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Nato summit: Trump blasts Macron ‘brain dead’ comments as ‘nasty’

US President Donald Trump has accused his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron of being “nasty” for saying Nato was “brain dead”. Mr Trump is in London for a summit marking the Western military alliance’s 70th anniversary. The US president said Nato served a great purpose, and Mr Macron’s remarks had been …

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Italy lauds Ghana Beyond Aid agenda

Mr Guiseppe Conte, the Italian Prime Minister, has lauded the “Ghana Beyond Aid” agenda, and assured Italy’s readiness to support the West African country achieve that vision. He said Italy would provide the assistance for Ghana to implement her Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJs) and the One-District-One-Factory (1D1F) to …

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Horror As Depraved Man Rapes Employer’s Sister As Compensation After Going Months Without Pay

In a horrific development, a Chivi man raped his employer’s sister as compensation for his outstanding wages which he was yet to receive. According to New Ziana, Solomon Chikono, (25), of Mavuto Village, Headman Watungwa, Chief Chivi, is alleged to have forced his way into the bedroom where the victim was …

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Catholic priest caught snorting cocaine

Videoed in a room filled with Nazi memorabilia, this is the moment a Catholic priest snorted a line of cocaine at a party in his house on church grounds Father Stephen Crossan, 37, is said to have sniffed the class A drug through a £10 note at the end of …

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DiCaprio gave cash ‘to set Amazon on fire’ – Brazil’s Bolsonaro

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has accused Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio of “giving money to set the Amazon on fire”. The president gave no evidence but in the past has accused NGOs critical of his policies of starting fires that ravaged the rainforest this year. Several arrests have been made amid …

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London Bridge: Woman killed in attack named as Saskia Jones

The woman killed in Friday’s London Bridge attack has been named by police as Saskia Jones. The 23-year-old Cambridge University graduate, from Stratford-upon-Avon, was fatally stabbed alongside another ex-student, Jack Merritt. The boss of the venue where the attack began which killed the pair said “the building turned into a …

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Human urine forces cinema evacuation in Washington state

A movie theatre in the north-western US state of Washington had to be evacuated after it took delivery of a package of human urine. The package marked “highly contagious human substance” was delivered in error to the North Bend Theater, in the city of the same name on Friday evening. …

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UK PM Johnson pressured on jail terms after London Bridge attack

The London Bridge attack pushed law and order towards the top of the British political agenda on Saturday, with days to go before a snap election, after police said the assailant had previously been convicted of terrorism offenses but freed early from prison. Usman Khan, wearing a fake suicide vest …

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London Bridge attacker had terror conviction

The man who carried out Friday’s stabbing attack at London Bridge was a former prisoner convicted of terrorism offences. The attacker, named by police as 28-year-old Usman Khan, was out of prison on licence at the time of the attack, in which a man and a woman were killed and …

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Melbourne terror plot: Trio jailed for planning Christmas attack

Three men have been jailed for plotting a large-scale terror attack in busy areas of central Melbourne, Australia. The men, inspired by Islamic State (IS), had aimed to use machetes and explosives to maximise casualties during the Christmas period in 2016. It was one of the most substantial terror threats …

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