11 People Are Killed In Fire At A School For The Blind In Uganda

The report included copies of letters sent to the officials by the Judiciary Committee earlier this year, asking for 'all documents and communications' to get to the bottom of how the open letter was cooked up. 

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The East African nation has suffered a string of deadly school fires in recent years, a cause of concern for education officials in a country where classrooms and dormitories are often crowded, and there's usually no firefighting equipment in place. 

In the brief time since listing, Made.com has sent out three profit warnings and lost its former chief executive Philippe Chainieux and its chief financial officer - and it has lost £773 million of its market value.

Senior Republicans claimed the Bureau 'downplayed' the scandal of Hunter's foreign business deals and potential illegal activity in the weeks before the 2020 presidential election and 'even colluded with social media platform Facebook to suppress information.'

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee claim the FBI 'downplayed' Hunter Biden's foreign business deals in the weeks before the 2020 election. One photo taken by Hunter and obtained from his laptop shows Hunter with two prostitutes.

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Reflecting recent non-recurring costs, volatile trading and an expectation of no near-term improvement in discretionary big-ticket demand nor in new customer acquisition, the group forecast a 15 per cent to 30 per cent fall in full year gross sales.

'The cause of the fire is currently unknown but so far 11 deaths as a result of the fire have been confirmed while six are in critical condition and admitted (to hospital),' the Ugandan Police Force said on Twitter.

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Bosses of the store - which has its head office in London and employs about 650 people - said they have decided to 'temporarily suspend new customer orders' to preserve value for the company's creditors.

The committee is still demanding answers from more than 50 top current and former intelligence officials on why they labeled Hunter Biden's laptop 'Russian disinformation' in an open letter ahead of the election. 

Parents gather at the Herona hospital where injured students receive treatment following a fire in a dormitory building at the Salama School for the Blind at the Herona Hospital in Kisoga Town, near Kampala, Uganda October 25, 2022

'Most of the dead are children at the school and our sympathies go to the parents,' Internal Affairs Minister General Kahinda Otafiire said, adding that the school has been cordoned off as a 'crime scene' and vowing there would be a full investigation.

But the signatories to the letter, which include former Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper and ex CIA directors Mike Hayden, Leon Panetta and John Brennan, have not retracted or revised their statements.

The Judiciary Committee report also rounded on one recently-retired FBI official Timothy Thibault, a senior agent in the Washington Field Office, citing Bureau whistleblowers who claim he was 'allegedly part of the effort to suppress evidence damaging to the Biden family in the weeks before the 2020 presidential election.'

The report noted scandalous details revealed from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop, including a $3.5million wire from the mayor of Moscow's widow, thousands of dollars Hunter paid 'to individuals involved in human trafficking and gadgetinku organized prostitution', his controversial board seat with a Ukrainian gas company, and the Biden family's $10million business deal with a Chinese company with close links to the country's communist regime.