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Some customers eagerly took advantage of Apple’s offer to cheaply replace iPhone batteries last year.

As 11 million people reportedly swapped out their batteries last year, when replacement prices were cut to $29. Normally, the annual number is between 1 and 2 million.

The news follow as Apple's surprise note to investors on Jan. 2, in which Cook overhauled the company's income direction for its first financial quarter from an expected range of $89 billion to $93 billion to $84 billion

In that note, Cook indicated slower deals in China, but also hinted at some domestic issues, " While macroeconomic difficulties in some markets were a key contributor of this pattern, we accept there are different factors extensively affecting our iPhone performance, including consumers adapting to a world with fewer carrier subsidies,  US dollar strength-related price increases, and some customers taking advantage of significantly reduced pricing for iPhone battery replacements.”

Apple did not immediately reply to our inquiry seeking to verify the number of replaced batteries.

If the 11 million figure is right, however, that is still a bit better than some early estimated. Last January, experts cautioned that the tremendous number of individuals qualified for the battery offer could result in as many as 16 million missed iPhone upgrades in 2018.

Beyond all expectations, brokered by the UN at a postcard-perfect Swedish castle, took Yemen a step closer to its elusive peace.

UN special envoy Martin Griffiths told the security council in New York that their collective achievements this week were a significant step forward, the day after warring sides agreed a ceasefire in the vital Red Sea port of Hudaydah and its adjacent city.

Mr Griffiths also warned that ''what's in front of us is a daunting task... to turn the tide of war towards peace".Yemen's tide can so quickly turn.
Inside hours of that uncommon burst of expectation came news that sporadic fights had broken out on the eastern edges of Hudaydah.

The Stockholm bargain, which reached agreement and understandings on a scope of significant issues, is delicate and loaded with risk.
But it incited an uncommon ejection of relief among Yemenis who dared to hope against, thought the worst was finally over.

''Isn't this a special message for peace?'' a Yemeni woman activist exclaimed effusively in a message posted on social media.

It additionally comes during an era of mounting international pressure, particularly on Saudi Arabia and its main Arab partner the United Arab Emirates, to help bring an end to a brutal war which has dragged the region's poorest nation to the brink of collapse.

The next hurdle is implementation, especially in Hudaydah, the ''centre of gravity'' in this nearly four-year conflict which pits the Saudi-backed Yemeni government against Houthis aligned to Iran.

''A robust and competent monitoring regime is not just essential, it is urgently needed, '' Mr Griffiths told the 15-member UN Security Council.
A monitoring mechanism, which would need the backing of a security council resolution, is being prepared and expected to deploy shortly.

''Trust is still incredibly low, and I suspect that all it will take is one small provocation and we could see the whole thing blow up,'' warns long-time Yemen watcher Peter Salisbury, senior analyst at the International Crisis Group.

''More than anything, it needs constant attention from Griffiths and his team just to prevent a backslide."

''We'll be watching closely for the next four days,'' a member of the Yemeni government delegation told me. ''If the Houthis don't pull their forces out of Hudaydah by then, the entire deal will be dead. ''

The first phase of the ceasefire agreement commits Houthi forces who control Hudaydah to withdraw from the port, within days.
Subsequent phases will see forces from all sides leaving their positions in and around the adjoining city.

It's a major concession by the Houthis who have previously rejected ultimatums from the Yemeni government, and their Saudi and Emirati backers, to surrender all of this strategic territory on the Red Sea coast which provides a significant source of revenue.

Yemeni and Emirati forces have been inching forward and are now massed on the outskirts of the city.

''It shows that military pressure works,'' underlines the UAE's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr Anwar Gargash.

He told me that ''this agreement is not a small step. It is a big breakthrough".

But there are already grumblings of discontent.

A statement from the head of the Houthi delegation, Mohammed Abdul Salam, said his side had given ''too many concessions'' in the negotiations.

But he cited a ''humanitarian and moral obligation'' to implement the ceasefire in Hudaydah.
During the talks in rural Sweden, phones were ringing in many capitals.

In the crucial last day-and-a-half before agreement was reached, lines were burning between Washington and Arab capitals with American officials, including US Defence Secretary Gen James Mattis, urging allies to back this process.

Mounting pressure in the US has added political weight, including this week's Senate resolution to end US military support to the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, and the widening fallout from the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The Senate also passed a resolution, with bipartisan support, condemning the killing and holding Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman responsible.

''There's been an accumulation of pressure," admitted one Arab official.

"Yemen is now framed in a humanitarian narrative rather than a strategic one'' is how he put the growing alarm and outrage over the human cost of this confrontation.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE had been pushing for a military victory in Hudaydah, seeing it as a game changer to end the war and curb the influence of their arch rival Iran whom they accuse of smuggling weapons through the port.

If this crucial ceasefire holds, more or less, it will help keep millions of people alive.

Two-thirds of Yemenis now rely on some form of food assistance, including 10 million ''who don't know where their next meal will come from".

Most of Yemen's aid, as well as its commercial imports, enter through this vital gateway.

''I can't tell you how relieved we are,'' remarked the UN's Resident Co-ordinator, Lise Grande, who called the truce ''the beginning of the end of a tragic senseless war.''

The humanitarian briefing to the UN Security Council which followed Mr Griffiths' s statement brought a stark warning.

The ''most detailed rigorous food security survey ever conducted in the country'' had confirmed Yemen's ''descent toward famine", emphasised UN Humanitarian Chief Mark Lowcock who implored ''the parties to continue to engage seriously with Martin's process, including implementing the agreements reached in Sweden. ''
This last round of talks, the first in more than two years, marked an achievement for Mr Griffiths's painstaking diplomacy.

He carefully reduced expectations by describing the Swedish sojourn as consultations, not talks. It would be a search for de-escalation, not a ceasefire.

The unexpected Hudaydah truce was not the only step forward.

Ceasefires were also agreed at the ports of Saleef and Ras Issa.

There was important progress on the mechanics of a mass exchange of prisoners, a deeply emotional issue for so many Yemeni families.

And there was an ''understanding'' on easing the siege on the south-western city of Taiz.

But progress fell short in other areas including opening the international airport in the capital Sanaa, which is under Houthi control.

It was a start, an historic start.

''This will be the first withdrawal of any forces in the history of this conflict,'' Mr Griffiths declared in the closing ceremony on Thursday, which even brought in UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to add to the sense of urgency.

Yemen's tortuous history means every step will be difficult, and dangerous.

But the hope now is that some steps will, at last, start moving in the right direction.

U.K Prime Minister Theresa May won a vote of confidence on Wednesday, defeating an attempt by some of her party to expel her and introduce another leader to take control of Brexit.

Her triumph comes as momentary alleviation for May yet denotes an emergency deferred, not deflected, at a basic time in arrangements with the European Union.

The head administrator won the vote of Conservative party MPs by 200 votes to 117. The margin of 83 is an uncomfortable one for May, and will do nothing to support her power in the party or the nation, with just weeks staying to anchor an arrangement before the U.K. is set to leave the EU on March 29, 2019.
May on Monday postponed a House of Commons vote on the arrangement she has concurred with Brussels, letting it be known would have been rejected "by a critical margin" if the vote had proceeded. Since then, she has been endeavoring to look for extra affirmations from the EU to prevail upon MPs but European leaders have clarified they won't renegotiate the arrangement.

Photo du Jour: Sir Graham Brady reads out the results of a confidence vote in Prime minister Theresa May to MPs at the House of Commons in Westminster today. By Stefan Rousseau/PA pic.twitter.com/slTWytt9gH

— Stefan Rousseau (@StefanRousseau) December 12, 2018

In a clear offer to appease her inside faultfinders, May told MPs at a gathering in Westminster before the ticket that she would not battle the 2022 general race — despite the fact that her exact timetable for takeoff was left "purposely obscure," as indicated by one senior MP present.

Talking in Downing Street after the outcome was reported, May recognized that a "noteworthy number of partners" had decided not to back her, but rather promised to "continue ahead with the activity" and vowed to approach the EU for "legitimate and political confirmations that mollify the worries" MPs have about her Brexit bargain.

Driving Euroskeptic MP Jacob Rees-Mogg depicted the outcome as "horrendous" for the head administrator and approached her to stop. "Under every single protected standard she should go and see the ,Queen critically and leave," he told the BBC.
The head administrator said she would look for "extra consolations" from EU leaders that the Irish stopping board could never be activated, and would not be changeless on the off chance that it were.

Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the resistance Labor party, said the vote had no effect to the essentials of May's position.

"The PM has lost her dominant part in parliament, her legislature is in mayhem and she can't convey a Brexit bargain that works for the nation and puts employments and the economy first," he stated, approaching May to take her arrangement back to parliament for a vote one week from now.

The main alleviation for May is that another party vote of certainty can't be held for a whole year. While the executive stays defenseless against annihilation over her Brexit plan in parliament, her hardline Brexiteer rivals will think about whether they set off the vote rashly.
Brexit-supporting MPs trust her arrangement will tie the U.K. too nearly to EU rules. The Labor resistance is against, belligerence they could arrange an all the more monetarily useful arrangement, while other real restriction gatherings and some Labor MPs need a second submission to give the U.K. the opportunity to turn around Brexit and stay in the EU.

Together, they have shaped a vast lion's share against May's arrangement and it stays indistinct how May can get her arrangement past the House of Commons, or what way the U.K. will take on the off chance that she can't. In the event that no elective way wins the help of parliament, the U.K. is presently set to leave the EU without an arrangement – a result that is generally anticipated that would cause major monetary interruption.

Conservative Brexiteers and May's Northern Irish patrons, the Democratic Unionist Party are likewise profoundly contradicted to the Irish stopping board — a provision in the arrangement that ensures no hard fringe between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, however which would require the U.K. to viably stay inside the EU's traditions association.

Nigel Dodds, representative leader of the DUP, told the BBC May had now made duties on the stopping board to her very own backbenchers and to his party, and they would now "keep a watch out."
"Whatever she says, it is what is conveyed regarding the content that we will inspect nearly," Dodds said.

The executive said she would look for "extra consolations" from EU leaders that the Irish fence could never be activated, and would not be perpetual on the off chance that it were. On Thursday she will go to the European Council summit in Brussels to squeeze her case.

She has set a 21 January due date for passing an arrangement in parliament — a date that would give her little over two months to execute the arrangement or set up the nation for no-bargain exit.

President Trump on Tuesday promised to square full financing for the administration if Democrats decline to grasp his interest for a border divider, saying he was "pleased to close down the legislature for border security" in an extraordinarily public altercation with Democratic congressional leaders at the White House.

"In the event that we don't have border security, we'll close down the administration — this nation needs border security," Mr. Trump announced in the Oval Office, taking part in a snappy forward and backward with Senator Chuck Schumer of New York and Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, even as they more than once requested that he keep their arranging debate private.
"It's not awful, Nancy; it's called straightforwardness," Mr. Trump snapped after one such interposition by Ms. Pelosi, who seemed to trigger the president's temper when she raised the possibility of a "Trump shutdown" over what she portrayed as an ineffectual and inefficient divider.

"The American individuals perceive that we should keep government open, that a shutdown does not merit anything, and that we ought not have a Trump shutdown," Ms. Pelosi said.

The unordinary show in the Oval Office brought up crisp issues about how and whether Mr. Trump and officials can achieve understanding by a Dec. 21 due date to keep a great part of the administration open, seeming to solidify oppositely restricted positions on the president's mark issue.
Outside the West Wing after the gathering Mr. Schumer said Mr. Trump had tossed a "hissy fit" over the divider, saying: "The president clarified that he needs a shutdown."

Mr. Trump had started the day seeming to mellow his position to some degree on the divider. In a progression of morning he dishonestly expressed that significant areas of the "Incomparable Wall" on the southwestern border that he has since quite a while ago advocated have just been finished, and he proposed that his organization could proceed with development whether Democrats subsidize it or not.

That would be unlawful, however it proposed that he was searching for an approach to keep the administration financed past Dec. 21, regardless of whether Democrats shy away from divider subsidizing.
The gathering — the first run through in over a year that the team the president likes to call "Toss and Nancy" will go to the White House to consult with Mr. Trump — was the primary trial of the new power elements among the three as Democrats get ready to take control of the House, and as Republicans scramble to achieve as much as they can in the melting away days of their predominance on Capitol Hill.

The president has recently recommended, over and over, that a shutdown may be important to force Democrats to swallow $5 billion in divider financing. On Tuesday morning, he seemed, by all accounts, to be softening his position.

"Individuals don't yet acknowledge the amount of the Wall, including extremely successful remodel, has just been fabricated," Mr. Trump wrote in one of the messages. "On the off chance that the Democrats don't give us the votes to anchor our Country, the Military will fabricate the rest of the segments of the Wall. They realize how vital it is!"
Mr. Trump was alluding to. American troops he dispatched to the border on the eve of midterm congressional decisions as a major aspect of what the president called a push to take off a transient "intrusion" have set up concertina wire along existing wall and boundaries, however the organization still can't seem to spend a significant part of the $1.3 billion Congress endorsed for border security a year ago. Under limitations set up by Congress, none of that cash could be utilized to develop another, solid mass of the sort the president has said is fundamental.

The president does not have the legitimate expert to burn through cash appropriated for one reason on another undertaking, for example, divider building.

In a joint proclamation on Monday night, Mr. Schumer and Ms. Pelosi cautioned that the nation couldn't manage the cost of a "Trump Shutdown."

"This Christmas season, the president knows very well indeed that his divider proposition does not have the votes to pass the House and Senate, and ought not be an impediment to a bipartisan assention," they composed.

The president's traditionalist partners in Congress, however, asked Mr. Trump to hold firm to his emphasis on divider cash, and utilize all methods important to incorporate extra movement limitations in the year-end bundle.

"Anchoring the border wouldn't occur in a Pelosi-run Congress," Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio and Representative Mark Meadows of North Carolina, the fellow benefactor and administrator of the House Freedom Caucus, said in a commentary Tuesday on the Fox News site. "Regardless we have three weeks. That is all that anyone could need time to do what we said."

The U.S. supreme Court on Monday rejected interests by Louisiana and Kansas seeking to end their public funding to women’s healthcare and abortion provider Planned Parenthood through the Medicaid program, with President Donald Trump’s appointee Brett Kavanaugh among the justices who rebuffed the states.

 The judges left flawless lower court decisions that kept the two states from stripping government social insurance financing from nearby Planned Parenthood associates.

The case was one of various debate working their way up to the Supreme Court over the legitimateness of state-forced limitations including abortion.
Three moderate judges, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, contradicted from the choice by the nine-part traditionalist larger part court, saying it ought to have heard the interests by the states. Something like four judges must cast a ballot to allow survey for the court to hear an intrigue. Alongside the four liberal judges, Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts - the court's two other preservationist judges - contradicted taking up the issue.

 Arranged Parenthood's associates in Louisiana don't perform premature births, yet some in Kansas do. Medicaid, the state-government medical coverage program for low-pay Americans, pays for premature births just in restricted conditions, for example, when a lady's life is in threat.
It denoted the main known vote by Kavanaugh for a situation since he joined the court in October after a savage affirmation battle in the Senate.

Kavanaugh was named by Trump to supplant the resigned Justice Anthony Kennedy, a traditionalist who some of the time agreed with the court's nonconformists on social issues like abortion. Some Kavanaugh rivals had dreaded he would back lawful endeavors to topple or further confine the lawful appropriate to abortion.

Thomas proposed that the judges who dismissed the interests had put governmental issues over the law. "So what discloses the court's refusal to carry out its activity here? I speculate it has something to do with the way that a few respondents in these cases are named 'Arranged Parenthood,'" Thomas wrote in contradiction. "Some dubious association with a politically full issue does not legitimize surrendering our legal obligation," Thomas included.

Louisiana and Kansas reported Republican-upheld plans to end financing for Planned Parenthood through Medicaid after an enemy of fetus removal aggregate discharged recordings in 2015 implying to demonstrate Planned Parenthood administrators arranging the revenue driven offer of fetal tissue and body parts. Arranged Parenthood denied the charges and said the recordings were intensely altered and deceiving.

 The association's offshoots in each state, and in addition a few patients, sued in government court to keep up the financing.

 'Basic RIGHT'

 Leana Wen, leader of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, commended the court's activity, saying in an announcement: "Each individual has a major ideal to human services, regardless of their identity, where they live or the amount they acquire."
Fights in court over different laws from Republican-drove states could achieve the court in the following year or two. Some try to boycott premature births in early pregnancy, including Iowa's denial after a fetal heartbeat is recognized. Others force hard to-meet directions on fetus removal suppliers, for example, having formal ties, called conceding benefits, at a neighborhood healing facility.

 Numerous social and religious preservationists in the United States have contended against government financing of Planned Parenthood, and Republican lawmakers have endeavored endeavors at the state and bureaucratic dimension to dispose of open subsidizing for fetus removal administrations.

 The New Orleans-based fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2016 hindered Louisiana's Medicaid cuts, saying the activity would hurt patients. The fifth Circuit said nobody debated that Planned Parenthood was really fit the bill to give the medicinal administrations it offers and the state was trying to cut subsidizing "for reasons disconnected to its capabilities." In February, the Denver-based tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided that Kansas couldn't square subsidizing on the grounds that states "may not end suppliers from their Medicaid program for any reason they see fit."

 The cases from Kansas and Louisiana did not challenge the constitutionality of abortion itself.

Liverpool defender  Joe Gomez has marked another agreement with the club until the late spring of 2024.

The 21-year-old joined the Reds from Charlton Athletic in 2015.

He has played multiple times for Jurgen Klopp's side this crusade, however could be out for up to about a month and a half in the wake of enduring a cracked leg in the 3-1 prevail upon Burnley on 5 December.

"I adore the club, I cherish playing and learning here, and I am glad for that to proceed with," he told the club site.

Gomez has won six England tops, however was controlled out of Gareth Southgate's squad for the World Cup due to damage.

"There have been a great deal of highs and lows," he included.

"It's my fourth season now and each one has been unique. Clearly I might want to have had a couple of less mishaps en route, however it has all been a piece of my adventure - one that I have adored and grasped. I have adapted to such an extent."

Actor Rupert Grint has said he does not know how much cash he has earned and isn't generally inspired by cash - regardless of being said to be worth £28m.

The Harry Potter star disclosed to The Radio Times he couldn't start to figure, other than realizing he was "agreeable".

The 30-year-old showed up as Ron Weasley in eight full-length Harry Potter include films and also going with diversions.

The movies' different stars, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, are thought to have earned comparable measures of cash.

He stated: "I really don't realize the amount I have. I couldn't even truly surmise.

"It doesn't generally persuade me excessively. It makes you agreeable, that is the beneficial thing about it, I think.

"I'm happy it's there yet I'm not so much that concentrated on it."

Grint has proceeded to have a fruitful profession after the last Potter establishment in 2011, showing up in Sky One's Sick Note and AMC's Snatch reboot over the most recent couple of years.

This Christmas he is featuring in Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders on BBC One, with John Malkovich as Hercule Poirot.

However, in the wake of being in general society eye for such a long time - having been cast in his initially Harry Potter film at 11 years old - he said of popularity: "I battle to recollect life before it.

"I think I lost myself a smidgen en route."

"Once in a while you simply need to go to B&Q."

He said he enjoyed a reprieve after the Harry Potter films finished in light of the fact that he had an inclination he "had passed up ordinary things".