Nigeria news today headlines update Saturday 1st June 2019
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target=_blank>India Loses Place As World’s Fastest-Growing Economy
India has lost its spot as the world’s fastest-growing economy after it grew more slowly than expected in the first three months of 2019. Official data showed the economy grew 5.8%, which is slower than the 6.4% growth registered by China, and down from 6.6% in the previous quarter. It was the first set of
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target=_blank>Almost 950 killed In A Month Of Northwest Syria Violence: Monitor
A spike in violence in and around an extremist bastion in northwest Syria has killed 948 people in a month, almost a third of them civilians, a war monitor said on Friday. A September deal was supposed to avert a full-out regime offensive on Idlib province and adjacent areas held by Syria’s former Al-Qaeda affiliate
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target=_blank>Trust In Putin ‘Doubles Overnight’ – After Kremlin Pollsters Change Methodology
A quote assigned to Stalin famously rejected the importance of voters: it’s who counts them that matters. In contemporary Russia, how they are counted is, it would seem, just as important. Last week, a new poll by state pollsters VTsIOM revealed a worrying state of affairs for the Kremlin. Only 31.7 per cent of respondents
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target=_blank>Saudi Arabia Says Firm Stand Needed To Deter Iran
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman told an emergency Arab summit on Friday that decisive action was needed to stop Iranian “escalations” following attacks on Gulf oil assets, as US officials said a military deployment had deterred Tehran. The right of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to defend their interests after the attacks on oil
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target=_blank>US Warns Europeans About Evading Iran Sanctions
The United States warned European allies with sanctions earlier this month in response to the creation of the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges, also known as Instex, a financial mechanism created by the United Kingdom, France and Germany to evade US economic penalties on Tehran. “I urge you to carefully consider the potential sanctions
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target=_blank>Beijing To Blacklist ‘Unreliable’ Foreign Entities That ‘Hurt Interests Of Chinese Firms’
China will publish a list of “unreliable” foreign entities deemed to have damaged the interests of Chinese firms – a move set to ratchet up tensions in its escalating conflict with Washington, after the US government blacklisted Chinese telecoms giant Huawei. The Ministry of Commerce on Friday said it would blacklist foreign businesses or individuals
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target=_blank>US Defence Chief Unaware Of Plan To Create Working Group On S-400s With Turkey
Ever since Ankara inked an agreement with Russia to buy S-400 defence systems in December 2017, Washington has been pressuring it into abandoning the deal. The US has threatened to halt the delivery of F-35 jets ordered by Turkey and even to boot it out of NATO, if it doesn’t follow the demands. Acting US
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target=_blank>‘One Million Species Risk Extinction’
In early May, media outlets screamed another dire headline: “A million species at risk of extinction.” The news came from the press release of the U.N.-affiliated Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, a bureaucratic name long enough to require a deep breath before speaking it. Make that IPBES – “ip bess” for short.
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target=_blank>UEFA Probe Claims Gates Were Opened To Fill Baku Stadium
European football’s governing body UEFA is investigating claims local officials opened the turnstiles at Baku’s Olympic Stadium during the Europa League final on Wednesday because of embarrassing pictures of empty seats. Chelsea beat Arsenal 4-1 on the night but the game will be remembered for the controversies surrounding its staging in the Azerbaijan capital, the subdued
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Jurgen Klopp Says Roberto Firmino Should Be Fit For the Champions League Final
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes striker Roberto Firmino should be fit for the Champions League final against Tottenham. The Brazilian missed Liverpool’s final three matches of the season. While Klopp admitted he was ready to start, he was reluctant to give too much away about his lineup according to dailymail.co.uk. Klopp said: ‘Yes, he is ready (to start). If Poch (Mauricio […]
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