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Northern Ireland’s McGuinness to resign over political crisis

BELFAST, North Ireland (Reuters) — Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness will resign from his post in protest against his power-sharing government partners’ handling of a controversial energy scheme, he said on Monday (January 9). McGuinness’s nationalist Sinn Fein party had called on First Minister Arlene Foster of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the province’s largest pro-British party, to step aside while an investigation take place into the botched scheme it says could cost […]

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Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer to leave company board after Verizon sale

SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Yahoo confirmed on Monday that chief executive Marissa Mayer will quit the company’s board after its merger with Verizon. Mayer is expected to remain with Yahoo’s core business, which is being bought by the US telecom titan. Yahoo is selling its main operating business as a way to separate that from its more valuable stake in Chinese internet giant Alibaba. The share-tending entity, to be renamed Altaba, Inc., will […]

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Jerusalem attack must not deter from push for peace: UN chief

UNITED NATION, United States (AFP) — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday condemned the Jerusalem truck-ramming attack on a group of Israeli soldiers but said it should not stand in the way of efforts to renew peace talks. Four people were killed and 17 wounded on Sunday when a Palestinian drove a truck into the group of soldiers visiting a tourist spot in Jerusalem. Guterres “condemns the terrorist attack by a Palestinian assailant,” said UN […]

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Trump, China’s Ma hold ‘great’ meeting on jobs

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — President-elect Donald Trump and China’s billionaire founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba held “great” talks in New York on Monday focused on creating US jobs and enabling trade with Asia. The incoming Republican president, who will be sworn in as commander-in-chief in less than two weeks’ time having never previously held elected office, has made job creation a key promise of his incoming administration. His team said the meeting between […]

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Police arrest 17 over Kardashian Paris robbery

by Katell PRIGENT Guy JACKSON Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — French police on Monday arrested 17 people, most of them with records for organised crime, over the robbery of US reality TV star Kim Kardashian in Paris last October, police sources said. Police swooped in the Paris region and the south of France after DNA was found at the luxury residence where Kardashian was tied up and robbed of her jewels at gunpoint, […]

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Trump denounces Streep as ‘overrated Clinton flunky’

by Jennie Matthew with Frankie Taggart in Los Angeles Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump took on one of the Hollywood greats Monday, accusing Meryl Streep of being an overrated actress and a Hillary Clinton “flunky” after the multiple Oscar winner tore into him at an awards ceremony. In what has become an early morning custom for the notoriously thin-skinned Republican president-elect, Trump took to Twitter to settle scores with […]

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Florida airport gunman appears in court to hear charges

by Leila MACOR Agence france Presse FORT LAUDERDALE, United States (AFP) — An Iraq war vet accused of killing five people in a shooting spree at a Florida airport appeared in court Monday to face federal charges that carry the death penalty. Esteban Santiago, 26, who had told the FBI two months before the shooting that he was hearing voices, was brought before federal judge Alicia Valle in Fort Lauderdale in handcuffs and wearing a red […]

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Global warming is top threat to polar bears

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US wildlife authorities released on Monday a broad plan to try to save Arctic polar bears from going extinct, as global warming melts away their icy habitat an increasing pace. With just 22,000 to 31,000 polar bears estimated to be left in the world, the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s Polar Bear Conservation Management Plan calls for a series of actions to save these iconic creatures. Above all, it calls […]

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Trump govt faces rising risk of international conflict: study

by Paul HANDLEY WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The incoming Donald Trump administration faces a world of greater risk of conflict, slower growth and more anti-democratic pressures than ever since the Cold War, a new US intelligence report released Monday said. US leadership is ebbing amid shifts in economic, political and technological power, deep changes in the global landscape “that portend a dark and difficult near future,” according to the National Intelligence Council’s “Global Trends: […]

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Trump names son-in-law as senior presidential advisor

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — US President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday that his son-in-law Jared Kushner, a property developer and publisher, will serve as senior White House advisor, flouting myriad legal and ethical concerns. The incoming Republican, who has never previously held elected office, said Kushner, who also has no political experience outside his father-in-law’s campaign, would serve as “senior advisor to the president.” Kushner, whom Forbes estimates is worth $1.8 billion together with his […]

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Study crashes main Moon-formation theory

by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – The Moon, our planet’s constant companion for some 4.5 billion years, may have been forged by a rash of smaller bodies smashing into an embryonic Earth, researchers said Monday. Such a bombardment birth would explain a major inconsistency in the prevailing hypothesis that the Moon splintered off in a single, giant impact between Earth and a Mars-sized celestial body. In such a scenario, scientists expect […]

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Iran mourns ‘sheikh of moderation’ Rafsanjani

by Ali Noorani Agence France-Presse TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) – Iran began three days of mourning Monday after the death of ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a pillar of the Islamic revolution who became a leading counterweight to hardliners. Tributes poured in for the moderate cleric, including from President Hassan Rouhani, who was reportedly at Rafsanjani’s bedside before he died of a heart attack aged 82. “Islam lost a valuable treasure, Iran an outstanding general, the Islamic […]

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