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‘This will be war!’ Aussie UFC fighter signs bout agreement IN BLOOD (PHOTO) Australian welterweight Jake Matthews is ready to bleed freely for his pursuit of MMA glory – as he proved by signing his fight agreement to face Emil Meek at UFC Auckland in blood. The UFC announced on Thursday that ‘The Celtic Kid’ – who is 15-4 in pro MMA – would throw down with Norwegian Meek in Auckland on February 23, on a card headlined by the mouthwatering lightweight showdown between Paul Felder and Dan Hooker. Matthews, 25, showed his commitment to the cause by posting a picture of the bout agreement, sealed with a bloody fingerprint instead of a signature. //www.instagram.com/p/B5ZrhCYAfHA “I signed this one in blood. @ufc Auckland will be war!” he wrote, taggi...

Palestinian protests on Gaza-Israel border cancelled for 3rd week, organizers say Palestinian protests along the Gaza-Israel border have been cancelled for the third week, organizers said on Thursday. The statement comes amid declining turnout and fears of a fresh conflict in the Gaza Strip, AFP said. The organizing committee said it had decided to postpone this Friday’s marches to avoid giving an opportunity to Israel and due to “the very dangerous security conditions” after a deadly flare-up in Gaza earlier this month. The protests, which began in March 2018 and are backed by Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas, initially attracted tens of thousands of people weekly, but numbers have declined dramatically. Protesters called for Israel to lift its decade-long blockade of Gaza as wel...

Thanksgiving day massacre: Facebook experiences major outage across continental US The world’s largest social media platform Facebook has experienced a major outage across the continental US on Thanksgiving with thousands of reports of probloems flooding in to popular crowdsourcing site DownDetector. Users reported outages across both Facebook and Instagram, which are both owned by the same company, but WhatsApp appeared to be unaffected by the issue as yet. All three apps share much of the same underlying infrastructure which can often create a cascade effect when a server goes down. The Facebook platform began experiencing issues at approximately 9:17 EST. Like this story? Share it with a friend! Thanksgiving day massacre: Facebook e...

Pakistan’s Supreme Court grants temporary extension to army chief’s term Pakistan’s top court granted a six-month extension to the term of the army head General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Thursday, after initially blocking a three-year extension of his tenure. “We leave this matter to parliament to make law regarding this,” Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa said. In a surprise ruling on Tuesday, the Supreme Court suspended the decision to extend, approved by the government in August, citing a series of irregularities, Reuters reports. The court also ordered the government and the army to produce legal provisions and detailed arguments on the reasoning behind the move. Pakistan’s Supreme Court grants temporary extension to army chief’s term Source: RT...