Pig born with TRUNK coming out of its forehead terrifies locals in China

A PIG born with one eye and a trunk coming out of its forehead baffled  locals in China.

The deformed piglet was filmed by fascinated onlookers who held the pig when it was just minutes old in Daqing, Heilongjiang Province.

The piglet was born with one eye and a trunk coming out of its forehead

One intrigued woman held and prodded the pig shortly after it was born

It had two ears flattened to its head, a large eyeball in the centre and an extra trunk-like limb which had grown above it.

It looped over the cover the eye from the front.

The woman seen in the video smiles as she shows off the deformed animal to crowds.

Footage of the pig, filmed on September 10, has been shared widely on Chinese social media.

The pig sadly died just hours after it was born. It is not known how the pig's deformities were formed.

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FULLY ARMED:Defiant Iran ignores Donald Trump’s threats as it unveils its latest ballistic missile during massive military parade

Iran's president promised to increase the country's military missile capability after Trump condemned its 'corrupt dictatorship'

IRAN today unveiled its latest ballistic missile during a massive military parade just days after the country's government was condemned by Donald Trump.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani promised to increase the country's military power and missile capability

The move was seen as a defiance to Trump who blasted Iran's leadership in a speech to the United Nations earlier this week.

Rouhani made the speech to a parade of the country's armed forces in the city of Tehran

The parade in Iran's capital city of Tehran showcased various Iranian army units and Revolutionary Guard forces, as well as the police.

It unveiled its latest ballistic missile with a range of 1,250 miles -  capable of reaching much of the Middle East, including Israel.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addressed the crowd promising to increase the country's military power and missile capability -despite US demands.

In a speech broadcast on state television, he said: "We will strengthen our defense and military capabilities ... whether you want it or not.

"Iran's military power lies in its commitment to never invade another country or land.

"We will not seek permission from anyone to defend our country."

Iranian armed forces march in a military parade marking the 37th anniversary of Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran

He also said Tehran will keep supporting the "oppressed people of Yemen, Syria and Palestine" and Palestinian militant groups such as Hamas.

In his speech at the United Nations, Trump blasted Tehran's support for "terrorists" during his visit to Jerusalem.

He condemned the country' s government calling it a "corrupt dictatorship" and a "murderous regime".

Trump said: "Most importantly the United States and Israel can declare with one voice that Iran must never be allowed to possess a nuclear weapon - never ever.

"And must cease its deadly funding, training and equipping of terrorists and militias.

"And it must cease immediately."Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif hit out at the US just hours after the US President had accused his country of being at the heart of global terror.

Speaking a day later, Rouhani demanded an apology from Trump for his "extremely offensive" rhetoric and "unfounded" allegations about Iran.

The Iranian president later accused Trump administration of finding "an excuse" to pull out of the landmark 2015 nuclear agreement that capped Iran's nuclear activities in return for the lifting of international sanctions on Iran.

The deal, Rouhani said, is supported by his government and the five other parties Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany that signed the agreement.

Tehran has backed Yemen's Shiite rebels known as Houthis against a US-supported and Saudi-led coalition of mostly Arab states that seeks to return the internationally elected government to power in Yemen.

In Syria, Iran is a close ally of President Bashar Assad

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END OF DAYSIs the end of the world on October 21 and what is David Meade’s new Planet X conspiracy theory?

A seven-year series of catastrophic events including earthquakes, hurricanes, nuclear attacks and volcanic eruptions is set to begin in October, according to a Christian conspiracy theorist

A DOOMSDAY theorist fears "seven years of catastrophic events" begins next month - and recent natural disasters are proof the supposed Biblical prophecy is coming true.

David Meade predicts nuclear attacks and hurricanes will devastate the earth - triggered by a mysterious Planet X. Here's everything we know about his latest theory.

A huge planet is allegedly going to either smash into the Earth or pull us off our axis

Christian Conspiracy Theorist David Meade

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Christian conspiracy theorist David Meade

A prophecy, which said Planet X would cause the end of the world this weekend, spread globally

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Is the end of the world on October 21?

The Christian conspiracy theorist has repeatedly warned about a mysterious planet named Planet X or Nibiru on the far edge of our solar system.

Conspiracies suggested it's hurtling towards earth and set to destroy it this Saturday (September 23).

Now Meade claims people have misunderstood his Planet X prophecy.

Instead, he's now claiming we could be in for SEVEN years of nuclear war and natural disasters starting on October 21.

October 2017 may signal "the end of the world as we now know it".

The earthquake in Mexico and hurricanes in the Caribbean are all related to the Planet X theory, Meade claimed.

"It’s the beginning," he said.

"Ever since the Great American Solar Eclipse of August 21^st we have been hit by a continued series of judgements."

The date of September 23 relates to a verse in the Bible which apparently matches the August 21 date when Hurricane Harvey battered Texas.

Luke’s passage 21: 25 to 26 reads: “There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars.

“On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.

^“People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken.”

What is David Meade's new Planet X conspiracy theory?

David believes that a "spiritual sign" will appear in the sky on September 23 where the moon will appear under the constellation of Virgo.

Then on October 5, Planet X will fully eclipse the sun and cover the earth in shadow.

This will signal the start of the "seven-year-tribulation" on October 21, he believes.

He claims an asteroid named Wormwood, measuring at least three kilometers in diameters, which is attached to the "debris field of the Planet X star system" will hit earth at some point during the seven years.

The "tribulation" will also involve "nuclear exchanges between the US, Britain and our enemies – Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.""It will involve cataclysmic climate events related to Planet X or Wormwood – those are the trumpet judgements of Revelation," he explained.

Huge solar flares would "bring down the electrical grid," according to Meade.

"Rioting and looting will be unrestrained.... society will be in chaos," he warned.

An unusual celestial arrangement set for September 23 has triggered the doomsday fears.

But astronomer Christopher Graney says it's happened four times before in 1827, 1483, 1293 and 1056.

What is Planet X?

Meade expects Nibiru will pass the Earth – bringing with it volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and earthquakes.

The mysterious planet was first mentioned in 1976 by author Zecharia Sitchin in his book The 12th Planet.

He wrote it is home to ancient aliens called the Annunaki who he claimed created the human race.

What does Nasa say?

This theory gained momentum earlier this year when NASA discovered what could be a new planet deep in the solar system, which they named Planet Nine.

It could have a mass 10 times that of earth.

Jim Green, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division, said: "It's too early to say with certainty there's a so-called Planet X."

The space agency has however firmly, and repeatedly, dismissed the theories about Nibiru as an "internet hoax".

“The planet in question, Nibiru, doesn't exist, so there will be no collision," said Nasa.

"The story of Nibiru has been around for years (as has the 'days of darkness' tale) and is periodically recycled into new apocalyptic fables.

"There is no factual basis for these claims.

"If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with the Earth … astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye. "Obviously, it does not exist."

Nick Pope, who headed up the Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk, agrees with the space agency.

He said: "The bottom line is that if a mysterious 12th planet was really going to hit the Earth on Saturday, we’d all be able to see it right now.”

Meade believes an asteroid named Wormwood will hit the earth

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Meade believes an asteroid named Wormwood will hit the earth

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Puerto Rico battered by Hurricane Maria: 'Devastation – it's everywhere'

• Worst storm to hit Puerto Rico in 80 years felled trees and smashed buildings
• Governor’s spokesman describes scene of ‘total devastation'
• After hours of hurricane-force winds and torrential rain, Puerto Ricans emerged from hurricane shelters on Thursday morning to find that their island was still under threat from landslides, flash floods and crippled water and electricity systems.
• Hurricane Maria – the worst storm to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years – felled trees, smashed buildings and tore roofs from homes. Chest-deep floodwaters forced people to use boats, paddleboards or jetskis to seek medical help or reach family and friends.
  “Devastation – it’s everywhere,” Carlos Mercader, a spokesman for Puerto Rico’s governor, told the Guardian. “It’s total devastation.”
  The full extent of the destruction was unclear because communications have been severely disrupted, Mercader said.
  “Now that the sun has come up, it is the time to assess all of the damages,” he said.
  Governor Ricardo Rossello, said the only known death was a man struck by a piece of wood blown by the wind, but the death toll was expected to rise as reports come in from outlying areas.
  The government has dispatched people with satellite phones to report on the scene in rural areas. There is also a curfew in place from 6pm to 6am every night through Saturday morning.
• The onslaught began early on Wednesday, with winds growing gradually until they reached category 4 hurricane strength as the storm rampaged across the territory, knocking out the power supply and tossing vehicles from the road.
  As the storm cleared on Thursday, rescuers were forced to thread their way through a maze of toppled trees and collapsed communication services. And while many streets remained flooded, Mercader said 70% of the island was without drinking water.
  In Carolina, a municipality on the island’s north-east coast, floodwaters were still 2ft deep on Thursday morning; trees lay strewn across the roads and most wooden homes were completely destroyed.
  In Levittown, a suburb of San Juan, about 40 families were rescued from the roofs of their homes overnight after several people managed to contact the governor’s office. The suburb is less than 20km from downtown San Juan, but it took the national guard an hour and a half to reach the neighborhood, said Mercader. The rescuers traveled by boat and were working into Thursday morning to save about 100 people, he said.
• Debris littered the streets of Puerto Rico’s capital, San Juan, where residents were spotted cleaning up debris. One of those people was Male Álvarez, whose home had been lashed by unrelenting wind and rain for hours. “The house shook – it felt like an earthquake,” Álvarez told the Guardian.
  Her neighborhood was without electricity, water and internet but she was emphatic that the island would rebuild.“Puerto Ricans went out of their way to help all the islands around [after Hurricane Irma],” Álvarez said. “They were heroes, and that’s who Puerto Ricans are – and I know we’re we are going to rebuild.”
  Álvarez had been able to contact family and friends in the continental US after walking a few blocks from her home to find a cellphone signal, but thousands of people with family members in Puerto Rico, and other Caribbean islands, were still trying to reach family members they hadn’t heard from in days.
  Even Mercader, with his government connections, had not been able to reach his parents in Puerto Rico. He last heard from them on Tuesday before Maria touched down. “I’m a person of faith – I think that they’re doing well,” he said.
  He said the government would provide guidance on how to communicate once the system was restored. “Keep calm, the government’s working very, very, very hard to re-establish communication throughout the island,” he said.Fourteen thousand people are currently taking refuge in 520 shelters across the island. The government expects that number to increase, as people typically return home after the storm – only to realize that the destruction is too great and that they need to remain in shelter.
  The White House on Thursday morning declared Puerto Rico “a major disaster” zone and ordered federal assistance to be directed to dozens of municipalities in the territory. Donald Trump said the island had been “absolutely obliterated” by the heavy winds. “All you have to do is read or turn on the television and you will see a place that is practically leveled,” he said.
  Before hitting Puerto Rico, Maria left a trail of destruction in smaller Caribbean islands including the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat and Dominica.
  The prime minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, said at least 15 people died and 20 were missing.
  Maria weakened to a category 2 storm overnight but had regained strength by morning as it headed along the northern coast of the Dominican Republic towards the Turks and Caicos islands. Maximum sustained winds remained near 185km/h (115mph) on Thursday morning, according to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC), which warned more strengthening was possible.Sophie Newstead, who works for the charity Hurricane Irma Relief Turks and Caicos (HIRTAC), said the islands were still in “recovery mode” from Irma. She said: “We are not stable enough to cope with even a mild storm.”
  Sylvie Wigglesworth, principal of British West Indies Collegiate, said she was waiting out the storm at home because her mother has Alzheimer’s and the local shelters wouldn’t take her dog.
  “The biggest worry is water. All the buildings are weakened [from Irma], so if it rains a bit you can see water dripping in parts,” Wigglesworth said. “It is going to be a disaster.”

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Entire towns in Mexico flattened as scale of earthquake damage emerges

Thousands of left homeless in towns and communities outside Mexico City as official rescue and relief efforts struggle to cope with the widespread destruction

Hopes that rescuers will find more survivors trapped beneath collapsed buildings in central Mexico were fading on Thursday, as the scale of the devastation wreaked by the country’s deadliest earthquake for a generation started to become clear.

The death toll from Tuesday’s 7.1 magnitude quake rose to 282, including at least 137 in the capital, and was almost certainly set to rise as rescue workers continue to search the precarious ruins amid the threat of aftershocks, collapsing rubble and gas leaks.

Parts of Mexico City – which is built on a drained lakebed – were devastated in the quake which struck 32 years to the day after the country’s deadliest earthquake killed thousands and laid waste to the capital.

But details of the destruction outside the capital are only now starting to emerge, with reports of entire towns flattened and thousands of people left homeless.

Directly south of Mexico City in Morelos state, the death toll stands at 73. The damage was especially acute in the municipality of Jojutla, where houses were reduced to rubble.

“Jojutla is damaged badly, but there are communities that have suffered the same or worse,” said Óscar Cruz, a spokesman with the local Catholic diocese, who added all 89 Catholic parishes in the state suffered damage. “What’s tragic is that the damage is worst in the poorest pueblos.”

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The office of president Enrique Peña Nieto said there were also 73 deaths in Morelos state, 43 in Puebla, 13 in the State of Mexico, six in Guerrero and one in Oaxaca.

In Puebla state, authorities have declared a state of “extraordinary emergency” in 112 municipalities – equivalent to 51% of the region. 

At least 1,700 homes have been declared uninhabitable and should be demolished over coming months, according to the state governor. The number could well rise after experts finish more exhaustive inspections.

In Metepec, a quaint colonial town, almost every house and business has suffered structural damage, raising fears among residents that the rebuild could take years.

Calls for urgent help and supplies in towns and communities outside the capital continue to be posted on social networks as official rescue and relief efforts struggle to cope with the widespread destruction.

Hopes that survivors could still be found were boosted by round-the-clock coverage of the navy-led search for a 12-year-old girl believed to be trapped under a collapsed school in the south of Mexico City.

In the hours after the quake struck, 11 children were rescued from the Enrique Rebsámen school, but 21 children and five adults have been found dead so far. For two days, the country was captivated by the story of the girl, identified as Frida Sofía, as TV networks and authorities repeatedly reported that her rescue was imminent.

But as the hours passed without progress, confusion and anger mounted amid contradictory reports from the scene; critics accused the country’s main broadcasters of peddling false hope and neglecting the rest of the quake’s victims.

On Thursday the navy announced that in fact there was no child under the rubble, but the rescue mission would continue as an adult survivor could still be trapped.

There was also growing anger at alleged attempts by the armed forces, which have taken over many of the rescue operations initially led by volunteers, and had started to raze collapsed buildings less than 72 hours after the earthquake – prompting fears that they could destroy buildings where survivors remained trapped.

            Rescue services and volunteers search for victims under the debris of the Mexico City school that collapsed in the earthquake.

In the trendy La Roma neighbourhood, the navy reportedly shut down a rescue operation in an office block on Thursday morning in order to start bulldozing the unstable structure from which 24 survivors had been pulled free.

The sobbing mother of one young woman trapped inside told Televisa “I will not let the navy bulldoze this building when my daughter and other people are still trapped inside and could be alive.”

Reports of clashes between volunteer rescue workers and the armed forces are also surfacing across the capital.

“The army has a history of imposing brutal triage rules for natural disasters which dates back to the 1985 earthquake,” said public policy analyst Rodolfo Soriano Nuñez. “They might get away with this arrogant approach in Oaxaca or Chiapas, but not in Mexico City.”

As cracks started to show in what has been until now lauded as a unified national response, extraordinary tales of survival continue to lift spirits.

Ashley Skoch, 29, was lying in bed watching TV on the sixth floor of a seven-storey apartment block in La Condesa that was toppled by the tremor.

Skoch, from Seattle, arrived in the city a few hours before the earthquake struck to visit a friend who had lived in the building for two years. She jumped up and ducked at the foot of the bed as the walls began to crack and the building “slid down like a layer cake”, she told the Guardian. It almost certainly saved her life.

“When I came to, my head was bleeding, a giant pillar had fallen onto the bed but I wasn’t trapped and could move my body. I was in shock but I put on my pants, grabbed my backpack and laptop and got myself out of the rubble and sat down.”

Nearby construction workers rushed to the scene of the collapsed building and used a crane to lift her to the ground. By this time, Skoch could barely stand, so a man carried her down the road and tried to stop the bleeding until an ambulance arrived and took her to a clinic, from where she was able to contact her friend. Skoch sustained a compound fracture to the spine, but should make a full recovery.

“I feel lucky, but can’t make sense of why I survived when so many others died or are still missing.”

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Japan braces as North Korea threatens hydrogen bomb test in Pacific

• Kim Jong-un warns ‘deranged’ Trump he will ‘pay dearly’ for North Korea threats
• Trump says Kim ‘who is obviously a madman’ will be ‘tested like never before’

Japan must brace itself for the possible launch of a nuclear-armed North Korean missile over its territory if the regime carries out a threat to test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean, Japan’s defence minister has said.

The warning followed an extraordinary exchange of insults between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in response to the US president’s threat at the UN general assembly to “totally destroy” North Korea if Washington was forced to defend itself or its allies.

Kim said that he was considering retaliating at the “highest level”, calling Trump a “mentally deranged US dotard” who would “pay dearly” for threatening to destroy his regime. The North Korean foreign minister, Ri Yong-ho, suggested Pyongyang could test a powerful nuclear weapon in the Pacific.

“It could be the most powerful detonation of an H-bomb in the Pacific,” Ri, who is due to address the UN general assembly at the weekend, told reporters in New York. “We have no idea about what actions could be taken as it will be ordered by leader Kim Jong-un.”

Trump tweeted in response on Friday: “Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn’t mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!”

Itsunori Onodera, the Japanese defence minister, warned such a test could involve a nuclear device mounted on a medium-range or intercontinental ballistic missile being flown over Japan. “We cannot deny the possibility it may fly over our country,” he said.

Earlier this month, North Korea detonated a powerful hydrogen bomb at its Punggye-ri nuclear test site in the north-east of the country. The explosion caused a 6.3 magnitude earthquake that was felt over the Chinese border in Yanji.

Testing a nuclear device beyond its own borders would mark a major escalation in tensions over the regime’s ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programmes.

Analysts said a nuclear test involving a missile could be “truly terrifying” if something goes wrong.

An atmospheric nuclear test could pose a risk to aircraft and shipping, even if the North declares a keep-out zone, according to Vipin Narang, a nuclear strategy expert at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“And if the test doesn’t go according to plan, you could have population at risk, too,” Narang added. “We are talking about putting a live nuclear warhead on a missile that has been tested only a handful of times. It is truly terrifying if something goes wrong.”

Speculation is growing that North Korea will add to its robust verbal response to Trump’s UN speech on Tuesday with a military provocation, possibly a test of a Hwasong-14 missile, which is theoretically capable of reaching Hawaii and Alaska.

Chung Sung-yoon, an analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification, said there was a “very high possibility” that Kim would follow through with a provocation of some sort.

While the North has claimed it is able to mount a miniaturised nuclear weapon on a missile, the regime has yet to offer definitive proof.

The US and Japan have warned they will shoot down any missile they consider a threat to Japanese territory.

Monitoring groups estimate that the nuclear test conducted in North Korea this month - its sixth and largest - had a yield of 250 kilotons, which is 16 times the size of the US bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.

In a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency, Kim called Trump “mentally deranged” and warned him that he would “pay dearly” for issuing threats to the regime during his maiden UN general assembly speech on Tuesday.

Describing the president as “a rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire”, Kim drew a critical comparison between Trump and his predecessors in the White House, calling him unfit to hold the position of commander in chief.

“Far from making remarks of any persuasive power that can be viewed to be helpful to defuse tension, he made unprecedented rude nonsense one has never heard from any of his predecessors.”

In a combative speech, Trump warned he would “totally destroy” North Korea if it attacked the US or its allies, and called on other countries to cut the regime off from its sources of funds.

“The mentally deranged behaviour of the US president openly expressing on the UN arena the unethical will to ‘totally destroy’ a sovereign state … makes even those with normal thinking faculty think about discretion and composure,” Kim said.

The North Korea leader is thought to be the first of three generations of the Kim dynasty to publicly read out a statement aimed at the international community in his own name.

South Korea’s unification ministry said neither Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il, nor his grandfather - and North Korean founder - Kim Il-sung, had issued a similar statement.

Kim said Trump’s remarks had convinced him “that the path I chose is correct and that it is the one I have to follow to the last”.

He added that he was “thinking hard” about his response, but vowed that Trump would “pay dearly for his speech calling for totally destroying” North Korea.

“Action is the best option in treating the dotard, who, hard of hearing, is uttering only what he wants to say,” he said.

“Now that Trump has denied the existence of and insulted me and my country in front of the eyes of the world and made the most ferocious declaration of a war in history that he would destroy [North Korea], we will consider with seriousness exercising of a corresponding, highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history.”

His lengthy criticism of Trump ended: “I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire.”

The statement came just hours after Trump issued a new executive order that expands US sanctions on North Korea’s shipping, banking, ports and manufacturing. Trump also claimed China’s banking system had shut down business with the country.

Reuters reported earlier in the day that China’s central bank had ordered financial institutions to implement UN sanctions rigorously after frequent complaints from Washington that Beijing was leaving open too many loopholes.

Trump thanked China’s president Xi Jinping and said the move was “very bold” and “somewhat unexpected”.

There was no immediate confirmation from the Chinese government that it had imposed a financial embargo on North Korea. If confirmed, it would represent a significant tightening of the economic noose around the Pyongyang regime, by a country which accounts for 90% of its trade.

But it is unclear whether any amount of financial or economic pain would induce Kim Jong-un to relinquish North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missiles, which he believes are essential for the regime’s survival.

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Trump announced the new executive order during a working lunch with his South Korean counterpart, Moon Jae-in, and Shinzō Abe, the Japanese prime minister.

“Our new executive order will cut off sources of revenue that fund North Korea’s efforts to develop the deadliest weapons known to humankind,” Trump said. “The order enhances the treasury department’s authorities to target any individual or entity that conducts significant trade in goods, services, or technology with North Korea.”

Under the new measures, no ship or aircraft can visit the US within 180 days of going to North Korea. The same restriction would apply to any vessel involvement in ship-to-ship transfers with North Korean vessels. The order gives the US Treasury the power to sanction anybody involved in a wide variety of North Korean industries, ports, trade, and banking.

“Foreign financial institutions must choose between doing business with the United States or facilitating trade with North Korea or its designated supporters,” a White House statement said.

“To prevent sanctions evasion, the order also includes measures designed to disrupt critical North Korean shipping and trade networks,” he said. “For much too long, North Korea has been allowed to abuse the international financial system to facilitate funding for its nuclear weapons and missile programs.”

On the same day, the EU announced new sanctions of its own, including a ban on investment in North Korea and on EU exports of oil. The impact will be minimal, as trade and investment relations between North Korea and EU are tiny.

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Nigerians in Germany protest against Operation Python Dance In The South East

Some Nigerians in Germany have called to an end to the military operation in the southeast They held a demonstration against the government and President Buhari Some Nigerians in Germany have launched a protest against President Muhammadu Buhari and the military operation in the southeast.They called for Operation Python Dance to end and that the military should withdraw from the region. 

The demonstrators carried cardboards with inscriptions calling for an end to the military invasion of the southeast region. 





Some of the protesters in Germany 

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