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English Premier League leaders Manchester City received a boost on Monday with the news that influential midfielder Kevin De Bruyne has agreed to sign a new five-year contract with the club. The Belgian joined Manchester City from Wolfsburg in 2015, initially agreeing a six-year contract to stay in Manchester. However, his performances since, including 38 Premier League assists for City, ...

President George Weah has hit the ground running after taking his oath of office on January 22, 2018 as the 24th president of Liberia. He has named five key cabinet portfolios including Foreign Affairs, Finance, Defence, Justice and Presidential Affairs. Two “surprise” nominees are Sirleaf’s former army chief as Defence minister and another ally as Foreign Affairs chief. The list ...

Migration authorities in Switzerland say Eritreans topped the list of asylum seekers into the country over the course of 2017. Eritreans made up almost a fifth of requests followed by Syrians, Afghans and people from Turkey – the Turks largely in the category of people fleeing a crackdown arising from a failed coup in 2016. Eritreans topped September 2017 Swiss ...

Juventus are preparing a stunning deal to bring Mario Balotelli back to Italy this summer. The former Manchester City and Liverpool striker is in red-hot form in Ligue 1 after scoring 17 times for Nice already this season. And his return to goalscoring form has caught the attention of Serie A champions Juve The club’s relationship with the forward’s agent, ...

A Russian Orthodox bishop has advised the faithful not to vote for Vladimir Putin when he stands for re-election in March, a nearly unheard of occurrence in the loyal church. The angry statement marked the first time an acting bishop has spoken against supporting the current president, according to the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, but it was motivated by Mr ...

ALEXIS SANCHEZ has officially been confirmed as a Manchester United player – but did Jose Mourinho leak a clue to the signing six months ago? Sanchez finally completed his move from Manchester United to Arsenal, putting an end to one of the biggest transfer sagas in Premier League history, at 6pm on Monday. The deal, which sees Henrikh Mkhitaryan move ...

Armenian midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan went to Arsenal in the exchange, landing Sanchez at Old Trafford. “I am thrilled to be joining the biggest club in the world,” Sanchez said in a news release from the club. “I have spent three-and-a-half wonderful years at Arsenal and I bring with me very positive memories of that great club and its fans. The chance to ...

Tens of thousands of Liberians have witnessed the swearing-in of George Weah as the new president of Liberia, at a packed stadium on the outskirts of Monrovia. A former international football legend, George Weah replaces Africa’s first elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. It’s Liberia’s first transition between democratically-elected leaders since 1944. Also present are heads of state ...

The Gambia’s former leader, Yahya Jammeh, who left the country a year ago after two decades in power, has been accused of many crimes. But one of the strangest was forcing thousands of people with HIV to undergo treatment with a concoction of herbs he had invented himself. An unknown number died, reports Colin Freeman. As the first person in ...

Recent developments in artificial intelligence mean men will not have to wait very long to bring home a “robot wife”, said David Levy. The top robotics expert claims people will legally be able to marry their robotic lovers by 2050, in his book Love and Sex with Robots. The synopsis reads: “The book [is] about how increasing innovation in robotic ...