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READ MORE US President Donald Trump has called on Nigeria to remove its trade barriers, saying America is “owed that” on account of providing the West African country with more than  $1bn in foreign aid each year. Trump, speaking on Monday at a joint press conference with  Nigeria ‘s President  Muhammadu Buhari  in Washington, DC, said the US will invest substantially in Nigeria if Buhari is able to create a  more “level playing field” on trade. Trump’s comments come ahead of a meeting between the pair, during which they are expected to discuss a range of issues, including security. “We have many things that we do together, as you know, probably, especially on terrorism,” Trump said . “We also have a very big trade deal that we’re working on for military equipment – helicopters and the like.” Buhari thankful Buhari, who is the first leader from sub-Saharan Africa to visit...

READ MORE Israel’s prime minister has accused Iran of having secretly pursued a nuclear programme amid rising tensions in the Middle East. Unveiling a cache of files purporting to show that Iran “brazenly lied” when it said it did not have a nuclear programme, Benjamin Netanyahu gave a theatrical presentation on Monday claiming to have “conclusive” evidence of the “secret programme”. His speech came against a backdrop of sustained efforts by the Trump administration and its allies at home and in the Middle East to cancel, or at least renegotiate, the 2015 nuclear pact signed between Iran and the US, France, Russia, Germany, China, the UK and the European Union. “You may well know that Iran’s leaders repeatedly denied ever pursuing nuclear weapons … well tonight I’m here to tell you one thing – Iran lied, big time,” Netanyahu said. He claimed that Iran, after signing the nuclear deal, intensified its effo...

READ MORE La Cour suprême des Etats-Unis a accepté lundi de se prononcer sur la possibilité d’utiliser du gaz pour exécuter un homme atteint d’une maladie rare qui, d’après ses avocats, risque de mourir dans d’atroces souffrances en cas d’injection létale. La plus haute instance judiciaire américaine a déjà suspendu à deux reprises la mise à mort dans l’Etat du Missouri de Russell Bucklew, la Constitution interdisant toute punition cruelle et inhabituelle. Plusieurs exécutions ratées par injection létale ces dernières années ont entraîné un débat sur la constitutionnalité de cette méthode de mise à mort, la plus utilisée actuellement par les autorités pénitentiaires américaines. Les neuf Sages ont ordonné lundi aux avocats des différentes parties de présenter leurs arguments concernant la possible utilisation...

READ MORE Les cours du pétrole ont terminé en hausse après avoir évolué une partie de la séance en retrait, rebondissant après un discours du Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu affirmant détenir des “preuves concluantes” d’un programme nucléaire iranien secret. Le baril de Brent de la mer du Nord pour livraison en juin, dont c’est le dernier jour de cotation, a fini à 75,17 dollars sur l’Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) de Londres, en hausse de 53 cents par rapport à la clôture de vendredi et à un nouveau plus haut depuis fin novembre 2014. Sur le New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), le baril de “light sweet crude” (WTI) pour la même échéance a pris 47 cents à 68,57 dollars. Le cours du Brent a pris sur le mois d’avril quasiment 7% tandis que le WTI a avancé de presque 6%. M. Netanyahu, virulent détracteur de l’accord intern...

READ MORE Tom and Michelle Straschnitzki have seen the best in people over the last three weeks as their son has worked to recover after being paralyzed in a crash between his hockey team’s bus and a transport truck. On Monday, they also saw the worst. Tom Straschnitzki said he woke up early and was alerted on Twitter that someone using Ryan’s name had set up a fake account and was seeking money for a GoFundMe campaign. It had Ryan’s picture, as well as a photo of the Humboldt Broncos Saskatchewan junior hockey team. “I phoned him and said, ‘Is this your Twitter account?’ And he freaked out and went, ‘No, it’s not. Everyone is going to think this is fake. My teammates are going to hate me thinking I’m trying to get money,”‘ said Tom Straschnitzki told The Canadian Press. “It took a long time to calm him down. I said, ‘We’ll take care of it. I kind of warned you this stuff can happen.”‘ Stras...

READ MORE The uncle of one of three boys who were hit and killed by a vehicle on a Manitoba First Nation will remember them as great kids who were inseparable. “Oh my God, those kids were together every day,” said Curtis Lobster, describing his nephew, Keithan Lobster, 11, Mateo Moore-Spence, 11, and Terrence Spence, 13. The three boys were walking and riding their bicycles on a main road near Nelson House on Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation in Manitoba on Saturday night when they were struck by a driver who was allegedly impaired. “Those were his best bros,” Lobster said. “Really close, inseparable.” The last time Lobster spoke to his nephew, he said Keithan told him he was going to graduate college one day, just like his uncle. “I don’t know, man — I think he wanted to be prime minister of Canada,” Lobster said with a laugh on Monday. “Honestly, you would’ve had to ...

READ MORE As authorities contend with another influx of asylum seekers, a prominent Quebec lawyer is renewing calls for the federal government to suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement, a pact between Canada and the U.S. which governs where people can make asylum claims on either side of the border. “The federal government needs to intervene. I think it’s clear now that they need to,” Stéphane Handfield, an immigration and refugee lawyer in Montreal, said in an interview. Handfield penned an open letter on the weekend calling for the agreement to be put on hold for three months while officials figure out next steps. Doing so would ease the pressure on Quebec, which has seen the vast majority of asylum claims in the past two years, he said. New arrivals mostly from Nigeria The Safe Third Country Agreement, which has been in effect since 2004, forces asylum seekers to make refugee claims in the first safe country in which they find themselves....