March 10, 2020

La Liga Spain's La Liga Football Behind Closed Doors For 2 Weeks

Spain’s La Liga Football Behind Closed Doors For 2 Weeks

March 10, 2020 5:52 pm

Spain’s La Liga confirmed on Tuesday that first and second division football matches will be staged behind closed doors for at least two weeks due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The measures follow the decision of the Spanish High Council of Sports that all sporting events in Spain at state and international level should be played without fans to limit the spread of the virus.

“According to information from the High Sports Council (CSD), La Liga Santander and La Liga SmartBank matches will be played behind closed doors from today and for at least the next two weeks,” a La Liga …

Klopp Unsure Games Behind Closed Doors Is The Best Option

Klopp Unsure Games Behind Closed Doors Is The Best Option

March 10, 2020 5:51 pm

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp accepted “some things are more important than football” but is unsure whether the closure of stadiums across Europe will help prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Klopp’s side will host Atletico Madrid in a crucial Champions League last 16, second leg on Wednesday in front of a capacity crowd of over 50,000.

No restrictions have been placed on matches played in the United Kingdom, but nearly 3,000 Atletico fans are expected to travel for the game.

La Liga announced on Tuesday that all matches in Spain will be played behind closed doors for the next two weeks.…

Mbappe PSG's Mbappe Sick, Doubtful For Dortmund Showdown

PSG’s Mbappe Sick, Doubtful For Dortmund Showdown

March 10, 2020 5:50 pm

Paris Saint-Germain are sweating on the fitness of star striker Kylian Mbappe who has picked up a throat infection ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League last-16 second leg against Borussia Dortmund.

The French World Cup star missed team training Monday and Tuesday and was reported to have a sore throat, with his club needing to overturn a 2-1 deficit from the first leg in Germany three weeks ago.

Mbappe has scored six goals in his past three PSG matches, including a hat-trick in the 5-1 French Cup semi-final win over Lyon last week.

“We’re trying to see if he can train …

Canada Introduces Bill To Ban Gay 'Conversion Therapy'

Canada Introduces Bill To Ban Gay ‘Conversion Therapy’

March 10, 2020 5:50 pm

The Canadian government on Monday announced a bill to ban so-called “conversion therapy,” which tries to change the sexual orientation of young LGBT people.

The bill would create five new offenses in the Canadian criminal code, including prohibiting subjecting a minor to the practice, either in Canada or abroad.

An adult would also not be able to undergo conversion therapy against his or her will, and no one would be allowed to profit from or advertise it.

If the bill passes, Canada’s laws on conversion therapy would become some of the “most progressive and comprehensive in the world,” David Lametti, …

Stocks Rebound Fizzles Out Os Virus Response Disappoints

Stocks Rebound Fizzles Out Os Virus Response Disappoints

March 10, 2020 5:49 pm

A rebound in global stocks following their biggest one-day drop in more than a decade fizzled out Tuesday as hoped-for action to inoculate the economy from a coronavirus-induced recession failed to materialize.

Meanwhile oil prices jumped more than seven percent, having plunged by a third the previous day, in the biggest price swing since the 1991 Gulf War, as Russia reached out to Saudi Arabia, possibly in a bid to mitigate an oil price war.

Global stock markets collapsed on what has become known as “Black Monday”, with the Dow on Wall Street plunging more than 2,000 points, as a …

Putin Paves Way For Another Presidential Term

Vladimir Putin Paves Way For Another Presidential Term

March 10, 2020 1:44 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin has not ruled out running for president again beyond 2024, when his term ends.

But he told parliament that the Constitutional Court would first have to approve such a step. An MP has proposed “resetting to zero” the number of presidential terms.

Mr Vladimir Putin however rejected as “not expedient” a proposal to scrap the current rule that a president can serve no more than two consecutive terms.

He has been in power for 20 years.

But for part of that time he served as prime minister, meaning he did not have more than two consecutive …

Billie Eilish Tackles Body Shaming As World Tour Kicks Off

Billie Eilish Tackles Body Shaming As World Tour Starts

March 10, 2020 1:43 pm

Pop star Billie Eilish delivered a powerful message about body shaming as she kicked off her world tour in Miami on Monday night.

The 18-year-old has previously said she wears baggy clothes to avoid being sexualised, and addressed criticism of that choice during a video interlude.

“If what I wear is comfortable, I am not a woman,” she said. “If I shed the layers, I am a slut”.

“Though you’ve never seen my body, you still judge me for it. Why?” she asked.

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Second Patient Cured Of HIV, Say Doctors

Breakthrough As Second Patient Is Cured Of HIV – Doctors

March 10, 2020 1:43 pm

A man from London has become the second person in the world to be cured of HIV, doctors say. Adam Castillejo is still free of the virus more than 30 months after stopping anti-retroviral therapy.

He was not cured by the HIV drugs, however, but by a stem-cell treatment he received for a cancer he also had, the Lancet HIV journal reports.

The donors of those stem cells have an uncommon gene that gives them, and now Mr Castillejo, protection against HIV.

In 2011, Timothy Brown, the “Berlin Patient” became the first person reported as cured of HIV, three …

'Governors Can Dethrone Anybody' – Tolu Ogunlesi

‘Governors Can Dethrone Anybody’ – Tolu Ogunlesi

March 10, 2020 1:40 pm
One of President Muhammadu Buhari’s media aides, Tolu Ogunlesi, has claimed that a sitting Governor in Nigeria, can remove any traditional leader.

Ogunlesi was reacting on his Twitter page, to the dethronement of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the Emir of Kano by the state Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Monday.

“A sitting governor can dethrone anybody – they have the power.

“That is the way the system is set up. Nobody is above being dethroned. Governors formally appoint them, present them the staff of office and fund their offices,” he wrote.

Ogunlesi also cited the incident involving Governor Nyesom Wike of

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El-Rufai’s Apology A Display Of Hatred Of Southern Kaduna

El-Rufai’s Apology A Display Of Hatred Of Southern Kaduna

March 10, 2020 1:40 pm

The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), Kaduna State, said the apology by the State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, to the people of Igabi and Giwa Local Areas of the State over bandits attack, showed a double standard played, on the part of the governor.

Penultimate Monday, Governor El-Rufai had apologized to residents of communities attacked by bandits in the Igabi and Giwa LGAs of the state over the killing of more than 50 persons.

But in a statement by the National President of SOKAPU, Jonathan Asake, the people insisted that the governor’s action was an apparent display of hatred

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Court Affirms Douye Diri As Governor, Snubs Alibe’s Suit

Court Affirms Douye Diri As Governor, Snubs Alibe’s Suit

March 10, 2020 1:40 pm
A Federal High Court on Tuesday affirmed Governor Douye Diri as the authentic Governorship Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in Bayelsa state.

A former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Chief Timi Alaibe, approached the court to seek redress over the outcome of the governorship primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Alaibe approached the Federal High Court in Yenagoa Judicial Division, Bayelsa State, with an application for cancellation of the result of the primary election based on cited procedural flaws.

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Coronavirus - Chinese President Visits Wuhan

Coronavirus: Chinese President Visits Wuhan

March 10, 2020 11:08 am

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday made his first visit to Wuhan since coronavirus outbreak forced an unprecedented lockdown of the central city of 11 million people.

According to the president, this is a sign that authorities’ efforts to control the virus are working.

“4 Xi’s arrival came on the same day that Wuhan shut the last of 14 makeshift hospitals opened to manage a surge in coronavirus patients that had overwhelmed the city’s health care system,’’ news website The Paper reported.

Earlier on, China announced that it had just 19 new coronavirus infections on Monday, down from 40 a …

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