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The Sun UK newspapers has published a shocking report, saying Jose Mourinho intends to sign Chelsea and Super Eagles midfielder John Mikel Obi in January.
Mourinho feels Mikel, who has a few months left in his Chelsea contact, will help improve Man U's midfield and is prepared to sign him in January when he knows he'll come cheap. Read the full report, after the cut. Mikel, 29, has not played under new Stamford Bridge manager Antonio Conte and there are no plans to renew his contract which runs out this season.
Now the Man united boss is ready to take advantage with a cut-price New Year offer for the player the Red Devils thought they had signed ten years ago.
Mikel had just turned 19 when the Old Trafford outfit announced on their website that they had signed the teenager on a four-year contract from Norwegian club Lyn Oslo. The £4million transfer was done directly with the player and his club — bypassing his agents and he was even pictured in a United shirt. But Chelsea angrily claimed they had an agreement with the agents to buy him.
It was reported Obi started to get threatening phone calls and ended up having to take refuge in a safe hotel with a security guard.
He then went missing from Lyn amid stories he had been kidnapped.
The Nigerian midfielder had actually travelled to London where he went on Sky Sports TV to claim that he had been pressured into signing for United, something they denied, and he wanted to join the Blues. The matter was resolved when Chelsea paid United £12m and Lyn £4m.
If the deal is successful, this will be the second time Mourinho will sign Obi, who he believes can play in a defensive midfield role in front of the back four.
He needs that type of player to give £89m Paul Pogba freedom to roam.
Batnay, Iraq — Among the Kurds of northern Iraq, the news of Donald Trump’s election win has stirred hope and eager speculation about the role of the Kurdish people and the military, particularly in the fight against the Islamic State.
But the Kurds, a majority Muslim ethnic group, are also wondering whether Trump’s on-again, off-again ban on Muslim immigration would apply to them.
Kurds have not been implicated in the recent series of terror attacks against the West and have been allied with the U.S. against ISIS. In areas of northern Iraq recently liberated from the Islamic State, Kurdish commanders are eager to demonstrate how they are protecting Christians under their control.
Trump has called for a “complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the United States, a position he has appeared to modify at times, but which still appears on his website. During his campaign, he expressed support for the Kurds, saying they “have proven to be the most loyal to us.” It’s unclear whether his support would extend to the Kurds’ long-standing goal of an independent Kurdistan. American leaders have traditionally been reluctant to risk offending Turkey, an important ally, which is strongly opposed to a Kurdish state.
The Kurdish forces, known as the peshmerga, have pushed ISIS militias out of villages and districts north and east of Mosul’s center.
Yahoo News visited peshmerga forces on the ground at Batnay, a Christian village just 16 miles north of Mosul, to report on their reaction to the U.S. elections, and to learn why many of them, as Muslim fighters, were working to help liberate Christian villages.
The peshmerga took Yahoo News to the central church inside the village. They had pushed out ISIS in October, just days after the Mosul offensive began.
A Christian peshmerga fighter stands in a desecrated church in Batnay in Northern Iraq. (Photo: Ash Gallagher for Yahoo News)
Peshmerga fighters carefully stepped along a pathway in the rubble, still littered with improvised explosive devices and other potential dangers, to reach the church.
ISIS had occupied the town for nearly two and half years, using the bell tower as a lookout.
They used the church relics for target practice, and bullet holes were scattered across the walls and columns. A statue of Jesus was broken into pieces on the church’s altar. The pews were destroyed, and ISIS fighters sprayed graffiti messages along the walls, denouncing Christianity.
Peshmerga Col. Zeravan Baroshki, who escorted Yahoo News, said, “Before the election, [Trump] said he will support the Kurds, but when he takes charge, we don’t know what he will do. I see he is with the Republican [Party], and Republicans usually solve conflicts very fast.”
But when it comes to discrimination on the basis of religion, Baroshki feels strongly that the Kurds can be an example of unity. “[Members of ISIS] are not really Muslims,” he says. “They only wear the dress of Islam. We are helping and healing [the Christians], and we are ready to be martyred for them. They are our sisters, our brothers, our soul mates.”
Rawand, a Christian peshmerga fighter, told Yahoo News many of his family members fled Iraq. He is from another small village near Batnay. “This is our land,” he said, “and when it is safe, [my family] will come back.”
Many Christians have felt betrayed by their Muslim neighbors, but peshmerga forces are hoping to help repair that. After they liberated Batnay, they raised a cross back atop the Church’s tower, along with a Kurdish flag to symbolize they were in control.
Jesus’ feet from a statue that was shot down in the Batnay church by the Islamic State. (Photo: Ash Gallagher for Yahoo News)
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Back in the Kurdish capital of Erbil, politicians used the election results as an opportunity to tweet out their congratulations for the president-elect and to ask for increased support for the peshmerga and the Kurdish region.
Yahoo News met with the spokesperson for the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), Safeen Dizayee, who is hopeful President-elect Trump will continue to provide assistance to their government and to their peshmerga fighters. “Our expectation is to develop our friendly relations with the United States, and we do see that the president-elect has shown interest in this region,” Dizayee said.
Dizayee was referring to comments Trump made to the New York Times in July, in which he said he was a “big fan of the Kurdish forces” in the fight against ISIS.
When asked about Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the U.S., or a potential registry for Muslim immigrants, which could include Kurds, Dizayee said he is confident the U.S. ”will pursue a policy that will be in conjunction with the reality,” he said. “The U.S. cannot isolate itself from the real world. You have to deal with the issues as they are.”
He believes the Trump administration will implement policies, including a foreign policy, that will reflect the diversity of the U.S. “If you look at the composition of the United States,” Dizayee said, “it actually reflects that reality — the composition of the U.S. is from various ethnic groups, religious groups, and sects, and beliefs, so that’s what makes the United States — great.”
President-elect Donald Trump arrives at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. on Nov. 20. (Photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP)
Michael Knights, an expert on the region at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told Yahoo News that religion is not “a disqualifier for relations between the Trump government and the KRG.” He said many of the Republicans who claim “Islamophobia is not a phobia” or that a fear of Muslims is “rational,” are also “at the same time very pro-Kurdish, because they see the Kurds as being the dependable ally. They’re the new Israel in a way,” a people attempting to stand apart from the conflicts among their neighbors in Turkey, Syria and the rest of Iraq, which is predominantly Arab.
Knights also said the Kurds aren’t interested in ruling their region with political Islam, which makes them more attractive to Republican supporters. “When you look at the leadership of Iraqi Kurdistan, these are not strong Islamists,” he said.
A number of the KRG officials are hoping the Trump administration will support its bid for independence from the Iraqi government in Baghdad.
The head of foreign relations for the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), Hemin Hawrami, explained to Yahoo News, “The question strategically is how the United States looks at Kurdistan: Are we partners and allies, strategic allies or not? We have proved that [we are] in many cases.”
He said he believes the Kurds have been a “stabilizing force” in the region, particularly against ISIS.
But Knights believes the Kurds may have to offer the U.S. something “compelling” that looks “like a great way to kill more of ISIS,” such as “intelligence cooperation, bases. For this administration, maybe that’s what [the KRG] becomes — the new Guantánamo.”
The KRG spokesperson, Dizayee, said the Kurds should not be “denied the opportunity” to gain independence, and that “every human is born to be free.”
Peshmerga fighters placed a cross atop the church tower after they liberated Batnay in October. (Photo: Ash Gallagher for Yahoo News)
Kurds also are hoping to gain more support for the peshmerga. Currently, under U.S. policy, the peshmerga are receiving training, weaponry, vehicles and other equipment. They are also receiving salary stipends for their soldiers as part of a $415 million package announced by U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in April.
But peshmerga spokesperson Jabar Yawar told Yahoo News the U.S. is “providing the salary for 36,000 persons, but we have 160,000 peshmerga forces. It’s not even half.”
Yawar said the KRG is facing an economic crisis. He said low oil prices and conflicts with the Iraqi government in Baghdad were also to blame for the shortfalls in pay for many peshmerga.
Knights said the main concern for the Kurdish would actually be that the Trump administration forgets about them. “[The Kurds] just don’t register on the radar of [the Trump administration]. They will have a very packed domestic agenda, terrifyingly, and that will take up a huge amount of time.”
So while KRG politicians lobby for Trump’s attention, the peshmerga are fighting ISIS on the road to Mosul.
And as they fight to protect their land, and their Christian neighbors who they call brothers, they are also hoping the U.S. will ultimately support them in their long-standing fight for an independent Kurdish state.
Christian peshmerga fighter holds open a Bible in the desecrated church of Batnay, Iraq.
Donald Trump is under fire. Not for his most recent tax return leak, but for his foundation. Time
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office ordered Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's charity to immediately stop raising money, accusing the foundation of violating state law.
James Sheehan, chief of Schneiderman's charities bureau, penned a letter Friday to an attorney for theDonald J. Trump Foundation, accusing the charity of failing to register with the attorney general's office, a necessary step to solicit donations in New York.
The letter to the Trump Foundation's attorney was publicly released Monday by Schneiderman's office.
The foundation must "immediately cease soliciting contributions or engaging in any other fundraising activities in New York," according to Sheehan's letter.
"The failure to immediately discontinue solicitation and to file information and reports required under (state law) ... shall be deemed to be a continuing fraud upon the people of the state of New York," he wrote.
New York-based charities are required to register with Schneiderman's charities bureau before seeking funds.
Once they're registered, those with annual revenues of more than $250,000 have to submit financial reports to Schneiderman that essentially serve as an audit.
Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Trump's campaign, said the campaign remains "very concerned about the political motives" behind Schneiderman's probe, but said the foundation "nevertheless intends to cooperate fully with the investigation."
"Because this is an ongoing legal matter, the Trump Foundation will not comment further at this time," she said.
Schneiderman, a Democrat, has repeatedly clashed with Trump in recent years.
In 2013, Schneiderman filed a fraud suit against Trump, accusing his "Trump University" program of bilking its participants and falsely overstating the Manhattan real-estate mogul's involvement.
Trump, who had previously donated to Schneiderman's campaign, countered with a public-relations, creating a website touting the Trump University program and filing an ethics complaint against the attorney general.
Amid his initial spat with Schneiderman, Trump contributed $20,000 to John Cahill, Schneiderman's Republican opponent in 2014.
Last month, Schneiderman's office launched an investigation into the Trump Foundation following a series of articles by The Washington Post examining the charity's actions.
British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics for studies of unusual states of matter such as in superconductors, the award-giving body said on Tuesday.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Tuesday announcing the winners of the 8 million Swedish crown ($937,000) prize, "This year's laureates opened the door on an unknown world where matter can assume strange states. They have used advanced mathematical methods to study unusual phases, or states, of matter, such as superconductors, superfluids or thin magnetic films. Thanks to their pioneering work, the hunt is now on for new and exotic phases of matter".
"Many people are hopeful of future applications in both materials science and electronics," the academy added.
Thouless was awarded half the prize with the other half divided between Haldane and Kosterlitz.
Egypt's Interior Ministry said early on Tuesday that it killed a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader it said was responsible for the group's "armed wing" and another member of the group in a shootout on Monday
Mohamed Kamal, 61, a member of the group's top leadership, and Yasser Shehata, another leader, were killed.
The ministry said it raided an apartment in Cairo's Bassateen neighbourhood after learning it was used by the leaders as a headquarters.
Kamal disappeared on Monday afternoon, the Muslim Brotherhood said on its social media accounts but gave no further updates. The Brotherhood says it is a peaceful organisation. Reuters could not immediately reach the group for comment.
Shehata was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison for "assaulting a citizen and forcibly detaining the person in the headquarters of the freedom and Justice party," the political wing of the origination, the ministry said in its statement.
Kamal had been sentenced to life in prison on two counts in absentia, added the statement.
Kamal is one of the most prominent leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood and a member of the Guidance Bureau. He was in charge of the supreme Administrative Committee, known as the youth committee. He resigned from the committee in May 2016, because the committee was opposed by other top leaders in the organization.
The Brotherhood, the Middle East's oldest Islamist movement and long Egypt's main political opposition, said it is committed to peaceful activism designed to reverse what it calls a military coup in 2013.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi launched the toughest crackdown on Islamists in Egypt's modern history after toppling President Mohamed Mursi of the Brotherhood in 2013.
The fiercest Caribbean storm in almost a decade ripped into Haiti’s southwestern peninsula early on Tuesday with 145 mile-per-hour (230 kph) winds and storm surges, killing at least one person and damaging homes.
The eye of the violent and slow-moving Category 4 storm was hovering over the western tip of Haiti, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, pounding coastal villages with strong gusts.
One man died as the storm crashed through his home in the beach town of Port Salut, Haiti’s civil protection service said. He had been too sick to leave for a shelter, officials said. One fisherman was killed in heavy seas over the weekend as the storm approached, and another was missing.
Overnight, Haitians living in vulnerable coastal shacks on the Tiburon Peninsula frantically sought shelter as Matthew closed in, bringing heavy rain and gusts and driving the ocean into seaside towns. Several districts in southern Haiti were flooded, with crops inundated with ocean and rain water.
About 3 feet (1 meter) of rain is forecast to fall over hills that are largely deforested and so more prone to flash floods and mudslides, threatening villages as well as shanty towns in the capital Port-au-Prince, where heavy rain fell overnight.
More than 9,000 people were huddled in shelters across Haiti, authorities said.
Life-threatening flash floods and mudslides were likely in southern and northwestern Haiti, the hurricane center said. It expected Matthew to remain a powerful hurricane through at least Wednesday night.
The outer bands of the storm had already reached the area late on Monday, flooding dozens of houses in Les Anglais when the ocean rose, the mayor said. In the town of Les Cayes on the southern coast, the wind bent trees and the power went out.
Children, prisoners moved
“We have gusts of wind hitting the whole area and the people have fled to a shelter,” Les Anglais mayor Jean-Claude Despierre said.
In the nearby town of Tiburon, the mayor said people who had been reluctant to leave their homes also ran for cover when the sea rose.
“Everyone is trying to find a safe place to protect themselves, the situation is very difficult,” Mayor Remiza Denize said, describing large waves hitting the town.
People in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, are often reluctant to leave home in the face of storms, fearing their few belongings will be stolen.
Civil protection authorities said 130 children were evacuated by bus to a high school in the capital from an orphanage in the shoreside Cite Soleil slum, which is made up of tin shacks and open sewers and is known as Haiti’s largest shanty town.
Authorities moved around 1,000 inmates from at least four prisons to safer locations outside the storm’s path, officials said.
The hurricane comes at a time when tens of thousands of people are still living in tents in Haiti after a 2010 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people.
Cases of cholera, a deadly disease inadvertently brought to the Caribbean country by U.N. peacekeepers in 2010, had been expected anyway to rise in the October rainy season.
The country is due to hold a long-delayed presidential election on Oct. 9. The office of Interim President Jocelerme Privert said there was no change to the election date.
Crawling north at about 9 mph (15 kph), the strongest Caribbean storm since Hurricane Felix in 2009 threatens to linger long enough for its winds and rain to cause great damage in Haiti, where it will spend much of the day before hitting Cuba and the Bahamas later on Tuesday.
It could reach Florida by Thursday as a major hurricane, although weaker than at present, the hurricane center said. Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency for Florida on Monday, designating resources for evacuations and shelters and putting the National Guard on standby.
Cuba prepares
In Les Cayes about 150 people huddled without electricity or food in the town’s largest shelter, a school.
“Since yesterday we’ve had nothing ... We must sleep on the floor ... Everyone is hungry,” said Erick Cange, 69 years old, a resident of the La Savanne neighborhood surrounding the school.
The conditions in the shelter compared unfavorably with Haiti’s neighbor Cuba. That island’s Communist government traditionally puts extensive efforts into saving lives and property in the face of storms, and authorities have spent days organizing teams of volunteers to move residents to safety and secure property.
The storm is expected to make a direct hit later on Tuesday in the province of Guantanamo, which is home to the disputed U.S. Naval base and military prison and also to a small Cuban city. The U.S. Navy ordered the evacuation of 700 spouses and children of service personnel as the storm approached.
Guantanamo’s mountainous terrain is the country’s second coffee producer after nearby Santiago, and the storm poses a major threat to the current harvest.
The U.S. Agency for International Development said on Monday it was providing a combined $400,000 in aid to Haiti and Jamaica. The agency said in a statement it had pre-positioned relief supplies and was preparing to ship in additional supplies to the central Caribbean.
Image copyrightFINESSE ENTERTAINMENTImage captionThe ban was imposed after the singer Classiq released a music video where he embraced actress Rahama Sadau
A leading Nigerian actress, who was banned from the Hausa-language film industry because of her "immoral" behaviour, has apologised.
Rahama Sadau's appearance in a music video "hugging and cuddling" Nigerian pop star Classiq offended some people.
Ms Sadau said sorry to those she upset, but said her actions were "innocuous".
Hausa films are popular in the mostly Muslim northern Nigeria where it is taboo for men and women to hold hands in public.
The industry, commonly known as Kannywood, has been under fire from conservative Muslim clerics who accuse it of corrupting people's values.
The Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria banned the actress from Kannywood films, saying that her appearance in the video violated the industry's code of ethics.
It added that it hoped the ban would serve as a deterrent to other actors and actresses who are "expected to be good ambassadors of the society they represent".
A typical Kannywood film - Isa Sanusi, BBC Hausa, Abuja
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As the film opens parents are seen discussing who their successful city-dwelling son should marry. They decide on a cousin who they deem meets all their expectations of a good wife.
But there's a hitch, their urban, and urbane, son is in love with an educated city lady. He wants to marry her.
The family confronts their son with their choice of wife for him. The dispute generates tension and finally the parents force their son to marry the cousin.
He goes through with the wedding but stays in touch with his preferred partner. They go on romantic outings during which he mentions his loveless marriage.
Throughout the film, dancing and singing punctuate the action.
Despite the passionate plot, there will not be any physical contact. That means no hugging and definitely no kissing. If there is to be any suggestion of sex, the screen will go dark.
Ms Sadau said she took full responsibility for what happened, but argued that she was behaving professionally and added that in her line of work "innocuous touching with other people... is inevitable".
But she reassured people that she would behave with decorum, adding: "I have lines that I would never cross."
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Responding to the criticism she has received she said people should "be more tolerant and forgiving towards one another and to cease all the senseless abuse, name calling and backbiting".
