Trump bid to block ex-aide John Bolton’s book knocked back

NEC kickstarts national security discuss after Buhari inaugurates council.

John Bolton: fired or did he resign?

The US president said he "disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions." Bolton, a hawkish neoconservative best known for his "Axis of Evil" views, was a key figure in the US administrations of both Bushes and Reagan.

Sri Lankan will elect a new president on Saturday, months after the April attacks jilted confidence in the government. Despite 35 contenders running, the vote will likely be dominated by two prominent candidates.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday inaugurated the reviewed National Security Strategy 2019 with a commitment to enhancing the social security of Nigerians as a means of improving their physical security.

If called to testify in the Senate, Bolton would be the highest-ranking White House official to appear in impeachment proceedings. Democrats have urged for him to testify, but Republicans oppose calling new witnesses.

We discuss how the American press is covering the news that John Bolton's upcoming book undermines Donald Trump's defence in the ongoing impeachment trial. We also find out how companies that plant trees to offset their carbon footprint may be greenwashing us. Finally, we learn of a very competitive Irish couple.

Barely 24 hours after the House of Representatives resolved that the service chiefs should be fired, President Muhammadu Buhari presided over a meeting of the National Security Council to seek new ways out of the burgeoning insecurity in the country.

Declare national security emergency, Senate tells Buhari

The memoir by ex-national security adviser John Bolton portrays the president as corrupt and incompetent. The Trump administration had sought to stop its release, saying the book could spill classified information.

In his book "The Room Where It Happened", which the Trump administration tried to block from publication, John Bolton paints an uncompromising picture of the current occupant of the White House. As Donald Trump's national security adviser for 17 months, Bolton was a first-hand witness to the decisions of the US president, whom he accuses of offering "personal favours to dictators he liked".

Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai was arrested Monday while police raided his Apple Daily newspaper office, as part of a sweeping crackdown on dissent since China imposed a national security law on the city.