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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...

Espanyol defeat sums up Real Madrid's miserable campaign in La Liga.

Just when it looked like they had put their inconsistent form behind them, Zinedine Zidane's side suffered another setback with defeat in Barcelona This time last year, everything was going Real Madrid's way in La Liga. This season, however, is a different story and Tuesday night's late loss to Espanyol in Barcelona was a microcosm of Los Blancos' miserable campaign. In 2016-17, Zinedine Zidane's rotations worked perfectly as the second string stepped up to secure vital victories en route to the title. This term, without James Rodriguez and Alvaro Morata, the reserves have been unable to make the same impact. Last season, Sergio Ramos was heading home last-minute winners to earn dramatic late wins for Los Blancos. But at the RCDE Stadium on Tuesday, the Real Madrid skipper was sent down the pitch as an emergency centre-forward and instead of winning, Madrid lost it as he left space at the back which Gerard Moreno exploited to fire home right at the end. ...

Loftus-Cheek, Batshuayi and the loan stars who could be Chelsea's future.

The Blues have 37 players out on loan but there are only a small proportion of them who might be ready to play a role in the first team next season Michy Batshuayi Batshuayi is probably the most valuable player in Chelsea's loan group and he finds himself leading the line for Borussia Dortmund after his deadline-day move in January. He was part of a transfer triangle that saw Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang go to Arsenal, while Chelsea signed Olivier Giroud, allowing Antonio Conte to release Batshuayi to earn more game time ahead of the World Cup. Batshuayi signed for Chelsea for £33.2 million, but he has struggled to earn the trust of his manager since moving from Marseille. His impressive start to life at Dortmund has, however, proved he is capable of having a big impact. Tammy Abraham The 20-year-old has built upon his breakthrough season with Bristol City last year with another good campaign in the Premier League with Swansea City.  He has been...

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Goalkeeping legend Buffon ready to play again for Italy.

Italy goalkeeping legend Gianluigi Buffon confirmed on Tuesday he is ready to come out of international retirement if he is called up for friendlies against England and Argentina. Buffon called time on his international career after Italy failed to qualify for the World Cup in Russia, losing a two-legged play-off to Sweden to miss the tournament for the first time in 60 years. But Italy interim national coach Luigi Di Biagio said on Monday he was ready to recall Buffon for friendlies against Argentina and England in Manchester and London on March 23 and 27. “I had thought about going on holiday for a few days with my family, but when the national team needs you, you must be present and not desert them,” Buffon told Italian programme Tiki Taka. The 40-year-old Juventus goalkeeper has represented the Azzurri for 20 years, winning the 2006 World Cup title, and earning a record 175 caps in a brilliant career. He had been bidding for a record sixth World Cup appearance. ...

Outrage as Johnson compares post-Brexit Irish border to London.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson drew ridicule Tuesday for suggesting that problems with the Irish border after Brexit could be managed in a similar way to travel across London boroughs. The leading eurosceptic highlighted technological innovations used in the capital to calculate a traffic charge to explain why the government’s plans to leave the EU’s customs union and single market need not lead to border checks in Ireland. “There’s no border between Camden and Westminster,” he told BBC radio, referring to two local authority areas in London. “But when I was mayor of London we anaesthetically and invisibly took hundreds of millions of pounds (dollars, euros) from the accounts of people travelling between those two boroughs without any need for border checks whatever.” Questioned about his analogy between travelling across one city and the cross-border trade between two countries, Ireland and Northern Ireland, he insisted it was “a very relevant comparison”....

Kim Jong Nam believed life in danger before hit, court told.

The half-brother of North Korea’s leader expressed fears for his life months before he was assassinated in Malaysia in a Cold War-style hit, a court heard Tuesday. The chilling new detail emerged at the trial of two women, Siti Aisyah from Indonesia and Doan Thi Huong from Vietnam, who are accused of murdering Kim Jong Nam at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on February 13 last year. Defence lawyers have argued that the women were recruited to take part in what they thought were prank TV shows but were instead tricked into becoming inadvertent assassins, in an elaborate plot by a group of North Korean agents. The women, in their 20s, have denied carrying out the murder of Kim Jong Un’s estranged half-brother by smearing a nerve agent on his face as he waited for a flight to Macau. They face death by hanging if found guilty. The High Court in Shah Alam, outside Kuala Lumpur, heard Tuesday that someone whom Kim knew in Malaysia, called Tomie Yoshio, would send his p...

Boko Haram school kidnapping: an attack well-planned.

Boko Haram’s abduction of more than 100 schoolgirls in Dapchi, northeastern Nigeria, shows the Islamist group still has the ability and means to stage major attacks. Since the raid last Monday, questions have been asked about how heavily armed fighters were able to storm the town in Yobe state without encountering any resistance, then disappear. Nigeria’s military claims to have the region locked down, as part of a counter-insurgency effort against the group whose nearly nine-year campaign of terror has killed at least 20,000 people. But witnesses in Dapchi and analysts told AFP that it was a “well-planned attack” that specifically targeted the state-run boarding school. Residents in the dusty town near the border with Niger described seeing a convoy of at least 10 to 15 vehicles just as most people were at the mosque for evening prayers. Civilians were not harmed and the armed men instead asked for directions to the girls school. Hundreds of students at the Gove...