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L Devine: 'Coronavirus delayed my tour so I'm touring on social media instead'

Last week, singer L Devine became one of   the many musicians affected   by the spread of coronavirus when her European tour with Fletcher was postponed. "I saw the response... everyone's been a bit nervous," she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat from her home in Newcastle. "So I thought: 'How can I put a smile on people's faces when we're all a bit out of the loop and keep everyone safe?" The answer? An "online tour" where "social media sites are different venues". Skip Twitter post by @LDevineMusic L Devine ✔ @LDevineMusic Sending you loads of love girl!! https:// twitter.com/findingfletche r/status/1237396835435716609  … FLETCHER ✔ @findingfletcher europe / uk i promise i’ll make this up to you. please read 293 5:09 PM - Mar 10, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 24 people are talking about this Report End of Twitter post by @LDevineMusi...

Uganda's Kanungu cult massacre that killed 700 followers

Judith Ariho does not shed any tears as she recalls the church massacre in which her mother, two siblings and four other relatives were among at least 700 people who died. Exactly 20 years ago, in south-western Uganda's Kanungu district, they were locked inside a church, with the doors and windows nailed shut from the outside. It was then set alight. Two decades on, the horror of the event is still too much for Ms Ariho, who appears to only be able to cope with the trauma by closing herself off from the emotion. Image caption This still from archive footage shows the ruins of the church in the wake of the fire The dead were members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God - a doomsday cult that believed the world would come to an end at the turn of the millennium. "The end of present times", as one of its books phrased it, came two-and-a-half months later, on 17 March 2000. Twenty years later, no-one has been prosecuted in connection w...