy two years historic with a head of grey hair and he is anticipating a new season on a 6-3 conservative majority court. The justices have agreed to hear a case subsequent time period that critics -- and some supporters -- say is intended to intestine Roe. They will additionally hear a Second Amendment case that ought to increase gun rights. And Tho

 Gretchen Whitmer Michigan governor apologized Sunday after curiously violating state-mandated social distancing recommendations at an East Lansing bar and grill. It used to be the ultra-modern pandemic-related misstep for the Democratic governor, who waited weeks to reveal partial small print of a non-public jet time out she took to go to her father in Florida after two of her pinnacle aides headed south as coronavirus instances surged in Michigan and residents have been advised towards touring south for spring break. A picture circulated on social media of Whitmer with a giant team of unmasked humans at an East Lansing bar-restaurant, The Landshark Bar & Grill, the Detroit Free Press stated Sunday. The Free Press suggested that photo, which suggests Whitmer seated with about a dozen, used to be posted on social media by means of one of the attendees, however later deleted. "Throughout the pandemic, I've been dedicated to following public fitness protocols," Whitmer

 India grew to become solely the 0.33 usa to file 300,000 Covid-19 deaths on Monday amid developing fears about a doubtlessly deadly fungal contamination putting some of these who have battled the virus. Over 8,800 whole instances of the so-called black fungus, acknowledged as mucormycosis, have been recorded throughout India, India's Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Sadananda Gowda, stated in a tweet Saturday. Although Gowda did now not share the reliable quantity of deaths triggered with the aid of mucormycosis, the Associated Press pronounced that neighborhood media discovered greater than 250 humans have died as a end result of the disease. India recorded over 4,454 Covid-19 deaths Monday, turning into solely the 0.33 u . s . a . in the world to attain over 300,000 whole deaths, after the United States and Brazil, in accordance to reliable data. It additionally suggested 222,315 new instances on Monday, including to a complete of over 26 million cases. Mucormycosis has re

  People of Myanmar descent in US demand less assailable motion towards navy leaders’ February electricity snatch and focus of civilian government. The US-based activist addressed the Myanmar neighborhood in New York City, which had gathered at Union Square to protest towards February’s army coup. The electricity clutch ended a quick scan with democracy and eliminated civilian chief Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD), which gained a landslide victory in November’s election; a end result the army says is fraudulent. The coup sparked a substantial protest motion and a brutal crackdown, with the navy nevertheless unable to impenetrable full manage over the u . s . a . extra than three months later. While in prison, Nay Myint used to be subjected to harsh remedy together with bodily torture. “Between my legs they put iron shackles for two years,” he said, which brought about everlasting harm to his left leg. “But I believed I used to be in the proper position. My

  A group, which was once launched at the weekend, Asiwaju Volunteers Solution 2023, has referred to as on the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to contest for the presidential election in 2023. The crew is additionally mobilising Nigerians to aid its initiative to trap the former governor of Lagos State to contest in the election. The team Director-General, Hon. Abiodun Ogidan, at a press convention to launch its initiative in Lagos, stated though Tinubu had no longer declared his intention to contest the election, the crew used to be working in advance of time to mobilise Nigerians for the national leader of APC to actualise his ambition of succeeding President Muhammadu Buhari. According to him, “We are a crew aiding Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s 2023 ambition. We are coordinating all different businesses in this cause. Everybody is a volunteer. We are on floor in all the states of the federation. So we are encouraging different organizations

  The UK will struggle to attain its climate change goals except extra power and cash is put into nearby hands, say a crew of metro mayors and council leaders. The influential figures have written to the PM calling for "further and faster" motion to shield the environment. They say the pandemic has proven that local leaders can get matters done. The authorities stated councils and mayors had "a pivotal role" in decreasing carbon emissions. Labour's Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Steve Rotherham, the Metro Mayor of Liverpool and the Conservative leaders in Hampshire and Leicestershire are amongst the signatories. They say barring a locally-led approach, the UK will hostilities to attain its world-leading local weather trade targets. Ministers have dedicated to slicing carbon emissions with the aid of 78% by way of 2035 in contrast to 1990 levels, and to end up carbon impartial - or internet zero - by way of 2050. That will contain matters like swi

  The Kano State Fire Service, yesterday, printed that no fewer than sixty four persons, together with eight firefighters, sustained countless tiers of burns from a petroleum tanker explosion at a filling station in Sharada region of the state. Confirming the incident, spokesperson of the Fire Service, Saminu Abdullahi, stated the explosion involving the tanker with variety plate NSR 183 XW passed off when the tanker used to be offloading its product at the filling station. Abdullahi stated the victims have been rushed to the Murtala Muhammad Hospital. He said: “We acquired a misery call at about 16:20 hrs Saturday night from Malam Sha’abu Umar and NCC in Sharada Gadar Yanmata, Kano, informing us of a petroleum tanker with wide variety plate NSR 183 XW carrying 6,600 litres of petrol concerned in fireplace outbreak whilst offloading the product. “The furnace used to be added beneath manipulate through our guys at 16:50 hours. After a quick while, one of the filling station staff, Ahmed

  A black equal rights activist is in a quintessential circumstance in hospital after being shot in the head in south London yesterday. Police are appealing for facts after Sasha Johnson, 27, was found with life-threatening accidents in Southwark at about 3am on Sunday morning. In a announcement on its Facebook page, the Taking The Initiative Party, a new political team she was once part of, said: "It is with great sadness that we inform you that our very own Sasha Johnson has sustained a gunshot wound to her head. "Sasha has constantly been actively battle for black humans and the injustices that encompass the black community, as nicely as being each a member of BLM and a member of Taking the Initiative Party's executive management committee. "Sasha is additionally a mom of three and a strong, effective voice for our people and our community. "Let's all come collectively and pray for Sasha, pray for her recuperation and exhibit our assist to her family and