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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

Papa Messi misses Barca match for birth of third son.

Lionel Messi announced that he and his wife Antonella Roccuzzo had become parents for a third time on Saturday. “Welcome Ciro!!! Thank God, everything went perfectly. He and his mummy are doing very well. We are super happy!!!” wrote Messi on his Instagram account, accompanying the post with a photo of the baby’s hand. Ciro is a brother to five-year-old Thiago and Mateo, who is two. Messi had pulled out of Barcelona’s squad for Saturday’s La Liga match at Malaga to be present for the birth. The club tweeted: “Change to the squad. Messi is out for personal reasons and Yerry Mina takes his place.” The Argentinian couple, both 30, first met in their home town, Rosario, in 1996 and started going out a decade later. They were married last year in Rosario. Barcelona, who face Chelsea in the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie at the Camp Nou on Wednesday, have an eight-point lead over Atletico Madrid at the top of La Liga.

Top 10 Most Expensive Perfumes In the year 2018.

It is no longer new thing that everybody are in fun of good materials values and wants to smell good to create a great impression on others. For this reason, the global fragrance, antiperspirant, and deodorant market is expected to top  $72.7 billion in 2018 . Why are people willing to spend huge sums of money on expensive perfumes? Instyle.com quotes an aromatherapy expert who says that fragrances can  change our physical and emotional state . Refreshing perfumes stimulate our olfactory nerve as well as areas of the brain that control our emotions and memories. Now let’s look at why some perfumes are so expensive.  Some of them cost up to several thousand dollars. There are three main reasons that drive up the prices of the most expensive perfumes. These are: rare ingredients, marketing costs, and packaging expenses. Let’s start with rare ingredients. Many perfumes are made from the musk secreted by a rare animal, or oils obtained from a tree, root, or flower petal. On the other han

Hundreds join anti-junta rally in Thailand as calls for democracy grow.

Hundreds of pro-democracy Thais rallied in Bangkok on Saturday to skewer the ruling junta with T-shirts, signs and speeches, as activists grow bolder in their defiance of a ban on protests. The military regime has kept a tight rein on dissent since its 2014 power grab by outlawing gatherings of more than five people and pursuing activists in the courts. But impatience with the generals has been mounting ever since their latest delay of elections, which are now tentatively set for February 2019. In one of the largest showings in a recent string of protests, around 500 people turned up for a festive picnic-style rally held on a university field in Bangkok on Saturday. “Who out there has a fire for democracy?” one young activist called out to the crowd from the top of a truck, eliciting loud cheers. While organisers raged against the military dictatorship over loudspeakers, vendors handed out free meals and sold shirts with sly references to a spate of graft scandals

Cars Tupac And Biggie Were Shot In To Be Sold For $2.2m -.

Someone is attempting to sell the car two of the world’s greatest rap icons were shot in. 64-year-old Gary Zimet, founder of Moments In Time – a business that possesses some morbid memorabilia – is in the process of seeking buyers for the two vehicles Tu Pac Shakur and Biggie Smalls were shot in . He spoke to Pitchfork about why he is doing it. The GMC Suburban SUV Biggie was shot in is reportedly being auctioned $750,000 while the BMW 7 Series Tupac was shot in is said to be going for $1.5 million. Zimet says for the vehicles have ‘historical significance’, arguing that he’d sell them to museums, but hasn’t found one yet because they’re ‘perpetually broke.’ He said he got a hold of both cars coincidentally. Speaking about the car Biggie was shot in he said: ‘Weirdly enough, a family purchased the SUV purely by chance and had no idea of its importance until several years later when they got a postcard from a detective in L.A. saying he needed the car returned for evidence. They had t

Feeling unwell, Tillerson cancels Nairobi programme.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who is on his first-ever Africa tour as Washington’s top diplomat, on Saturday canceled his programme in Kenya because he was feeling unwell, officials said. “The secretary is not feeling well after a long couple days working on major issues back home such as North Korea and has canceled his events for the day,” said a brief statement from Undersecretary of State Steve Goldstein. The announcement comes little more than 24 hours after US President Donald Trump stunned the world by accepting an invitation to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un before the end of May. The audacious diplomatic gambit, which was taken before consulting key confidantes including Tillerson — who was in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa at the time — left aides scrambling to catch up. Just hours before the summit announcement, which emerged late on Thursday, Tillerson had said Washington was “a long way” from talking directly to North Korea as he kicked

India, France security accord has China in mind.

China’s mighty strategic shadow hangs over an accord signed by India and France on Saturday aimed at stepping up military cooperation in the Indian Ocean. Under the deal signed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Emmanuel Macron, each country will open its naval bases to warships from the other. China’s territorial ambitions in the South China Sea already worry world powers. And its move into the vast Indian Ocean — stretching from the Suez Canal to the Malacca Strait — has heightened that concern. Modi and Macron are particularly anxious as China extended its military presence by opening a naval base in the eastern African nation of Djibouti last year. Beijing is also building up its trading network — the so-called One Belt One Road initiative — which involves many of the Asian and African nations that line the Indian Ocean. It has built a port in Pakistan’s Gwadar, taken a 99-year-lease on Sri Lanka’s Hambantota and bought a number of tiny islands in t

Mercy Johnson Becomes Mr Chef Iodised Salt Ambassador (Photos) .

Congratulations are in order for ace Nollywood actress, Mercy Johnson Okojie as she’s bagged an endorsement adeal with Mr Chef iodised salt. The beautiful mother of three took to Instagram to announce the good news to her fans who are now flooding in her comment section . Sharing the news, she wrote: “Hello friends , you know I’ve been teasing you for the few days about something cooking!� � Say hello to the new brand ambassador for Mr Chef iodised salt! � @mrchefsalt I’m very excited about this new relationship with Mr Chef iodised salt and I can’t wait to show you how using iodised salt has literally changed my life!. Watch this space #OdiWife#MamaPurity #BrandAmbassador#Grace #Dominating Again she wrote: “I am Mercy Johnson Okojie, and today I am officially announcing my partnership with Mr Chef as the brand ambassador. Over the past few months I have come to learn more about the benefits of iodised salt, since then I have taken the time to ensure that only iodised salt is used in

UNICEF seeks Buhari’s support to eradicate child abuse.

The United Nations Children’s Educational Fund (UNICEF) has appealed to Mrs Aisha Buhari, wife of the president, to partner with it in championing the rights and educational advancement of Nigerian children. Mr Mohamed Fall, the Country Representative of UNICEF made the appeal on Saturday at a reception in honour of Buhari as a strong advocate of rights of women and children at the National Centre for Women Development (NCWD) in Abuja on Saturday. The event was jointly organised by the centre and the Blaugrana International Sports, with the theme: “Legends For Children Project”. The UNICEF presented Buhari with a Global Award of Excellence for Humanitarian Services in recognition of her service to humanity through her pet project the ”Future Assured”. Fall said the award was relevant considering her efforts in providing support to victims of insurgency, especially the protection of the rights of women and children, who suffered gender-based violence. He lamented t

6 charged for allegedly disrupting Kogi senator’s empowerment programme.

Six persons were on Friday charged before a Lokoja Senior Magistrate’s Court for allegedly disrupting an empowerment programme organised by Sen. Ahmed Ogembe (PDP/Kogi West), in Okene, on March 3. The suspects included Moshood Shuaib Onimisi, Abdullazeez Yusuf, Otaru Musa, Onipe Innocent, Iliyasu Momoh and Jimoh Raji. The accused, who appeared before Senior Magistrate Ojoma Rachael Haruna, are facing a two-count charge of criminal conspiracy and mischief punishable under section 97(2) of the Penal Code. The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges and were granted bail in the sum of N20,000 each. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the venue of the empowerment programme had in attendance 1,200 indigent women, who were to share the sum of N24 million provided by the lawmaker before the armed thugs disrupted the occasion. Counsel to the accused, Mr Mohammed Abbas and Mr M. J. Samuel, made an oral application for their bail which was rejec