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The daughter of the US President Ivanka Trump (R) and the World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim attend a panel discussion titled “Launch Event Women’s Entrepreneur Finance Initiative” during the G20 summit in Hamburg, northern Germany, on July 8, 2017. Leaders of the world’s top economies gather from July 7 to 8, 2017 in Germany for likely the stormiest G20 summit in years, with disagreements ranging from wars to climate change and global trade.  Michael Kappeler For a moment at the G20 summit on Saturday the United States was represented by another Trump, when the president’s daughter Ivanka took a seat at the table of world leaders. The 35-year-old former fashion model sat around the table with Xi Jinping, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Angela Merkel and Theresa May, diplomats and the White House confirmed. The incident fuelled long-standing allegations of nepotism against the US leader, who has put family members

Muslim pilgrims circle counterclockwise Islam’s holiest shrine. MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH Saudi Hajj ministry has imposed 106 dollars fee on each domestic pilgrim to be paid by organisations and companies offering services for them, a local media reported on Saturday. It said that the fee will be in the form of bank guarantee of 30 per cent of the value of services provided by the ministry. “The fees should be paid before registering domestic pilgrims through the online portal for the upcoming pilgrimage season. “The fees should be transferred to the ministry’s account through local banks that are registered with the Saudi Monetary Agency,’’ it noted. The ministry warned those organisations of hiking their prices in order to make the pilgrims to pay for the new fee, while ordering them to allocate all administration, reception and data processing jobs to Saudis.

Some of the suspects arrested by the police • Three suspected members set ablaze in Ikorodu, 100 others arrested • Heroic dog prevents terror group from carrying out attack Facts emerged at the weekend as to why end may not be in sight to the menace of Badoo cult group in Ikorodu area of Lagos State. The group, according to a top security source, sells the handkerchief, which the terror group use to clean the blood of their victims, for a whooping N500,000 to some highly placed Nigerians. “We heard they sell one handkerchief containing the blood of their victims for N500,000 to highly placed Nigerians. The police must urgently investigate this lead in order to put an end to this menace, so that residents can sleep with two eyes closed in Ikorodu.” The police, which is now investigating the veracity of that information, engaged in joint operations with the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Department of State Services (DSS), Lagos State Task Force, the Oodua

(FILES) This file photo taken on October 30, 2016 shows Everton’s Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku celebrating after scoring the opening goal of the English Premier League football match between Everton and West Ham United at Goodison Park in Liverpool. Everton’s Belgian international striker Romelu Lukaku is set to join Manchester United instead of champions Chelsea for a fee of £75 million ($97m, 85.5m euros), according to the British media on July 6, 2017. Belgian international striker Romelu Lukaku is set to join Manchester United for a reported £75million ($97m, 85.5m euros), a record fee between British clubs, after the buying club announced Saturday they had reached agreement with Everton. The 24-year-old’s signing represents a coup for United and their manager Jose Mourinho as the latter’s former club champions Chelsea had earmarked him as their top striking target for the close season. Going in the opposite direction could well be United and England