Ecuador’s president to boycott Americas summit over Cuba’s exclusion
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By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, April 2, 9:47 PM

QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa says he’s decided to boycott this month’s Summit of the Americas in Colombia because Cuba is not invited.

Correa made the announcement in a letter he sent Monday to the host president, Juan Manuel Santos.

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He took a swipe at the United States, which had rejected Cuban attendance.

Correa called that veto intolerable, the United States “hegemonic” and the U.S. blockade of Cuba “inhumane.”

Correa is the only one of 34 invited presidents to turn the invitation down.

He had proposed last month a boycott of the April 14-15 summit by presidents of the leftist ALBA block the includes Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua.

By Peta Thornycroft
GWERU- A prostitute has appeared in court charged with assault after she bit the penis of a client who refused to pay her. Wadzanai Marimo, 34, admitted the assault of one of her regular clients, Brian Shumba, 38, at Gweru Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.

Prostitute ‘bites penis off client’
According to police, the pair had been drinking together at a nightclub in Gweru, central Zimbabwe, on Monday night before going back to Miss Marimo’s house. In the bedroom, a dispute broke out after Mr Shumba allegedly refused to pay Miss Marimbo for her services, magistrate Florence Nago heard.
Miss Marimo then bit the end off Mr Shumba’s organ, leaving him bleeding profusely, before spitting it out in her garden.
Several hours later, the unfortunate patron was found unconscious and taken to the Gweru Provincial Hospital. On Tuesday, he shuffled into court, in obvious discomfort and to a chorus of giggles to give evidence about his injuries.
Police assistant Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko said he could confirm that a “34-year-old woman bit off her boyfriend’s male organ” on Monday night at her home. Ms Marimo will be sentenced this week. The Telegraph

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