Month: April 2019

A former firefighter and his GP wife have been named as among the eight Britons killed in the Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka. Bill Harrop and Dr Sally Bradley from Manchester had been on holiday in the country when they were killed in the blast that struck the Cinnamon Grand Hotel. Mr Harrop’s son Gavin, who had…

The US authorities have made their first arrest in connection with the mysterious raid on North Korea’s Madrid embassy in February when a group of assailants allegedly tied up staff and stole sensitive information.  On Thursday, federal officers arrested Christopher Ahn, a former US marine and a member of the secretive Free Joseon group, who…

Kidnappers in Nigeria killed a British woman and a Nigerian man, and abducted three others in the northern city of Kaduna, local police and the British High Commission said on Sunday. Kidnappings are rampant in Nigeria, where both locals and foreigners are targeted — mostly for ransom. The woman travelled from Lagos as a tourist…

Standing beside a windswept junction near Germany’s Baltic coast, Thea Funk points at a stretch of land to the north. “They want to build 12 turbines up there, each one 240 metres high. And down there there are plans to put up more, somewhere between six and eight,” she explains, gesturing to a field across…

A split has emerged in the Democratic Party over whether to launch impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump in the wake of the Mueller report.  Leading Democrats appeared at pains to play down the likelihood of success, instead favouring the 2020 election to remove the president from office. However a group of prominent left-wing congressmen went…

American whisky heiress Clare Bronfman has pleaded guilty to her role in the secretive "sex cult" Nxivm which allegedly trafficked women.  Bronfman, the 40-year-old heir to the Seagram alcohol fortune, was accused of using her wealth to fund the suspected sex cult to the tune of more than  $100 million (£77m).  She had been due to stand…

Donald Trump was saved from himself. That, in a nutshell, was the most fascinating finding from Robert Mueller as the report Washington has been waiting on for almost two years finally dropped.  His conclusion on Russian election interference, the reason this whole probe begun in the first place and which made up volume one of…

Ukraine’s president has faced his comedian challenger for a grandiose, vitriolic debate at Kiev’s Olympic stadium on Friday in a last-ditch attempt to win a second term. After weeks of bickering that saw each candidate put up his own stage, president Petro Poroshenko came over to television star Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s end, shook hands and agreed…

Mali’s prime minister resigned along with his entire government on Thursday following criticism over their handling of an upsurge of violence in the centre of the country and a massacre last month that left 160 people dead. A statement from President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s office said he had accepted Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga’s resignation and that…

A right-wing militia group has begun detaining groups of migrant families at gunpoint on the US-Mexico border.  The group, which calls itself United Constitutional Patriots (UCP), has taken to posting footage of their activities on social media.  One recent Facebook live video shows masked UCP members detaining a group of around 200 migrants who had…