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At 10.20pm, Kellyanne Conway wandered in from the landscaped gardens of the British ambassador’s residence, built in the 1920s and resembling an English country house in the heart of Washington. An Andy Warhol portrait of the Queen watched from above the ornate fireplace as results of the British election flashed up on a giant TV screen. Conway, a senior adviser …

Theresa May’s plan for a loose alliance with the Democratic Unionists to prop up her government was thrown into confusion last night after the Northern Ireland party contradicted a No 10 announcement that a deal had been reached. A Downing Street statement on Saturday said a “confidence and supply” agreement had been reached with the DUP and would be put …

In less than 140 characters, Donald Trump had left the chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee speechless. Senator Bob Corker, a Republican from Tennessee, could barely mask his disbelief when reporters on Capitol Hill informed him of tweets in which Trump accused Qatar, a close US ally, of being a state sponsor of terrorism. “The president?” Corker asked, lowering …

George Osborne has called Theresa May “a dead woman walking” and suggested the prime minister would be forced to resign imminently. The former chancellor said he did not expect to back the prime minister for much longer. “I think we will know very shortly. We could easily get to the middle of next week and it all collapses for her,” …

A chastened Theresa May has apologised to her party colleagues, after squandering the Conservatives’ majority with an ill-fated snap general election, forcing her to turn to Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party for backing. A surge in support for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party and its anti-austerity message drove the Conservatives into retreat, leaving them unable to form a majority government alone. …

British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has received the permission of Queen Elizabeth II to put together a minority government. According to the formalities of the British system, May was on Friday driven to Downing Street to Buckingham Palace to ask Queen Elizabeth for permission to form a government. After receiving the necessary permission to form a cabinet, she said: “As …

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Benue State has declared its support for Governor Samuel Ortom over the Benue State Prohibition of Open Grazing Law 2017, he recently signed into law. The party described the new law as the best thing to happen to the state in recent time. Speaking yesterday to reporters in Makurdi, the Benue State chairman of …

Theresa May has said sorry to the Tory MPs and ministers who lost their seats as a result of her decision to call a snap general election which cost the Conservatives their majority. A disastrous set of election results have left Mrs May clinging onto power with the Prime Minister forced to pursue a deal with the Democratic Unionist Party …

Pupils of Ohovbe Primary School in Ikpoba-Okha local council of Edo State were on Tuesday chased out of their classrooms by cows.The pupils were said to have stayed outside for about one hour before the herdsman came to take them out. It was gathered that the herdsmen have turn the school to a grazing ground and the cows used to …

New York, June 8, 2017—Kenyan authorities should credibly investigate and swiftly bring to justice those responsible for attacking and threatening Emmanuel Namisi, a broadcast journalist for the Royal Media group, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Namisi told CPJ that men he identified as bodyguards of Kenneth Lusaka, governor of the western Kenyan county of Bungoma, threatened him and …