Donald Trump Jr was subpoenaed on Wednesday to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee as part of its probe into Russian election meddling, US media reported. It was the first known legal summons issued by Congress to a member of the president’s family to force testimony in the ongoing investigation, and comes after special counsel […]
Donald Trump’s businesses lost a total of more than $1 billion from 1985 to 1994, according to the New York Times, which said it obtained printouts from Trump’s official Internal Revenue Service tax transcripts. The newspaper said Mr Trump posted losses in excess of $250 million in both 1990 and 1991, which appeared to be more than double any other […]
European Union divisions over who should succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as the head of the bloc’s executive were brutally exposed at a summit in Brussels on Tuesday night. Click Here: In a rare public disagreement, Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron were at loggerheads over the identity of the next European Commission president, and EU leaders were […]
France on Monday confirmed that an Iraqi court that sentenced four French citizens to death as members of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant had jurisdiction to do so but said it would take "the necessary steps" to try to prevent them from being executed. Three French fighters were handed the death penalty on Sunday. […]
She is the great young hope of America’s Left-wing, an articulate and impassioned progressive whose policies have gained traction and Twitter feed is followed by four million. Now Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 29-year-old first-time congressman from New York, is seeing her newfound political clout manifest in a new way – a race for her endorsement. With […]
A British terrorist has admitted his role in the "Isil Beatles" for first time, as he confessed to helping plan a London terror plot. London-raised Alexanda Kotey, 35, fled to Syria in 2012 and, along with Jihadi John, became part of the terror cell nicknamed the Beatles by hostages due to their British accents. Kotey on Tuesday […]
Donald Trump has acknowledged taking large tax write offs for property business losses in the 1980s and 1990s, describing the practice as "sport" among developers like himself at the time. Mr Trump’s comments came after the New York Times acquired copies of his tax documents from the period. The newspaper reported that his businesses incurred […]
A German government watchdog has called on people across the country to wear Jewish skullcaps this weekend in an act of solidarity against anti-Semitism. The appeal follows a U-turn on an official warning to Jewish men not to wear skullcaps in public for their own safety. Felix Klein, the German government’s anti-Semitism commissioner, warned Jewish […]
Britain may have to take back hundreds of tonnes of unwanted plastic waste from Malaysia after the country’s environment minister said it would not be treated as the world’s “dumping ground”. Yeo Bin Yin singled out the UK for criticism while threatening to return as much as 3,000 tonnes of low-quality plastic to at least […]
A driver in Germany had a lucky escape when a passing dove blocked his face from being photographed by a speed camera. Police joked that they accepted the dove’s appearance as a “sign from above” and protection from the Holy Ghost, and said they would not pursue the case. The driver, who has not been […]