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US President Joe Biden's trip to Belfast overshadowed by terror alert after 'strong' intelligence of plans to attack discovered

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US President, Joe Biden's visit to Northern Ireland next week has been overshadowed by a terror threat after a 'strong' intelligence of plans to attack was discovered.   Mr. Biden will arrive on Tuesday evening ahead of a day of commemorative events marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which was signed on April 10, 1998.   The peace deal was a diplomatic feat that created powersharing in the province and brought 30 years of bloodshed largely to an end. However, police in Stormont fear that dissident Republicans could launch attacks the day before.   Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) chiefs said the force had received 'strong' intelligence of plans to carry out terror attacks against officers in Londonderry on Easter Monday.  On Thursday, PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Bobby Singleton said the force had received 'strong' intelligence that dissidents are planning to launch terror attacks against officers on the bank ...

Rapper Diddy says he was just 'joking' when he said he pays singer Sting $5k a day for sampling his song

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  Diddy has said he was making a joke when he said he pays singer Sting $5k a day for sampling Every Breath You Take on his 1997 hit song Missing You.    Days back, the rapper and producer had tweeted that he pays Sting $5,000 a day in royalties for sampling the 1983 single Every Breath You Take on his 1997 hit I'll Be Missing You. Diddy was reacting to a clip from a 2018 interview with The Breakfast Club that was shared on Twitter Wednesday by Black Millionaires.   In the clip, Sting, 71, estimated he made about $2,000 a day from royalties from the song.   That's when Diddy re-shared the clip and wrote, 'Nope. 5K a day. Love to my brother @officialsting!'   The post quickly went viral, and on Friday April 7, the Grammy-winning artist tried to set the record straight.    'I want y'all to understand I was joking!' the Bad Boy For Life artist wrote. 'It's called being facetious! Me and @OfficialSting have been friends for a long time! He ...

Joe Biden to overturn ruling against abortion pill

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  US President Joe Biden has called a federal judge’s decision to suspend approval of an abortion pill as an “unprecedented step in taking away basic freedoms from women.”   “My administration will fight this ruling,” Biden said in a statement issued by the White House on Friday, April 8. The ruling, if it were to stand, makes every regulated drug vulnerable to “these kinds of political, ideological attacks,” Biden said.   “The lawsuit, and this ruling, is another unprecedented step in taking away basic freedoms from women and putting their health at risk,” he said in a statement.   But, in an illustration of how deep the fracture on abortion runs in US society, a judge in Washington state moments later ruled in a separate case that access to the drug must be preserved in more than a dozen states.   The duelling of legal opinions, along with the appeals, means the issue is almost certain to end up before the Supreme Court.   The conservative-domin...