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http://ift.tt/2qEvDWg US President Donald Trump. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB All eyes were on the White House Thursday as US President Donald Trump was set to announce whether or not he will abandon a landmark global climate pact, as reports swirled about his intentions. After a day of rumors about the Republican leader’s plans, with some aides reportedly saying a withdrawal was likely and others saying no decision was made, Trump said he was ready to make his stance known. “I will be announcing my decision on Paris Accord, Thursday at 3:00 P.M. The White House Rose Garden. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” the US leader said in a tweet late Wednesday, punctuating the post with his campaign slogan. Earlier in the day, Trump said only that he’d been “hearing from a lot of people, both ways. Both ways.” America’s international allies and Trump’s domestic opponents lashed out Wednesday at media reports that he had made up his mind to pull Washington out of the global accord to curb carb...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Whatsapp is a popular messaging app owned by Facebook. It has helped to a very large extent in bridging the communication gap among friends and persons who are dating. This said you must have observed that many girls block their last seen on the messaging platform. Have you ever wondered why? Well, Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency shares reasons why ladies block their last seen. To prevent fights This is perhaps the main reason why girls block their WhatsApp last seen. They want to prevent fights with their boyfriends who have become detectives and make all sorts of assumptions, which are usually incorrect, based on the last seen. Hence, they prefer to block it. She may not be interested in chatting with you If you are pestering her and she is not interested, she may block her last seen. Perhaps, if you do not know the last time she was online, you will give up and move on. If you continue messaging her, she will not respond. To stop unnecessary...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will use his first official visit to Britain to discuss the fight against terrorism and other foreign policy issues with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Friday. Officials said: “Tillerson’s visit is an expression of UK-U.S. solidarity following the terrorist attack in Manchester earlier this week. “Tillerson will extend condolences on behalf of the American people to the British people and Her Majesty’s government,’’ State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in Washington ahead of the visit. Nauert said that the Secretary would reaffirm America’s commitment to the special relationship between the U.S. and the UK and our solidarity in defeating terrorism in every part of the world. The officials said Tillerson and Johnson would write messages of condolence for the victims of Monday’s attack, which killed 22 people and injured dozens at the end of a concert by U.S. singer Ariana Grande at the Manchester Arena. ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Gov. Akinwunmi  Ambode of Lagos State and the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said they would partner Evander Holyfield Foundation in the discovery of  boxing talents in the state. They said this on Friday at the “Rumbles in Lagos’’ novelty bout between former Heavyweight Boxer Holyfield and former Gov. Bola Tinubu at Landmark Event Centre in Lagos. Ambode said that the state was indebted to creating platforms to ensure the success of young talents, being a land of great opportunities. “This whole idea is geared toward getting in touch with our youths to create some kind of youth empowerment, especially, amongst young boxers in Nigeria. “We are committed to seeing new champions come out of Lagos being a land of opportunities; that is why we are partnering with the heavy weight so we can together achieve great results.’’ According to him, the state will go all out to ensure discovered and undiscovered talents are celebrated and given due recogniti...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Minister of State, Petroleum Resources Emmanuel Kachikwu said on Thursday that conceptually Nigeria was not opposed to joining OPEC production caps but would have to wait and see if production came back to acceptable levels. “We are targeting that by the end of the extension period (nine months) we are trying to prep and finalise repairs of our infrastructure and at that time we would be able to join,” he said. “We have to wait and see that the militancy effects are out and the infrastructure is rebuilt and we’re back to production,” he said. OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers are gearing up to extend output cuts on Thursday, possibly by as long as 12 months, to help clear a global inventory overhang and to support crude prices. OPEC is discussing in Vienna whether to prolong an accord reached in December in which it and 11 non-members agreed to cut oil output by about 1.8 million barrels per day in the first half of 2017. Most OPEC ministers, delegates and the ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Aviation officials say a chopper carrying Chief Minister of the Western Indian state of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday crash-landed in Latur district after getting entangled in wires. The officials said that the Sikorsky helicopter was “badly damaged” in the incident that took place in the state’s Latur district. Fadnavis said that the helicopter got entangled in wires while landing few minutes after taking off. He said that he and his team were safe “our helicopter did meet with an accident in Latur but me and my team is absolutely safe and okay. “Nothing to worry,” he said. According to the chief minister, the accident occurred due to technical glitch. “When it took off, there was an emergency landing, an accident, but we are safe. No one is injured. “We are safe with the blessings of god and Maharashtra,” he told the media. Local TV channels showed footage of the damaged white-colored chopper lying on the ground in Latur, with senior official...

http://ift.tt/2pmomYS Passengers on an Aeroflot flight from Moscow to Thailand were slammed into the ceiling after their aircraft hit a patch of severe turbulence injuring 27 people, some of them suffering fractured bones, witnesses and officials said Monday. AFP/File | ADALBERTO ROQUE Passengers on an Aeroflot flight from Moscow to Thailand were slammed into the ceiling after their aircraft hit a patch of severe turbulence injuring 27 people, some of them suffering fractured bones, witnesses and officials said Monday. The terrifying ordeal occurred when the plane flew through a pocket of “clean air” turbulence — so-called because there is no cloud warning of its presence — shortly before landing in Bangkok after midnight, the airline said. Denis Antonyuk, an official at Russia’s embassy in Bangkok said 24 Russian nationals and three Thais were injured. “Fifteen Russians and two Thais are still in hospital,” he told AFP, adding the rest had been discharged. Passenger phone...

http://ift.tt/2qrXQem Indonesian President Joko Widodo (centre L) meets workers from Indonesia at an event during his visit to Hong Kong on April 30, 2017. Anthony WALLACE / AFP Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo was greeted by a mixture of celebration and protest in Hong Kong Sunday with calls to improve working conditions for the city’s army of foreign maids. There are around 170,000 Indonesians living in Hong Kong, many of them employed as domestic helpers, and concern over exploitation is growing after a string of abuse cases. In a rock concert atmosphere Widodo was greeted by exuberant music and dance shows, including some performances by helpers themselves, at the city’s Asia World Expo Sunday. The more than 5,000-strong crowd were mainly women working as maids who said they were excited to see the leader — but also called on him to help them. “I hope the president can make our workplace safe,” one domestic helper named Miasih told AFP, saying her employer breaches he...