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A law banning abortion from as early as six weeks into pregnancy has come into effect in the US state of Texas. It bans abortions after the detection of what anti-abortion campaigners call a foetal heartbeat, something medical authorities say is misleading. The law, one of the most restrictive in the country, took effect after the Supreme Court did not respond to an emergency appeal by abortion providers. Doctors and women’s rights groups have heavily criticized the law. It gives any individual the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past the six-week point. The so-called “Heartbeat Act” was signed into law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in May. But rights groups, including Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), then requested that the Supreme Court block the legislation.  

  Japan has put a batch of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine on hold after a foreign substance was found in a vial. A pharmacist saw several black particles in one vial of the vaccine in Kanagawa Prefecture, according to authorities. Some 3,790 people had already received shots from the batch. The rest of the batch has now been put on hold. It comes less than a week after Japan suspended the use of about 1.63 million Moderna doses due to contamination. The pharmacist found the black particles while checking for foreign substances before the vaccine’s use. The jab’s domestic distributor has collected the vial suspected to be contaminated. Local media reports say there is no evidence so far of any health hazards caused by the potentially contaminated vaccine. Takeda Pharmaceutical, which sells and distributes the vaccine in Japan, had just last week put three batches of the vaccine on hold after “foreign materials” were found in some doses of a batch of roughly 560,000 vials. Spani...

Ten-year-old Ifunanya is currently battling for her life in an undisclosed hospital in Abia State after she was allegedly scalded with hot water by her employer, Ojiugo David. Punch Metro learnt that the victim lived with David at their residence on Aba Road, in the Umuahia area of the state. It was alleged that the suspect on Sunday boiled water and mixed it with pepper. She was reported to have forced Ifunanya to drink it. A witness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the water scalded the lips of the victim and destroyed her voice box. The source said, “The woman is fond of accusing the girl of different atrocities and using that opportunity to beat her. Ifunanya’s body is full of different marks and wounds from the beating she always received from her. “The last Sunday’s own was the height of it when she boiled water with pepper and forced her to drink the water. “When she realised the extent of the damage she had done to the girl, she took her to a chemist in th...

An Edo State High Court, presided over by Justice Ohimai Oviageli, has remanded three suspected kidnappers for allegedly conspiring to kidnap a family.  Justice Oviageli ordered the remand of the suspects: Bright Emumwen, Evans Osariemen and Chukwudi Anyanwu, in Sapele Road Correctional Centre pending when legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecution, Edo State would be received. In an exparte order marked charge No: B/CD/1495M/2021, it was alleged that the suspects, among other charges, conspired among themselves, to kidnap one Sunday Onofua, his wife, patience Onofua and their son, Samuel Onufua, all of Okpagha Community, off Benin-Auchi Road Benin City, Edo State. The presiding Judge, after hearing the prosecution, I.E. Ekibade, ordered that the case file be duplicated and sent to the Director of Public Prosecution of Edo State for Legal Advice. The Judge thereafter adjourned the case to the 13th of September, 2021.

Former The Real Housewives of Atlanta star, NeNe Leakes' husband, Gregg Leakes, has died from colon cancer at the age of 66.  "Today the Leakes family is in deep pain with a broken heart. After a long battle with cancer, Gregg Leakes has passed away peacefully in his home surrounded by all of his children, very close loved ones and wife Nene Leakes." "We ask that you pray for peace and strength over their family & allow them to mourn in private during this very very difficult time." publicist and family friend Ernest Dukes said in a statement on Wednesday.  The sad news comes days after NeNe revealed that Gregg was losing his battle with cancer while speaking at The Linnethia, her lounge in Atlanta, Georgia. "My husband is transitioning to the other side," she said. NeNe, 53, first revealed in June 2018 that Gregg had been diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer but as of May 2019, he was cancer-free. In June, NeNe said his cancer had r...