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One man wakes up before dawn each day for hours of prayer and meditation, eschews television and vacations, and has decried the morally bankrupting temptations of wealth, vanity and pride. The other begins each morning feasting on morning cable news shows, has played golf more than 21 times and visited his luxury Florida resort seven times since becoming the US …

At least 22 people, including children, have been killed and 59 injured in a suicide bombing at a crowded pop concert in Manchester, the most deadly attack in Britain in a decade. The horror unfolded at about 10.30pm on Monday at the end of a concert by the American singer Ariana Grande, whose music is popular with children and teenagers. …

Donald Trump has said he has “a rare opportunity to bring security and stability and peace” to the Middle East after arriving in Israel on the second leg of his first foreign tour as US president. Trump was greeted on the tarmac at Ben Gurion airport by the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the president, Reuven Rivlin. Descending the …

Donald Trump has attempted to stake a claim as a figure who can mobilise the Muslim world against extremism, using his much-anticipated speech on Islam as a rallying call for global cooperation rooted in reform, trade and faith. Speaking in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, in front of leaders from more than 40 Muslim nations, the US president vowed to meet …

Donald Trump has resumed his offensive against Iran, demanding that Tehran must immediately stop its financial and military support for “terrorists and militias” and reiterating that it must never be permitted to possess nuclear weapons. In what has emerged as a key foreign policy message in the US president’s first international tour since taking office, he returned repeatedly to the …

The Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday suspended proceedings in the hearing of an application seeking permanent forfeiture of $5.7million belonging to wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience. Justice Mojisola Olatoregun stayed proceedings pending the outcome of an appeal challenging the money’s temporary forfeiture. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is praying the court to order that …

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo will explain how the Executive Orders he signed last week on boositing the economy will function when he meets on Wednesday with a cross-section of middle level and senior public and civil servants. Senior Special Assistant on Media to the acting President Laolu Akande said yesterday that The interactive session, he said, is part of measures …

The Supreme Court has dismissed an application filed by a factional leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, Ali-Modu Sheriff, asking the court not to hear a motion by his challenger, Ahmed Makarfi. Mr. Sheriff had asked the court to refuse to hear the application filed by Mr. Makarfi, challenging the February 17 judgement of the Appeal Court in Port Harcourt …

“The Espionage Act is 100 years old this year and remains what Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan referred to as a ‘singularly opaque document.’ That’s the problem. It could be used by an administration angry enough at the press to seek to criminalize routine and often societally beneficial revelations of governmental misconduct,” Floyd Abrams, who represented the New York …

The US and Saudi Arabia have reached a $110bn-plus arms deal, significantly expanding the longstanding security relationship between the two countries, the White House has said. Hours after landing in Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, the President’s first stop on his foreign trip, Donald Trump and Saudi King Salman signed a series of agreements that included a military sales agreement of …