Nigeria news today headlines : Saturday 28th December 2019
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UK Launches Amazon Investment
British regulators said Friday they are launching a full-scale investigation of Amazon’s plan to purchase a stake in Deliveroo to determine if it would dampen competition. The Competition and Markets Authority said the two parties had failed to provide evidence addressing concerns that Amazon’s investment in the British food delivery platform could be bad for customers, restaurants,
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Indonesia Arrests Two Suspected Policemen
Indonesian authorities said Friday they have arrested two elite police officers suspected in an acid attack on a senior anti-corruption investigator nearly three years ago. Novel Baswedan, a leading investigator at the Corruption Eradication Commission, known by its Indonesian abbreviation KPK, was almost blinded when two men attacked him with acid near a mosque as
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Central Bank Warns Of Reversal In India’s Bad-Loan Clean Up
India’s financial regulator predicted that an improvement in banks’ bad-loan ratios will reverse, as a slowing economy hurts borrowers’ ability to repay. In its latest Financial Stability Report released Friday, the Reserve Bank of India said soured debt at Indian lenders will rise to 9.9% of total credit by September 2020, after dropping the most
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Japan Warns North Korea For Interfering In U.S 2020 Election
Japan’s national intelligence agency issued a warning regarding potential North Korea interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election and South Korea’s parliamentary election next year. Tokyo’s Public Security Intelligence Agency said in its forecast for 2020 North Korea could attempt to use divided domestic politics in the United States and South Korea to eventually gain an advantage
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Russian Warplanes Delivered To Armenia
Armenia demonstrated on Friday for the first time four Sukhoi Su-30SM fighter jets which it has purchased from Russia. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan and other Armenian officials watched at an airbase in Gyumri their test flights carried out by Russian pilots. Pashinian and Tonoyan then greeted the pilots and sat in
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*-slaves/ South Korea Court Dismisses Case On Japan Wartime S** Slaves
Armenia demonstrated on Friday for the first time four Sukhoi Su-30SM fighter jets which it has purchased from Russia. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan and other Armenian officials watched at an airbase in Gyumri their test flights carried out by Russian pilots. Pashinian and Tonoyan then greeted the pilots and sat in
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China Launches Powerful Rocket In Boost For 2020 Mars Mission
China Friday launched one of the world’s most powerful rockets in a major step forward for its planned mission to Mars in 2020. The heavy lift Long March 5 rocket carrying a Shijian 20 test satellite payload blasted off from the Wenchang launch site on the southern island of Hainan at 8:45 pm (1245 GMT),
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Christmas Boosts Islamic-Catholic Friendship In Indonesia
Like every year, Christmas celebrations by the Catholic community of the most populous Islamic country in the world are an opportunity in many parishes for interfaith encounter and dialogue. Despite renewed claims by some radical groups that wishing Christians Merry Christmas is haram (forbidden), many moderate Muslims have expressed and extended messages of friendship to
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Egyptian Publisher Gets 5 Years In Jail Over Israeli Spy Book
A military court in Egypt sentenced a publisher to five years in jail for printing a book about an alleged spy for Israel. Khaled Lotfi’s sentencing Tuesday followed the loss of an appeal, AFP reported. He now has no recourse but to ask for a pardon from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, the publisher’s brother,
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Ivory Coast Accuses Ex-Rebel Leader Of Plotting Coup
Ivory Coast’s public prosecutor accused former rebel leader Guillaume Soro of preparing a coup, in an unexpected turn of events that may result in the politician being barred from running in presidential elections next year. Soro, 47, is being sought for “endangering state security, embezzlement of public funds and money laundering,” prosecutor Richard Adou told
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