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Tinubu said that more personnel would be deployed to "vulnerable areas to avert further incidents of kidnapping".

Aimed at averting all-out trade war, the deal agreed on a 15-percent US levy for most EU exports -- but both sides continue to push for more concessions.

The Paris climate agreement signed in 2015 has the goal of limiting average global temperature rise to well below 2C and to strive for 1.5C to avert drastic climate change.

Businesses hailed the deal as averting potential disaster for the export-driven Swiss economy.

I avert my eyes, open my hand, and trace the pattern on the inside of my palm—two stylized hearts, one atop the other, locked in an eternal headbutting competition.