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Eden Hazard says Mohamed Salah did not get the chance to establish himself at Chelsea and has described the Liverpool forward as a “top, top player”. Salah joined Chelsea in 2014 but was limited to 19 appearances for the club before being sent out on loan to Fiorentina early the following year. The 25-year old then spent a season-long loan at AS Roma before joining the Italian club permanently in 2016. Salah returned to the Premier League by joining Liverpool in July for £34.3m and is the competition’s top scorer with nine goals in 12 games, while Hazard admits he…

More than two million mobile phones in New Zealand will make an unfamiliar sound when the country tries its new emergency mobile alert system on Sunday. “The past year has shown us how important fast and reliable information is when emergencies strike,” Sarah Stuart-Black from the Ministry of Civil Defence said in a statement in Wellington. The service will not only work for phones containing New Zealand SIM cards, but also it is expected to work on all phones that are enabled to receive cell-broadcast alerts. The ministry expects that about one third of the country’s mobile phones (approximately 2…

Suspected militants have launched a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in Egypt’s North Sinai province, killing 155 people, state media report. Witnesses say the al-Rawda mosque in the town of Bir al-Abed, near al-Arish, was targeted during Friday prayers. Local police said men in four off-road vehicles opened fire on worshippers, AP reported. Egypt has been fighting an Islamist insurgency in the region, which has intensified since 2013. Read Also Haitians, Nigerians top list of asylum seekers in Canada There have been regular attacks blamed on militants on the Sinai peninsula, but this is the deadliest assault of…

New figures released by the federal Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) shows that migrants from Haiti and Nigeria top the list of those seeking asylum in Canada. The figures released showed that of 1,572 claims heard so far, only 941 have been granted. The IRB has a backlog of 12,895 cases currently pending. According to the IRB over half of the migrant asylum claims heard by Canadian refugee officials this year have been successful. In terms of numbers, Haitian migrants were followed by Nigerians, who have made 1,911 claims in Canada so far this year. But claims made by migrants…

A South African court has increased Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius’s jail sentence for killing his girlfriend to 13 years and five months. Prosecutors had argued that the six-year term for murdering Reeva Steenkamp was “shockingly light”. A spokesman for Ms Steenkamp’s family said the ruling “verified there was justice”. Pistorius’s brother Carl said on social media that he was “shattered. Heartbroken. Gutted”. Oscar Pistorius claimed he shot dead Ms Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day in 2013 after mistaking her for a burglar. READ: Emmerson Mnangagwa sworn in as Zimbabwe President The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein has now given him…

Emmerson Mnangagwa has been sworn in as Zimbabwe’s president in a ceremony at a packed stadium in the country’s capital, Harare. It follows the dramatic departure of Robert Mugabe after 37 years of authoritarian rule. The former vice-president’s dismissal earlier this month led the ruling Zanu-PF party and the army to intervene and force Mr Mugabe to quit. Mr Mnangagwa, who had fled the country, returned from exile on Wednesday. The opposition is urging Mr Mnangagwa, who has been part of the ruling elite, to end the “culture of corruption”. Although Mr Mnangagwa has unseated Zimbabwe’s long-time ruler, he is…

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has formally dumped the All Progressives Congress joining the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party in Adamawa, his home state. Atiku who has 2019 presidential ambitions has perfected plans to participate in the PDP’s national convention scheduled for December 9, according to sources close to him. Atiku will collect his membership card at his polling ward in Jada 1, Adamawa. He was joined by thousands of loyalists who sang his name as he picked up his PDP card. READ: Kim Kardashian, Rihanna backs teen sex victim jailed for murder A member of Atiku’s political group…

Former Manchester City forward Robinho has been sentenced to nine years in prison for sexual assault, according to Italian news agency ANSA. Robinho was found guilty of assaulting a 22-year-old woman at a nightclub in Milan in 2013, when he played for AC Milan. Five other men have also been found guilty of the offence. The 33-year-old, who has won 100 caps for Brazil, has denied the charges and now has the right to appeal. Read Also Senate orders reinstatement of dismissed Colonel A statement on Robinho’s Instagram page on Thursday night said that he had “already defended himself against…

The tale of a 16-year-old killer is spreading around the world, after some of the planet’s most famous women joined a campaign to free her. Cyntoia Brown was sentenced to life in prison in 2004 for shooting dead Johnny Allen, a 43-year-old Nashville estate agent who picked her up for sex. The teenager who went home with Mr Allen that night had been repeatedly raped and beaten. She was on the streets by order of her boyfriend, described as a violent, drug-addled pimp named “Kutthroat”, who she said verbally abused her and made her strip at gunpoint. He had demanded…

The Senate has urged the authorities of the Nigerian Army to immediately reinstate one of the 38 dismissed officers, Colonel Chidi Kalu Ukoha, and pay all his entitlements. It also cautioned the army against arbitrary disengagement of its officers as such action would not only lower the morale of serving officers and soldiers, but would also amount to colossal waste of resources spent by the country to train such officers. Ukoha is one of 38 officers who were summarily dismissed by the army in June 2016. The 38 officers, some of whom are in court challenging their dismissal, also petitioned…