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PANAMA CITY Cheap Air Max 90 Shoes , Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Panama's world boxing champion Guillermo "El Felino" Jones Monday denied accusations he resorted to drugs to gain an advantage in his fight against Russia's Denis Lebedev in May.


Jones, who holds a World Boxing Association (WBA) title in the cruiserweight category Cheap Air Max Shoes , told the Panamanian daily Critica in a phone interview that he did not use any banned substances to drop weight before the fight against Lebedev, which he won by knockout in Round 11.


According to the daily Cheap Nike Air Max 2018 Womens , Jones said "my promoter (Don King) told me they will handle this situation, that I shouldn't worry. I'm calm and I'm not worried Cheap Nike Air Max 90 Womens , because we are fine and, as I said Cheap Nike Air Max Womens , all this about doping is an excuse from the Russians. I won the fight. "


On Friday, the WBA reported Jones' title was "under review" due to suspicions of doping.


Jones and Lebedev had until Monday to authorize the opening of a B test to confirm the results of an initial test that allegedly indicated the presence of a weightloss substance in Jones' urine.


The daily added it spoke with WBA Executive Vice President Gilberto Jesus Mendoza Cheap Air Max 2018 Womens , who confirmed that on Friday they had received a statement from Don King's lawyers.


Mendoza said the association would issue a statement on the matter later Monday.


LUXEMBOURG, June 19 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) finance ministers agreed to increase spending to manage migration and refugee flows on Friday.


The EU will provide additional resources by 89 million euros (99.68 million U.S. dollars) in commitments and 16.6 million euros in payments in a fast-track procedure Cheap Air Max 90 Womens , according to the EU statement.


The spending proposal was treated as a matter of "urgency and high political priority" in order to respond to migratory pressures in the Mediterranean, said the statement released after a monthly meeting of EU finance ministers.


At the same time Cheap Air Max Womens , the finance ministers also accepted an increase of 66.5 million euros to the 2015 EU budget to deal with the damage caused by floods in Italy, Romania and Bulgaria.


The proposed budgets needed to be approved by the European Parliament next month. (1 euro = 1.14 U.S. dollars)




by Olatunji Saliu


ABUJA， May 6 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari finally assented to the country's 2016 national Appropriation Bill on Friday， nearly two months after the document was approved by the Senate on March 23.


The delay in signing the national document was caused by unusual claims and counter-claims by the executive and legislative arms of government that the budget had been "padded." "Padded" in this context meant some of the figures in the budget had been altered by some "unknown elements."


The hurly-burly over the padded document， which lingered for more than six weeks， began when the Nigerian Senate only forwarded the final breakdown of the budget to the president's office， 14 days after it was passed.


Buhari presented a 30.5 billion U.S. dollars budget proposal last December， calling for the support of the legislative arm of government for its quick passage. But after considering its conference report on the budget， the Nigerian Senate slashed the figure to 30.4 billion dollars， saying it did not approve the original 30.5 billion dollars presented by the president to show "discipline" on its own part and to reflect "the mood of the country and the world."


This is the first time the legislative arm of government cut down proposed figures of the national budget since Nigeria returned to democratic rule in 1999.


In essence， the delay in signing the budget was partly caused by the Nigerian leader's decision to critically review the 30.4 billion U.S dollars appropriation bill， particularly to ascertain that its content was intact and with the authentic budget proposal presented to the legislature， before appending his signature.


As days rolled by， Buhari looked at the bill that was passed by the National Assembly， ministry by ministry， to be sure that what was brought back for him to sign was in line with the original submission.


Still dissented by the level of padding in the appropriation bill， Buhari sent back the document to the National Assembly for proper "clean up，" accusing some bureaucrats of "removing what was put in the proposal and replacing it with what they wanted."


A committee was formed thereafter to look into the grey areas and harmonize them in time for the president's assent. The National Assembly reportedly returned a "clean" copy of the budget to the president which he finally signed Friday.


News that the budget had been signed on Friday evoked feelings of good things to come among Nigerian netizens who took to various social media platforms to express their opinions about what is expected to happen in the shortest possible time.


Dayo Williams， a regular Facebook user， said it took too long， but better late than never. "It's an unusual budget: a departure from the past where a budget would be sent to the national assembly by the executive and returned same way to the latter. We are now in the implementation phase which is the most critical and crucial to the growth and development of the nation，" he added.