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Why I Don’t Celebrate Birthdays, Serena Williams Reveals Former American tennis player Serena Williams asserts that she does not celebrate her birthday because she belongs to the Jehovah’s Witnesses sect. Although she turned 42 on Tuesday, September 26, Williams will not be celebrating her birthday as her family does not believe in that tradition. TennisUpToDate reports that the 23-time Grand Slam champion and her sister, Venus Williams, were raised as Jehovah’s Witnesses, a subsect of Christianity, as they both followed their mother, Oracene Price, in converting to the religion in the early 1980s. An important aspect of that belief is…

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The junta in Burkina Faso, which toppled a military regime to gain power, has announced that there was a coup attempt. In a statement, the junta said an attempt by some army officers to seize power and plunge the country into chaos was thwarted. “The dark intention of attacking the institutions of the Republic and plunging our country in chaos… investigations will help unmask the instigators of this plot.” “Officers and other alleged actors involved in this attempt at destabilisation have been arrested and others are actively sought,” read the statement from Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo, spokesman for the regime.…

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