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ABUJA, Nigeria AP 鈥?Africa now has more than 1,000 deaths from COVID-19, the Africa Cen
jordan ters for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday, while Nigeria said the president chief of staff had died.A total of 52 of the continents 54 countries have reported the
adidas campus coronavirus, with the overall number of cases more than 19,800.Nigeria government said Abba Kyari, chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, died Friday of COVID-19. May God accept his soul, the statement said.Kyari had been considered by some as Nigeria most powerful government figure, His infection had been one of the highest-profile in Africa. Several government ministers and a U.S. ambassador were infected with the virus earlier in Burkina Faso.Kyari announced his illness last month, saying that I have made my own care arrangements to avoid further burdening the public health system, which faces so many pressures. He was reported to have been infected during a visit to Germany. He was criticized for not isolating upon his return to Nigeria and accused of infectin
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The Pentagon held a news briefing following the meeting between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Cambodian officials.Watch the briefing in the player above.On Tuesday, Austin and leaders from Cambodia met in Phnom Penh about possibly strengthening defense ties and resuming joint military exercises. Cambodia is China closest ally in Southeast Asia and halted joint military exercises with the U.S. in 2017.Austin met with Defense Minister Tea Seiha, Prime Minister Hun Manet and Senate President Hun Sen, the Pentagon said. Hun Sen, the former prime minister, is Hun Manet father.The officials discussed ways to strengthen defense ties in support of regional peace and security, including through a resumption of military training exchanges, de-mining training, and Cambodian participation in U.S. military education programs, Pentagon Press Secretary Maj
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BOSTON AP 鈥?The speed with which five Memphis police officers were fired following the traffic stop of a man who later died in a hospital is unusual but could become more common, according to those studying police and criminal justice issues.The five Memphis Police Department officers we
jordan re fired Friday, less than two weeks after the Jan. 7 arrest of Tyre Nichols, 29, Officials said the five were dismissed for excessive use of force, failure to intervene and failure to render aid.READ MORE: 5 police officers fired for excessive use of force in arrest of Memphis man who diedIts rare for a police department to act so quickly, said David Thomas, a professor of forensic studies at Florida Gulf Coast University. Investigations can sometimes go on for up to a year, he said. It never happens this quickly, Thomas said.All five officers Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills, Jr. and Justin Smith 鈥?are Black, as
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VIENNA 鈥?OPEC countries hoping to support the price of oil put off their decision
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stanley cup et Russia to agree to big cuts as well.The price of oil has fallen about 25 percent because major producers 鈥?including the U.S. 鈥?are pumping oil at high rates. It fell further on Thursday after OPEC lack of action and amid broader concerns about global economic growth.Saudi Arabia, the heavyweight within OPEC, said Thursday it was in favor of a cut of about a million barrels a day.But upon leaving the meeting, Saudi oil minister Khalid Al-Falih said we ;re still deliberating. He said the OPEC countries were still discussing the distribution of the cuts between them.Iran, Saudi regional rival and fellow OPEC member, has resisted any notion of cutting its output as its crude exports are being pinched already by U.S. sanctions. It has wanted an exemption.The OPEC countries will now discuss the meeting with Russia, which is not part of OPEC but has been coordinating its output levels to support the market.Al-Falih said a decision would take all day Friday.I ;m not con Vtus Coal burning capacity climbs worldwide despite pledges to reduce use
MILAN 鈥?Italy has fallen back into recession, intensifying concerns
yeezy about the 19-country eurozone economy and a possible flare-up in the debt market jitters that haunted the bloc in recent years.The Italian economy, the third-largest in the eurozone, contracted by a quarterly rate of 0.2 percent in the fourth quar
nike dunk ter of 2018, the national statistics agency said.Following a 0.1 percent drop in the previous three-month period that means Italy is in a technical recession, defined as two straight quarters of economic contraction 鈥?just four years after its last one.Italy recession is one reason why the wider eurozone slowed in 2018, along with uncertainties related to Brexit, the China-U.S. trade spat and new vehicle emissions standards.Though the eurozone is performing better than in the dark days of the debt crisis, which threatened to break up the euro currency, it still lagging the U.S. economy, which is projected to have grown about 3 percent in 2018. As a result, unemployment in the eurozone is about double the U.S. 4 percent at 7.9 percent.The eurozone economy as a whole grew by a meager 0.2 percent in the final quarter, the same as in the previous quarter, according to provisional figures released Thursday by th
adidas samba e Eurostat statistics agency.It expanded by 1.8 percent in 2018 overall, its weakest rate in four years. That lower than had been anticipated a year ago, when the bloc was expected to slow only slightly from 2017 strong 2.4 p
