Israel's recent stream of announcements that it will build thousands of new settler homes in the occupied West Bank "marks a very worrying trend" and risks making a two-state solution impossible, according to the European Union.
"Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have decided to authorise the construction of 3,000 new housing units in Judea-Samaria," the defence ministry said in a statement on Tuesday, using the term Israel uses for the West Bank, a Palestinian territory it has occupied since 1967.
"Since the start of 2017, the Israeli authorities have made clear that they plan to accelerate the construction of illegal settlement homes and seize further Palestinian territory in flagrant violation of international law," said Magdalena Mughrabi, Amnesty International's deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa.
The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder travelled there to find out why one of India's most prosperous states is in danger of losing an entire generation to drug abuse.
Across the state, from villages in the lush green countryside to bustling towns and cities, young men huddle together in cemeteries, abandoned buildings or plain fields, smoking, snorting or shooting up.
"It's ridiculously easily available," Jasprit Singh tells me. Jasprit, who is from Tarn Taran, used to be an addict, but says that he has been clean for the past four years.
MPs have voted by a majority of 384 to allow Prime Minister Theresa May to get Brexit negotiations under way. They backed the government's European Union Bill, supported by the Labour leadership, by 498 votes to 114. But the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats opposed the bill, while 47 Labour MPs and Tory ex-chancellor Ken Clarke rebelled.The bill now faces further scrutiny in the Commons and the House of Lords before it can become law.
The prime minister has set a deadline of 31 March for invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, getting official talks with the EU started. The bill returns to the Commons next week.
The 35-year-old entertainer's baby announcement, featuring a photo of her baby bump, officially has the most likes on Instagram now, according to Variety.
The photo received 6.33 million likes in only 8 hours and has over 333,000 comments.
The previous record-holder was a picture of Selena Gomez sipping a Coke from June 2016, which garnered 6.3 million likes to-date.
Chinese Super League clubs will only be allowed to play three non-Chinese players per game in their next season - which begins in March.
A rule change has reduced the number of foreigners allowed in a move which could slow down the wave of big-money signings from Europe.
Previously the rule was "4+1" - four foreigners of any nationality plus one Asian player in a matchday squad.
Teams will now also be required to name two Chinese players aged under 23 in their matchday squads, with at least one in the starting XI, with the Chinese Football Association also looking into "signature fees and other illegal activities" in recent transfers.
Mesut Özil has been named Germany’s Player of the Year for the fifth time. The World Cup winner claimed 54.5% of the 316,850 votes to claim the 2016 edition of the prize.
Toni Kroos came in second place with 33.9%, followed by Jonas Hector in third (4%).
On receiving the award, Ozil said, " I was very happy to have received this award. I’ve simply arrived in the Premier League since last season. I’ve remained injury-free for the most part and I feel very comfortable in London now as well."
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📰 *ZT4*: ÖZIL NAMED PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Mesut Özil has been named Germany’s Player of the Year for the fifth time. The World Cup winner claimed 54.5% of the 316,850 votes to claim the 2016 edition of the prize.
Toni Kroos came in second place with 33.9%, followed by Jonas Hector in third (4%).
On receiving the award, Ozil said, " I was very happy to have received this award. I’ve simply arrived in the Premier League since last season. I’ve remained injury-free for the most part and I feel very comfortable in London now as well."
The FIlmfare Awards 🏆was as glitzy ✨as it can get, all thanks to the red carpet style statements👒. Here’s the roundup of the Filmfare Fashionistas 💃🏼who made heads turn 💁🏻with their ‘wooow’😻 and ‘hmmm’ 👘looks.
The ‘oh-so-lovely’ lookies👍🏽:
Pooja Hegde’s intricately sequined strapless black velvet gown 👗by Ali Younes
Preity Zinta’s yellow one-shoulder 💃🏼gown by Vidhi Wadhwani
Dressed in a Nicolas Jebran designer gown, Disha Patani’s bold look 👠was a sure-fire stunner
Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla designed flowy👗 white gown for Swara Bhaskar that she dazzled🌟 in
Shilpa Shetty shone like a million bucks 💰in her high-slit golden Manish Malhotra and Oscar de la Renta heels👠
The misses👎🏽:
Frieda Pinto’s shimmery Rohit Gandhi + Rahul Khanna peach cocktail 👘dress that she didn’t accessorize 👜well
Neha Dhupia’s Queen Elizabethian-style 👑monochrome gown with a giant bow covering her neck that was over-accessorized 💍
Deepika 💁🏻is all warmth as she hosts Vin Diesel 🏂in India🇮🇳. At a recent event the actress 💁🏻was all smiles 😄as she swayed to ‘Lungi Dance’ 💃🏼and got Vin to join her too!
With a white veshti 👖draped around her glimmering gold outfit👘, Deepika looked all jubilant 😁as she taught Vin the steps 👯♂to her hit number and he sportively matched steps 👫with her.
With a black tee 👕that showed off his bulging muscles and a veshti 👖to go along, Vin Diesel looked every bit the part of a Madrasi Don🕶.
Amusing and fun👅, the promo of ‘xXx: Return of Xander Cage’ ⛷was not an event to be missed👍🏽!
Anushka 🙎🏻has often attributed her success ✨to her father Col. Ajay Kumar Sharma 👮🏽and her army upbringing👧🏻. On Army Day, she says, 🔊“I wish to extend my heartiest congratulations and best wishes to all ranks and officers of the Indian Army, especially to all deployed in field areas. To the Indian Army, I owe my being, my persona and my outlook. Being an army kid, we become adaptive, open-minded survivors,”
Anushka’s 🙎🏻sense of fun and adventure🏇, she says, comes from the continuous changes 🚉that were constant from an early age👧🏻. She also acknowledges that she had a very liberal upbringing 👨👩👧because parents 👫from a defence background have a more liberated set of values 🏃🏻♀which adds to the inherent confidence and self-belief their children 🙆🏻display.
Hrithik 👊🏼can be a big star ⭐but he’s as disciplined as they come. His 👊🏼daily routine involves working out🏋, immersing into work🎭, another workout⛹🏽, chilling with his sons👨👦👦, enjoying dinner and getting to bed🛌. He says adversities are like mental gyms 🏋🏽♀you have to work in and “pain is nothing but weakness leaving your body”.
The actor 👊🏼is a doting father who enjoys travelling with his kids👨👦👦, who he says are fun individuals🏄🏻. Every day, he gets them curious 🤔about at least one thing 🙋🏻♂in life.
He has consciously designed 🏗different spaces in his house 🏡to deal with his different moods🎭. So what’s Dugga’s 👊🏼way of handling heartbreaks? 💔“Time heals you. And curiosity turns it into an adventure.”
Wise words indeed.👏🏽
Kat 🐱was seen attending good friend 👫and her ‘Baar Baar Dekho’ co-star 🎭Sidharth Malhotra’s 32nd birthday bash 🎉at KJo’s residence🏡. Dressed in a knee-length deep red dress💃🏼, she looked pretty and poised💁🏻. She attended the party along with good friend 👭Nithya Mehra.
The who’s who of the film fraternity 📽was at the happening do, celebrating 🍾Sidharth’s big night. Alia Bhatt😃, Jacqueline Fernandez, Ayan Mukerji, 🎥Zoya Akhtar, Farhan Akhtar, Imran Khan, Manish Malhotra👗, Raveena Tandon, Sonakshi Sinha and Parineeti Chopra 💋were some of the A-listers in attendance👪.
There’s nothing we love more than seeing Selena Gomez with a big smile on her face, and during a recent studio session with her collaborators, Justin Tranter and Julia Michaels, she looked happier than we’ve seen her in ages!
Selena was hard at work on new music with her fave songwriters, Justin Tranter and Julia Michaels, but during a recent recording session, she sang along to one of the surefire hits they actually didn’t write for her.
It was all but a sure thing that Saturday Night Live would re-create President-elect Donald Trump's strange press conference from last Wednesday.
After all, there was so much material just begging to be parodied: the prop-style stacks of files, his scuffle with a CNN reporter, when he addressed the salacious allegations about, well, you know.
The Jim Gaffigan Show star shared a funny tweet on Saturday, telling her followers that she and her husband Neal Dodson will welcome their second baby together.
Williams debuted her bump alongside her sister, actress Kimberly Williams Paisley, at the Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Winter 2017 TCA Press Tour event in Pasadena, California, on Saturday night.
“Exciting news! Gus asked for a pony but he’s getting a baby brother instead. Smaller poops. #babydodsonsequel #comingspring2017,” Williams joked in a tweet announcing her pregnancy.
Octavia Spencer is honoring her late mother this Martin Luther King Jr weekend.
The actress bought out a screening of her new film Hidden Figures in order for low-income families who may not be able to afford tickets can see the film.
Her mother raised Octavia and her other six siblings by herself, working as a maid in order to provide for her family.
Gigi & Bella Hadid went out to dinner to celebrate their mom Yolanda‘s birthday, which was earlier in the week.
“Today marks the day that our beautiful angel, my best friend and mother was brought into this world! Happy birthday sweet mama ❤,” Bella captioned a photo on her Instagram to commemorate her mom’s birthday.
“To the most compassionate, supportive, loving, intelligent, creative SUPERmom in the world.. I am so lucky to have someone like you to look up to," wrote Gigi.
Gujarat will be home to the world's biggest cricket stadium in the near future. The Sardar Patel Stadium at Motera will be dismantled to make way for a new stadium with a seating capacity of 110,000 -- bigger than the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the Lord's Cricket Ground in England. The groundbreaking ceremony was carried out at the stadium on Monday.
The stadium will be operational in two years time and will be constructed at a cost of Rs 700 crore. The new stadium, expected to be completed in two years.
The foundation stone for the mammoth stadium was laid by Parimal Nathwani, Vice President of GCA and Group President, Reliance Industries Ltd, apart from other GCA officials.
Virat Kohli has hailed Kedar Jadhav's 76-ball 120 as an "outstanding" effort and one of the "best calculative innings" he has seen, after India aced a tall chase in his first match as full-time ODI captain. Kohli himself made a 105-ball 122 to fire up India's pursuit of 351, but was for once outscored and overshadowed in a partnership.
"I think it was outstanding, just to have another guy that was willing to believe we can win from any situation was such a boost for me as well. If you want to give one man credit, it is Kedar Jadhav," Kohli said after the match. "He put a lot of pressure on the spinners so they couldn't come back into the game. I couldn't believe some of the shots he played. He told me it was instinctive, but such was his talent."
AB de Villiers is expected to return to action for the Proteas during the upcoming T20 International series against Sri Lanka. The T20Is begin on Friday, with De Villiers to become available in time for the third match in Cape Town on January 25.
If De Villiers proves his fitness, he is also expected to resume his captaincy duties for the five-match One Day International series against the tourists starting on January 28.
Peter Nevill’s luckless summer has continued in freakish fashion, with the dumped Test player felled by a bat while wicketkeeping.
Nevill last week copped a ball to the face from a wild throw which forced him from the SCG with a concussion.
On Monday, he was even unluckier - and may have a broken jaw as a result.
With Brad Hodge facing Sri Lankan medium pacer Thisara Perera, Nevill was keeping without a helmet - but not up at the stumps.
When Perera dropped short, Hodge swung hard - too hard - and lost his grip on the bat, which incredibly flew directly behind the stumps and clattered into Nevill.
Click here to watch the accident📹https://goo.gl/PVPa5j
Melbourne Renegades 171/9 in 20 overs (Marcus Harris 85, Callum Ferguson 26; Kieron Pollard 3-30, Michael Neser 2-14) beat Adelaide Strikers 165/8 in 20 overs (Ben Dunk 32, Tim Ludeman 29; Thisara Perera 4-25, Nathan Rimmington 1-14) by 6 runs.
Melbourne Renegades ensured they stayed alive in the competition with a six-run win over Adelaide Strikers on Monday (January 16), much to the disappointment of the Adelaide crowd who had to watch their home side's campaign come to an end. Strikers and Renegades came into Match 27 of the Big Bash League with only one option - of winning - in order to keep their season alive.
Victorian Marcus Stoinis has been added to Australia's ODI squad for the ongoing VB Series against Pakistan, which continues in Perth with the third match on Thursday.
Stoinis replaces fellow allrounder Mitch Marsh in the Australia squad, with the Western Australian – who was yesterday named in Australia's Test squad for the Qantas Tour of India next month – struggling with an ongoing right shoulder complaint that has restricted his ability with the ball.
The allrounder, 27, has played one previous ODI, against England in September 2015, while he also represented Australia A in last year's Queensland-based Winter Series, scoring a first-class hundred against South Africa A.
SRK 🤓& Salman 💪🏾fans’ joys knew no bounds with the announcement 📃of the former’s visit to Salman’s ‘Big Boss’🏚. And now adding the oomph 👄to the show will be Sunny Leone☀!
Both SRK & Sunny will come together 👫to promote their film ‘Raees’☠. Sunny will perform 💃🏼to the sultry ‘Laila Main Laila’ number 🎼from the film and SRK & Sallu Bhai 💪🏾will also join her.
While Sunny☀ will appear in one episode, SRK will appear in two 2⃣and these will air 📺before the season finale🚪.
The temperatures 🌡are going to be soaring 🔥at the Big Boss house 🏚soon!
Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States (2017)
1362 – The Danish settlement of Rungholt was reportedly sunk into the North Sea by a massive windstorm.
1780 – Anglo-Spanish War: The British Royal Navy gained their first major naval victory over their European enemies in the war when they defeated a Spanish squadron in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent (pictured).
1920 – The League of Nations, the first intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace, held its first council meeting in Paris.
1942 – TWA Flight 3 crashed into Potosi Mountain in Nevada, killing actress Carole Lombard and all of the other 21 people on board.
1964 – The musical Hello, Dolly! opened at the St. James Theatre on Broadway, and went on to win ten Tony Awards, a record that stood for 37 years.
Deepika 💁🏻is all warmth as she hosts Vin Diesel 🏂in India🇮🇳. At a recent event the actress 💁🏻was all smiles 😄as she swayed to ‘Lungi Dance’ 💃🏼and got Vin to join her too!
With a white veshti 👖draped around her glimmering gold outfit👘, Deepika looked all jubilant 😁as she taught Vin the steps 👯♂to her hit number and he sportively matched steps 👫with her.
With a black tee 👕that showed off his bulging muscles and a veshti 👖to go along, Vin Diesel looked every bit the part of a Madrasi Don🕶.
Amusing and fun👅, the promo of ‘xXx: Return of Xander Cage’ ⛷was not an event to be missed👍🏽!
Looks like SRK’s🤓 ‘Raees’ will be in troubled waters 🌩what with the Shiv Sena wing threatening 🔪distributor Akshaye Rathi against screening 📽the film. Sharing the image of the letter 📃he received from Shiv Sena, that warns🚩 of dire consequences should the film🎞 be released, Rathi announced on Twitter 💬, “Dear @AUThackeray, We have received this threat letter from your Chhattisgarh unit against playing @iamsrk's #Raees. Do you endorse it?”
He also appealed 🙏🏽to SRK 🤓fans to come forward and show their support for the Baadshah👑. “Request all @iamsrk fans to help me bring this to the notice of @AUThackeray. I'm sure he will take action against this nuisance,” 💬he wrote.
But don’t lost heart 💔SRK fans – there is a consolation 🎁for you. Photographer Dabboo Ratnani 📸unveiled his annual celebrity calendar 📆and what an eye candy is King Khan! 🤓Oo la la!
It is well known that SRK 🤓is a sports lover 🏸and also the owner of IPL’s Kolkata Knight Riders🏏. The Baadhsah of Bollywood 🎥showed his support for the Spanish giants, Real Madrid ⚽when he accepted their honorary jersey👕. The jersey was emblazoned with the number ‘555’ which is believed to be King Khan’s fave.
On their social media platforms👍🏽, Real Madrid ⚽was only too happy to post a picture 🖼of SRK 🤓holding the jersey,👕 captioning it, 💬“Tt's an honour to have one of India's biggest stars as one of our #RMFans!”
This gesture by Los Blancos⚽ is sure to win the club a larger Indian following🇮🇳.
SRK 🤓 and Sallu Bhai💪🏼 may have had their differences ☠in the past but the two megastars 🌟are now good pals👬. So much so, that King Khan 👑will now appear in a cameo in Salman’s ‘Tubelight’ 💡that is directed 🎬by Kabir Khan, and is slated to release on Eid this year.
The last time this duo 👬came together was in Farah Khan’s ‘Om Shanti Om’ (2007)👸🏽. The ‘Sultan’ star 💪🏽made a cameo appearance in a song 🎼along with other top stars of Bollywood🎞.
‘Karan Arjun’👬, ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ 💃🏻and ‘Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega’ are a few other films 📽starring SRK 🤓& Salman💪🏽 and their fans can’t wait to see the pair together on screen again🎬.
The iPhone 8 is being fabled by all sides as a major upgrade, following three years of the same chassis design for the iPhone.
Along with a glass chassis redesign and bezel-less screen, The Korea Herald reports that the new iPhone will also best the iPhone 7 with even higher resistance to water and dust.
The site claims that the iPhone 8 will tout an IP68 rating for water resistance and dust. This means it can withstand submersion for up to 30 minutes in about a metre deep water.
Las Vegas is launching a self-driving, fully electric shuttle on public streets.
The shuttles are the result of a partnership between shuttle-maker Navya, fleet logistics provider Keolis and the city of Las Vegas, and began picking up members of the public today, riding a regular route along iconic Fremont Street between Las Vegas Boulevard and Eighth Street - right in the thick of regular traffic.
The route will run between January 11 and 20, and will use Navya's ARMA shuttle, which previously underwent testing in the U.S. at the University of Michigan's MCity autonomous testing facility, and which has been deployed in France since 2015.
The company launched 10 Iridium satellites into an orbit 625km above the Earth's surface, and, as a bonus, SpaceX also demonstrated its increasing mastery of rocket landings by bringing the first stage booster back to a drone ship off the California coast.
SpaceX has now successfully landed seven rockets back on Earth.
This was their first successful launch since their rocket exploded on the launchpad last year.
Watch a video of the takeoff and landing here: https://goo.gl/ebFKoh
زلیخا نے یوسف کے عشق میں مجبور ہو کر یوسف کا دامن پکڑ لیا اور اپنی خواہش کا اظہار اس قدر شدت سے کیا کہ آپ لرز اٹھے۔
زلیخا کے پاس سنگ مرمر کا بت کا جس کی وہ صبح و شام پوجا کرتی۔ اس کی آرتی اتارتی۔ دریائے نیل کی سطح پر تیرتے ہوئے کنول کے پھول اس کے چرنوں میں رکھتی، عطر چھڑکتی لیکن جونہی اس نے حضرت یوسف کا دامن پکڑا تو بت کو ایک کپڑے سے ڈھانپ دیا۔ مقصد یہ تھا کہ اس کا معبود اسے اس حالت میں نہ دیکھ سکے۔ وہ بت سے حضرت یوسف کے ساتھ دست درازی کی چھپانا چاہتی تھی
۔اس نازک صورتحال سے حضرت یوسف بہت رنجیدہ ہوئے۔ سر پکڑ کر رہ گئے۔ زلیخا جذبات کی رو میں بے اختیار آپ کے پاؤں چومنے لگی اور کہنے لگی۔
“اتنے سنگدل نہ بنو، وقت اچھا ہے، اسے ضائع نہ کرو۔ میری دلی مراد پوری کرو۔”
حضرت یوسف رو پڑے اور فرمایا۔
“اے ظالم! مجھ سے ایسی توقع نہ رکھ۔ تجھے اس بت سے تو شرم آتی ہے جسے تو نے کپڑے سے ڈھانپ دیا ہے اور مجھے اپنے خدا سے شرم آتی ہے جو پردوں کے پیچھے بھی دیکھتا ہے۔”۔
حاصل کلام؛خدا سمیع و بصیر ہے۔ لاکھ پردوں کے پیچھے گناہ کیا جائے اس سے پوشیدہ نہیں۔ اس لیے ہر وقت اس سے ڈرنا چاہیے۔
شیخ الاسلام حضرت مولانا حسین احمد مدنی رحمتہ اللہ نے اپنے خطبات میں ایک واقعہ نقل فرمایا ہے کہ ایک لڑکے کو ایک لڑکی سے محبت ہوگئی مگر اس لڑکی کی کسی اور جگہ شادی ہوگئی ،لڑکا بڑا پریشان ہوا لڑکی کو خط لکھا کہ بی بی !میں تمہارے ساتھ شادی کی کوشش میں تھا مگر قسمت میں نہیں تھا ۔اب آپ میرے ساتھ ایک مرتبہ ملاقات کر لیں اس کے لئے جو بھی فرمائش ہوگی میں پوری کروں گا ۔
لڑکی نیک تھی اس نے کہا حضرت فاروق اعظمؓ کے پیچھے چالیس دن تک نماز با جماعت پڑھ لو پھر جہاں بلا ئیں گے حاضر ہوجاؤں گی ۔۔۔لڑکاپہلے لڑکی کے مکان کی طرف چکر لگاتا تھا مگر چالیس دن بعد اس نے جانا ختم کردیا ۔۔۔لڑکی نے پیغام بھجوایا کہ اگر میری فرمائش پوری کی ہے تو میں حاضر ہوں ۔۔۔لڑکے نے کہا پہلے میرے دل میں آپ کی محبت تھی مگر اب اللہ تعالیٰ کی محبت بیٹھ گئی ہے اب آپ کا اور میرا راستہ جدا ہے ۔۔لڑکی نے خاوند کو یہ بات بتلادی اس کے خاوند نے فاروق اعظمؓ کو یہ بات بتلائی تو آپ نے فرمایا کہ اللہ نے سچ فرمایا :’’بے شک نماز لوگوں کو بے حیائی اور بری باتوں سے روکتی ہے ۔‘‘ (خطبات مدنی)
اپنے کیریئر کے عروج پر میں ایک مرتبہ جہاز پر سفر کر رہا تھا‘ میرے ساتھ والی سیٹ پر ایک بزرگ بیٹھے تھے‘ سادہ سی شرٹ اور پینٹ میں ملبوس تھے‘وہ تعلیم یافتہ لیکن مڈل کلاس لگتے تھے‘مسافر مجھے دیکھ رہے تھے لیکن اس شخص نے میری زیادہ پرواہ نہیں کی‘ اس نے اپنا اخبار پڑھااور کھڑکی سے باہر دیکھنے لگے‘ بزرگ نے انتہائی سکون اور اطمینان سے چائے پی‘ میں نے ان سے بات کرنے کیلئے ان کی طرف مسکرا کر دیکھا‘بزرگ نے مہذب انداز میں مسکراہٹ کا جواب مسکراہٹ سے دیا اور مجھے ہیلو کہا۔
ہم نے گفتگو شروع کردی اور میں نے ان سے پوچھ لیا ’’ کیا آپ فلمیں دیکھتے ہیں‘‘ انہوں نے جواب دیا’’جی چند ایک دیکھی ہیں‘ آخری فلم کافی سال پہلے دیکھی تھی‘‘ میں نے کہا‘ میں فلموں میں کام کرتا ہوں‘ بزرگ نے جواب دیا ’’ بہت اچھا‘آپ کیا کرتے ہیں‘‘ میں نے جواب دیا‘ میں ایکٹر ہوں‘ انہوں نے جواب میں ’’اوہ! زبردست ‘‘ کہا اور خاموش ہو گئے‘ جب ہم نے لینڈ کیا تو میں نے ان سے ہاتھ ملایااور کہا کہ آپ کے ساتھ سفر کر کے اچھا لگا۔
بزرگ نے ہاتھ ملاتے ہوئے ہوئے جواب دیا ’’بہت شکریہ‘ میں جے آر ڈی ٹاٹاہوں‘‘ (جے آرڈی ٹاٹا انڈیا کے ارب پتی بزنس مین )۔ میں نے ٹاٹا صاحب سے ایک بات سیکھی‘ آپ خواہ کتنے بھی بڑے ہوں دنیا میں آپ سے بڑے لوگ موجود ہوتے ہیں‘ ہمیشہ عاجز رہیں ‘ یہ عاجزی آپ کو بلندی عطا کرے گی۔
It has been revealed on the tournament's Twitter account that the defender has moved to the Chinese Super League side, though the club are yet to officially confirm the deal
Shanghai SIPG have completed the signing of former Chelsea and Real Madrid defender Ricardo Carvalho, according to the AFC Champions League's Twitter account.
The Chinese Super League outfit, now managed by ex-Blues boss Andre Villas-Boas, landed Oscar for a reported £52m earlier in the transfer window.
And it has been revealed by the AFC Champions League's Twitter account that they have strengthened their squad further with the addition of Carvalho, though a deal is still yet to be officially announced by Shanghai SIPG.
Carvalho, a free agent since leaving Monaco at the end of the 2015-16 Ligue 1 campaign, has been training with the club in the last few days, Villas-Boas has revealed.
When asked about the rumours surrounding Carvalho, he told Chinese media: “I have a good relationship with Carvalho, who has a wonderful professional career.
“His CV makes it impossible for me to doubt his considerable stature among his peers. I’m impressed by the composure he showed on his first day of training. Right now he’s just training with us. We’ll make a decision in due time.”
However, Xie Hui, an assistant coach at the club, recently issued an ambiguously-worded message on his Weibo account saying: “Ricardo Carvalho, it’s a honor to have you on our side.”
The 38-year-old was part of the Portugal squad that was successful in Euro 2016 last summer - the latest honour in a trophy-laden career for the centre-back.
Carvalho won three Primeira Liga titles and one Champions League crown with Porto before switching to Chelsea, playing a key part in them claiming three Premier League titles and three FA Cups.
He left Stamford Bridge after six years to join Real and lifted the Liga title with Los Blancos during the 2011-12 season before joining Monaco in 2013.
Shanghai SIPG are one of Chinese football's star attractions, having also signed Hulk from Zenit for a then-Asian record £46.1m before smashing that mark when securing Oscar.
Two weeks away from his inauguration, Donald Trump seems to prefer the role of "candidate" - flaying his opponents and aiming arrows at the federal government from the enemy camp.
It is almost as if he does not want to accept fully that he is the new chief executive who will be dealing with official Washington from the moment he drives back from the Capitol as the president on 20 January.
And his weapon of choice, forged for him like a legendary warrior's sword in the furnace of the new technology, is Twitter.
No president-elect has battled like this.
Most of them go to ground, secluded with the staff who will take over the West Wing, and make their plans. Dream their dreams, you might say.
They have followed the golden rule: do not give too much away, because it will make life more difficult when the inauguration is over and the business of power begins.
The Trump Twitter account is not just a break with that pattern, but a challenge to the very idea.
His New Year tweet (one of them, I should say) wished love to everyone "including my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do".
Image copyrightAFPImage captionMr Trump wished love to everyone via Twitter at the turn of the year
The implication, of course, is that he does know what he is going to do. The trouble with his Twitter account is that it makes you wonder.
More than 34,000 tweets to nearly 19 million followers (many "enemies" among them, no doubt) and a narrative that has become a kind of stream of consciousness. They read like the unfiltered, disconnected thoughts of someone for whom patience is an ugly word.
You always have to say something, even if you say the opposite the next day. On Twitter, who cares?
Yet, the messages are powerful. One contemptuous tweet about the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives winding down the Office of Congressional Ethics led them to beat a humiliating retreat and cancel the plan.
Mr Trump's choice as White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, said the other day: "Whatever he tweets, he is going to drive the news."
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And, bizarre though it may seem, the South Korean government is poring over them. The JoongAng Daily reported that a Twitter-watching position had been set up in the foreign ministry in Seoul "because we don't yet have an insight into his foreign policies".
What insight will they get from tweets which have criticised the Central Intelligence Agency, praised Julian Assange - the Whistleblower of WikiLeaks and a bete noire to most Republicans - and praised President Putin, who gets more friendly treatment than all Democrats and some Republicans at home?
And remarkably the tweets take aim at the entire intelligence community in Washington. What precisely are the South Koreans meant to make of that?
Not too much, you may think, because who can tell how this mercurial candidate is going to be moulded into a president? We still do not know and what his Twitter account tells us - colourfully, astonishingly, sometimes hilariously - is that he is refusing to let us know.
Far from revealing what a Trump presidency is going to be like - as he says his tweets do - they have the effect of enveloping him in a thick fog.
Yes we know he will "make America great again", cut immigration, build his wall, cut taxes, be Israel's greatest ally and so on. But how he is going to build a White House team on foreign affairs and security, conduct relations with Capitol Hill, deal with allies in Nato and the rolling chaos in the Middle East, we have very little idea.
And when the first crisis arrives - as it will before long - will he be able to find the calm that he needs?
Image captionWhere it all began: Trump's Twitter page in April 2009
No president-elect in modern times has said so much and revealed so little.
We know how Mr Trump feels about almost everything, but about priorities, his approach to the compromises of power, the way he will deal with the bureaucracy - in practice we know very little.
A week or two before election day in November, one of his close associates told me that, if he won, Mr Trump had agreed that in office he would relinquish control of that Twitter account, because it would be inappropriate in the White House.
The satirists' loss, certainly. But, if it happens, a step into reality, at last.
Some day he has to stop being the candidate and playing that game, even though he enjoys it so much.
So the first great test for the Trump White House team is surely getting his finger off that keyboard.
