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Son of Usher's ex-wife dies from injuries

Usher was married for two years to Tameka Raymond, the mother of Kile Glover.

• Kile Glover, 11, died of heart failure, sources close to the family say
• He was on an inner tube that was struck by a personal watercraft on July 6
• He had been receiving treatment for a serious head injury

Atlanta

The former stepson of singer Usher Raymond has died after more than two weeks in the hospital following a boating accident on a Georgia lake, sources close to the family said Saturday.

Kile Glover, 11, was riding with a 15-year-old girl on an inner tube that was being pulled by a pontoon boat in Lake Lanier July 6 when a personal watercraft crashed into the children, according to an accident report from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

Kile suffered a serious head injury and was flown by helicopter to Children's Healthcare at Egleston in Atlanta.

He died of heart failure Saturday, the sources said, disputing other reports that the child was taken off life support.

Jeffrey Hubbard, a 38-year-old Atlanta man, was driving the personal watercraft, the investigation report said. Investigators concluded that alcohol was not involved in the incident.

CNN Atlanta affiliate WSB, citing the DNR, reported that Hubbard and the children were part of the same group on a lake outing.

The boy's mother, Tameka Raymond, was married to Usher for two years. They have two children together, ages 3 and 4. They divorced in 2009.

Kile's father is Ryan Glover, the president of Bounce TV, a fledgling television network targeting African-American audiences. He is also a former executive with Turner Broadcasting, the parent company of CNN.

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John Atta Mills, President of Ghana, Dies at 68

BAMAKO, Mali — John Atta Mills, the president of Ghana, died on Tuesday at a military hospital in the capital, Accra, five months short of finishing his first term in office. He was 68

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News of his death came on state-run television. The government gave no cause of death, but Mr. Atta Mills had recently returned from eight days of medical treatment in the United States.

Mr. Atta Mills presided over Ghana’s continuing and, for the region, unusual experiment in stable democracy. He was elected with a margin of less than 1 percent at the end of 2008.

That the narrowness of the victory did not set off an explosion of violence, as had occurred after elections in Ivory Coast and Kenya, was widely viewed as evidence of the maturity of democracy in Ghana, which in 1957 became the first African nation to declare independence. Mr. Atta Mills was planning to seek re-election in December.

“His historical significance is in the
consolidation of democracy in Ghana,” said Rod Alence, a Ghana expert at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. “To have someone like Mills, who was never known as being charismatic, was crucial in setting up Ghana in a two-party system.”

In Mr. Atta Mills’s time in office, Ghana became a significant oil exporter. But it was the nation’s political stability that helped win a prize making Ghana the envy of its neighbors: being the site of the first visit by President Obama to sub-Saharan Africa, in 2009.

Mr. Mills was succeeded by the country’s vice president, John Dramani Mahama, who was immediately sworn in, a further indication of the solidity of the nation’s institutions.

“There’s a constitutional system in place,” Mr. Alence said. “Fifteen or 20 years ago, if the president died, you wouldn’t know who was coming.”

Mr. Atta Mills was born on July 21, 1944, in Tarkwa in western Ghana. He earned a law degree from the University of Ghana in 1967 and a doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He was also a Fulbright scholar at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif.

Mr. Atta Mills wrote extensively on taxation, and later was Ghana’s commissioner of internal revenue. A laid-back former law professor, he became the protégé of Jerry Rawlings, a fiery political figure who was his opposite.

Mr. Rawlings, a populist military officer who seized power in coups in 1979 and 1981 and won election in 1992, chose Mr. Atta Mills as his vice president in 1997. “The Prof,” as Mr. Atta Mills was known, taught law for 25 years. He lost elections in 2000 and 2004 before winning in 2008.

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Syria army attacks Aleppo as tanks move in

Syrian forces have launched ground and air attacks against rebels in parts of Aleppo, activists say.

The BBC's Ian Pannell, in Aleppo, has seen skirmishes, with a number of rebel fighters wounded or killed.

Rebels with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) say they have repelled an army incursion and destroyed tanks, but there is no independent verification. 

Western nations have warned of a potential massacre in Aleppo, Syria's most populous city.

Early on Saturday morning, activists said Syrian tanks began moving in on south-western districts of the city.

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They said the bombardment of rebel-held areas intensified in the early morning, with military aircraft overflying the city at low altitudes.

Many casualties have been reported, our correspondent says, and a steady stream of vehicles carrying families is leaving Aleppo.

Syrian state television said that rebels, having failed in Damascus, were now trying to turn Aleppo into a den for their terrorism.

Appeal to medics

The rebels say they have destroyed a number of tanks, but their claim cannot be independently verified.

Our correspondent says the rebels are vastly outgunned and outmanned by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Activists have reported violent clashes around the Salah al-Din and Hamdanieh quarters near the centre of Aleppo.

An emergency call has gone out to doctors to come to Salah al-Din and help if they can, our correspondent says.

On Friday, the Red Crescent suspended some of its operations in Aleppo because of the heavy fighting.

Rebels had been stockpiling ammunition and medical supplies in preparation for the expected assault.

Both sides are braced for heavy casualties.

"Rebels are stationed in narrow streets, in which fighting will be difficult," a government security official told the AFP news agency.

Rebel gains

The fighting comes after two weeks during which rebels made significant gains.

On 18 July, an attack at Syrian security headquarters in Damascus killed four senior officials, including the defence minister and President Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law.

The Free Syrian Army (FSA) took control of several parts of Damascus before being driven out by a government counter-offensive.

The rebels also seized several border crossings with Turkey and Iraq.

There has been fighting around Aleppo for the past week, with the government deploying fighter jets and helicopter gunships to beat back the rebels.

Until recently, Aleppo and Damascus had been relatively free of the violence that has wracked other parts of the country.

Earlier this week, thousands of government forces were moved from the border with Turkey to join fierce fighting in Aleppo, activists said.

On Friday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the Syrian government to halt its offensive and demanded a clear statement that chemical weapons would not be used under any circumstances.

Syria has implicitly acknowledged that it has chemical weapons but says it will not use them against its own people, only against foreign invaders.

The former head of the UN monitoring mission in Syria, Maj Gen Robert Mood, said it was "only a matter of time" until President Assad was ousted.

On Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that at least 19,106 people had been killed since March 2011. The UN said in May that at least 10,000 people had been killed.

Syria blames the violence on foreign-backed "armed terrorist gangs".

In June, the Syrian government reported that 6,947 Syrians had died, including at least 3,211 civilians and 2,566 security forces personnel.

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