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US election: Obama endorses Clinton as political heir
US President Barack Obama has delivered a stirring speech at the Democratic convention, hailing Hillary Clinton as his political heir and rounding on "home-grown demagogue" Donald Trump. "There has never been a man or woman, not me, not Bill, nobody more qualified than Hillary" to be president, he said. When...
France church attack: Second suspect in priest killing named
French prosecutors have identified the second man involved in the killing of a priest in a Normandy church on Tuesday as 19-year-old Abdel Malik Petitjean. Like the other attacker, Adel Kermiche, he was known to the security services. The teenagers were shot dead by police outside the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray where...
Merkel rules out migrant policy reversal after attacks
Recent attacks in Germany involving asylum-seekers would not change its willingness to take in refugees, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. She said the attackers "wanted to undermine our sense of community, our openness and our willingness to help people in need. We firmly reject this". But she did propose new...
WARNING: Just ONE of 2,000 terror suspects in Britain under surveillance amid attack fears
JUST one extremist in Britain is under curfew despite there being more than 2,000 terror suspects in the UK, it has been revealed. The Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures, known as T-Pims, is used by the police and MI5 to keep surveillance on terror suspects who are yet to be deported. But, as of May this year, the...
EU’s Brexit negotiator will have NO POWER in discussions, ex-minister tells Newsnight
JEAN-Claude Juncker’s chief Brexit negotiator’s role has been dismissed by a former cabinet member. Sir Malcolm Rifkind said former French foreign minister Michel Barnier was a “tough guy”. But the former foreign secretary played down Barnier’s role in the Brexit negotiations, claiming Theresa May...
Rio 2016: Russia sees off first contestants on flight to Brazil
About 70 members of Russia's Olympic team have left a Moscow airport for Brazil to take part in Rio 2016 while others stay at home, banned for doping. Members of the volleyball, handball, boxing, synchronised swimming and table tennis teams were seen off at Sheremetyevo Airport. The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) wanted...
Hiroshima: Keep Pokemon away from atom bomb memorial
The Japanese city of Hiroshima has asked Pokemon Go's creators to keep its virtual monsters out of memorials to victims of the atomic bomb. It wants the monsters removed by 6 August, when an annual ceremony is held on the anniversary of the 1945 bombing. It follows a request by the operators of the Fukushima nuclear plant...
Florida investigates four mysterious Zika infections
Health officials in Florida are investigating four cases of Zika that do not appear to be related to travel. So far cases outside of Latin America and the Caribbean, where the virus is prevalent, have been spread by travel to that region or sexual transmission. The four Florida cases have raised the possibility that mosquitoes...
Nigel Farage ‘in talks to appear in next I’m a Celebrity after turning down Big Brother’
NIGEL Farage is reportedly set for a reality TV career after he entered advanced talks with producers of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! The former Ukip boss allegedly turned down entering the Celebrity Big Brother house after producers refused to pay him a fee of £750,000. But negotiations are said to...
Turkey coup attempt: Dozens of media outlets shut
The Turkish authorities have announced the closure of dozens of media organisations, as a crackdown continues following the failed coup on 15 July. Three news agencies, 16 TV channels, 45 papers and 15 magazines will be shut. Separately, nearly 1,700 members of the armed forces — including 149 generals and admirals...
REVEALED: Imams giving out Islamic extremist texts calling for jihad in BRITISH prisons
EXTREMIST Islamic books promoting hatred towards non-Muslims have been given out by imams in British prisons despite being banned. A book dubbed the ‘Mein Kampf of Islamic terrorism’ is among one of the titles distributed to volatile prisons, urging Muslims to turn to turn to violence against all non-believers....
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot ‘roars with heat’
Jupiter's Great Red Spot — a hurricane three times bigger than Earth — is blasting the planet's upper atmosphere with heat, astronomers have found. Using measurements from an infrared telescope in Hawaii, a UK and US team found evidence for temperatures as high as 1,500C — hundreds of degrees warmer...
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