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Donald Trump, Theresa May and Jeremy Hunt during the US president’s state visit last month. Photograph: Chris Jackson/PA Jeremy Hunt has publicly taken Donald Trump to task for “disrespectful and wrong” insults levelled at the UK’s ambassador to Washington, whose leaked memos criticising the president have caused a diplomatic crisis between Britain and the US. The foreign […]

Downing Street says the UK’s ambassador to the US has the prime minister’s “full support”, regardless of Donald Trump saying he’ll not work with him. The US president was responding after leaked emails revealed Sir Kim Darroch had known as his administration inept. Ina sequence of tweets, Mr Trump additionally criticised Theresa May’s dealing with […]

 A Nigerian court has ordered the imminent seizure of $40 million worth of jewellery and a customised gold iPhone belonging to former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, the country’s anti-graft agency said on Friday. The items, including hundreds of bangles, rings, earrings, necklaces and watches, were found at a property owned by Alison-Madueke, the Economic and […]

New Democracy conservative party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis is greeted by supporters as he arrives at the party’s headquarters in Athens, Greece July 7, 2019. (Reuters Photo) Greek opposition conservatives held a strong lead over ruling leftist Syriza in snap elections on Sunday, a joint exit poll by five private TV stations showed. New Democracy was […]

KABUL- A Taliban truck bombing in southern Ghazni province today morning killed 12 people and injured another 179 citizens, most of them school children, officials said. A Taliban suicide bomber detonated his explosive laden mini-truck today morning around 8:30am near one of the facilities of the National Directorate of Security in Ghazni city. In this […]

“We don’t really believe this Administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept,” Kim Darroch wrote. | Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Capitol File Magazine “We don’t really believe this Administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction […]

SDF fighters stand near ISIS fighters and their families who surrendered in the village of Baghouz. (File photo: Reuters) Dozens of international experts gathered in northeastern Syria on Saturday to discuss how to manage thousands of suspected ISIS group members crammed into Kurdish-run prisons and camps. French lawyers and US-based analysts were among those attending […]

A picture taken on July 4, 2019 shows damage at the entrance of a hospital following a reported airstrike on the village of Kafr Nabl, in the southern Idlib province (AFP Photo) Assad regime bombardment has killed 14 civilians including seven children in northwestern Syria, a war monitor said Saturday, in the latest deadly raids […]

Food fell from the shelves at a Walmart following an earthquake in Yucca Yalley [Chad Mayes/AP] Southern California has been rattled by its largest earthquake in two decades as a 7.1-magnitude tremor shook buildings and cut power supplies in parts of Los Angeles but did not cause major damage or deaths, officials said. The shallow quake struck […]

Anadolu reported that the blast site was less than a kilometre from the governor’s office [DHA via AP] At least three people have been killed in a car bomb blast in the southern Turkish town of Reyhanli, located close to the Syrian border.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul on Friday that initial findings showed […]