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Ilhan Omar has made history by becoming the first Somali female legislator in the United States. Ms Omar will be a lawmaker in the US state of Minnesota after winning House District 60B, which comprises parts of the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, south-east Minneapolis and the University of Minnesota, Minnesota Public Radio News‎ reports. Her win carries a “huge symbolic importance in Minnesota”, where many Somali immigrants live, the report says. It came just days after Donald Trump accused Somali immigrants in the state of “spreading extremism”. Ms Omar said she would be a voice of the “marginalized”, the Associated Press news…

Arsenal had a £90m bid for Borussia Dortmund striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, 27, turned down in the summer. (Corriere dello Sport – in Italian) Chelsea will give manager Antonio Conte a huge transfer fund for the January window and Juventus defender Leonardo Bonucci, 29, remains his number-one target. (London Evening Standard) Meanwhile, Blues midfielder Cesc Fabregas, 29, has rejected a move to the Chinese Super League and is instead determined to fight for his place at Stamford Bridge. (ESPN) Scotland winger Robert Snodgrass, 29, has stoked the fire before Friday’s World Cup qualifier at Wembley by saying English fans “don’t want…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent Donald Trump a telegram of congratulation on winning the United States presidential election. In a brief statement Wednesday, the Kremlin said Putin expressed “his hope to work together for removing Russian-American relations from their crisis state.” Putin also said he has “confidence that building a constructive dialogue between Moscow and Washington that is based on principles of equality, mutual respect and a real accounting each other’s positions, in the interests of our peoples and the world community.” Similarly, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says in a statement that he “congratulates the elected American president, Donald…

Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump has been elected the 45th president of the United States after reaching the 268 Electoral College votes. Trump won Wisconsin to seal his fate as the next number citizen of the US. His triumph over Hillary Clinton will end eight years of Democratic dominance of the White House and threatens to undo major achievements of President Barack Obama. He’s pledged to act quickly to repeal Obama’s landmark health care law, revoke the nuclear agreement with Iran and rewrite important trade deals with other countries, particularly Mexico and Canada. The Republican blasted through Democrats’ longstanding firewall,…

With Donald Trump in the lead, Nigerians have called on Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka to rip his United States Green Card. Giving a seminar at Oxford University, Soyinka said he will cut his Green Card if Trump wins. “If in the unlikely event he does win, the first thing he’ll do is to say [that] all green-card holders must reapply to come back into the US. Well, I’m not waiting for that,” said Soyinka, who is scholar-in-residence at New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs this autumn. “The moment they announce his victory, I will cut my green…

Republican nominee Donald Trump is just within six Electoral College votes from winning the White House race. He is in early lead over her rival Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton winning a 264 Electoral College votes against Clinton’s 215. But as the race lurched past midnight, neither candidate had cleared the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. The correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in the US, reports that exit polls projection showed that Trump won Kentucky, Indiana, Florida, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan and Wisconsin, while Clinton won in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Vermont. However,…

A gunman with an assault rifle killed a man and critically wounded two women Tuesday in a California neighborhood near two polling sites that were shut down before the attacker was found dead inside a nearby home, authorities said. One polling place was reopened hours after a gunbattle involving the gunman and Azusa police. The shooting “had nothing to do with the ballot or voting,” Los Angeles County sheriff’s Lt. John Corina said. “It just happened to be across the street from the park where the voting was taking place and also an elementary school” that was being used as…

The dollar crashed against the yen and euro while the Mexican peso fell off a cliff as polling results in the knife-edge US presidential race pointed to a strong showing by Donald Trump. The greenback plunged 3.8 per cent to 101.47 yen and shed more than two percent against the euro, which bought $1.1232 in Tokyo trading. The Canadian dollar, meanwhile, also traded lower, with the greenback rising to about 1.35 to the loonie. The peso, which has become a proxy for the property mogul’s chances of becoming US president, slumped to below 20 against the dollar, an historic low.…

With 64 percent of precincts reporting, Donald Trump is the declared winner of Ohio, with 53 percent to Hillary Clinton’s 42 percent, according to NBC News. The swing state delivers the Republican nominee 18 electoral votes. Trump now has a total of 168 electoral votes, to Clinton’s 109. Elsewhere, Clinton was declared the winner in Virginia, with 48 percent of the vote to Donald Trump’s 47 percent, with 96 percent of precincts reporting, according to the Associated Press. Victory in this battleground state adds 13 electoral votes to the Democratic candidate’s total. To win, a candidate must secure 270 electoral…

Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez has picked up a “low grade muscle injury” on international duty with Chile. Sanchez, 27, will miss Chile’s World Cup qualifier in Colombia on Thursday. But the Chilean team’s medical staff say the former Barcelona player could return for the home game against Uruguay next Tuesday. “He will remain in Santiago, under treatment and in evaluation for the meeting against Uruguay,” said a statement. Sanchez, who has scored eight goals for the Gunners this season, played the whole 90 minutes of Sunday’s 1-1 home draw against Tottenham. Fourth-placed Arsenal go to Manchester United on 19 November…