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Video: #OffKey Video: Maroon 5 feat. Future – ‘Cold’

Before he drops his album on Friday, Future goes on a wild ride with Maroon 5 in the trippy video for the band’s single “Cold.”
The bizarre clip, which stars Hendrix, Adam Levine, and his supermodel wife Behati Prinsloo, starts with Levine driving home when he gets a call to stop by Future’s house so he can play him his “Cold” verse. After telling his wife that he will be late, he heads to the house party.
There, the bartender slips acid in his drink and he starts to hallucinate and see psychedelic effects including a fish with a human head and floating police cars. Women try to seduce him before he meets up with Future, who appears as a teddy bear and an old white lady.
He eventually is thrown in the pool and witnesses an underwater wedding before returning home safely to his wife, who he recounts the strange evening to.
“It was weird. Somebody slipped something into my drink,” says Levine. “I think it was acid because I started tripping balls. Future turned into a teddy bear and James was getting blown by a chicken. It was crazy.”
Future’s self-titled album drops Friday and he will launch his “Nobody’s Safe Tour” on May 4 with special guests Migos, Tory Lanez, and Kodak Black. Meanwhile, Maroon 5 is gearing up to release their own album, which will also feature the Kendrick Lamar-assisted hit “Don’t Wanna Know.”

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iLLBliss resurfaces with this new one titled “Over & Over” which features versatile artiste and producer, Suspect.

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News: Chinese ships sail near disputed Japanese islands

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Chinese ship movement comes days after US defense secretary's visit to Japan
US defense chief said Senkaku Islands part of US-Japan security treaty
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(CNN) — Three Chinese Coast Guard ships entered waters near a chain of islands claimed by both China and Japan in the East China Sea on Monday, according to authorities from both sides.
Japan controls the chain and calls them the Senkaku Islands, while China calls them the Diaoyu Islands.
The sailing comes just days after US Defense Secretary James Mattis reaffirmed America's commitment to defending Japan and its disputed islands .
According to Japanese broadcaster NHK, protests were lodged with the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo and in Beijing through the Japanese Embassy.
Tensions have flashed numerous times in recent years over the disputed islands, including face-offs between Japanese and Chinese air and naval forces that have been termed dangerous by both sides.

China's State Oceanic Administration, which oversees the country's Coast Guard, put out a statement late Monday saying the three ships "cruised within China's Diaoyu Islands territorial sea."
China's Defense Ministry, which is separate from the Oceanic Administration, posted a statement on its website confirming the Coast Guard ship movement.
Japan's Coast Guard said the Chinese vessels spent two hours in Japanese territorial waters.
It was the fourth time Chinese ships have entered Japan's waters this year, the Japanese Coast Guard said. There were 36 such incidents in 2016, it said.
During a press conference Saturday in Tokyo, Mattis said the US would defend the islands with Japan.
"I made clear that our long-standing policy on the Senkaku Islands stands -- the US will continue to recognize Japanese administration of the islands and as such Article 5 of the US-Japan Security Treaty applies," Mattis said in a press conference with Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada.
China responded quickly on Saturday to the US stance on the islands, saying it brings instability to the region.
"Diaoyu and its affiliated islands have been Chinese territory since ancient times. These are historical facts that cannot be changed. The so-called US-Japan security treaty was a product of the Cold War, and it should not harm China's territorial sovereignty and legitimate rights," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said in a statement.
"We urge the US side to adopt a responsible attitude and stop making wrong remarks on the issue of the sovereignty of Diaoyu Islands," Lu said.
The US commitment to the Senkaus, which Mattis also reaffirmed in a Friday night meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is not new. In 2014, the Obama administration also said the remote chain fell under the treaty.
In late 2013, China declared an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) over much of the East China Sea, including the Senkakus, despite objections from Tokyo and Washington.
Japan also has an ADIZ over the islands. Although the Senkakus are uninhabited, their ownership would allow for exclusive oil, mineral and fishing rights in the surrounding waters.
While the Senkakus remain a source of friction in the US-China relationship, Mattis' visit seemed to have soothed relations a bit in another area, the South China Sea.
Although the US defense chief said "China has shredded the trust of nations in the region" by fortifying disputed South China Sea islands, Mattis also said no increased US military maneuvers there were needed.
Lu, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, on Monday welcomed that stance.
"As for Mattis' comment that there is no need for large-scale military operations in the area and the issue should be resolved through diplomacy, these remarks deserve our affirmation," Lu said.
CNN's Yuli Yang, Steven Jiang and Yoko Wakatsuki contributed to this report.
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"I made clear that our long-standing policy on the Senkaku Islands stands -- the US will continue to recognize Japanese administration of the islands and as such Article 5 of the US-Japan Security Treaty applies," Mattis said in a press conference with Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada.
China responded quickly on Saturday to the US stance on the islands, saying it brings instability to the region.

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News: Are gunshot victims in Chicago under-treated?

Chicago just ended its deadliest year in nearly two decades.The city saw 4,331 shooting victims last year, according to its police department. Now, a new study sheds light on the medical treatment that such victims receive in Cook County, Illinois, the second most populous county in the nation, which includes the city of Chicago.Almost one-fifth of gun-related injuries countywide that met the criteria for treatment at a trauma center, from 2009 to 2013, were initially under-treated, according to the study, which was published in the journal JAMA Surgery on Wednesday.In other words, those patients received initial treatment outside a trauma center. Nearly one-third of all patients with gun-related injuries in the study were treated in a non-trauma facility."I was not surprised by the number of cases treated in hospitals without trauma units.... What did surprise me was the number of firearm injuries," said Lee Friedman, associate professor of environmental and occupational health sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a co-author of the study.The study involved an analysis of nearly 10,000 gunshot injuries in a single county overfive years, he said, adding, "We have become numb to firearm-related injuries."Other experts called the study important, but questioned whether it's sufficient enough to draw conclusions about the possible under-treatment of gunshot victims.Treating the wounded, without a trauma team
To assess whether a patient's injury was serious enough to warrant treatment in a trauma center, of which there are 19 in Cook County, the researchers took a close look at the patients' diagnosis codes in the data to learn more about the type of injury and the body region injured.The criteria for a patient to be transported to a specialized trauma unit include the patient's level of consciousness, vital signs and location of injury, for instance whether a gunshot wound is to the head, neck, torso or above the elbows or knees, according to guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."I would say the vital signs actually supersede the location in terms of importance for most trauma surgeons," said Dr. Bryan Morse, assistant professor of surgery at Emory University School of Medicine and a trauma surgeon at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, who was not involved in the study.The researchers found that some 28% of the patients were initially treated in non-trauma facilities.Among those with injuries that met the criteria for treatment in a trauma center -- which were 4,934 -- the data showed that about 18% received initial treatment at a non-trauma facility, and about 10% of those were transferred to a trauma facility.Morse said that he was surprised to see the number of patients that went to non-trauma centers, but added that the study had some major limitations.'A good first pass'"It's a good first pass at this data and to look at where firearm injuries are being treated,although that may be different from state to state, metropolitan area to metropolitan area, and county to county," Morse said about the study."One of the things they are missing is initial vital signs," he said. "So, not having that is amajor limitation to the study and it really brings into question the validity of the study. Number two, they don't have any data on why people were transferred or why people weren't taken to a trauma center."

 The study included data on 9,886 patients who were treated for firearm-related injuries at hospitals in Cook County from 2009 to 2013.The data, which were derived from hospital billing records, included outpatients and inpatients, patient demographics, health outcomes and economic outcomes, but lacked physiological measures, such as blood pressure or respiratory rate, Friedman said.Overall, limited resources and longer transport times to a trauma center may explain why some patients weren't treated in a trauma facility when they should have been, theresearchers noted.While the researchers did not examine racial disparities, the data showed that residents of disproportionately Latino or African-American communities in western and southern Chicago were more likely to be under-treated. These areas also have substantially fewer medical resources, Friedman said."This indicates a need for improved, better regional coordination between hospitals with and without specialized trauma teams," Friedman said.Though the researchers noted that transporting patients to the nearest facility instead of a specific trauma center may explain their findings, the other factors that weren't clearly distinguished -- such as more details on type of injury -- could have influenced those findings, wrote Dr. Marie Crandall in an editorial commentary that accompanied the new study in JAMA Surgery.For instance, a gunshot wound to the ankle would not necessarily need to be treated in a trauma center and so wouldn't count as the under-treatment of a patient. Whereas a wound to the knee would need a higher level of care, wrote Crandall, a professor of surgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Jacksonville, who was not involved in the study.

News: Trump says he'll send in feds if Chicago doesn't fix 'carnage'

President Donald Trump, for the first time since taking office, has tweeted about violence in Chicago, saying: "I will send in the Feds" if they don't fix the "horrible 'carnage'" going on.He tweeted about the shootings there in early January, saying at the time as President-elect: "If Mayor can't do it he must ask for Federal help."Tuesday night he wrote, "If Chicago doesn't fix the horrible 'carnage' going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016), I will send in the Feds."The Chicago Police Department tells CNN there have been 38 homicides and 182 shooting incidents in the city so far in 2017. Chicago Police only report homicides. They are not necessarily all shooting deaths.Trump has previously encouraged Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to ask for federal assistance.Asked about Trump's statement following a Chicago city council meeting Wednesday, Emanuel said he "welcomed" the idea of greater federal assistance to address crime inthe city. He said federal authorities already play an integral role in fighting crime in the city, referencing the transport of guns across state lines, among other areas."A lot of the guns, you know, coming into Chicago come from out of state," Emanuel said. "Federal entities are set up to deal with that. And they do. And they work with us. "Mentioning past meetings with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, Emanuel said he has "been very clear about what we need to do."Previously, Emanuel has specified areas he'd like the federal government's help -- including gun control, gun tracking, prosecution for gun crimes and help increase funding for more police officers.

Trump voiced strong support for the Second Amendment on the campaign trail, so it's not clear if that's the type of tactic his administration would favor -- though his campaign stated he was in favor of enforcing gun laws on the books and stringent sentencing for armed felons.Often on the campaign trail, Trump would mention Chicago while suggesting that controversial and possibly unconstitutional tactics such as stop-and-frisk could help address the issue."A policy like stop-and-frisk could save thousands of lives in a city like Chicago, just like it saved thousands of lives in New York. Overwhelmingly, this will save African-American and Hispanic lives -- citizens who are entitled to the same protections as every American," Trump said during a September rally in Florida.

News: Trump trade deal moves could hurt US security posture

President Donald Trump has moved quickly against free-trade deals that he says are hurting American workers -- but in the process he risks dismantling a key pillar of US national security.In his first week on the job, Trump has withdrawn the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact and called for the North American Free Trade Agreement to be renegotiated and perhaps abandoned.Amid anger over job losses and concerns about sovereignty that helped fuel Trump's victory, lawmakers in districts hurt by trade and labor unions celebrated the news.But beyond the economic consequences -- which many TPP proponents argue will be negative for the US -- the moves shake the foundations of the US global security architecture. American policy dating back to WWII has used multilateral trade agreements as a tool to strengthen US security and advance US leadership around the world."That's been the case with US trade policy for the entire post-war period," said Fred Bergsten, founding director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, speaking of agreements like NAFTA and TPP. "So when you undo them, as Trump could do, you are really striking a major blow against fundamental US national security interests."
Bergsten and others also said that the TPP withdrawal clears the way for China to pushfor greater dominance in Asia. "The Chinese could not have a greater gift than the one Trump has given them," Bergsten said. Trump "just handed it over on a silver platter and they'll sit back and rake it in."While there's a price tag for the economic cost of withdrawal, according to Bergsten,"the national security costs of turning leadership of that region over to your chief rival are really incalculable."As a US network in Asia, the TPP would have created "a bulwark against China," he said, echoing others who argue that withdrawal impacts the US ability to lead on issueslike the South China Sea, where Beijing makes territorial claims, freedom of navigation and values of human rights, democracy and freedom.Harry Kazianis, director of Defense Studies at the Center for the National Interest, said that "we must remember, TPP, at its core, was never about trade." It's core goal, Kazianis said, was to create a deal of "real strategic" importance.Consumer and advocacy groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an internet freedom group, complained that the deal was being negotiated behind closed doors and was likely to benefit multinational companies more than ordinary people. And lawmakers such as Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders rallied people against a "fast-track" procedure that barred Congress from amending the deal.Backers of Trump's approach on trade primarily focus on the economic effects, arguing that having a robust American workforce and GDP will project US strength internationally.

 Labor unions and lawmakers focused on domestic issues welcomed the idea of a NAFTA rewrite and praised the TPP move. The AFL-CIO tweeted that the TPP cancelation was a "good first step toward building trade policies that benefit working people." Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat, wrote Trump on Tuesday sayingshe supported a new approach to trade deals.Trump White House press secretary Sean Spicer, speaking in a January 23 press briefing about the TPP, saying, "this type of multinational agreement is not in our best interest."But other lawmakers and analysts contended that the reorientation on trade will have both negative strategic and economic impact. Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona called the TPP withdrawal "a serious mistake that will have lasting consequences for America's economy and our strategic position in the Asia-Pacific region."Walter Lohman, director of the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation, a thinktank closely aligned with Vice President Mike Pence, said the US can't simply walk away from the TPP."It would be a mistake not to have a Plan B," Lohman said. "We need to have a Plan B, some sort of approach that would demonstrate our interest in the region."

News: Mexican President: We will not pay for the wall

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said Wednesday his country "will not pay for any wall," defying the claims US President Donald Trump has made. But he did not cancel his trip planned for the United States next week."Mexico does not believe in walls. I've said time again; Mexico will not pay for any wall," he said in a video statement posted to Twitter and translated by CNN from Spanish.Peña Nieto said he would wait for a final report from his top officials who arrived in Washington Wednesday to meet with the Trump administration, and previous meetingswith Mexican legislators, before deciding which steps he would take next.Peña Nieto also said he had ordered government agencies to step up protection for immigrants."I've asked for the minister of Foreign Relations to re-enforce protection measures to our citizens," he said. He added that the 50 Mexican Consulates in the US will be used to defend the rights of immigrants in the country. He also issued a call to action to legislators and civil organizations to help immigrants.Peña Nieto closed his message by saying that Mexico offers and expects respect."Mexico offers its friendship to the people of the United States and expresses its wish to arrive at agreements with its government, deals that will be in favor of Mexico and the Mexicans," he said.Earlier in the day, Trump signed two executive orders directing the construction of a wall on the US-Mexico border, boosting border patrol forces and increasing the numberof immigration enforcement officers who carry out deportations.Meanwhile, the Mexican officials that arrived Wednesday are expected to lay the groundwork for Peña Nieto's visit next week, which Mexican diplomats see as an important opportunity to get past the anti-Mexico rhetoric Trump used during the campaign and a chance to put the US-Mexico relationship back on track."There is ... frustration with our government and ourselves that we have not been able to tell the story of this important relationship," a Mexican diplomat told CNN ahead of the visit. "There are a lot of stereotypes of Mexicans in the US, but there are also stereotypes of Americans in Mexico. It is in the interest of both governments to explainwhat this relationship is and what we can do together."
 In a Monday speech, Peña Nieto said his government is prepared to negotiate with the US if Mexico's national sovereignty is respected. He laid out economic integration and respect for the rights of migrants and the money they send home as his nation's key negotiating points.Trump has suggested some of the $25 billion in annual remittances that migrants return home would be retained to pay for the border wall -- a project Mexico opposes and which Peña Nieto has said Mexico would never pay for."Neither confrontation nor submission. Dialogue is the solution," Peña Nieto said Monday.This won't be the first meeting for the two men. Trump flew to Mexico City during his campaign to meet Peña Nieto and said they discussed a wall Trump has vowed to build on the US southern border, but not his demand that Mexico pay for it -- an assertion the Mexican president later disputed."At the start of the conversation with Donald Trump, I made it clear that Mexico will notpay for the wall," Peña Nieto tweeted, after their meeting.The visit was widely viewed as a public relations disaster for Peña Nieto.

News: Trump orders construction of border wall, boosts deportation force

President Donald Trump on Wednesday started to reshape US immigration enforcement policies via executive action, taking his first steps toward fulfilling some of the most contentious pledges that defined his campaign -- building a border wall andspeeding the deportation of undocumented immigrants.Trump signed two executive orders directing the construction of a wall on the US-Mexico border, boosting border patrol forces and increasing the number of immigration enforcement officers who carry out deportations. The orders also call for stripping sanctuary cities of federal grant funding and announced sweeping new criteria that could make many more undocumented immigrants priorities for deportation."Beginning today, the United States of America gets back control of its borders," Trumptold employees of the Department of Homeland Security at the department's headquarters in Washington.But while Trump directed the "immediate construction of a physical wall on the southern border," the executive orders do not cover the cost of the wall. Trump has repeatedly promised that Mexico will reimburse US taxpayers for the construction costs, a suggestion Mexican officials have rejected out of hand.The president's moves sent alarm bells ringing in immigrant activist circles, where questions had continued to swirl about whether Trump would truly implement many of the hard-line immigration policies he articulated during his campaign.Trump also indicated he does not need Congress to pass new legislation to implement the border control and immigration reform agenda he outlined during his campaign for president, saying he would "work within the existing system and framework.""We do not need new laws," Trump said soon after signing the two executive orders.The executive orders Trump signed Wednesday call for boosting the ranks of Border Patrol forces by an additional 5,000 agents as well as for 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to carry out deportations. The orders noted that the increases were subject to Congress's appropriation of sufficient funds.Building the wall
Construction of the wall could begin in months, but planning for the massive project is"starting immediately," Trump said Wednesday in an interview with ABC News.Trump confirmed his plans to build the wall with federal funds and then seek reimbursement from Mexico, an idea Mexico has rejected. But negotiations, he said, would begin "relatively soon.""I'm telling you there will be a payment. It will be in a form, perhaps a complicated form," Trump said.Trump also for the first time appeared to articulate on Wednesday the argument he might make to Mexican officials as he looks to compel them to pay for the wall.Trump stressed Wednesday that the wall would "help Mexico" by deterring illegal immigration from countries farther South through Mexico."We are going to stabilize on both sides of the border and we also understand that a strong and healthy economy in Mexico is very good for the United States," Trump said.Trump erases doubt about commitment to hardline policiesTrump's actions leave little doubt about whether his immigration policies as president would differ from his campaign rhetoric.There remained little question, for example, about whether Trump would push to increase deportations of undocumented immigrants. His increases in the number of border patrol and immigration officers -- adding 10,000 immigration officers to an ICE workforce of just 20,000 -- raised the specter of Trump's campaign promise of mass deportations.One of Trump's executive actions was expected to call for tripling "enforcement and removal operations/agents" of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which is charged with arresting and deporting undocumented immigrants living in the US. The order also calls for a 5,000-person increase in Customs and Border Protection personnel.

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#OffKey: Justin Bieber Calls The Weeknd’s Music “Wack”After Selena Gomez Rumors

Justin Bieber doesn’t sound like he’s “Sorry” for dissing The Weeknd.The pop superstar pulled no punches when asked about Abel’s music amidst reports that the Canadian crooner isdatinghis ex, Selena Gomez.“Hell no, I can’t listen to a Weeknd song,” Bieber toldTMZ. “That shit’s wack.”

News: Canadians say they were turned away at US border for trying to attend march

At least two Canadians say they were turned away at the US border after revealing thatthey intended to go to the Women's March.Joseph Decunha said he had driven to a border crossing between Champlain, New York and St. Bernard de Lacolle, Quebec, with his partner and friend who are both Americans, on Thursday night."Upon arrival, we told the border patrol officer we're heading down to DC and will be attending the Women's March and will be in DC the day of the inauguration," he told CNN.The group was asked to go through a secondary inspection.At the second border inspection, they were asked if they were pro- or anti-Trump, Decunha said."We were honest and said we were anti-Trump and at that point, he engaged me directly in conversation because I assumed I was the only Canadian," he said.Decunha elaborated as to why he didn't support Trump and talked about the AffordableCare Act and other policies he disagreed with.The line of questioning veered towards whether they had been to the Middle East and ifthey believe in violence. Decunha said he thought the officer was trying to figure out if they were radicalized.Decunha was told that he was denied entry to the US.
The officer used the term "silent disruption" as the reason and Decunha said he "kept dropping it as though it was a verifiable law regulation to not let me in the country."Angered by the denial, Decunha's partner, who is American, began arguing with the officer. During that exchange, the border patrol officer said Decunha couldn't come into the country under the purpose of tourism.Decunha said he was told, "If you would've said you were pro-Trump, that would've put you in the tourist bin and would have been allowed entry."His two American travel companions were allowed entry, but Decunha said he was denied. He was fingerprinted and photographed before he was allowed to return home.CNN contacted the US Border Patrol and Customs, but has not received a response.Another Canadian told CNN a similar story, also at a border crossing in Quebec.Sasha Dyck said he was part of a group comprised of six Canadians and two French nationals who organized a trip to Washington for the Women's March.They arrived at the border on Thursday and when Dyck mentioned the march, the whole group was pulled over for inspection.They had to submit their phones and passports, he said. Then, their fingerprints and photographs were taken.

News: Trump says he has "running war" with media, gets facts wrong, in CIA speech

President Donald Trump started and finished a speech he gave at the CIA headquarters Saturday afternoon by criticizing the "dishonest media." Several of the things he said were inaccurate.Some members of the media expressed astonishment about the setting and the tone of the speech."The stars on the wall behind Trump, who is talking about his crowd sizes and complaining about the media, mark dead CIA operatives," Los Angeles Times columnist Cathleen Decker tweeted."The president just tried to rally CIA workforce around the idea that media is the enemy. Let that sink in," wrote Mark Mazzetti, a Washington investigations editor at The New York Times.Trump himself called it a "war," further ratcheting up his extreme anti-media rhetoric from the campaign trail."As you know, I have a running war with the media. They are among the most dishonest human beings on Earth," Trump said.Some CIA staffers in the room applauded the insult, but the senior leadership in the front rows did not, according to a CNN producer who was there."They sort of made it sound like I had a 'feud' with the intelligence community." Nonsense, Trump said, "it is exactly the opposite, and they understand that too."In fact, Trump repeatedly and publicly questioned the country's intelligence services amid reporting about Russian attempts to interfere in the election."He referred to it repeatedly in tweets as 'intelligence' in quotes. He was undermining" them, CNN chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto said afterward.CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash added, "It's unfortunate that he said that there, on hallowed ground. It happens to be not true that we conflated things that he said. All you have to do is look at his Twitter feed to see what he said."Trump also exaggerated the size of the crowd at his swearing-in ceremony Friday and complained about what he said was unfair coverage.He said it looked to him "like a million, million and a half people" were in attendance for his inauguration, but that a television network (which he did not name) "showed a field where there was practically nobody standing there."He also said the crowd "went all the way back to the Washington Monument," but it did not.Major television networks shared a camera at the top of the monument that showed lots of open space during Trump's inauguration.Trump even described the inauguration weather inaccurately, saying that the skies became "really sunny" after his speech, when in fact it remained cloudy.At the beginning of the speech, Trump struck a more positive tone about the press, saying "they did treat me nicely on that speech yesterday."But at the end, he returned to his anti-media rhetoric. He made a brief mistake by a Time magazine reporter, Zeke Miller, sound like an ongoing scandal.When a small group of journalists, known as a "pool," was allowed intothe Oval Office on Friday evening, there was some confusion about whether a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. was still there. The bust had been controversial when former President Obama moved it into the Oval Office, replacing a bust of Winston Churchill that had been there.Pool reporter Zeke Miller of Time initially couldn't see the MLK bust, and he sent word to the rest of the press corps that it had been removed.But it was still there, albeit out of Miller's line of sight. A correction went out to the press corps within half an hour.Trump press secretary Sean Spicer tweaked Miller about the incident on Twitter, calling it "a reminder of the media danger of tweet first check facts later."Miller apologized to his colleagues, and Spicer tweeted, "Apology accepted."Trump said the incident showed "how dishonest the media is." He said the MLK bust removal was a "big story," when in fact it was not treated like a big story by any major news outlets.Trump concluded his comments about the press by saying, "I love honesty. I like honest reporting."

NNews: paring Trump's inauguration crowd to the Women's March

It's going to be impossible to gauge how many people exactly attended the inauguration of Donald Trump in 2017 as opposed to Barack Obama in 2009.It's also going to be impossible to gauge how many people exactly attended Trump's inauguration as opposed to the Women's March Saturday organized as a direct rebuttalto Trump the previous day.

RELATED: Get full coverage of the transition to Trump and of the Women's MarchBut there's going to be a lot of conjecture about it. Trump himself talked about his massive crowds during an appearance at the Armed Services Ball Friday night.It's clear that both events attracted many people. Below are pictures from 12:15 p.m. ET on each day from the EarthCam website.Trump talked about crowd size during an appearance at the CIA Saturday and argued the size of his crowds had been misrepresented."We had a massive field of people," he told the US intelligence agency. "You saw that. Packed. I get up this morning, I turn on one of the networks, and they show an empty field. I'm like, wait a minute. I made a speech. I looked out, the field was, it looked like amillion, million and a half people. They showed a field where there were practically nobody standing there. And they said, Donald Trump did not draw well," the President said."It looked honestly like a million and a half people, whatever it was, it was, but it went all the way back to the Washington Monument and I turn on, by mistake, I get this network, and it showed an empty field. Said we drew 250,000 people. Now, that's not bad. But it's a lie. We had 250,000 people," he said.It wasn't clear which outlet Trump was referring to. CNN has not reported a specific size to the crowd since there has been no official estimate.
Trump took the oath of office just before noon Friday and then gave his inaugural address. A rally associated with the march was slated for between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday.Some differences to note: Trump's speech was on the West Front of the Capitol, which was at capacity on Friday. It was cordoned off and empty on Saturday as protesters gathered on the Mall.On the other hand, the Women's March filled the streets around the mall. Those streetswere closed to Trump supporters.His inauguration was on Jan. 20, because of the Constitution, which this year occurred on a Friday. The Women's March was on Saturday, when more people are off work.Metro, Washington's subway system, tweeted Saturday there were 275,000 trips taken Saturday by 11 a.m.On Friday, there were 193,000 trips by 11 a.m., according to Metro.Another important point: Both events are occurring in an area opposed to Trump. Washington, D.C. voted overwhelmingly against Trump last November. He got just 4.1% of the vote in the nation's capital. He also lost the surrounding states of Maryland by 25 percentage points and Virginia by nearly 5 percentage points. It would be a longer trip for a critical mass of Trump supporters than for a critical mass of marchers.

News: More than 1 million marched against Trump in US -- and that's without counting DC

More than a million Americans took to the streets of the United States to protest Donald Trump the day after his inauguration. And that doesn't include the many thousands of people who took part in the main event -- The Women's March on Washington -- for which there was no official crowd estimate.CNN did not make its own crowd estimates, but compiled official estimates from law enforcement agencies for many of the "sister marches" around the country that drew large crowds. There were other marches in cities around the world.Marchers planned events in many cities outside the nation's capitol. CNN looked at media reports citing law enforcement figures in many of those cities. Massive gatherings in places like New York and Denver were not included because authorities there did not offer an official estimate.Crowd sizes became an issue in Washington Saturday when Trump visited the CIA andduring remarks to employees there, accused an unnamed news organization of misrepresenting the attendance for his own inauguration."We had a massive field of people," he told the US intelligence agency. "You saw that. Packed. I get up this morning, I turn on one of the networks, and they show an empty field. I'm like, wait a minute. I made a speech. I looked out, the field was, it looked like amillion, million and a half people. They showed a field where there were practically nobody standing there. And they said, 'Donald Trump did not draw well,' " the President said."It looked honestly like a million and a half people, whatever it was, it was, but it went all the way back to the Washington Monument and I turn on, by mistake, I get this network, and it showed an empty field. Said we drew 250,000 people. Now, that's not bad. But it's a lie," he said.
It wasn't clear which outlet Trump was referring to. CNN has not reported a specific size to the crowd since there has been no official estimate.Later, White House press secretary Sean Spicer went on a tear against the political press for reporting on crowd size. The National Park Service, which oversees the National Mall, has been instructed by Congress not to offer crowd size estimates."This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period," Spicer said, although evidence suggests otherwise.Photos of Trump's inauguration compared to Barack Obama's in 2009 and also to the Women's March suggest the President drew a smaller crowd, although there could be other reasons, including a heightened security perimeter on Friday for the inaugurationthat was not in place on Saturday for the Women's March and protesters on Friday, who obstructed entrance points to the inauguration and parade route.

News: Trump leaves world diplomats down and out

Donald Trump's first address as US president wasn't just watched by Americans -- the world was listening too, and for now, his inaugural remarks have left some depressed, many wary and everyone waiting for more.After Trump's swearing in, the newly minted president gave a short speech that was light on policy specifics, but hit hard on many of his campaign themes, including protectionism, trade-skepticism and an "America First" isolationism.The tenor and content of the speech left some diplomats "depressed," they said, and sparked an emergency meeting in Canada, one of the largest US trading partners.While some are stressing a need to wait and see what actions follow Trump's broad-brush rhetoric, international envoys and editorial pages also picked up on what the president didn't say -- his to reaffirm the traditional American role as a global leader of an international community."The message was 'America First and screw everyone else,' " said one Arab diplomat."That mind frame is not lost on the world and it is not good for the United States."A Western diplomat said Trump's speech translated to her country as a message that the new US posture will be "America first and we will see about the rest of the world if we have time," a message that left people "depressed."Countries formally welcomed the new president and some quickly issued Trump invitations or accepted them. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin published a letter inviting Trump to visit, while British officials said Prime Minister Teresa May will come to Washington next week for a meeting with Trump that will almost certainly touch on thebroad range of UK-US security and intelligence cooperation issues.Russia, which has celebrated Trump's election, said Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will call Trump in the coming days. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Saturday on Russia's Channel One network that this was a "diplomatic necessity" given various US-Russia issues, including nuclear disarmament and Syria."The acting administration will have to be introduced to all the nuances of our bilateral ties," he said.Trump's remarks, which clocked in under 20 minutes, skated over familiar campaign themes, some put more baldly than others. He said protectionism would lead to strength, blasted other countries for the economic woes of the US, questioned the investment in security alliances, and painted a dark picture of weak borders that allow the US to be pillaged by "the ravages of other countries."The Times of London, a conservative paper owned by Rupert Murdoch, said in an editorial that the president painted a "bleak" picture of "American carnage." The left-leaning Guardian, on its editorial pages, called the speech "by turns bitter, blowhardand banal" and noted that "in 1933, Roosevelt challenged the world to overcome fear. In 2017, Mr Trump told the world to be very afraid."A slew of leaders reached out to Trump quickly to try to establish a relationship with the new administration, among them Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. The southern US border is an intense focus for Trump, who has promised to build a wall there and have Mexico pay for it.Pena Nieto's congratulatory call Saturday morning stressed Mexico's willingness to work on an agenda that would benefit both countries, according to his office, as well asthe need to focus on respect for sovereignty and shared responsibility.White House spokesman Sean Spicer said later that Trump and Pena Nieto "talked about a visit on trade, immigration and security" that is to occur on January 31. It's unclear where the meeting will take place.Mexico, the US and Canada form the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Trump, in a statement posted on the White House website Friday, pledges to unilaterally withdraw from if the other two nations don't agree to renegotiate the pact.Little surprise then that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also called Trump Saturday to stress the importance of Canada-US ties and remind Trump that 35 states count Canada as their top destination for exports.Trudeau had to calm the frayed nerves of Canadian provincial leaders in a Friday phone call with them. Canada is the US' second-largest trading partner after China, with more than 70% of Canadian exports going to the US. The Prime Minister's office said he spoke to the leaders about efforts to find common ground with the new US administration.Diplomats said Trump's inaugural speech left them deeply concerned about the US commitment to international security networks and organizations like NATO, particularly given Trump's assertion that the US had "subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military."Trump has dismissed NATO, seen as the core US security alliance, as "obsolete" and questioned whether the US should continue to led security support to South Korea and Japan, both of which pay for that help. And he has unsettled friends and foes alike in 140-character blasts on Twitter.Diplomats said they were looking to the speech for reassurance that the US remains anchored in its commitment to allies.

News: Day Two: Trump prayed, met CIA, attacked press

President Donald Trump moved fast to mend his relationship with the CIA on just his second day in office, then ignited a feud with the media over the size of his inauguration crowd after mass nationwide protests erupted against his administration.A day after he set the tone for his term by delivering a searing inaugural address laced with the populist themes that helped him win the election, Trump offered new evidencethat he will be as disdainful of convention and protocol as President as he was in the campaign trail.His broadside against the media, which he believes is unfairly representing the size of the crowd on Friday, and the sight of huge anti-Trump crowds in US cities and around the world also made another thing clear: the political acrimony that rattled the nation for the past 18 months is not going away.Trump traveled to the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, for a briefing from senior agency leaders and spoke to several hundred people in the spy agency's foyer, in front of a hallowed spot: the wall of honor where fallen operatives are remembered with stars."This is my first stop officially, there is nobody that feels stronger about the intelligencecommunity and the CIA than Donald Trump, there is nobody," Trump said. "I am so behind you and I know that maybe sometimes you haven't got the backing that you wanted."The gesture of the visit was an important moment for Trump, who raised doubts about his relationship with US intelligence agencies by initially casting doubt on their assessment that Russia intervened in the election by hacking Democratic email accounts. He had also spurred anxiety about his willingness to accept traditional presidential daily briefings on the gravest security threats facing the United States.His comments were warmly received by CIA employees who came in on a Saturday to see their new president.But Trump also departed from his topic, turning the event into a campaign-like appearance.He complained about the media's treatment of him and accused television stations of not being truthful about the size of the crowd on Friday.
"I have a running war with the media, they are among the most dishonest human beings on Earth -- they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community. The reason you are the number one stop is exactly the opposite," he said.Later, White House press secretary Sean Spicer appeared in the White House briefing room to warn the administration was going to hold the press "accountable" and argued that the Trump crowd was the largest inaugural crowd ever. He said any suggestion otherwise was "shameful and wrong."Spicer then left the room after the statement without taking questions.The White House appeared irked by cameras that showed large gaps in Trump's still large crowd on Friday compared to the one that showed historic numbers of spectators to see former President Barack Obama sworn in for his first term in 2009.The chairman of Trump's inaugural committee, Tom Barrack, told CNN's Michael Smerconish that Trump was disappointed at what he saw as deceptive photos of the crowd that appeared on Twitter."I think it's appropriate because this president is just putting his fingerprint on what it's going to be like for him to be president. It's the same consistency of straight talk," Barrack said.The spat was another reminder of Trump's deep sensitivity to criticism and to any suggestion that his popularity or election victory are not entirely legitimate.Protests around the countryAs Trump adjusted to the reality of power, those opposed to his presidency sent their own message, as a huge crowd gathered in Washington for a women's march and demonstrators also thronged cities including Chicago, Boston and Seattle. Protests also took place across the world, including in Sydney, Australia, London, Paris and Berlin.The President's motorcade passed some of the protesters as he left the White House for the CIA. The protests were part of a grassroots organizing effort meant to demonstrate a show of force to the new administration that women's rights are human rights and to stress respect for racial, gender and political diversity that organizers say were threatened by Trump's campaign.

Mixtape: Dj Cisse 2017 de Lite (Fire) Mix

2017 the lite (fire) Mixtape by Dj Cisse is hear for all to listen.
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2017 D Lit(Fire Track list.
1. Sudan skit (dj cisse)
2. Clap....falz ft. Reminice
3. 2 legit....cassper nyovest
4. Cut it rmx...O.T. Genasis ft T.I & lil Wayne
5. Welcome 2 my hood...Dj khaled ft.Ross, plies, T pain.
6. Ojere....Dremo
7. Panda.....Designer
8. N word....Ice prince
9. Watch me(whip-nae nae)...Silento
10. Round here.....Kid ink
11. Pree me.....Burna boy
12. One dance....Drake ft wizkid & kyla
13. Up 2 something.....Iyanya ft. Don jazzy & dr. Sid
14. Temper.....Skales
15. Temper rmx...Skales ft. Burna boy
16. Rara....Tekno
17. Diana.....Tekno
18. Legalize...... Sugar-Boy
19. Bang bang....Timaya
20. Africa.....Yemi Alade ft. Sauti Sol
21. Daddy yo.....Wizkid
22. Akube......Dotman
23. Problem....Reekado Banks
24. Shele gan gan....Lil Kesh
25. Mad over you.....Runtown
26. Jawon laya.....Illbliss ft. Reekado Banks x Mr Eazi
27. Alkyda....Legendary beatz ft. Ceeza & Ichaba
28. Sample you rmx.....Mr. Eazi ft. Lil kesh
29. Killy person.....Reekado banks
30. Hold up....Mr Eazi
31. Odi ok.....Myro
32. Ohema.....Dj spinall ft. Mr. Eazi
33. Link up....Ycee ft. Reekado banks
34. Love u tire....Mayorkun ft. Mr. Eazi
35. Parka dem....Dj Bobbi ft. Mytee Lyon
36. Soft work....Falz
37. Pass the aux...Yung L
38. Pass the aux rmx...Yung L ft. Timaya
39. Kole werk rmx...Koker ft. Olamide
40. Ballers....Wande coal
41. Special fi mi....AKA ft. Patoranking
42. Alhaji...Vvip ft. Patoranking
43. Blood on the floor...Drey beatz ft. Ceeza milli
44. Hola Hola....Sugarboy
45. Ijo Ayo.....Skales ft. Olamide
46. Iskaba.....Wande Coal x Dj Tunez
47. U name it...Pryse ft. Gig H & Koker
48. Caro.....Dj kaywise ft. Tekno & Falz
49. Smoke in a benz...dj consequence ft ycee

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Music: _EBS_ Designer Prod by Brimez Beat

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Music: Ruggedman ft Ola dips & Flex B – Wobe

Legendary Ruggedman kicks off the year 2017 with something unusual a brand new street banger which he titled”Wobe” Featuring fast rising acts Oladips and Flex B, trust me i see this jam taking over the streets and clubs in the coming weeks, Listen and share your thought.Download and Share.

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Music: Wale ft Lil Wayne – Running Back

Wale and Lil Wayne release “Running Back” officially.We received our first taste of Wale and Lil Wayne’s collaboration, “Running Back,” two weeks ago when the song debuted on ESPN. As we approach new music Friday, the record has been added to Apple Music’s catalogue so you can stream it in its full CDQ.Wale continues to take on football metaphors for the record, over light, airy production that has an overall feel-good quality to it, with electronic flourishes and a hollow flute noise that persists alongside drums and muted claps.The song is set to appear on Wale’s upcoming Shine album. Are you excited for the new album?

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Music: Tinie Tempah ft Tinashe – Text From Your Ex

Tinie Tempah releases the track “Text From Your Ex,” featuring Tinashe.A heavy bass line paired with high keys always make for a good dance track. Tinie Tempah’s new single “Text From YourEx” features R&B up-and-comer Tinashe. The track is off the British rapper’s album Youth, for sale on January 27.The production on “Text From Your Ex” is layered, refined and poppy — chances are it will appeal to American and UK music fans alike. Tinashe steals the show with her amazing vocals. The track is about the chaos and drama direct messages to your spiteful ex can sometimes unleash on your current relationship. The Brit also dropped the first part to a docu-series about the making of Youth. Tinie Tempah has been working on his third album for two years.Download & Listen below:

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Music: Tellaman – Dandy

Tellaman blesses fans with his first release for 2017 with a sultry track tagged Dandy. Dandy is written produced and mixed by the singer.Listen to the message Tellaman has on his new tune below.

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Music: Omar Sterling ft Burna Boy – Unruly

One half of R2Bees, Omar Sterling is here again with this brand new one he calls “Unruly” and he teams up with Nigerian artist Burna Boy on this one. Production credit goes to KillBeatz.Download & Listen below:

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Future ft Pusha T, Pharrell & Casino – Move That Boujee Dope(Mashup)

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Music: Patoranking ft Machel Montano, Wande Coal & Busy Signal – My Woman My Everything (Remix)

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Outgoing administration raises alarm bells on Trump readinessBy Kevin Liptak, Tal Kopan, Jim Acosta and Sara Murray,

Some members in the federal workforce are voicing concerns about the incoming Trump administration's readiness to assume control of the federal bureaucracy on Friday, citing unread transition memos, vacant administration posts and a host of appointees with scant government experience.Staffers at the most senior levels, including in the White House and at federal agencies, have met with their incoming counterparts. Deeper into the hierarchy, however, there's been little contact between the staffers currently operating the levers of government and the team who takes over when President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in at noon on January 20."I don't think they are ready for prime-time," said a longtime Obama administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe concerns about the state of the transition."They are not ready," said a Republican who is close to Trump's transition.Deep differences over policy and tone have divided the incoming and outgoing administrations for months, but both sides have insisted that political differences would not prevent a smooth hand off of power. Indeed, the Obama and Trump teams have made shows of cooperation, including last week when top members of Trump's incoming Cabinet and White House staff participated in tabletop exercises with Obama's team.But officials at the White House and federal agencies who have been preparing for months to hand off memos with detailed instructions on presidential logistics and navigating the federal bureaucracy say there's no one in place to deliver their documents to -- and have little faith those people will be named by Friday.At a White House function Monday for Obama aides who have served for all eight years of the administration, senior officials were heard wondering aloud whether to expect any contact from the Trump administration before they packed their desks and vacated their offices."People running major offices in the White House currently have had no contact with their successors," said one person who attended the function. "It is stunning. And we always kept thinking they're going to have a plan, they're going to come through at the last minute. We're less than 48 hours away. This should be concerning to anyone."Trump's national security transition team has been slow to interact with the Obama administration's National Security Council, according to a source close to the transition, who cited delays in the appointments of key staff and getting required security clearances. NSC staff have written a series of briefing materials to bring the Trump team up to speed and there is uncertainty within the Obama administration on whether Trump's team have read them, the source said.
Trump's transition on Wednesday downplayed any suggestion the transition was lagging behind."The level and comprehensive nature by which this transition has conducted itself will become the gold standard going forward, because it's not just the nominees and the prep and the White House staff, but it's the level of continuity of government, and peaceful transfer of power, that we have concentrated on," said Sean Spicer, Trump's incoming White House Press Secretary, on Wednesday."I would just give a shout out to the Obama administration," he said. "President Obama, Mrs. Obama, Denis McDonough, and their various counterparts, especially on the White House staff, have been really gracious with their time and their support on the logistical nature to make sure that we have the support that we need."Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford also had reassuring comments Wednesday."We talked about the state and nonstate challenges we have [and] spoke about our priorities we've had in our national military strategy," Dunford said of his transition team discussions, according to DoD News.According to a person close to the transition, Trump's new administration does have beachhead teams prepared to walk into each agency on Friday when Trump is sworn in. These teams range in size, from one to 30 people, and are staff-level jobs, which don't require Senate confirmation. Technically temporary presidential appointments, atleast some of those hires are expected to become permanent once the administration gets fully up and running.But the transition source conceded Wednesday that beyond the Cabinet level posts, thetop tiers of leadership in various federal departments remain largely unknown.Republicans who have observed the transition at close range describe a stalled hiring process after Chris Christie, the New Jersey governor, was ousted from his role leadingthe transition team shortly following November's election.

News: Mutinying troops strike deal with government in Bouake

It remains to be seen how the government will finance its promise of the agreed 7,500 euro bonus [Reuters]The Ivory Coast's government and mutinyingtroops have reached a final deal at talks in Bouake, government sources said, shortly after talks were interrupted by gunfire at barracks across the country.Hours before the agreement, troops sealed off the northern city of Korhogo and the second largest city, Bouake, where they surrounded the building in which the defence minister was negotiating the deal. However, he left the talks unharmed."A deal has been reached in Bouake betweenthe chief of staff, the defence minister and the troops," a source close to the presidency told AFP late on Friday.
Several of the rebelling soldiers also confirmed that a deal had been struck, with one telling AFP: "We are pleased, we've reached an agreement".Soldiers in Bouake mutinied earlier this month, firing rocket-launchers and terrifying residents ofBouake, while demanding bonuses, better pay and housing.The protests then spread to other cities, including the economic capital Abidjan.The mutiny saw President Alassane Ouattaraorder major changes in the top security ranks, the armed forces' chief of staff, the senior commander of the national gendarmerie and the director-general of the police."The troops have agreed to return to their barracks, and for this reason gunfire has halted in Bouake," a local official said. He said the mutineers had managed to obtain a bonus of about $8,000.While an initial deal had been reached almost a week ago, talks on implementing the agreement only began on Friday and tensions were high with mutinying troops taking up positions on the roads into Bouakeand firing into the air.READ MORE: Soldiers launch mutinies in three Ivory Coast citiesRegular gunfire was heard throughout the day, including at Akouedo, the biggest barracks in Abidjan and at Odienne in the northwest and Bondoukou in the east.One source said the soldiers had originally been demanding a raise of about $16,000 each, a significant amount given that many Ivorians earn about $160 a month.It remains to be seen how the government will finance its promise of the agreed $8,000 bonus.The Ivorian army, which consists of about 22,000 soldiers, includes many former rebels who were integrated into the armed forces after years of conflict."The president is honouring the promises that he made towards former rebels who fought alongside him back in 2010's civil war," Kamissa Camara, a senior programme officer for West and Central Africa at the National Endowment for Democracy, told Al Jazeera. "Not only that, but he is also honouring the promises made by the former leaderships towards the army."So they have a big task ahead of them to make sure that the situation remains stable,"Camara said, adding that the mutiny has tainted the political situation of the country.
Bouake, which is home to 1.5 million people, was the cradle of a rebellion which erupted in 2002 in a failed attempt to oust then-president Laurent Gbagbo.The revolt sliced the former French colony into the rebel-held north and the government-controlled south and triggered years of unrest.Twelve years later, a similar dispute over payby rebels-turned-soldiers erupted in Bouake which spread to Abidjan and briefly brought the country to a standstill.The government then agreed to a deal that provided amnesty for the mutineers and a financial settlement.

News: US lifts 20-year economic embargo on Sudan

The lift in economic sanctions is anticipated to improve US-Sudanese relations [File: Reuters]The United States has announced the end of a 20-year economic embargo on Sudan, lifting trade and financial sanctions in an effort to foster ties with the Sudanese government.The announcement made by outgoing President Barack Obama’s administration onFriday comes after an executive order to permanently repeal a range of sanctions as aresult of Sudan’s efforts to improve security in the region.For the first time in two decades, Sudan will be able to receive imported goods and services from the US, as authorised by the US Department of the Treasury.The lift will also release frozen Sudanese property and assets held in the US, and permits the trade with the oil and gas industry in Sudan.
Following talks to improve cooperative relations, the move is expected to tackle concerns including enhanced accessibility for aid groups, and efforts to end the Darfur conflict.“Sudan has long expressed a desire to get out from under sanctions, as well as other restrictions that the United States has imposed on Sudan going back 20 years," a senior US administration official told reporters."Over the past two years we have looked for a way to engage with Sudan in a way we could overcome some of the lack of trust of the past," he said.While it is still unclear what US President-elect Donald Trump’s stance is on the embargo lift, Sudan welcomed the decision.Gharib Allah Khidir, spokesperson for the Sudanese foreign ministry, said "this step represents a positive and important development for the course of bilateral relations between the United States of America and Sudan, and is the natural result of joint efforts and long and frank discussions".However, some US sanctions tied to Sudan's"state sponsor of terrorism" title remain in place, including a ban on weapons sales andrestrictions on Darfur-related sanctions remain in effect.
Darfur has been engulfed in a deadly conflictsince 2003, when ethnic minority tribes took up arms against the government, accusing itof marginalising the region.Washington's outreach will still be limited, asthe US is unlikely to engage directly with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, which he denies.

News: Cyprus talks stall over fate of Turkish troops

Turkish President Erdogan said that Turkey must remain guarantor to Cyprus, while questions on security remain key issues [File: EPA]Hopes for a peace deal in Cyprus stalled on Friday over a decades-old dispute, with the rival sides at loggerheads over the future of Turkish troops on the divided island.The Greek foreign minister denounced the continued presence of Turkish troops in northern Cyprus after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said a full pull-out was "out of the question".Nikos Kotzias said there can be no end to the four-decade division of Cyprus while 30,000 Turkish "occupation" troops remain on the ground."A just solution [to division] means, first of all, eliminating what caused it, namely the occupation and presence of occupation forces," he said in a ministry statement on Friday as he left Geneva.In a televised appearance, Erdogan said that Turkey must remain guarantor to Cyprus, even if a deal to reunify the island that runs through both Turkish and Greek lines is made.He added that a full withdrawal of troops could only be possible if Greece, which deploys a troop contingent, did the same.Rotating presidencyErdogan also indicated that there were significant differences on the issue of a rotating presidency for any future bizonal united Cyprus divided between Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot entities.He said that according to previous talks, a fair presidential rotation between Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots should be implemented, which included two terms for the Greek side, for every term granted to the Turkish side. "That is fair. If we want a fair and comprehensive peace then this is the way to do it," he said.The comments were made a day after the week-long United Nations-backed peace talks in Geneva, which raised hope that an agreement on reunifying the island can be reached.
Negotiations between Greek Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci aiming to forge a united, two-zone federation in the eastern Mediterranean island, were accompanied by top officials from Cyprus’ guarantor powers: Greece, Turkey and former colonial ruler Britain.Akinci has insisted that some Turkish military presence is essential for Turkish Cypriots to feel secure in a prospective united country, despite Anastasiades position that a timeline must be agreed on for those troops to eventually withdraw."Our position remains ... that we must agree on the withdrawal of the Turkish army," Anastasiades said on Friday.Anastasiades nevertheless said the talks in Geneva had raised hopes that a deal can in fact be struck since guarantor powers broached security matters for the first time."We are on a path that creates hope," he said.READ MORE: Cyprus peace talks: Anastasiades upset by dinner inviteThe island was divided after a 1974 invasion by Turkish troops, which came in response to an Athens-inspired coup seeking union with Greece.Cyprus is home to about 800,000 Greek Cypriots and 220,000 Turkish Cypriots. The 1974 invasion, along with intercommunal violence that took place in the 1960s, displaced a total of about 200,000 Greek andTurkish Cypriots.

News: UK: Corbyn calls for probe into Israeli 'interference'

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn calls for an investigation into actions of Israeli embassy [File: Neil Hall/Reuters]The leader of the United Kingdom's Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has called for an inquiry into the activities of an Israeli embassy officer who was caught on tape in an Al Jazeera investigation discussing a plotto "take down" British politicians. In an open letter to Prime Minister Theresa May, Corbyn described the actions of Israeli embassy official Shai Masot as "improper interference in this country's democratic process".
Explaining that he was "concerned" by UK foreign minister Boris Johnson's announcement that the embassy's activities were a closed matter, Corbyn urged May to launch an inquiry: "This is clearly a national security issue."He continued: "It is only on [the basis of an investigation] that Parliament and the public will be reassured that such activities will not be tolerated by your government." Masot was forced to resign from his positionearlier this week, and Israeli officials have claimed he was a lone actor who was acting without the guidance or permission of his superiors. The investigation, The Lobby, reveals plots by the Israeli diplomat and a British civil servant to destroy the careers of senior politicians.Supporters of Corbyn, who is a leftist with a long history of Palestinian solidarity activism, were among those accused of anti-Semitism by Israeli officials, as Al Jazeera's six-month investigation documented. In The Lobby, Al Jazeera Investigations exposes how the Israel lobby influences British politics. Among the revelations were Israeli attempts to smear activists who question the illegal occupation of Palestinianland by helping to build racism cases against them.

News: UK students push for more non-white

thinkers on coursesStudents at SOAS want more black scholars on their courses but reject reports they want to drop white philosophers.
London, England -Students at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) have launched a campaign to include more African and non-European thinkers on their courses.The "Decolonising SOAS" campaign aims to address a dearth in non-European thinkers on the institute’s curriculum and to more critically examine European thinkers and their ideas on race.Administrators at the college, which is part of the University of London, have welcomed the drive to review the content on its programmes and are working with academics and students to look at what changes can be brought in."We're called the School of African and Oriental Studies, so it makes sense that we include more thinkers from the regions we teach," said Ali Habib, co-president at SOAS students' union and one of the activists leading the campaign."In one course, Introduction to Political Theory, we had 28 thinkers and philosophers, of whom only two, [Mahatma] Gandhi and Frantz Fanon, were not white," headded.The campaign has broad backing from students, with up to 900 attending events in support of the initiative.Undergraduate politics student Halimo Hussain told Al Jazeera that including more non-white thinkers would enrich her studies."A diversity of thinkers is a necessary step inbroadening our world view," she said, adding:"Whiteness is seen as so neutral within academia that when we question the relevance or importance of white thinkers it'smet with resistance by those who benefit from the status quo. "Media backlashHussain was referring to a strong backlash from British media outlets, with many falselycharacterising the campaign as an attempt to drop white philosophers from the curriculum.In the past week news outlets including the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, RT, and the Huffington Post have published articles, which have been shared tens of thousands of times, claiming that SOAS students want to get rid of philosophers such as Plato and Descartes.Habib said the reports, which all stemmed from the Daily Mail piece, were fabricated and no such plans existed."We don't want to get rid of Kant, for example, but instead teach his ideas critically, so not to ignore his views on other races," he said.The articles prompted a flood of hate mail targeting Habib and other student union officials directly.One image sent to Habib , which was seen by Al Jazeera, uses the racial slur "n*****" to describe black people and suggested they are better suited to eating watermelons than academia.
SOAS academic Meera Sabaratnam said shewas concerned by how the issue had been covered by the media."It is deeply worrying that the students' campaign was so thoroughly misrepresented by both mainstream and tabloid press, even after explicit clarifications were given to journalists publicly," she said."This is unacceptably poor journalism, and has the effect of delegitimising these very valuable and appropriate questions," she added.

 Sabaratnam, who teaches international relations, said rather than remove thinkers from the syllabus, the campaign was trying to broaden the historical context in which European thinkers were studied.Including more non-European voices was necessary, given a shifting world order she said."[The] world order is changing, and all societies, including western ones, would greatly benefit from a more considered engagement with knowledge traditions and thinkers from outside the traditional western canon." Sabaratnam's colleague at SOAS, Kerem Nisancioglu, questioned why openly racist European thinkers were canonised while anti-racists were marginalised in university courses."Wouldn't a university education that genuinely aspires to improving how we understand and engage with the world confront these questions, rather than hide from them?" He asked."It seems to me that this [media] furore has less to do with university curricula and everything to do with ensuring people of colour that speak out against racism are stepped on as ruthlessly as possible."The campaign at SOAS comes amid efforts to ensure black voices are better represented in academia.Late last year Birmingham City University announced that it would be convening an undergraduate degree in black studies, the first of its kind in Europe.About 92 percent of academics in the UK arewhite and just 0.49 percent are black according to areport by the Runnymede trust.