News brief: Big stories of the day
US Mexico border wall
The United States President Donald Trump said on Thursday said thathe will skip the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland if a government shutdown over his US-Mexico wall continues.
Pakistan Army on Thursday test-fired the recently inducted long-range air defence weapon system, LY-80. The firing by the air defence weapon system was displayed during the concluding day of the two-week event of Exercise Al Bayza-2019, an army spokesman said.
Alok Verma, who has been removed from the post ofCBI directorunceremoniously by a high-powered selection committee, has claimed that he was transferred on the basis of "false, unsubstantiated and frivolous allegations" made by only one person who was inimical to him.
Amazon.com shares seesawed on Thursday as investors questioned how the impendingdivorce of company founder Jeff Bezoswould affect his control of the most valuable company on Wall Street and its ambitious expansion plans.
Las Vegas police have asked soccer starCristiano Ronaldo to submit a DNA sampleas part of their investigation into accusations of rape made against the Juventus forward.