Westminster car crash: Man arrested as pedestrians injured
Two people have been injured after a car crashed into security barriers outside the Houses of Parliament.
Officers were seen surrounding the vehicle before a man was arrested, shortly after 07:30 BST.
Cyclists were hit in the crash and London Ambulance Service said it had taken two patients to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism unit is leading the investigation but the force is "keeping an open mind".
Armed police, ambulances and firefighters are continuing to respond to the incident in central London.
Niger suppresses dissent as US leads influx of foreign armies
The western presence in one of the most militarised countries in Africa has sparked frustration and fear in locals
The demonstration was planned for 4pm on 15 April, a warm Sunday afternoon in the somnolent Nigerien capital. The protesters had two main complaints: rising taxes and the fact that, in recent years, some of the world’s most powerful armies had descended on their country.
But before the civil society leaders could even get to the march, they were arrested.
When a group of heavily armed men on motorbikes killed four American special ops soldiers in remote Niger last October, it was the first many had heard of the war the US was helping fight against a local branch of Isis.
Trump is gambling with America’s security and pushing Turkey into Putin’s embrace
A series of crass, unforced errors by the US president is undoing decades of patient American diplomatic efforts.
Just for a change, a tweet from Donald Trump that everyone can agree with: “Our relations with Turkey are not good at this time!”
And, also something of a novelty, President Trump understates, if anything, the miserable state of US-Turkish relations. They have descended into a pantomime economic “war”, in which the US is slapping ever higher tariffs on Turkish exports, and plucky Turkey is lobbing its devalued Turkish lira at the mighty dollar. The effect has been to exacerbate the misfortunes in Turkey’s badly mismanaged economy, and to disturb investors in emerging economies more widely (including American investment funds, as it happens). As ever, this is an economic war with no winners. What is different here is that it could provoke geopolitical shifts that could prove even more damaging to western security and world peace.
Iran's supreme leader says neither talks nor war with United States
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran would not talk with the United States. In comments directed at President Rouhani, he said Iran's economic troubles were not only the result of sanctions, but also economic mismanagement.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday rejected the idea of holding negotiations with the United States, but also said there would be no war.
"Recently, US officials have been talking blatantly about us. Beside sanctions, they are talking about war and negotiations," he said via his official Twitter account.
"In this regard, let me say a few words to the people: THERE WILL BE NO WAR, NOR WILL WE NEGOTIATE WITH THE US," he wrote.
Her world ended when her kids were murdered. Raising dozens of orphans saved her life
As a cacophony of birdsong greets the rising sun, Mama Marie Goretti Amurere corrals her daughters from their beds and out the door of their single-story home.
By 6am, Goretti, 60, walks the path from her house to the canteen, flanked by her girls and a lush perimeter of banana trees extending to a horizon of hills.
Inside the cafeteria, she pours rounds of igikoma, a millet porridge, into small plastic cups; it's eaten with fluffy white bread rolls that pass along the communal table. As her bleary-eyed teenagers eat their breakfast, Goretti watches the clock. School starts at 7 a.m. and it's a ten-minute walk up the hill.
It's a morning routine familiar to mothers around the world, but these aren't Goretti's biological children.
The FBI just fired Peter Strzok
Robert Mueller had removed Strzok from the Trump-Russia investigation last year.
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The FBI has fired Peter Strzok, a top agent who had investigated the Trump campaign’s Russia ties until the discovery that he had sent politically charged text messages to a colleague.
Strzok’s attorney Aitan Goelman says in an emailed statement that on late Friday afternoon, the deputy director of the FBI ordered Strzok’s firing, even though the FBI’s disciplinary office had recommended a less severe punishment.
The government hasn’t yet commented on the specifics of Strzok’s firing. But President Trump sent triumphant tweets Monday praising the decision and asking whether the “Witch Hunt” will now “be dropped.”
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