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2020 Thanksgiving Turkeys Gallantly Arrive in Washington D.C

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2020 Thanksgiving Turkeys Gallantly Arrive in Washington D.C

In 1920, U.S. turkey growers produced one turkey for every 29 persons in the U.S. Today growers produce nearly one turkey for every person in the country.

The male turkey is called a tom. The female turkey is called a hen. The turkey was domesticated in Mexico and brought to Europe in the 16th century. The wild turkey is native to northern Mexico and the eastern United States.

In 2012, turkey was the # 4 protein choice for American consumers behind chicken, beef and pork. 88% of Americans surveyed by the National Turkey Federation eat turkey on Thanksgiving.

46 million turkeys are eaten each Thanksgiving, 22 million on Christmas and 19 million turkeys on Easter.

It became a tradition (since carried on by all of Bush’s successors) for the president to issue a “pardon” to the turkey, sparing the turkey’s life. It’s a tradition that the turkeys be picked from the chairperson of the NTF’s home state, occasionally from the chair’s own farm.

It was President Abraham Lincoln who proclaimed in 1863 that Thanksgiving would be held the last Thursday of November.

And for 2020 Thanksgiving the two turkeys have arrived Washington DC, with a nice reception.

Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: Debretsion Gebremichael vows to fight on

Henry Williams
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Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: Debretsion Gebremichael vows to fight on

The leader of Ethiopia’s Tigray region has rejected the prime minister’s ultimatum to surrender by Wednesday and has pledged to fight on in the conflict engulfing the north of the country.

Debretsion Gebremichael denied federal government claims that the regional capital, Mekelle, was surrounded.

Hundreds have reportedly been killed and tens of thousands have fled in nearly three weeks of fighting.

The UN has warned it could trigger a humanitarian crisis.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Sunday announced a 72-hour deadline for the region’s fighters to surrender, and the army warned Mekelle’s 500,000 residents that soldiers would “encircle” the city and attack it.

Sudanese Open Arms As Grim Conditions Await Ethiopian Refugees

Elizabeth Williams
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Sudanese Open Arms As Grim Conditions Await Ethiopian Refugees

As Sudanese Extend Arms To Ethiopians Who Fled The Deadly Tigray Conflict In Ethiopia, A School-Turned-Relief Facility Becomes A Centre Where Refugees Recieve Handouts Of Food, Water And Clothing.

More Than 40,000 Ethiopians Turned Into Refugees Inside Sudan Since The Tigray Conflict Erupted In Early November.  Hundreds Have Been Killed In Fighting Between The Federal Government Of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed And The Tigray People’s Liberation Front.

However, Sudan Is Already Burdened By Its Own Economic Woes And Grinding Poverty, Especially In The Eastern Border States Of Gedaref And Kassala Yet Offers Open Arms; As Authorities And Aid Groups Struggle To Prepare Camps And Provide Food And Basic Medical Services For The Refugees.

Taiwan’s Leader Launches Domestically Made Submarine Production

Elizabeth Williams
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Taiwan’s Leader Launches Domestically Made Submarine Production

Taiwan’s President inaugurated the production of domestically made submarines Tuesday in the southern city of Kaohsiung, in a step forward for the island’s defense strategy at a time of elevated tensions with China.

This submarine is an important part of allowing our navy to develop asymmetric warfare and to intimidate and block enemy ships from surrounding Taiwan’s main island,” said President Tsai Ing-wen. “Now, with the construction of the submarine to its future commission, we will certainly let the world know our persistence in safeguarding our sovereignty.”

Tsai has made boosting Taiwan’s indigenous defense capacity a central pillar of her defense policy. Recently, she relaunched the military aviation industry with the production of new trainer jets and has pushed for the development of more sophisticated systems by utilizing the island’s high-tech industries.

At the same time, she has gained approval from the U.S. for the purchase of billions of dollars in weapons, including upgraded F-16 fighter jets, armed drones, rocket systems and Harpoon missiles capable of hitting both ships and land targets.

Rooney reveals that Cristiano Ronaldo not the best he played with

Henry Williams
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Rooney reveals that Cristiano Ronaldo not the best he played with

Former Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney has revealed that Cristiano Ronaldo is not the best player he played alongside during his career.

Rooney, who is the Red Devils and England’s all-time record goalscorer, played alongside some of the biggest names in football during his time at Old Trafford and with the Three Lions.
Among those players is five-time Ballon d’Or winner Ronaldo, who featured alongside Rooney on 206 occasions, but the Juventus superstar has been pipped to the honour by former United midfielder Paul Scholes.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu To Visit Bahrain To Discuss Peace

Henry Williams
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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu To Visit Bahrain To Discuss Peace

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will visit Bahrain soon to continue peace talks. In a nationwide address Tuesday, he announced his intent to visit the country in the coming months, following a phone call with the region’s leader.

Bahrain has followed the United Arab Emirates in normalizing ties with Israel, following the historic peace deals brokered by the Trump administration. The move hopes to bring in several different countries, including Sudan and Oman.

Netanyahu said both countries are excited for the opportunity to bring peace to their respective regions.

Israel notably ratified its deal to normalize relations with Bahrain this month, which will increase trade and tourism in each country.

Works And Housing: FG Requires N1.5tr Over Three Years To Fix Roads -Fashola

Itohan Olomu-Agbodo
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Works And Housing: FG Requires N1.5tr Over Three Years To Fix Roads -Fashola

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said the Federal Government will require a minimum of N500 billion annually over the next three years, to develop its 35,000 kilometres network of roads.

He said work is currently ongoing on only 13, 000 kilometres of the nation’s federal roads.

Fashola said this in Abuja, on Tuesday, while speaking to journalists covering the activities of the All Progressives Congress.

The minister explained that if successive administrations had shown the kind of commitment the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was showing towards the development of the road infrastructure, most Nigerian roads would have been the better for it.

Fashola said, “I think that a minimum of half a trillion every year over the next two, three years will be a strong support to really advance and complete as many as the 711 contracts.

“Again, people are mistaken what I said about 711 contracts to mean roads. No. For example, from Lagos to Ibadan expressway we have one road but two contracts, one with JD, one with RCC.

“On Benin/Lokoja we have one road but we have five contractors. So, the totality of those contracts are made of 711 different contracts on many roads across the country and the total road network now under construction or rehabilitation is little over 13,000 kilometers in different stages of repairs out of total Federal network of 35,000 kilometers.“

He explained that the administration inherited a number of roads which it resolved to complete as many as possible before the end of its tenure in 2023.

According to him, some of roads being rehabilitated were started in 2007, some in 2006 and others are even older.

But that, “unfortunately for reasons that we can only imagine, at a time that the country was earning more revenues, up to $100 per barrel, the total budget of this country was N4 tr. It is now that the country is earning very less, $40 per barrel that it is budgeting N13 tr.”

Fashola also said it was important for Nigerians to stop the abuse of roads.

He noted that each road has a carrying capacity but that most Nigerian roads were made to carry more weight than they were originally designed for.

Breaking: One-Shot, Police Station Burnt In Face-Off Between Prison Officials And Motorcycle Riders In Ibadan

Itohan Olomu-Agbodo
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Breaking: One-Shot, Police Station Burnt In Face-Off Between Prison Officials And Motorcycle Riders In Ibadan

Violence erupted at the Agodi Gate area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Tuesday when prison officials allegedly shot a motorcyclist.

According to eyewitness reports, the okada rider had an argument with prison officials who wanted the access route to the prison cleared but the situation degenerated into violence leading to a crisis in the area.

Thereafter, the police station at Gate was burnt allegedly by some angry motorcyclists.

The okada rider who sustained a gunshot wound is, however, alive and receiving treatment, while security operatives led by the Joint security task force Operation Burst have taken over to restore normalcy in the area.

Meanwhile, contrary to some reports that the face-off was between the police and motorcycle riders, the police spokesman Gbenga Fadeyi said no policeman fired any shot at the scene.

Aisha Yesufu Makes BBC’s 100 Most Influential Women In The World

Henry Williams
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Aisha Yesufu Makes BBC’s 100 Most Influential Women In The World

Nigerian activist and co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign, Aisha Yesufu has been listed amongst the BBC’s 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for the year 2020.

The highly vocal activist was listed alongside Sanna Marin who leads Finland’s all-female coalition government, Michelle Yeoh, star of the new Avatar and Marvel films and Sarah Gilbert, who heads the Oxford University research into a coronavirus vaccine, as well as Jane Fonda, a climate activist and actress.

Born on December 12 1974 in Kano State, northwest Nigeria, Aisha Yesufu is a socio-political activist, and co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement, an advocacy group that brings attention to the abduction of over 200 girls, from a secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria, on 14 April 2014, by the terrorist group, Boko Haram.

Yesufu, alongside the former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili were at the forefront of the campaign that that saw world wide coverage from CNN. Anaysts say was sponsored by the Obama administration as a propaganda tool to oust then president Goodluck Jonathan after falling out over not supporting leftist agenda in Nigeria.

Yesufu has also been at the forefront of the End SARS movement, a campaign that drew attention to the excesses of a controversial police unit called the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) that was infiltrated by global leftist LGBTQ ideologists and derailed by violence and looting.

According to the BBC, this year’s 100 Women list “is highlighting those who are leading change and making a difference during these turbulent times.”

Russia chases off US warship in row over waters in Sea of Japan

Henry Williams
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Russia chases off US warship in row over waters in Sea of Japan

Russia said on Tuesday one of its warships caught and chased off a US destroyer operating illegally in its territorial waters in the Sea of Japan, but the US Navy denied wrongdoing by its vessel and accused Moscow of making excessive maritime claims.

The Admiral Vinogradov, a Russian destroyer, verbally warned USS John S. McCain, a US Navy guided-missile destroyer, and threatened to ram it in order to force it to leave the area, prompting it to return to neutral waters, Moscow said.Russia said its Pacific Fleet warship had been tracking the American destroyer in the Peter the Great Gulf, and that the U.S. vessel had violated Russia’s territorial waters at 0317 GMT by going two kilometers beyond the sea border.

But the U.S. Navy said its warship had been in international waters throughout as it carried out a “freedom of navigation” operation to assert its rights and challenge what it said were Russia’s excessive maritime claims.

The US destroyer made no further attempts to enter Russian waters after leaving the area, Moscow said. The Admiral Vinogradov was continuing to observe its movements and another vessel, a corvette, was dispatched to the area, it added.

Such incidents at sea are rare, but they underscore the poor diplomatic and military relations between Russia and the United States whose ties are languishing at a post-Cold War low.

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