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Bob Corker and Jeff Flake, two southern Republican senators with little to lose politically as they enter their last months in office, strongly criticized Donald Trump's temperament as president on Tuesday, a remarkable display as the party seeks to unite over tax reform. Corker strongly criticized Trump in interviews and on Twitter, saying the president is consistently untruthful and has debased the United States and damaged its standing around the world. "The president has great difficulty with the truth on many issues," Corker said in a CNN interview at the Capitol, hours before Trump met with him and other senators to seek consensus on a tax reform plan. "It's amazing. Unfortunately, world leaders are very aware that much of what he says is untrue," Corker continued. "Certainly people here are, because these things are provably untrue. They're just factually incorrect and people know the difference." 'That's what hurt me the most...

A Georgia sheriff accused of violating the civil rights of hundreds of high school students when he ordered a massive school drug search is now accused of interfering with a GBI investigation into his son's recent drug arrest. In April, Worth County Sheriff Jeff Hobby drew ire from scores parents who accused him and his deputies of violating the civil rights of their children. Hobby ordered a search that resulted in his deputies locking down the Worth County High School for four hours as they searched students' pockets, waistbands and underwear. Some students said they felt sexually violated. A grand jury indicted the sheriff and two deputies Oct. 3 in a case involving allegations of false imprisonment, violation of oath of office and sexual battery. The sheriff now stands accused by the local prosecutor of interfering with the criminal investigation into his teenage son, Zachary Lewis Hobby. The younger Hobby was arrested Oct. 9 and charged with felony possession of marijuana ...

241 Nigerian women including five nursing mothers were repatriated to the country on Tuesday following their failed attempt to take the illegal Libyan routes to Europe. According to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), a total of 257 Nigerians offered themselves to be returned to the country with assistance of the International Organisation for Migration.  They were transported in a chartered Airbus A330-200 flight with Registration number 5A- LAT at 9.15pm therough the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The returnees, among them two children, four male adults, four teenage boys, were received by Suleiman Yakubu, the Zonal Coordinator of NEMA Southwest.  Yakubu enjoined the returnees to embrace the change mantra of the federal government.  He urged them to remain positive and focused on contributing their quota to national development, instead of seeking greener pastures where it doesn't exist. Yakubu noted that they would not be treated as second class citi...

NEW DELHI: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday the United States was concerned that extremist groups pose a threat to the "stability and security" of the Pakistan government. Tillerson, who arrived in New Delhi late Tuesday after a frosty reception in Islamabad, said the US was worried that too many extremist groups were finding safe havens inside Pakistan from which to launch attacks on other nations. "Quite frankly my view — and I expressed this to the leadership of Pakistan — is we also are concerned about the stability and security of Pakistan's government as well," he told reporters in New Delhi. "This could lead to a threat to Pakistan's own stability. It is not in anyone's interests that the government of Pakistan be destabilised." Tillerson's visit to Pakistan came months after President Donald Trump accused Islamabad of harbouring "agents of chaos" who could attack US-led NATO forces in neighbouring Afghani...

rule on delay Just two of a minimum of five supreme court judges turned up to rule on petition to postpone Thursday's contentious presidential vote Kenya's presidential election rerun is set to go ahead on Thursday after the country's supreme court failed to consider a petition to postpone the highly contentious vote. Amid high tension and fears of violence, only two supreme court judges attended a hearing on Wednesday morning – three short of the five judges needed for a quorum. "This matter cannot be heard this morning," David Maraga, the chief justice, told reporters in Nairobi, the capital. Elections will now proceed, an election board lawyer said afterwards. Thursday's disputed election was called after the supreme court annulled an election held in August due to procedural irregularities. The August presidential election was won by the incumbent, Uhuru Kenyatta , by a margin of nine percentage points. Opposition leaders have said they do not believe the ...

France's highest court ruled Friday that a researcher could be denied access to sensitive archives concerning the 1994 genocide in Rwanda even though they were ostensibly opened to the public in 2015. Researcher and author Francois Graner , who has written a number of works on the genocide, cannot see the files because of a law protecting presidential archives for 25 years following the death of a head of state, the constitutional council ruled. Kigali's minority Tutsi-led government has accused France, under then president Francois Mitterrand, of supporting the Hutu regime that carried out the bulk of the killings, in which around 800,000 mostly Tutsi people died. The constitutional council said its ruling applied to the archives of former presidents, prime ministers and ministers. As Mitterrand died in 1996, his archives should become available in 2021. The court said its ruling was "justified in the general interest" and that it did not undermine freedom of express...

PICTURE OF MAINA AND MALAMI ABOVE The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on Tuesday, broke silence on the allegation that he spearheaded the recall, promotion and posting of Maina to the Ministry of Interior. Malami, in a grudgingly chat with Vanguard Newspaper , last night, said he would rather respond to the avalanche of allegations against him when he formally appears before the Senate, which had summoned him to speak on his role on the entire saga. Malami said: "I am a legal practitioner, who is always guided by law and public interest and will therefore not do anything that deviates from the law or breaches public interest. "I believe that Nigerians are entitled to know the truth in the entire saga and I am ready to speak directly to them when I appear before the Senate since I have been summoned by the legislature, which is investigating the matter. "I will not however talk until I get clearance from my principal on the mat...

Pictured, Russian cleaner, Natalia Nemets who was boiled alive after falling in a caramel vat at Slavyanka confectionery factory. Natalia Nemets Russian cleaner boiled alive in molten caramel factory tank with management threatening workers dismissal if discussing details. Natalia Nemets a 36 year old Russian cleaner has died when molten caramel gushed into a tank she was cleaning at a confectionary factory. Local reports told of the mother of one being 'boiled alive' at the chocolate plant in Story Oskol, in the Belgorod region. Molten caramel can reach temperatures well above 212 degrees. Workers told of seeing the woman's legs poking out of the caramel in the tank, unable to do anything to save the doomed woman. Told a female colleague via Komsomolskaya Pravda , ' She did not cry, no other noise was heard,' 'She was cleaning the mixer when the caramel suddenly began to flow into the bowl,' 'She got boiled alive, this is true. 'The caramel was remo...

ABDULLAHI ABDULRASHEED MAINA How Malami, Dambazau Plotted Maina's Reinstatement. • After director's second dismissal, Buhari receives report on his recall • Oyo-Ita insists she had no hand in reinstatement • PDP, others demand AGF, minister's sack as EFCC storms residence Following Monday's directive by President Muhammadu Buhari ordering the immediate dismissal of former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina, from the federal civil service, fresh facts have come to light showing the involvement of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), and his counterpart in the Ministry of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, in the embattled director's promotion and reinstatement in the civil service. Maina, who had been at large since 2013 when he was declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over his suspected involvement in a N2 billion pens...

Arizona senator Jeff Flake on Tuesday launched an extraordinary attack against Donald Trump and the "complicity" of the Republican party while announcing his decision to leave the Senate. Flake, a key Republican critic of Trump, said he was retiring at the end of his term in 2018 because there was no room for him in the party under the current president's stewardship. He then delivered an emotional appeal from the Senate floor against the state of affairs under Trump, bemoaning that his Republican colleagues had "given in or given up on core principles in favor of a more viscerally satisfying anger and resentment". "We must never allow ourselves to lapse into thinking that that is just the way things are now," he added. "We must stop pretending that the degradation of our politics and the conduct of some in our executive branch are normal.""It is time for our complicity and our accommodation for the unacceptable to end," Flake said....