Ghana Newspaper Headlines for Tuesday, 9th of November, 2021.
1) UK tabloid starts appeal against privacy ruling on Duchess Meghan letter
A British tabloid began an appeal on Tuesday against a high court judge’s ruling in favour of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, in her privacy and copyright action over the publication of a letter she had written to her estranged father. Meghan, 40, sued Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the Mail on Sunday, for printing parts of the letter she wrote to Thomas Markle in August 2018 three months after her marriage to Queen Elizabeth’s grandson Prince Harry.
On Tuesday, the paper launched a three-day appeal against his decision, saying the judge should not have treated the letter as an “intimate communication” between Meghan and her father, and had reached wrong conclusions on other issues.
2) ‘Fearless’ man tossed into jail after robbing judge’s farm
A young man Ibrahim Bashiru Imoro has been sentenced to 60 days imprisonment for stealing plantain belonging to a magistrate judge. The convict, a driver’s mater and resident of Asamankese, went into the farm of the magistrate court judge Her Worship Felicia Blagogee to steal three bunches of plantain.
However, he was unlucky as in the process of jumping the wall to escape, a man hawking drugs raised an alarm, and drew the attention of residents. He pleaded guilty to the charge with the justification that he was hungry hence his reason for stealing bunches of the plantain.
3) Taiwan says Chinese forces capable of blocking its key harbours and airports, warns of ‘grave’ threat
China’s armed forces are capable of blockading Taiwan’s key harbours and airports, the island’s defence ministry said on Tuesday, offering its latest assessment of what it describes as a “grave” military threat posed by its giant neighbour. China has never renounced the use of force to bring democratic Taiwan under its control and has been ramping up military activity around the island, including repeatedly flying war planes into Taiwan’s air defence zone.
Taiwan’s defence ministry, in a report it issues every two years, said China had launched what it called “gray zone” warfare, citing 554 “intrusions” by Chinese war planes into its southwestern theatre of air defence identification zone between September last year and the end of August. Military analysts say the tactic is aimed at subduing Taiwan through exhaustion, Reuters reported last year.
4) Bitcoin, ether scale new peaks on Tuesday as flows pour in to crypto
Bitcoin and ether made record peaks in Asia trade on Tuesday, with enthusiasm for cryptocurrency adoption and worry about inflation driving momentum and flows into the asset class.
Bitcoin rose as high as $68,564 in Asian afternoon trade and ether , the second-biggest cryptocurrency by market value, earlier hit $4,825. Both have more than doubled since June and added nearly 70% against the dollar since the start of October.
5) Pogba ruled out of France’s World Cup qualifiers due to injury
Midfielder Paul Pogba has been ruled out of France’s World Cup qualifiers against Kazakhstan and Finland after suffering a right thigh injury, the French federation (FFF) said on Monday. The Manchester United player was seen leaving Monday’s training sessionwith team doctor Franck Le Gall.
“Paul Pogba is forced to withdraw from France’s next two games at the Parc des Princes against Kazakhstan and against Finland in Helsinki,” the statement read. He is being replaced in the squad by AS Roma’s Jordan Veretout.
