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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…

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…