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US President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post that he had asked the Pentagon to map out a possible plan of attack on Nigeria over the killing of Christians.
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Trump threatens military action over Christian deaths
President Donald Trump on Nov 1 threatened to send US forces into Nigeria with “guns-a-blazing” if Africa’s most populous country does not stem what he described as the killing of Christians by Islamists.
In an explosive post on his Truth Social platform, the Republican leader – who had campaigned unsuccessfully for the Nobel Peace Prize – said he asked the Pentagon to map out a possible plan of attack, one day after warning that Christianity was “facing an existential threat in Nigeria.”
“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” he said.
“I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians,” he added.
Two arrested after ‘multiple people’ stabbed on UK train
UK police said they had arrested two suspects on Nov 1 as “a number of people” were taken to hospital after a stabbing on a train in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.
“We are currently responding to an incident on a train to Huntingdon where multiple people have been stabbed,” British Transport Police said on X, adding that “two people have been arrested”.
Cambridgeshire police said: “A number of people have been taken to hospital.”
Shein reported in France over ‘childlike’ sex dolls
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France’s anti-fraud unit said on Nov 1 it had reported Asian e-commerce giant Shein for selling what it described as “sex dolls with a childlike appearance”.
The DGCCRF watchdog said in a statement that the “description and categorisation” of the items on Shein’s website “make it difficult to doubt the child pornography nature of the content”.
Shortly after the statement, Shein announced that the dolls in question had been withdrawn from its platform and that it had launched an internal inquiry.
Egypt opens antiquities museum after two-decade wait
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Prime ministers, presidents and royalty descended on Cairo on Nov 1 to attend the spectacle-laden inauguration of a sprawling new museum built near the Pyramids to house one of the world’s richest collections of antiquities.
The inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum, or GEM, marks the end of a two-decade construction effort hampered by the Arab Spring uprisings, pandemic and wars in neighbouring countries.
“We’ve all dreamed of this project and whether it would really come true,” Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly told a press conference, calling the museum a “gift from Egypt to the whole world from a country whose history goes back more than 7,000 years.”
Paris Catacombs close for six months for renovations
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One of Paris’ top tourist attractions – and certainly its most morbid – closes to visitors from Nov 3 for six months of renovations.
The Paris Catacombs, underground galleries that are the final resting place for millions of bodies disinterred from the capital’s cemeteries between the Middle Ages and the French Revolution, are to become modernised, with better ventilation, lighting and an improved layout.
The works, costing €5.5 million (S$8.2 million), are designed to improve the experience for the 600,000 annual visitors to the ossuary museum – and to help preserve the remains held there.
