US President Donald Trump has removed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci from the role just 10 days after appointing him. Trump removed Scaramucci at the request of John Kelly, who took over as White House chief of staff Monday. Scaramucci had issued a profanity-filled tirade against the previous chief of staff, Reince Priebus, last […]
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF), says the UK and US economies will expand more slowly in 2017 than previously predicted. As reported by the BBC, IMF said “weaker-than-expected activity” in the first three months of the year meant the UK would grow by 1.7%, compared with an earlier 2% forecast. And the IMF revised down […]
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70-year-old former American football star, O.J Simpson, has been granted a parole, and he is expected to leave prison as early as October 1. Reprieve came for the former star on Thursday, after a parole board voted to approve his release. His Crime He has spent over eight years of his 33-year sentence for armed […]
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According to a statement released by his office, former Republican presidential nominee and Senator who represented Arizona at the U.S. Senate since 1986, John McCain, has been found to have brain tumor. McCain’s tumor was discovered after he a procedure last week to remove a blood clot, U.S. media reported. The senator’s doctors said in […]
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America is getting impatient with Kim Jong Un and his North Korea government for defying the world in testing missiles and building nuclear war heads. The United States ambassador to United Nations cautioned on Wednesday it was ready to use force if need be to stop North Korea’s nuclear missile programme. But it said it […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump has sent a strong warning to Syrian President Bashar Assad over another plan to use chemical weapons on civilians including children. A statement issued Monday night by Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the Trump administration discovered evidence that the regime of Assad could be planning another chemical weapons attack. It said […]
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Nigeria is projected to be the world’s third most populous country by the year 2050, according to a report released by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The report, titled ‘World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision’, said with such development, Nigeria would overtake the United States in terms of population just as world […]
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The bodies of seven sailors who were missing after the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald collided with a container ship were found in flooded compartments of the damaged ship, the U.S. Seventh Fleet said in a statement on Sunday. Japanese media said all seven of the sailors who had been reported missing were found dead. […]
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A soldier in Afghanistan has attacked US troops at a military base, in the northern Balkh province on Saturday, wounding seven. The US soldiers were evacuated after the “insider attack” a spokesman for the US military command said. The Nato-led Resolute Support mission said one Afghan soldier was killed and another injured in the incident […]
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During a press conference on Thursday, President Donald Trump of the United States described the climate change agreement signed in 2015 as a “massive redistribution of United States wealth to other countries”, thereby pulling the US out of it. Recall that in the buildup to his election, Trump had promised to withdraw from the deal. […]
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