As the Italian senate was deciding to expel Berlusconi following his conviction for tax fraud, the man himself was addressing a rally of his supporters outside his home in Rome.
His wife, Patience, led the rally with a song asking God to guarantee his victory.
Back in Yenagoa, crowds cheered as Jonathan ended his rally.
"Right now we're having a little bit of a war in Washington," Paul said at the rally on Friday.
Of all the senators who attempted Wednesday to rally support for the doomed Manchin-Toomey background check amendment, Connecticut's Democratic freshman representative, Chris Murphy, probably faced the greatest temptation to borrow the moral authority of the Newtown families.
They did rally to a degree on this occasion, with a goal in the 41st minute as Tom Soare's testing delivery was turned into the net by McPake.
Police trucks with mounted water cannon watch over "freedom square", the name given to an open field in downtown Harare by MDC supporters who held what was described as the country's biggest ever election rally there.
On Friday, two bombs exploded at an election rally in Diyarbakir, killing three and wounding hundreds of others.
As director of the charity New Harvest, Datar works to connect and rally those exploring all manner of alternatives to conventional, mass-produced animal products.
Related: Two explosions hit Kurdish political rally in Turkey But many in Batman, a religiously conservative region, are indignant about the president's blatant use of Islam to rally his base.
On Thursday, a mob attacked HDP supporters in the eastern city of Erzurum before an election rally.
