Egypt’s constitution will be amended to allow President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to remain in office until 2030 after the government claimed to have won 89 per cent support in a much-criticised referendum. The Egyptian electoral commission said 11 per cent of citizens voted against the constitutional amendments, which also tighten Mr Sisi’s grip on the
Donald Trump, the US president, his three oldest children and the Trump Organization have sued Deutsche Bank AG and Capital One Financial Corp to try to block them from responding to subpoenas issued by US congressional Democrats seeking financial records. The lawsuit represents a new front in Mr Trump’s battle with the Democratic-led House of Representatives to impede investigations of
Turkey’s opposition accused the country’s election board members of being “mobsters” under the control of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish president, after they voided an opposition victory in the Istanbul mayor’s race and ordered a re-run of the election. The Republican People’s Party (CHP) narrowly won the Istanbul’s mayor’s election in March, dealing a serious
On a cold night in late February, 45-year-old farmer Karamjit Singh told his wife and three children that he would spend the night in the outhouse on their small farm. Instead of sleeping, he drank half a can of pesticide and was found dead the next morning. “He owed around £13,000 to various people and
A fugitive made an unlikely deal with police officers in Connecticut to surrender – if his wanted poster received 15,000 ‘likes’ on Facebook. Jose Simms, 29, has seven arrest warrants out against him and is being sought by Torrington Police after failing to appear in court on a range of charges including the risk of
Israel is heading for an unprecedented second election in less than six months after Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a coalition before a Wednesday night deadline and instead forced through a bill to dissolve parliament. Mr Netanyahu won the most votes in April’s election but has spent the last six weeks struggling to convince smaller
US President Donald Trump drew a parallel with his planned wall between the United States and Mexico as he expressed confidence that the Brexit logjam over the Irish border would work out "very well". Mr Trump made the comments to Irish premier Leo Varadkar on his first official visit to Ireland since becoming president. At
Hong Kong suspended government meetings and shut offices as the city witnessed an uneasy calm following violent clashes over a controversial extradition law. A few thousand protesters on Thursday readied for potentially more confrontation with police, a day after authorities fired tear gas and rubber bullets at unarmed demonstrators. Some protesters around Hong Kong’s legislature, the epicentre of
For centuries, its furry tail was the stuff of fairy tales on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica. Click Here: Putters Shepherds recounted sightings of an elusive metre-long, ring-tailed feline with razor-sharp teeth that would attack ewes and goats at night. Now, scientists believe they have finally identified the animal as an entirely new species dubbed
Almost 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new poll has exposed the enduring political divisions in Germany. The nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has surged to first place in the former communist east, with 23 per cent support. But it has failed to make a similar breakthrough in the former west,