Month: April 2019

Donald Trump attempted to fire special counsel Robert Mueller after expressing fears the probe would “end” his presidency, according to the newly released Mueller report.  The order, which came just weeks after Mr Mueller had been appointed in May 2017, was among a string of incidents of alleged obstruction of justice recounted in detail by the Mueller report. …

Key findings from special counsel’s Trump investigation Redacted report finds Russians ‘did not have cooperation of President’ Trump tweets ‘GAME OVER’ and says ‘I’m having a good day’ Mueller found Trump’s answers ‘inadequate’ but decided against subpoena Democrats decry ‘partisan effort to spin Mueller report’ Analysis: Mueller’s report shows how Donald Trump was saved from…

An armed 18-year-old girl "infatuated" with the Columbine school massacre was found dead after fears she was seeking to replicate the shooting 20 years on. Sol Pais, a high school pupil, made threats online and then flew from her home in Miami Beach, Florida to Denver, Colorado, where Columbine is located. She then bought a…

Two Italian students accused of starting a wildfire that damaged a vast area of forest have been fined an astounding €27 million (£23.4m) by the country’s forestry service. The young men lit a barbecue in a garden near Lake Como in the north of Italy on December 30 to celebrate the approach of the New…

Billionaire French tycoons faced a mounting backlash on Wednesday over tax breaks on their huge donations to restore Notre-Dame, as Yellow Vest protestors said the hundreds of millions of euros should be spent on tackling France’s social problems. The contributions to the cathedral’s renovation approached €900 million (£780m) on Wednesday as the owners of Chanel and…

Emmanuel Macron is to close France’s elite ENA school for future leaders, raise small pensions, cut taxes and push the French to “work more”, under radical plans leaked to the media. Mr Macron, the French president, was due to announce the measures in a hotly anticipated televised address on Monday in response to a two-month…

Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo is poised to win a second term, based on unofficial results released within hours of polls closing.  The so-called “quick counts”, using data from some of the Southeast Asian nation’s 800,000 polling stations, gave Mr Widodo, 57, also known as Jokowi, a substantial lead over his rival Prabowo Subianto, 67, a…

A legal battle over a trove of Franz Kafka’s papers appears to be over after a struggle that has taken literary investigators from a cat-filled apartment in Tel Aviv to secret bank vaults in Switzerland.  In a nightmarishly complex case that could have sprung from the Czech writer’s own pen, a Swiss court has ruled…

Two Saudi sisters appealed on social media for international protection on Wednesday, claiming they would be in danger if they were made to return to the kingdom. Maha al-Subaie, 28, and Wafa al-Subaie, 25, said they had arrived in Georgia after running away from their family and were worried they would be forcibly sent home,…

French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to rebuild the Notre-Dame cathedral in five years, after a blaze ripped through the 12th century building and destroyed its spire. However John David the Master Mason at York Minister says it cannot be done, "if they want to do a proper job it will have to take at least 10 years." Watch…