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The new communications director for US President Donald Trump has launched a strongly-worded attack on the White House chief of staff. Anthony Scaramucci was scathing about “paranoid schizophrenic” Reince Priebus, in a phone conversation with a reporter from The New Yorker magazine. He was upset that the reporter, Ryan Lizza, had tweeted about who Mr Scaramucci was dining with. The ...

More than 40 people have died during an attempt to free people during an ambush by militant Islam group Boko Haram, sources have told the BBC. At least five members of an oil exploration team were killed, a spokesman for the University of Maiduguri said. Soldiers and members of a vigilante group also died in the ambush. The high number ...

A California man was arrested after a package addressed to him was found with three live king cobras hidden inside potato chip cans, US officials said. Rodrigo Franco, 34, was arrested in Los Angeles and charged with illegally importing merchandise. Customs officials discovered the snakes, about two-feet long, while inspecting a package that was mailed to Mr Fanco from Hong ...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has overtaken Bill Gates and is now the richest person in the world, with a fortune topping $90 billion for the first time ever.When markets opened on Thursday, Bezos had a net worth of $90.6 billion, putting him $500 million ahead of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Amazon stock opened up 1.6% on Thursday, adding $1.4 billion ...

France says it plans to set up “hotspots” in Libya to process asylum seekers, in a bid to stem the flow of migrants to Europe. President Emmanuel Macron said the move would stop people not eligible for asylum from “taking crazy risks”. The centres would be ready “this summer”. He said that between 800,000 and a million people were currently ...

Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) boss Ángel María Villar has resigned from his vice-president roles at FIFA and UEFA after his arrest as part of an anti-corruption investigation. The news was confirmed today by UEFA, European football’s governing body. It comes after sixty-seven-year-old Villar was suspended yesterday by Spain’s Government, following his arrest. He denies any wrongdoing but has been remanded ...

Madonna and her adopted twin daughters have accepted undisclosed damages from Associated Newspapers over a “serious invasion of privacy”. The singer adopted four-year-old twins Stella and Estere in February. At the time she asked the media to “respect our privacy during this transitional time.” Madonna brought the case at London’s High Court over a MailOnline article that caused her “considerable ...

The French Ambassador to Ghana Francois Pujolas has said that he was dazed by the rise of Emmanuel Macron to political stardom. French voters in May, 2017 elected the unknown Macron politically as their president. He defeated far-right candidate Marine Le Pen wining 66.06percent of validate votes cast. The result is remarkable considering he, a centrist independent, campaigned without a ...

US President Donald Trump says transgender people cannot serve in “any capacity” in the military. He tweeted that he had consulted with military experts and cited “tremendous medical costs and disruption”. The Obama administration decided last year to allow transgender people to serve openly in the military. But in June, Defence Secretary James Mattis agreed to a six-month delay in ...

The CAF Executive Committee at its meeting on Thursday, 20 July 2017, among other decisions amended the calendar for the knockout stages of the Total CAF Champions League 2017 and Total CAF Confederation Cup 2017. For the quarter-finals of the two competitions, the first leg will take place on the weekend of 15-17 September 2017 with second leg on the ...