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James Comey is facing new criminal charges after a North Carolina grand jury indicted the former FBI director on allegations he threatened US President Donald Trump, reviving a legal fight that returns just five months after an earlier case against the longtime Trump critic was dismissed. The indictment centres on an Instagram post Mr Comey, 65, shared in May last year showing the numbers "86 47" arranged in seashells. In an interview with Fox News at the time, Mr Trump said "86" was slang for kill and that "47" referred to…

President Donald Trump asserted that Iran is quietly engaged in negotiations and suggested Tehran's public denials stem from fears that negotiators could be killed by hardliners — or targeted by the United States. "They are negotiating, by the way, and they want to make a deal so badly. But they're afraid to say it, because they figure they'll be killed by their own people," Mr Trump told a dinner for Republican members of Congress. "They're also afraid they'll be killed by us." His remarks came after Iranian Foreign…

President Donald Trump asserted that Iran is engaged in negotiations, accusing Tehran of publicly denying talks out of fear that Iranian negotiators could be killed by hardliners — or by the United States. "They are negotiating, by the way, and they want to make a deal so badly. But they're afraid to say it, because they figure they'll be killed by their own people," Mr Trump told a dinner for Republican members of Congress. "They're also afraid they'll be killed by us." The president's remarks came after Iranian Foreign…

It is a day of mourning this Friday in Senegal at the urging of the opposition collective M2D, the movement for the defense of democracy, in memory of the victims of last week's clashes between police and protesters, which left at least five dead. It all started with the arrest of opponent Ousmane Sonko, accused of the alleged rape of a young Senegalese woman. Aljoner Tine heads the West African think tank Africajom Center. He's one of the people President Macky Sall has heard in recent days. Online from Dakar he gives…