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Following the expected death of the Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro at the Cuban capital in Havana, it news have since been greeted with mixed reactions as some believed the late Castro's death was the best thing to have happened in recent times. While majority of Cubans received the death of their one time revolutionary leader with shock at the early hours of today, same cannot be said of Cubans Americans who had also received the news with outright expectation as they sang songs of victory for the death of a man whom they said should have been dead a long time ago. In every corner of this Cuban-American city, people waved Cuban flags, honked their horns, banged their pots and pans and hugged each other late into the night. Police departments blocked off roads to allow people to have their moment.There were Cubans who left the island shortly after Castro took power in 1959, expecting that his rule would be short-lived and they'd be back home soon. There were Cu...

Former Cuban president Fidel Castro dies at 90. According to the Cuban state media, Castro died in the city of Havana Cuba. Castro who led a communist overthrow became the president of Cuba in 1959 but left the stage as Cuban first government figure in 2008 after suffering from series of health failing issues. According to a statement by president Raul Castro, Fidel Castro died exactly 10:59pm, Nov. 25, in Havana Cuba.Raul Castro announced that Castro remains will be cremated Saturday. Fidel became the first leader of Cuba to introduce the small island nation into a communist country in the western hemisphere. He resigned as president on Feb19, 2008. Castrol-1926-2016 The Cuban leader was known for his long speeches and political rhetoric's most especially in international occasion and some UN conferences. Castrol remains the longest serving leader in Cuba as he is the most famous Cuban personality to have passed away in the annals of the Cuba history. Fidel Castro ru...

Ms. Stein, a Harvard-educated physician and Massachusetts-based political activist, said that her intention in requesting a recount was to ensure that Americans had faith in the electoral process—not an attempt to swing the result from Mr. Trump to Mrs. Clinton. The Green Party has long had an antagonistic relationship with mainstream Democrats. However,should a recount overturn the initial results, Mrs. Clinton would be awarded the White House. But it is extremely unlikely that three separate state recounts would reverse the preliminary results. The Wisconsin Elections Commission received the campaign’s petition on Friday afternoon and said it was prepared to move forward with a statewide recount, paid for by money raised by Ms. Stein, beginning late next week. The recount must be completed by Dec. 13 to comply with certain federal deadlines regarding the selection of electors.   According to the Stein campaign estimates it needs about $7 million for recount chall...

Following the unending battle in Syria and the devastating annihilation in the city of Aleppo, a U.S service man has been killed in fire works of the Syrian violence as more airstrikes and aerial bombardments continues to hit rebel opposition territories causing more civilian casualty. According to the US-led coalition fighting ISIS, the service member was killed in northern Syria Thursday from wounds sustained in a blast from an improvised explosive device his marks the first time a US service member has been killed inside Syria since a small number of US Special Forces were sent there last year to advise and assist Syrian forces battling ISIS, also known as ISIL. "The entire counter-ISIL coaltion sends our condolences to this hero's family, friends and teammates," Lt. Gen. Stephen J. Townsend, commander of Combined Joint Task Force for Operation Inherent Resolve, said in a statement. The incident occurred in the vicinity of Ayn Issa, some 30 miles north of...

In what so many felt could have been a walk in the pack for the Germans, it turned out to be an absolutely endeared goal thriller fiesta as both teams took to the back of the nets of their opponents goal area in defiance to respect of their various keepers. There were seven goals in 22 first-half minutes, and Marco Reus scored twice on his return from six months out of action.  The 12 goals scored at the Westfalenstadion on Tuesday champions league match between Borussia Dortmund and Legia Warsaw surpassed Monaco's 8-3 win over Deportivo La Coruna in 2003. Also, in Wednesday Champion League game, Arsenal threw away their chances of staying comfortably at the top of Group A with a 2-2 draw against PSG. Barcelona threw their La Liga run behind them as they stylishly edged out Celtic by 2goal with wonder boy Messi on score sheet. Meanwhile, another English team Manchester City did well to pull out a draw from their game with German Mochenglabach securing a qualification to the...

Thousands of Iraqi civilians have fled Tal Afar as Shi'ite paramilitary groups close in around the Islamic State-held town on the road between Mosul and Raqqa, the main cities of the militant group's self-styled caliphate in Iraq and Syria. The exodus from Tal Afar, 60 km (40 miles) west of Mosul, is worrying humanitarian organizations as some of the civilians are heading into insurgent territory, where aid cannot be sent to them, provincial officials said. Popular Mobilisation units, a coalition of mostly Iranian-backed militias, are trying to encircle Tal Afar, a largely ethnic Turkmen town, as part of the offensive to capture Mosul, Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq. About 3,000 families have left the town, with about half heading southwest, towards Syria, and half northward, close to Kurdish-held territory, said Nuraldin Qablan, a Tal Afar representative on the Nineveh provincial council, now based in the Kurdish capital Erbil. Th...

President elect Donald Trump arrived on Tuesday night in Florida to celebrate Thanksgiving at his private club, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, a visit intended to give the president-elect some time with his family, and he isn’t planning a packed schedule for Wednesday. Trump who is still battling with the shock of winning the presidency seems to rehearsing his lines in trying to put his transition team in Place waiting January 20, 2017, Similarly, in a quick turn and twist if events, President-elect Trump has chosen Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina, the daughter of Indian immigrants, to be his ambassador to the United Nations, the transition team announced Wednesday.Mr. Trump, whose presidential run was buoyed by an uncompromising stance against immigration, has mostly chosen older white men for cabinet posts in assembling his new team. Her move would eventually elevate South Carolina’s lieutenant governor, Henry McMaster, an early and vocal supporter of Mr. Trump’s. Ms....

Following her shocking and very surprising defeat that has forever changed the electoral expectations of majority of Americans, the democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton has been recently urged both by lawyers experts and major computer scientist to order for a recounts of votes in three key swings states that caused her the presidency over arch republican rival Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton has widened her lead in the popular vote to 1.5 percentage points, a spread not seen for a losing candidate since the disputed election of 1876. Mrs. Clinton’s lead now exceeds the winning percentages of seven presidents, five of whom also won the Electoral College. And it has given rise to a push from liberal activists to demand audits in three states won narrowly by Mr. Trump: Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. The University of Michigan computer scientist J. Alex Halderman posted an extensive explanation on Wednesday. with a clear new votes tallied from New Jersey, I...

Following her quest to actualizing the brexit formation cum economic fiscal policy, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond is set to announce a ban on letting agency fees in a bid to reduce the costs for 4.3m people who rent and help ensure that their “money goes further”. Philip Hammond will scale back planned cuts to Universal Credit, with an estimated three million families keeping an additional 2p for every extra pound they earn.With changes to the "taper rate" for Universal Credit, the Chancellor hopes to soften the impact of welfare cuts introduced by his predecessor George Osborne.Mr Hammond got an eve-of-statement boost as official figures showed the Government had borrowed a less-than-expected £4.8 billion last month. C hancellor Hammond is set to invest some £1bn into the welfare system to ease the impact of cuts introduced by his predecessor George Osborne.  Our deputy political editor Steven Swinford reports:  More than £1bn will be...

United States president elect in an outright denouncement has come all out to refute the claims of the white supremacist nationalist movements who had in recent times expressed their love and show of interest in his administration guide and policy direction. The alt rgt movement Saturday took to Washington in celebration of the emergence of Donald Trump as president of the United States, calling it a victory for the whitey movement. "I condemn them. I disavow, and I condemn."- Donald Trump     According to the president of the alt-right National Policy Institute Richard Spencer, a Donald Trump victory is a close alliance to the movements ideas and long standing stance in her bid to making sure America returns to the "whitey" dominance which it was once prior to the liberation by the democratic machinery."America was, until this last generation, a white country, designed for ourselves and our posterity. It is our creation and our inheritance, and it ...

Following his electoral victory as the 45th president of the United States, president elect Donald Trump has since got her ranking high as alt-right movement staged a victory conference calling the election of Mr.Trump as a victory for all white supremacist group. The racism and anti-Semitism group took their celebration party to Washington as they greeted the emergence of Trump as a positive sign of bringing back the white dominance back to its fore given years of relegation by democratic liberals and rationale conservatives. The president of the alt-right National Policy Institute Richard Spencer's remarks were posted Sunday on YouTube by "Red Ice Radio," which describes itself as "covering politics and social issues from a pro-European perspective." The Atlantic magazine, which is recording footage of Spencer for a documentary they're working on, also published a video of the same event showing audience members apparently giving the Nazi salute....

Nigeria - The Nigeria federal government in  line with her campaign promises of alleviating the suffering of the people both in rural and urban centers have released what they termed "First Batch" of over 200.000 individuals whom got registered into a volunteer corps federal government acknowledge program called "NPower". The program which is supposed to engage 500.000 Nigerian unemployed youths, is aimed at encouraging the teeming masses in acquiring skills and talents valuable to their area of specialty. The NPower program by the Nigerian federal government is segmented into the areas of Teaching, Agro production, Health program, ICT and others. Participants will be allocated training resources and aids in enhancing a better participation and discharge of their service which is billed to last for two years. According to the Nigerian seat of power, the program is geared towards eradicating some of challenges that have diverted the attention of the Nigerian yo...

United States president elect Donald Trump is making sure some of his campaign policies hit the ground running immediately he takes over as president of the United States come January 20, 2017. Trump who was critical about certain trade U.S deals was unequivocal when he hinted his dislikes for the Trans Pacific Partnership trade in which U.S is a part. The massive trade deal was agreed in 2015 by nations including the US, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Mexico, but has not yet been ratified by the individual countries. In a video message Tuesday at his Manhattan Trump Tower, the president elect quickly summarized some of his manifesto arrangement on resumption into office, most especially his first hundred days in office as president of the United States. Trump who outlined certain of his earlier campaigned rhetoric in a 2minutes online video also promised to reduce the proliferation of job cut so as to create a better platform for the middle class Americans...

A bus carrying elementary school students crashed in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Monday, killing at least six children and sending 23 people to a local hospital with injuries, authorities said. Five children were found dead on the bus after the crash, which occurred at about 4 p.m. CST (2100 GMT), and another died at a hospital, said Melydia Clewell, spokeswoman for the Hamilton County District Attorney's office. Two hours later, rescue teams were still going through the yellow school bus, which was resting on its side, wrapped around a tree. The vehicle was nearly severed in half, Clewell said. There are two or three children at the hospital "who could go either way," she said. The bus normally carried 35 children, Clewell said. The students were in kindergarten through fifth grade, which would make them roughly ages 5 to 10, The bus driver is being questioned and cooperating with investigators, the Chattanooga Police said on Twitter. Prosecutors h...

 German tactician cum U.S men soccer team coach Jurgen Klinsman Monday got the federation boot kick as he was shown the way out of the " The Yanks "  stadia on a permanent basis. Klinsmann who had once been the beautiful bride of the United States soccer national team got the federation back side when he started failing in his soccer technicalities which he had in recent time past proved in bold letters.    According to a statement released by U.S soccer federation, Klinsman who took over the reigns of been the coach of the U.S soccer men team have indeed brought glory to the national team with his dept of technical know-how. "We want to thank Jurgen for his hard work and commitment during these last five years," U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati said in a statement . "He took pride in having the responsibility of steering the program, and there were considerable achievements along the way. "Many are aware of the historic victories, including leadin...

A capacity crowd of 17,000 packed into the O2 Arena to witness a match that felt more like a heavyweight championship boxing bout than a tennis match, and it was Murray who rose to the occasion.Britain’s Andy Murray beat five-time champion Novak Djokovic to win his first ATP World Tour Finals title and end 2016 as the world number one. The Briton did open the match with a double fault, and another three points later, but he pressed for the break at 3-3 after Djokovic sent an easy smash wildly long and wide. Murray simply grew stronger and Djokovic more error-prone as the second set unfolded, two breaks giving him a seemingly impregnable 4-1 lead, before the champion fought back. Djokovic recovered one break and raced through a service game to cut the deficit to 4-3, but Murray steadied the ship with a solid service hold to move within a game of victory. With the year-end top ranking on the line, Murray won the much-anticipated final 6-3 6-4 at London’s O2 Arena. ...

Catholic Pontiff in celebration of this year "year of mercy" has given certain submission to the church in recognition of their responsibility in her quest to restoring back the concept of due forgiveness and a leeway to certain venial misdeeds. The catholic Pontiff who surprising softens the church stance on abortion however made it clear the position as it should stand now, given the views once held by the church.      Although the Extraordinary Jubilee Year has concluded, we are still living in a “time of mercy.” That was the message of Pope Francis in a lengthy Apostolic Letter, entitled Misericordia et misera, (“Mercy and Misery”), issued on Monday following the close of the Year of Mercy. The title refers to the encounter between Jesus and the woman caught in adultery, from the eighth chapter of the Gospel of Saint John. In his commentary on the Gospel, St Augustine said of that encounter, “The two of them” – Jesus and the woman – “remained alone: mercy wit...

A powerful magnitude-7.3 quake with an epicenter off Fukushima Prefecture occurred at around 5:59 a.m. Tuesday. A strong jolt was felt throughout the Tohoku and Kanto regions. A lower 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 was felt in parts of Fukushima, Ibaraki, and Tochigi prefectures. Tsunami warning has been issued for Pacific coastal regions The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning for waves of up to 3 meters (10 feet) in Fukushima, and a tsunami advisory for much of the rest of northeast Japan’s Pacific coast. The meteorological agency said the quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles). Similarly, U.S. Geological Survey measured the magnitude at 6.9. The earthquake shook buildings in Tokyo, 240 kilometers (150 miles) southwest of the epicenter. C oastal residents in Japan were ordered to flee to higher ground on Tuesday after a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck off the coast of Fukushima prefecture. J apan Rail...