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President Trump has threatened severe sanctions against Iraq after its parliament called on US troops to leave the country. “We have a very extraordinarily expensive air base that’s there. It cost billions of dollars to build. We’re not leaving unless they pay us back for it,” he told reporters. Tensions are high after the US assassinated Iranian General Qasem Soleimani ...

Almost half a billion animals have been killed in Australia’s raging wildfires with fears entire species may have been wiped out. Ecologists from the University of Sydney now estimate 480 million mammals, birds and reptiles have been lost since September with the figure likely to continue to soar. Devastating fires have ripped through the states of Victoria and New South ...

The 19-year-old right-back’s contract expires at the end of the season but the Blues are trying to convince him to sign a new deal Frank Lampard has revealed Chelsea are in talks with right-back Tariq Lamptey over a contract extension. The 19-year-old made his Blues debut when he was brought on in the second-half of the 2-1 win over Arsenal ...

Goal picks the 15 best deals the past 10 years – excluding frees – taking a player’s price, performance, success and sell-on value into account Getty Images Alisson: Roma to Liverpool (€72m) He might be the most expensive goalkeeper of all time, but Alisson has backed up his enormous price tag since arriving from Italy. Arguably the missing piece of the Jurgen ...

Fifteen Model 3 sedans were handed over at the company’s so-called “Gigafactory” near Shanghai. It comes as Elon Musk’s company aims to secure a significant slice of the world’s biggest car market. Tesla’s move into the country comes as the trade war has forced other American companies to shift production out of China. During a ceremony at the company’s multi-billion ...

Paul Parker says ‘there’s a big, big problem’ with how the Old Trafford side are being run behind the scenes Former Manchester United defender Paul Parker has heavily criticised the way that the club is “discriminated” against from within, saying they’re hardly even a football club any more. Although United’s financial affairs remain strong, since Sir Alex Ferguson’s departure in ...

The Blues winger has suggested that a long-serving Brazilian will be departing the Etihad Stadium at the end of the current campaign Riyad Mahrez has inadvertently hinted that the 2019-20 campaign will be Fernandinho’s last at Manchester City. The long-serving Brazilian has been at the Etihad Stadium since the summer of 2013, when he was snapped up from Shakhtar Donetsk. ...

Terrorists attacked a town in northern Burkina Faso and killed 35 civilians, most of them women, and ensuing clashes with security forces left 80 jihadists dead, the West African nation’s president announced late Tuesday. The violence, which erupted in the town of Arbinda in Sahel region near the country’s border with Mali, lasted for several hours, according to a military ...

On Monday South Sudan’s president Salvar Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar agreed that consolidatory talks on the future of the country will continue after the festive period. International pressure is leaving both leaders with less option than to pave the way for a unity government come February 2020. Information that seeped through official channels confirmed that Monday’s meeting at ...

A single woman in China has gone to court challenging rules that forbid unmarried women from freezing their eggs in the first case of its kind in the country. Teresa Xu said she was prompted to take legal action after a top hospital in Beijing declined to freeze her eggs last year, and instead told her to “get married, and ...