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Wednesday, February 01, 2017     BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Promising Jamaican teenager Leon Bailey signed a five-year contract with Bayer Leverkusen yesterday for a reported 12 million euros (US$12.8 million). The 19-year-old forward moves to Germany from Belgian side, Genk. This picture, taken on September 15, 2016, shows  Jamaican forward Leon Bailey of Genk during the UEFA Europa League Group F football match versus Rapid Vienna in Austria. (Photo: AFP) “With Leon Bailey we have once again secured a very promising, long-term prospect,” Club Director Michael Schade said. “This young man was also the target of a number of other European sides and we are thrilled to have beaten off strong opposition for him.” Bailey, who usually plays on the left wing, joined Genk at the start of the season from Slovakian side Trencin. “At Bayer, I want to go to the next level,” Bailey said. “Leverkusen are known as a club where a player can develop. And the type of footb...

In a move that should surprise no one, President  Donald Trump  is reportedly bringing the two expected finalists for Justice Antonin Scalia’s Supreme Court seat to Washington to create a sense of intrigue ahead of Tuesday’s primetime reveal. Neil Gorsuch Or “ to build suspense ,” as CNN’s Pamela Brown put it in her report on Tuesday. “This is all an extraordinary measure ... to keep the selection private ahead of tonight’s announcement,” Brown said of what increasingly looks like a piece of political theater. Finalists Neil Gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman ― both of whom are highly respected in conservative circles ― are either in Washington or en route for the  8 p.m. announcement , according to CNN. Trump has already said he’s  made his choice . So is the purpose of this arrangement to give the president one last sit-down with the nominee just to make sure?  Under normal circumstances, a president’s choice for the Supreme Court is shro...

In what an official said was the first military raid carried out under President Donald Trump, two Americans were killed in Yemen on Sunday — one a member of SEAL Team 6 and the other the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, the New Mexico-born al Qaeda leader who himself was killed in a U.S. strike five years ago. 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki The raid in southern Yemen, conducted by the supersecret Joint Special Operations Command, was intended to capture valuable intelligence, specifically computer equipment, according to a senior U.S. military official. Three al Qaeda leaders were killed, according to U.S. officials. Contrary to earlier reporting, the senior military official said, the raid was Trump's first clandestine strike — not a holdover mission approved by President Barack Obama. The mission involved "boots on the ground" at an al Qaeda camp near al Bayda in south central Yemen, the official said. "Almost everything went wrong," ...

> 01/28/2017 09:09 pm ET   NEW YORK ― Late Saturday, a federal judge in Brooklyn  temporarily halted  parts of President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order that aimed to block the entry of Syrian refugees and impose a de facto ban on travelers coming from several Muslim-majority countries. The American Civil Liberties Union, immigrants’ rights groups and refugee relief organizations  had filed the action  in federal court Saturday morning on behalf of two Iraqi nationals who were detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, asking for a declaration that the order is unconstitutional and requesting an injunction to prevent its implementation against other travelers who may be equally harmed. “The petitioners have a strong likelihood of success in establishing that the removal of the petitioners and others similarly situated violates the rights to Due Process and Equal Protection guaranteed by the United States Constitution,...

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting Muslims and refugees led to chaos in the hours after he signed it, as refugees and immigrants arrived at U.S. airports only to be detained or told they couldn’t enter the country and businesses had to scramble to adjust to the new policy. “We are hearing that last night a lot of people were turned away,” said Abed Ayoub, legal director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. “It’s had a direct impact on a lot of people.” The order, which Trump  signed Friday afternoon , bans Syrian refugee resettlement in the U.S. indefinitely, shuts down the entire refugee program for 120 days and bars all immigrants and visitors from  seven Muslim-majority countries  from entering the U.S. for at least 90 days. Coming in the late hours of Friday, and with little apparent consultation with other agencies and groups prior to its publication, the order created havoc and confusion among those tasked with ...

BY RACQUEL PORTER Observer staff reporter porterr@jamaicaobserver.com  Friday, January 27, 2017  THE Kingston Central police are appealing to the public for information to assist in their investigations into the brutal slaying of 13-year-old Roshane Smith. Police said they were yesterday summoned to Eve Lane in Central Kingston where the body of 13-year-old Smith was found with his hands bound and what appeared to be gunshot wounds to his head. Deputy Superintendent of Police Percival Anderson told the  Jamaica Observer  yesterday that the police had not yet established a motive for his killing. ”It is not one of those cases where you can associate him to a particular gang because he was only 13 years old. I understand that he was a troubled teen but no criminal involvement that we could say, yes, this is the reason,” Anderson explained. Anderson said that Smith was last seen at his home by his parents while getting ready for school on Wednesday morning. ...