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World markets dive as Trump sparks trade, North Korea worries

Global stocks sank Wednesday after US President Donald Trump said he was not satisfied with talks that are aimed at averting a trade war with China. Equities were also dented by poor eurozone economic data, and as Trump cast doubt on a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “Trump (is) continuing to drive uncertainty over global trade,” said analyst Joshua Mahony at trading firm IG. “European markets are following their Asian counterparts lower, as a pessimistic tone from Trump is compounded by downbeat economic data,” he added. Markets had surged Monday after US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said they had agreed to pull back from imposing threatened tariffs on billions of dollars of goods, and continue talks on a variety of trade issues. However, Trump has declared that he was “not satisfied” with the status of the talks, fuelling worries that the world’s top two economies could still slug out an economically pain...
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British PM names new minister for Northern Ireland.

British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed Karen Bradley as Northern Ireland Secretary on Monday, shortly after James Brokenshire resigned from the post due to ill-health. The switch, part of a long-awaited Cabinet reshuffle by May, comes nearly a year to the day since the collapse of the once-troubled province’s semi-autonomous government. Bradley, 47, has been serving as culture secretary since July 2016, after first entering parliament in 2010. Brokenshire resigned in a letter to May on Monday morning, as she began a reboot of her team, revealing he needed surgery. “I have a small lesion in my right lung which needs to be removed. Clearly, my long term health and my family are my priorities and I intend to proceed with surgery at the earliest opportunity,” he wrote. Brokenshire, 50, took to Twitter later in the day to express his appreciation for messages of support. “Standing down will allow me to focus completely on my family, my health and recovering fro...
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Coutinho completes 160-million-euro Barcelona move.

Philippe Coutinho officially joined Barcelona on Monday, completing a move from Liverpool thought to be worth 160 million euros ($192 million), making it the third richest transfer in history. Coutinho, 25, signed a five-year contract in a ceremony alongside Barca president Josep Maria Bartomeu. But minutes before he put pen to paper, the club said a thigh injury would delay his debut until the end of January. Barca coach Ernesto Valverde has predicted the Brazilian will comfortably fit into a team already containing global superstar Lionel Messi. In a video message on Sunday showing Coutinho posing for photographers at the Camp Nou wearing a Barcelona jacket, he said: “I want to play, win trophies and make the supporters happy. Those are my objectives. “Barca fans, I’m here now. It’s a dream come true!” Coutinho said he was excited about playing alongside Messi, Luis Suarez and Andres Iniesta. He described them as well as club stalwarts Gerard Pique and Sergio...
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You’re a “little man’’, Chelsea’s Conte berates Mourinho.

Chelsea manager Antonio Conte continued his ongoing feud with Jose Mourinho on Saturday by calling the Manchester United manager “a little man”. Mourinho made a pointed comment about match-fixing during the week, a reference to the four-month suspension Conte was handed in the 2012/2013 season. His offence was his failure to report match-fixing at his previous club Siena. He was later cleared by an Italian court of any wrongdoing. “I think when you try to hurt a person, especially if you know very well the truth of what happens, the court proved my innocence. “When you do this it means you are a little man,” Conte said after Chelsea’s 0-0 FA Cup third-round draw at Championship side Norwich City. “But this is the not the first time. He does this in the past and he continues to do this in the present.” Mourinho and Conte have never been friends but their relationship deteriorated this week after Mourinho spoke about some managers behaving “like a clown” on t...
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US police shot and killed 987 people in 2017.

Police officers shot and killed nearly 1,000 people in the United States in 2017, slightly more than the previous year, according to a tally published on Monday by The Washington Post. A total of 987 people were fatally shot by US police last year, up from 963 in 2016 and down from 995 in 2015, the Post said. The newspaper has been logging details of shootings by police in the United States since 2015, tracking local news reports, public records and social media. The use of deadly force by US police has attracted increased attention in recent years highlighted by the high-profile slayings of a number of unarmed black men. Nineteen unarmed African-American men were killed by US police in 2017, up from 17 in 2016 but down from 36 in 2015, according to the Post. Black males nevertheless continue to be shot at disproportionately high rates, the newspaper said. Black men, both armed and unarmed, accounted for 22 percent of all people shot and killed by US police l...
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Conjoined Gaza twins separated in ‘successful’ Saudi surgical operation.

Conjoined twin girls born in the blockaded Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip were separated in “successful” surgery in Riyadh Monday, the state-run Saudi Press Agency said in a statement. Dr Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Rabiah, who headed the team that operated on Farah and Haneen at the King Abdullah Specialist Children’s Hospital, “affirmed the success of the separation surgery”, SPA said. The operation began on Monday morning, and involved nine stages of anaesthesia and the separation of multiple organs, including the liver, as well as restoring organs in Haneen. The news comes months after a doctor and family member of the twins pleaded from Gaza that they be allowed to go abroad for the complex surgery. Allam Abu Hamda, head of the neonatal unit at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, told AFP in October the girls were born joined at the stomach and pelvis and that the complicated condition could not be dealt with in the enclave. Israel has maintained a blockade of th...
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Masquerade Uses Statue Of Jesus Christ For His Performance. See Reactions -.

This is when Christianity/religion meets tradition. A heated debate has been sparked online after a masquerade was seen using the statue of Jesus Christ for his performance in the eastern part of the country. While some are of the opinion that this is an insult on the church for trying to desecrate its mode of worship, others are arguing that this is not Jesus Christ but just a statue. Online users have reacted differently to this shocking development. See below;
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16,387 Nigerians deported from Libya, Saudi, others in 2017 says FG.

The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Immigration Service, Mr Muhammad Babandede, on Monday said that 16,387 Nigerians were deported from Libya, Saudi Arabia and other countries in 2017. Babandede stated this while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the findings by members of a Federal Government Delegation to Libya. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama had on Jan. 5 led a delegation on fact finding mission to secure the release of Nigerian migrants stranded in Libya. Other members of the delegation which include Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking Persons, Julie Okah-Donli and Director General of National Emergency Management Agency, Alhaji Mustapha Maihaja Others are Sadiya Umar-Farouk, Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons. Babandede said that out of the number, 5,908 Nigerians were deported from Libya, 3,836 o...
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