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Attack on Nice: French PM Valls booed at commemoration
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has been booed as he attended a minute's silence in Nice, where an attacker in a lorry killed 84 people on Thursday. Hecklers shouted out "murderer" and "resign" at him before the minute's silence, held across the nation. Earlier, centre-right opposition leader...
Turkey: Mass arrests after coup bid quashed, says PM
Some 2,839 soldiers, including high-ranking officers, have been arrested after an attempted coup that is now over, says Turkey's PM Binali Yildirim. The attempted coup was a "black stain on Turkish democracy", he said, with 161 civilians killed and 1,440 wounded. Those held include two army generals, Turkish media...
Theresa May’s THREE BREXITEERS — New PM reveals her top team to get us out of EU
BORIS Johnson was sensationally appointed Foreign Secretary last night as Theresa May assembled a Cabinet team to pull Britain out of the EU. In a dramatic signal of her determination to show that “Brexit means Brexit”, the new Prime Minister gave the former London Mayor and star of the Vote Leave campaign a crucial...
Japan exit polls suggest boost for PM Abe in senate election
Voting has closed in Japan's parliamentary election, with exit polls suggesting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will increase his majority. About half the seats in the upper house of parliament were up for grabs. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is hoping for backing for his economic policies. If he can achieve a two-thirds majority in...
Australia PM Turnbull’s conservatives win tight election
Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has declared victory for his conservative coalition in last week's closely fought general election. His comments came after opposition Labor Leader Bill Shorten conceded defeat and congratulated him. Votes are still being counted, but the Liberal-National coalition is expected...
John Prescott: Ex-deputy PM says Iraq War was illegal
John Prescott, who was deputy prime minister when Britain went to war with Iraq in 2003, says the invasion by UK and US forces was "illegal". Writing in the Sunday Mirror, he said he would live with the "catastrophic decision" for the rest of his life. Lord Prescott said he now agreed "with great...
Raging Putin MOCKS defeated Cameron & scolds PM for claiming Moscow leader supports Brexit
VLADIMIR Putin has expressed his delight in David Cameron’s EU defeat and blasted the Prime Minister for claiming the Russian leader supported Brexit. Cameron said last month that he believed the Kremlin leader “would be happy” if Britain voted to leave the bureaucratic bloc, leaving it weakened. But the...
David Cameron EU Question Time: PM attacks ‘untrue’ Leave claims
David Cameron has urged people not to vote in the EU referendum on the basis of what he said were "completely untrue" claims from the Leave campaign. The PM dismissed warnings over an EU army, the prospects of Turkey joining and the cost of the UK's membership. In a special edition of Question Time, he said the UK...
Canadian PM calls to legalize assisted suicide
Canada's parliament has passed a contentious bill to allow medically-assisted death for terminally ill people. The law was put forward after the Supreme Court struck down a ban on doctors helping the incurably sick to die. The move makes Canada one of the few countries where doctors can legally help sick people die. But...
Falluja assault: Iraq PM announces beginning of military operation
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has announced the start of a military operation to retake Falluja from so-called Islamic State (IS). "Zero hour for the liberation of Falluja has arrived. The moment of great victory has drawn near," he said, adding IS had "no choice but to flee." Iraq's military has...
Greek PM defends pension and tax reform
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has defended controversial new pension and tax reforms approved by parliament. The measures are needed to unlock further international bailout money, to be discussed at a meeting of Eurozone finance ministers on Monday. But they are deeply unpopular with Greek anti-austerity...