Day: January 12, 2017

Nigeria should consider asylum for The Gambia’s Jammeh: MPs

Nigeria should consider giving asylum to The Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh as a way of ending the political crisis in his country, lawmakers said on Thursday. A motion passed in the lower chamber House of Representatives gave members’ backing to regional efforts to resolve the dispute, sparked by Jammeh’s refusal to accept election results.

Luge World Cup from Sigulda, Latvia

Canada’s luge team will be in action in Sigulda, Latvia, as the second half of the season continues on Saturday Click on the video player above at 1:40 a.m. ET to watch live action from the FIL World Cup luge doubles event. The second run is scheduled to begin at 2:50 a.m. ET.

Turkey expects change in US policy over Syrian Kurds: Defense Minister

Turkey hopes the new U.S. administration will change its policy of cooperation with the People’s Protection Units in Syria, Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Is k said on Jan. 12. He reiterated that he believed the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party was a “terrorist organization.” “We will continue to say that cooperation with them is not legitimate.

‘That referendum will take place,’ vows President Erdogan

The government-supported constitutional amendments will be presented to the public “despite opposition efforts to delay the process,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed, claiming that the main opposition Republican People’s Party “guards the status quo” by protesting against the draft during parliamentary debates. “Blocking or prolonging the work of parliament does nothing.

Plans approved to transformed empty sessions house into 42 room hotel

The Toft Road site was bought and earmarked for conversion into the ‘Court House Hotel’ by Flat Cap Hotels in 2016, and will now be transformed to provide 42 hotel rooms and a restaurant and bar. A full planning application, submitted in August 2016, has been hotly contested by Knutsford Town Council, which did not agree with the extension materials or design.

Increasing investment flow gave rise to forex crunch: PM

The Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, said that the country’s forex crunch is driven from the increasing investment flow, which has created huge mismatch between the demand and supply for foreign currency. This remark came in the PM’s address made today to the 12th regular session of the House of people Representatives .

Graham Taylor celebrates as Watford win promotion in 1999

Taylor was born on September 15, 1944 in Worksop in Nottinghamshire to his mother Dorothy, a postwoman, and father Thomas, a sports reporter for the Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph and from whom he first learned his love of the game. Taylor joined the youth ranks at Scunthorpe but transferred to Grimsby in 1962, the club where he reverted from an inside-forward to full-back and went on to play 189 league matches.

Norwegian mass murderer says isolation made him more radical

Anders Behring Breivik arrives for his appeal case in Borgarting Court of Appeal at Telemark prison in Skien, Norway, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik walked quietly into a courtroom at a high security prison Tuesday, making a neo-Nazi salute, as judges began reviewing a government appeal against a ruling that his solitary confinement was inhumane and violated human rights.

Sinulog queens showcase best costumes in runway showdown

CEBU. Sinulog 2017 Festival Queen winners pose for a photo during the runway showdown on Thursday, January 12, at the SM City Cebu. First runner-up Marla Pino Alforque of Carcar City, Best in Runway Ivy Tanquezon Tapic from the Municipality of Asturias, and second runner-up Luzenne Sanches Jones of Barangay San Nicolas Proper.

British lawyer briefly detained in Zambia’s copper region

LUSAKA, Zambia – A British law firm says one of its lawyers was arrested and held for hours in Zambia after meeting residents who filed complaints about alleged pollution from a copper mine. The Leigh Day firm said Thursday that lawyer Oliver Holland was in the southern African nation to meet communities who say the mine in Chingola is damaging farmland and water sources.

U.S. military confirms that November firefight with Taliban killed 33 civilians in Afghanistan

Afghan villagers gather on Nov. 4 around several victims’ bodies who were killed during clashes between Taliban and Afghan security forces in the Taliban-controlled, Buz-e Kandahari village in Kunduz province, Afghanistan. In a statement released Thursday, the U.S. military in Afghanistan said the results of its investigation into the November firefight shows that American troops had fired on Afghan homes, killing 33 civilians.

FMQs: Sturgeon accused of ‘celebrating’ English NHS crisis

The First Minister clashed with opposition leaders over the performance of the health service at Holyrood today after it emerged that the creation of major trauma centres have been delayed in Scotland, along with concerns over care standards at the flagship Queen Elizabeth hospital in Glasgow. Tory leader Ruth Davidson demanded answers about the extent of help from outside the country which had been sought to deal with problems in Scotland’s NHS.

Fine for hockey champion Ruzicka over corruption upheld

The financial penalty of 400,000 crowns for a Czech hockey coach, a former national team star Vladimir Ruzicka, who kept half a million crowns that were to be sent to the Slavia Praha club is valid, the Prague Municipal Court ruled on Wednesday, turning down Ruzicka’s appeal. Ruzicka can still file a recourse with the Supreme Court.

Zeman: Man with suspected links to terrorists stays in CR

A man coming from North Africa and suspected of cooperation with terrorist Islam organisations is staying in Czech Republic, President Milos Zeman said on Czech Radio on Wednesday. He made the statement during a discussion about the new Centre against terrorism and hybrid threats, whose establishment by the Interior Ministry he criticises.

Prague university creates emergency e-mail for students abroad

Prague’s Charles University has created an emergency e-mail for students at exchange stays abroad and its foreign students and it demands that students register in the DROZD database, UK spokesman Vaclav Hajek told CTK on Wednesday. This was one of the reasons why UK, the oldest university in Central and North Europe founded in 1348, has prepared a plan of emergency communication in extreme situations.

MfD: Relations of Zeman, Sobotka, Babis to influence elections

President Milos Zeman, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and Finance Minister Andrej Babis are the central figures of Czech politics and their oddly interconnected relations will influence the forthcoming elections, Miroslav Korecky wrote in daily Mlada fronta Dnes on Wednesday. As a result of the early general election held in late 2013, the election cycle changed and the presidential election will be organised only a few months after the general election , Korecky writes.

Only 4% of Czech attempts to give up smoking succeed

The number of Czechs trying to give up smoking is one million a year but only 4 percent of them succeed, Eva Kralikova, from the Centre for tobacco addicts at the 1st Medical Faculty in Prague, has told Wednesday’s issue of daily Pravo. Most of those who try to quit smoking do so without consulting experts.

Polluted air causes early death of up to 8,000 Czechs a year

Polluted air in the Czech Republic cuts short the lives of 6,000 to 8,000 people a year, the Environment Ministry has written in its annual report based on the State Health Institute’s data, daily Pravo reported on Wednesday. True, air pollution does not burden the whole country evenly and the extent and frequency mainly of dust particles differ at various places.

Why bank unions are opposed to incentive plan

Image: A file photograph of bank employees protesting the government’s proposal to merge the State Bank of India’s associate banks with SBI, and against the government’s proposed move to privatise IDBI Bank. Photograph: Shailesh Andrade/Reuters.

Reconnecting with Wynyard

WYNYARD FAVOURITES: Adrian Dixon, Shannon Bakes, Darcy Leno, Barry Davis, Rhys London and Matthew Kinch are ready for Saturday. Picture: Supplied A desire to connect the past, present and future of the Wynyard Cricket Club is the motivation behind the club’s past players, administrators, supporters and sponsors day on Saturday.

Penguin take charge

Penguin have shot to the top of the Bowls North West Thursday Pennant ladder after a dramatic first round after the Christmas break. Penguin have shot to the top of the Bowls North West Thursday Pennant ladder after a dramatic first round after the Christmas break.

CzechInvest: Gov’t promised investment incentives totalling CZK 12.5bn

The government has promised investment incentives to 72 investment projects in 2016, based on applications for investment incentives. The spokesperson for governmental business and investment support agency CzechInvest, Petra Menclova, has told CIANEWS that the projects are worth CZK 60bn and investors will be able to draw retrospectively subsidies totalling up to CZK 12.5bn.

The future lies in diamonds

The Securities and Exchange Board of India last week gave in-principle approval to the exchange to resume operations with the launch of derivatives trading and the first contract approved was of diamond. This is also Sebi’s first approval of trading in commodity derivatives after taking over the regulation of commodities trading .

Airstrikes kill 22 IS militants in northern Syria

Turkish warplanes killed 22 Islamic State terrorists in airstrikes on IS targets in Al-Bab, in northern Syria, in the last 24 hours, the Turkish General Staff said on Thursday. Targets in the air raids included 160 positions belonging to terrorists, including defense positions, shelters and command facilities, the military said in a statement.

Airstrikes kill 22 IS militants in northern Syria

Turkish warplanes killed 22 Islamic State terrorists in airstrikes on IS targets in Al-Bab, in northern Syria, in the last 24 hours, the Turkish General Staff said on Thursday. Targets in the air raids included 160 positions belonging to terrorists, including defense positions, shelters and command facilities, the military said in a statement.

Former UN chief keeps 2nd place in S. Korean presidential poll

Former United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon, who is scheduled to return to South Korea, his home country, later Thursday, has kept his second place in presidential polls for two weeks, a survey showed. Support for Ban, whose second, five-year term as the UN head ended late last year, was 20.3 percent this week, according to a poll of 1,511 voters conducted by local pollster Realmeter between Monday and Wednesday.

Former UN chief keeps 2nd place in S. Korean presidential poll

Former United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon, who is scheduled to return to South Korea, his home country, later Thursday, has kept his second place in presidential polls for two weeks, a survey showed. Support for Ban, whose second, five-year term as the UN head ended late last year, was 20.3 percent this week, according to a poll of 1,511 voters conducted by local pollster Realmeter between Monday and Wednesday.