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   Lufthansa strike action has affected over 520,000 travellers and has cost the company millions of dollars on daily basis . The strike did not only affect German but other European countries and Asia including Africa . Business trips, tourism and leisure travelers have all been put to a hold by lufthansa pilots union strike .

   Organization of petroleum exporting countries OPEC have reached a deal with its members to cut crude energy supply by 1.2 million barrels per day from the 33.64 million barrels per day . As a result of the supply cut by opec oil price have surged above $52 barrels per day .    Other non opec members like Russia and the United States are expected to cut supply by 600,000 barrels per day . According to a report from the meeting held today , this will help stabilize oil dependant economies and enhance global trade flow .

   US President elect Donald trump has said he will leave businesses and focus on making the United States a better place . This was a reassuring statement from Mr trump to all Americans as soon as he steps into office in January .

   The European airline manufacturer AIRBUS has announced to cut its workforce by 1164 employees in France and German manufacturing plants . This company's chief executive officer Tom enders said this restructuring step is for profitability aim and will help the firm compete with its rival Boeing .    The company's employees strength is 136000, the management have decided to put the job cut on three bases , voluntary resignation , early retirement and redeployment .

   The Nigerian house of Representatives has been passing a motion to reduce petroleum pump price to N70 in the Senate.  This motion was an advise issued to the Nigerian petroleum products regulatory agency and moved by a member of the house Mr abubakar fulata . A committee has been set up to liaise with the ministry of petroleum resources on pump price reduction .

   Thailand Parliament has agreed of sending a formal  invitation to crown prince vajiralongkorn which the Prince will accept before ascending the thrown but the Prince wanted to give himself one year to mourn his late father .

    Russian president Vladimir putin has imported police dogs that were cloned in a laboratory in South Korea . The dogs were cloned by Dr hwang woo suk and his team and said this new ones are more muscular and stronger than the natural breed . The Russian authorities say the only thing yet seen is the cannies are not use to cold weather but they will soon adapt .

   He shouted bady don't let go of me , as she fell from a four storey building from a hotel balcony in Athens, Greece.Denniel Higginson is the wife of a British oil company executive work, engineer Steve Higginson, who after having an argument with her parents during a holiday committed suicide.    The parents of denniel claims her controlling husband caused her death and that the Greece police should file a case against Steve in court but the hotel manager admitted that denniel 38, actually threw herself off the balcony .

   82 on board in an airplane which crashed in Colombia . The Brazilian national football team were among the passengers in the plane , only about ten survivals has been from the accident . Brazilians have began to mourn their football team who died in the crash . 

   South Korean president is officially announced that she is willing to resign . Tens of thousands of South Korean protesters have asked the government to look for a way to bring Park down from her position . Park Geun-hye has also asked some of the government officials who are in her cabinet to resign .

   Tennessee wildfire has forced a massive evacuation of people from their homes near the National Park . The fire has burnt down homes , government and individual properties worth billions of dollars .

   The organization of petroleum exporting countries OPEC and non opec member countries are still in disarray on global crude oil supply cut . If a tangible agreement is not reached soon, then oil price might be heading for less than $40 per barrel which is a huge disadvantage for oil dependant economies .

   Prince Charles , Prince Williams and Kate Middleton with other royal dignitaries dressed in royal glamour during the memorial service of the Duke of westminister at chester Cathedral , chester .    The Duke of westminister , gerald Cavendish Grosvenor who died at age 64 of a heart attack on august 9 in a royal hospital and also the top wealthiest person in his country . Worth over £8.2 billion and world's 64th richest man . His son Hugh will be the new Duke of westminister at age 25.

   An Indonesian woman was publicly canned seven strokes at a mosque in aceh under sharia law for standing at close proximity with a man for some minutes . The man was also flogged as an offender of the sharia law .

   A Chinese man went to buy suv with coins and it took four staff and twelve hours for them to finish counting the money. The man said he has been saving for a brand new suv

   Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in major cities in India in protest against the overnight ban of two major rupee currency notes 500 and 1000 by the government in the country . The government say the move is for anti-corruption check as hundreds of people line up in banks waiting to exchange the old currency for the new one .

   The pilots union of the European airline giant lufthansa has resume their strike operation after the wage increase agreement deal has failed to produce any result . Flights for short and long distances will be cancelled .

   A Gulf War veteran Mr Paul Briggs 43, a police officer after becoming a soldier had a motorcycle accident July last year and has been in comma since then . Mrs lindsey his wife 40 has been pleading with the court to turn off the life support machine but the doctors had bluntly refused her request .    Lindsey said her husband needs to die honourablely, his accidental brain damage has left him 17 months on a hospital  bed like a pop.

   The United States president elect Donald trump has said that millions of Americans voted illegally and even if the illegal votes were to be removed from his count, he will emerge as the winner .

  The Queen of England Elizabeth the second is in great grief over the death of her cousin and childhood best friend Margaret Rhodes 91, who battled with illness before her death.

  Helen Skelton myler a TV presenter from Carlisle, cambria United Kingdom has told the world in her twit that come 2017 spring her second baby will be born . The first child is 17 months old and she says am feeling blessed .

   The former Newcastle winger David ginola has been very lucky and could be described as a cat with many lives . While he was playing a charity match in may he suddenly collapsed, stopped breathing and kind of swallowed his tongue .   According to David , he described that experience as death for eight minutes and later on found himself in the hospital where he had proper medical attention after he was miraculously brought back to life .

   World leaders from around the globe have been sending their condolence messages to the Cubans concerning the death of their former communist leader fidel Castro, 90. The United States president Barack Obama has sent his condolences including China Russian dprk Nigerian Britain and other nations .    Fidel Castro's funeral has scheduled for fourth of December for a national morning of their icon . Preparations are on ground for the ceremony .

   The United States Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her campaign team to fully participate in the Wisconsin recount exercise . Marc Elias , Clinton campaign top lawyer said we will fully monitor and participate in recount exercise because we never thought of any way of hacking the electoral system but their chances to believe so and we want the election to run in a manner that is fair .

   The Israeli police have arrested some suspected 20 persons who might have connections to the wildfire that took place four days ago . The fire consumed the carmel forest in haifa Israel forcing more than 60,000 people to evacuate their homes for safety .

   The city of Miami , Florida United States is feeling the effect of climate change on its surroundings . In the past one decade water level from the ocean has been increasing and flooding the streets of Miami till date .    Local residents say two ways to stay in Miami is through defense and adaptation , and if the water level rises to 3 feet high , over a hundred and ten billion dollars worth of properties will be affected .

   As soon as the death of fidel Castro's death was announced , the former communist leader in Cuba , hundreds of Cuban exiles in Miami took to the streets in jubilation . Horns of cars shouts , pots and plates smashed , all to generate sounds for jubilation .

   Princess Diana would have been United States first lady if she had yielded to the advances made to her by Donald trump on dinner night in Manhattan in 1995 with a plate of dish for $1000 . This idea was to raise funds for charity and Mr trump was among the donors with his wife marla on the same table with the Princess .  

   The former cuba's revolutionary longtime leader fidel Castro has died at the age of 90 years . State TV has announced his death .

   Lufthansa pilots union have rejected the new pay offer of additional 2.5 % presented to them but demanding for 3.7 % increase through the period of five years and will employ more one thousand junior pilots . The union say they are not planning to extend the strike beyond Saturday but says some flights and distances will not be operational .

   The Nigerian star actor osita iheme who is from mbaitolu in imo state has finally agreed to get married to a Ghanaian actress nana Ana mcbrown . Both has been dating for some time and has made up their minds to spend their lives together as husband and wife

   More than fourty two people have died in an Iranian train crash and over a hundred passengers wounded . Two trains collided along the railway that led to an explosion which resulted in the catastroph .    Authorities say the cause of the collision could be as a result of mechanical fault or probably cold weather which made the train to stop at the rail . Rescue team have completed their operations .

   The United States Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton may likely turn-up to be the president of America after some computer scientists have urged her campaign to bid for election recount . Hillary Clinton was initially reluctant until jill stein did and now she's gaining almost 2 million voters    If Clinton wins , that will be enough voters to win the electrical college which will eventually send her to the white house and trump , probably to jail .

   Australia has accepted to issue a 10-years visa to Chinese travelers . Making it the fourth country after the United States , Canada and Singapore to issue such long term visa to Chinese visitors . The Australian migration department says China is not just a market but now a relationship .    China has become Australia's largest trading partner in exports and imports like agricultural products of wine , diary and grains , others include online shopping and gifts from China . Australian tourism industry has seen a dramatic growth from Chinese visitors in the past 3 years worth billions of dollars .

   More than half a century conflict between the government of Colombia and a rebel group FARC is coming to an end . Colombian president santos and leader of the rebel group FARC has signed a new peace deal to put an end to Latin Americans longest conflict .    I invite you to leave decades of violence forever in the past , to unit for all of us, for Colombia, for this dear nation, and to work together for reconciliation around shared ideals of peace . President santos said .

   Coast area of Central America has been hit by a powerful earthquake of 7.2 magnitude , tsunami alert has been issued by geological department . Hundreds of people have been advised to evacuate affected area .

   A suicide bomber has exploded a truck in Iraq . The explosion causality includes Shia pilgrims who were returning. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack in south of Baghdad . The explosion totally destroyed a filling station nearby and a restaurant , nearly 200 people were killed and wounded in the attack .

   The governor's office building in the southern Turkish city of adana has been hit by a deadly explosion at the car park  which has killed two people , over a dozen wounded and lots of vehicles destroyed . The explosion may have been caused by a car bomb set off by a female attacker .

   Nearly seventh people have died in a scaffolding power plant construction site in eastern China . Two of the construction workers are injured , one missing. Rescue team are on the site searching for any sign of a single soul that can be rescued .

   Rita dominic a notable nollywood star actress has been signed on another contract deal with a Canadian luxury hair brand called Bk unique hair in lagos. The product is designed for all races and has been launched in some countries .    The star actress rita dominic has said that the interesting part of the collaboration is that both the company and herself will donate proceeds from the sales of this exclusive luxury collections towards cancer research and as well as patients undergoing cancer treatments .

   Martin schulz has announced he will return to Germany to contest as chancellor instead of going for European Parliament chief position for the third term .    Martin's decision to run for chancellorship has been widely anticipated in the country . He is the social Democratic party's candidate for the election .

   Thousands of boko haram  hostages has been rescued by the Nigerian military . Over five thousand hostages has been rescued from October to November 2016 and the Nigerian  military has declared no rest till they have swept every hideout of the insurgence group boko haram .

   The former Nigerian president gen. Olusegun obasanjo has been told president Muhammadu buhari to stop complaining about what is not visible and fix the problems . He also said that Nigeria do not need the $30 billion loan to be better but rather president buhari should look around and inwards for positive solution .    Gen. Olusegun obasanjo also said that local and foreign investors are no fools they know what is going on in the country's administration system and also the foreign exchange , he also adviced on shorterism is not too good to the economy .

   South Carolina governor since 2011 nikki haley has been appointed as the US ambassador to the United nations by Donald trump for the next administration . Nikki has little experience on foreign policy and has the ability of bringing people together no matter the background .    Governor nikki is the daughter to two Indian immigrants and South Carolina's first female governor , first female minority governor also first female to be appointed in a top office by trump's administration .

   Some top scientists in the US are persuading Hillary Clinton campaign to call for vote result recount in Pennsylvania , Michigan and Wisconsin States .    The computer scientists have said they believe they have found evidence of vote results that could have been manipulated or hacked and the scientists have presented their findings to top Clinton aides .    Obama's administration has been accusing Russian of attempting to breach voter registration data but election officials says it's almost impossible for election outcome to be influenced .

   The confederation of African football has suspended two referees and one assistant for poor performance in the 2018 world Cup qualifiers . Fifa and uefa never comment publicly on performance of referees and linesmen .    Among the referees suspended by CAF for poor performance are Joseph lamptey from Ghana incorrectly awarded south Africa penalty to win Senegal 2-1,davies omweno from Kenya who denied lybia a valid goal that led to their defeat by Tunisia 0-1 and Berhe o'michael who wrongly flagged offside .