December 2019

Trump Pays $2mn In Damages To Charities After Court Ruling

December 11, 2019 4:25 pm

Donald Trump on Tuesday paid $2 million in damages as part of a settlement over use of his former charity to further his political and business interests — the latest item on the US president’s list of legal woes.

Trump had been accused of using foundation funds to settle lawsuits, promote his Trump-branded hotels, and for personal spending, including the purchase of a portrait of himself to display at one of his golf clubs.

The $2 million was paid equally to eight different charities, including the Children’s Aid Society, the United Negro College Fund and the US Holocaust Memorial …

Heavy security As Pakistan Host First Cricket Since Attack

December 11, 2019 4:12 pm

Tight security ringed Rawalpindi cricket stadium on Wednesday as Pakistan hosted their first Test match since a deadly attack on Sri Lanka’s team ushered in a decade of sporting isolation.

Despite being targeted in the 2009 guns-and-rocket assault, Sri Lanka have returned for two Tests in Rawalpindi and Karachi which Pakistan hope will help convince other teams to visit.

Eight people were killed and several players and officials were wounded when militants attacked a convoy of buses headed for Lahore’s Gadaffi Stadium for the second Test in March 2009.

Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat on Wednesday, …

China Biggest Jailer Of Journalists – Press

December 11, 2019 4:12 pm

At least 250 journalists are jailed around the world, with the largest number held in China, amid a growing crackdown by authoritarian regimes on independent media, a press watchdog group said Wednesday.

Many of those imprisoned face “anti-state” charges or are accused of producing “false news,” according to the report by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists which also cited Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Eritrea, Vietnam, and Iran for their jailing of journalists.

The press freedom watchdog said it counted at least 48 journalists jailed in China, one more than in 2018, as President Xi Jinping ramps up …

Saudi Aramco Shares Rocket On Debut After Record IPO

December 11, 2019 4:12 pm

Saudi Aramco’s shares soared on their debut on the domestic stock exchange Wednesday, becoming the world’s biggest listed company worth $1.88 trillion after a record-breaking IPO.

Aramco had priced the initial public offering at 32 riyals ($8.53) per share, raising $25.6 billion and narrowly eclipsing Alibaba’s IPO of 2014 to become the world’s largest.

Aramco shares climbed the maximum permitted 10 percent to 35.2 riyals just seconds after the opening bell on Riyadh’s Tadawul exchange and stayed there until trading stopped.

That gives Aramco a market valuation of $1.88 trillion, making it the world’s most valuable company as it closes

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Workers

France PM Makes Concessions To Striking Workers

December 11, 2019 4:11 pm

France’s Prime Minister insisted Wednesday that the government would push ahead with reforms to the country’s fragmented pension system but offered concessions to unions as a crippling strike entered its seventh day.

Public transport networks in Paris and other main cities have been paralysed by the walkout, which began last Thursday and left shops, hotels and restaurants fearing for the impact on their bottom line.

In a televised address, Edouard Philippe said the highly-contested pension changes would be implemented in phases, “without brutality”, and would not affect workers born before 1975.

There would be a guaranteed minimum pension of 1,000 …

Boeing

US Aviation Chief Says Boeing 737 MAX Won’t Be Re-Certified

December 11, 2019 4:10 pm

The top US air transport regulator on Wednesday doused Boeing’s hopes that its 737 MAX will return to the skies this year while lawmakers probed why the agency did not ground the plane after the first of two crashes.

In an interview just ahead of a congressional hearing on the crashes, Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson told CNBC the aircraft will not be cleared to fly before 2020.

The process for approving the MAX’s return to the skies still has 10 or 11 milestones left to complete, including a certification flight and a public comment period on pilot training …

Britain Heads Into Charged Brexit Election

December 11, 2019 3:51 pm

Britain’s feuding party leaders criss-crossed the country on Wednesday in a frantic push for votes on the eve of a highly-charged general election aimed at finally settling the Brexit crisis.

Polls open on Thursday for the third time in four years in what is widely seen as a re-run of the 2016 referendum in which a narrow majority opted to pull Britain out of the European Union.

 

AFP / Oli SCARFFCorbyn is a veteran leftist campaigner who confounded pollsters by coming within a whisker of winning the last election in 2017

Parliament’s splintered parties — some seeking broader

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Kosovo Declares Nobel Laureate Handke ‘Persona Non Grata’

December 11, 2019 3:50 pm

Kosovo declared Peter Handke a ‘persona non grata’ on Wednesday in the latest protest against his induction as a Nobel literature laureate, barring the Austrian writer from a place he has visited numerous times.

The Swedish Academy’s pick for the 2019 prize has reopened old wounds in the Balkans, where many see Handke as an apologist for Serb atrocities during Yugoslavia’s bloody collapse.

One Nobel committee member resigned over the choice, while Tuesday’s award ceremony was boycotted by representatives of the embassies of Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Turkey.

“Today I have decided to declare Peter Handke as …

Polanski Blames Weinstein, Says Media Making Me A Monster

December 11, 2019 3:50 pm

Film director Roman Polanski has spoken out for the first time since another woman accused him of rape, declaring that the media are “trying to make me into a monster”.

And in an extraordinary twist he blamed Harvey Weinstein for his woes, in an interview with Paris Match magazine published Wednesday.

He claimed the disgraced Hollywood mogul tried to brand him a “child rapist” to stop him winning an Oscar in 2003 for “The Pianist”.

Polanski — a fugitive from US justice since 1978 after he admitted the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl — also dismissed the latest rape …

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Rejects Genocide Claims At Top UN Court

December 11, 2019 3:50 pm

Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi rejected allegations of genocide against Myanmar in the UN’s top court Wednesday, despite admitting the army may have used excessive force against Rohingya Muslims.

Suu Kyi denied “misleading and incomplete” claims by The Gambia that a 2017 military operation had attempted to exterminate the Rohingya, in a rare address by a state leader to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Once hailed worldwide as a rights icon for her defiance of the same generals she is now defending, Suu Kyi also warned the Hague-based court that its involvement in the case risked “feeding …

Greta Slams ‘Misleading’ Climate Pledges At UN summit

December 11, 2019 3:49 pm

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg accused rich countries of “misleading” people over climate action at UN talks in Madrid on Wednesday as scuffles broke out between security guards and environmental protestors.

The UN climate forum tasked with saving the world from runaway global warming has become an “opportunity for countries to negotiate loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition” to act on climate, the 16-year-old told delegates and observers to vigorous applause.

“Countries are finding clever ways around having to take real action.”

Nations are gathered in Spain’s capital to finalise the rulebook f the 2015 landmark Paris climate accord, which …

Nnamdi Kanu’s trial: I escaped being lynched – Ejiofor reveals

Kanu’s Lawyer, Ejiofor Files ₦2bn Suit Against Police

December 11, 2019 11:38 am
Lawyer to the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOP), Nnamdi Kanu,  Mr. feanyi Ejiofor, on Monday filed a ₦2 billion suit against  the Nigerian Police Force at the Abuja Federal High Court over an alleged invasion of his house and killing of four occupants by operatives of the force.
In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/135/2019, Ejiofor is asking the court for an order to compel police to pay him the sum of N2 billion as compensatory and damages for the burning of his house and shooting of his aged mother by the police at his Oraifite hometown
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