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http://ift.tt/2rPmt6y A poster of French President Emmanuel Macron is displayed during a meeting of candidates of "La Republique En Marche" party for the upcoming parliamentary election (elections legislatives), on June 7, 2017 in Angers, western France. / AFP PHOTO / JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD France’s traditional bastions of the left and right for 60 years fear they will be swept aside by President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist candidates in Sunday’s first round of parliamentary elections, leaving the country without an effective opposition. When the 39-year-old centrist beat Marine Le Pen to become France’s youngest ever president on May 7, many observers predicted he would struggle to secure a majority to implement his ambitious labour and social reforms. But just four weeks later polls show that Macron’s Republique en Marche (Republic on the Move, REM) party, founded just over a year ago, is heading for an absolute majority in the two-round elections. REM are polling...

http://ift.tt/2rvjgIX Hundreds of demonstrators calling for President Ashraf Ghani to step down clashed with police on Friday, prompting officials to beat them back with live rounds in the air, tear gas and water cannon. Kabul city was on lockdown Saturday with armed checkpoints and armoured vehicles patrolling the streets to prevent a repeat of protests that spiralled into street clashes, leaving at least four people dead. Hundreds of demonstrators calling for President Ashraf Ghani to step down clashed with police on Friday, prompting officials to beat them back with live rounds in the air, tear gas and water cannon. The protesters were voicing anger over a truck bombing on Wednesday in Kabul’s diplomatic quarter that killed 90 people and wounded hundreds, the deadliest attack in the city since 2001. Authorities have sealed off roads in the centre of the city, citing the threat of new attacks on large gatherings of people. “We have intelligence reports that our enemies a...

http://ift.tt/2qHFo1M International travelers pass police officers keeping demonstrators and counter demonstrators apart during protests in support of a ruling by a federal judge in Seattle that grants a nationwide temporary restraining order against the presidential order to ban travel to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries, at Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport on February 4, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. David McNew/Getty Images/AFP DAVID MCNEW / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP President Donald Trump’s administration asked the US Supreme Court on Thursday to reinstate its temporary ban on travelers from six Muslim majority nations despite repeated setbacks in the lower courts. In its filing, the government asked the top US court to rule on the legal standing of Trump’s order, appealing a ruling by the federal Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld a nationwide block of the travel ban. It also asked the Supreme Co...

http://ift.tt/2q8orxw asthmatic patient Prof. Gregory Erhabor, Consultant Pulmonologist, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, Osun on Sunday said more than 10 million Nigerians were suffering from asthma. Erhabor, who is also the Managing Director, Asthma and Chest Care Foundation, Ile-Ife, gave the figure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. The expert, who also disclosed that 500,000 patients died annually, globally, due to the disease, said that Nigeria had not done much in the area of research. “In the area of research, we are still not where we should be, but notwithstanding, we are able to understand the cause of asthma and how to control it. “One of the challenges is that, many people do not know how to prevent the ailment. “That is why the foundation is trying to make the awareness for patients to know the symptoms of the disease and study them. “The Asthma and Chest Care Foundation gives out free drugs to asthma patients s...

http://ift.tt/2pnrBAT Manchester United's French midfielder Paul Pogba attends a team training session at the club's training complex near Carrington, west of Manchester in north west England on May 10, 2017, ahead of their UEFA Europa League semi-final second leg football match against Celta Vigo. / AFP PHOTO / Paul ELLIS English football’s top administrator has defended the world record transfer of Paul Pogba to Manchester United that is now the subject of an investigation by FIFA, the global game’s governing body. The France midfielder’s £89.3 million ($111 million, 105.2 million euros) from Italian club Juventus to the English giants in August 2016 has come under particular scrutiny amid reports the player’s agent will earn some £41 million from the deal. There has long been concern about how football agents, rather than just being paid by their client as is standard practice in other industries, can also earn money from clubs when conducting transfer deals amid sugge...