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Donald Trump’s legal team sought to dismantle the credibility of key prosecution witness Michael Cohen in his Manhattan trial on Tuesday. Cohen, Mr Trump’s former lawyer, testified about hush-money payments to adult-film star Stormy Daniels. The ex-president showed no reaction while his current counsel, Todd Blanche, attacked Cohen’s motivations. Cohen, portrayed by other witnesses as...

The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has played a rendition of Neil Young’s Rockin’ in the Free World with a local band at a bar called Diktat on his surprise trip to Kyiv. The song was released by Neil Young in 1989 after a planned concert in the Soviet Union was cancelled. Before he...

A prominent far-right German politician has been found guilty of knowingly using a Nazi slogan in a speech. Björn Höcke, who leads the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the state of Thuringia, was on trial for saying the words “Everything for Germany!” at a rally in Merseburg in May 2021. The slogan is associated...

Amra’s mother said he had not given any indication he would try to escape. “He doesn’t talk to me. He’s my son, he doesn’t talk to me about anything at all.” She said she went to visit him in several of the prisons he’s been held in, but “he never gave anything away. I don’t...

Israel and Egypt are locked in a row over the Rafah border crossing, blaming each other for its continued closure as Gaza’s humanitarian crisis worsens. Israeli forces have taken control of the Gaza side of the crossing. On Tuesday Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz said he had told the UK and Germany about “the need...