INTERNATIONAL

Boris Johnson has compared the EU’s aims to Hitler’s, saying both involved the intention to unify Europe under a single “authority”. The pro-Brexit Tory MP said both the Nazi leader and Napoleon had failed at unification and the EU was “an attempt to do this by different methods”. Labour MP Yvette Cooper, from the Remain campaign, accused the ex-London Mayor ...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has threatened the seizure of factories that have stopped production, and the jailing of their owners. In a speech to supporters in the capital Caracas, he said the country had to recover the means of production, to counter its deep economic crisis. On Friday, he introduced a new, nationwide state of emergency. Opposition protesters have been ...

Thousands of people have attended the funeral in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, of top Hezbollah military commander Mustafa Amine Badreddine. He died in an explosion near Damascus airport, the Lebanon-based group said, adding it would announce “within hours” its report into the killing. Hezbollah has sent thousands of troops to support Syria’s President Assad. In 2015, the US said that Badreddine ...

Outgoing Celtic manager Ronny Deila says he doesn’t regret joining the Parkhead club, despite rueing some of his decisions from his time in charge. The 40-year-old will leave the club on Sunday after his side are presented with the Scottish Premiership championship trophy following their final game of the season against Motherwell. The Norwegian won two league titles and a ...

The US Navy has fired the commander of the 10 US sailors who in January entered Iranian territorial waters and were briefly detained. In a statement, the US Navy said it had lost confidence in Eric Rasch, who was in charge of a riverine squadron at the time of the incident in the Gulf. A Navy official said Mr Rasch ...

Brazil’s new interim President Michel Temer has addressed the nation after the Senate voted to back the impeachment trial of Dilma Rousseff. “Trust in the values of our people and in our ability to rebuild the economy,” Mr Temer said. He has named a business-friendly cabinet that includes respected former central bank chief Henrique Meirelles as finance minster. Ms Rousseff ...

Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has condemned the move to impeach her as a “coup” and a “farce”, denying she has committed any crimes. She was addressing the nation on TV for the first time since senators voted overnight to suspend her for budgetary violations and put her on trial. Ms Rousseff vowed to fight the “injustice” by all legal means. ...

At least 93 people have been killed in three car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, police and medics say. The deadliest killed 84 people and wounded 87 in a market in the mainly Shia Muslim area of Sadr City. Later two suicide bombers targeted police checkpoints in the northern district of Kadhimiya and in Jamia, in the west, ...

Brazil’s Senate is debating whether President Dilma Rousseff should face a full impeachment trial. If a simple majority votes in favour, as is expected, Ms Rousseff will be automatically suspended from office. Ms Rousseff made a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court to stop proceedings, but the move was rejected. The president is accused of illegally manipulating finances to hide ...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari says he is not demanding “any apology from anybody” after UK Prime Minister David Cameron labelled his country “fantastically corrupt”. Speaking at an anti-corruption event in London, Mr Buhari said he was more interested in the return of stolen assets held in British banks. Mr Cameron made the unguarded comments in a conversation with the Queen. ...