Vice-President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and two people who have been heavily involved in Middle East talks - special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner - are expected to lead negotiations, which were expected to take place in Oman on Saturday.

Meanwhile, a delegation from Qatar travelled to Iran on Friday for talks aimed at defusing tensions and easing navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social earlier on Friday: "The Islamic Republic of

To do what the PFIPC did, an agency in Nigeria must pass through some of the most powerful offices in government - the secretary to the government of the federation - effectively the government's chief administrator, the head of the civil service, the accountant-general who controls public accounts, the budget office, and finally parliament, which must pass the spending into law.

Babachir Lawal has sat at the top of that chain.

He served as secretary to the government of the federation, the office that assigns agencies their

The suspect wasn't even sure what model of gun he'd used, according to messages with his roommate.

"I don't fully know what the gun was, because it was old... and Gramps did some modifying," he wrote.

Twiggs testified that Robinson had asked weeks earlier about using an engraving tool in advance of an upcoming hunting and camping trip with his family.

After the shooting, however, he texted Twiggs: "Remember how I was engraving bullets?"

He said the

The pitch by Thomas Lukaszuk, a former Progressive Conservative Alberta lawmaker, is that separation "would be, from a political, economic, and social perspective, a terrible process to have to go through."

Lukaszuk's group, Forever Canadian, recently formally opened its campaign headquarters in Calgary. He told the BBC that his aim is not to tell Albertans how to vote, but to remind them of what it means to be Canadian, and - in his view - the dire consequences of separation.

He has spent

Despite the fact that he views the media as one half of "The Cathedral" - his term for what he believes is the repressive ideological power made up of journalists and academics that secretly runs Western society - he agrees to meet me in Berkeley, California. We go on a short hike while Yarvin, who looks like an ageing punk rocker, speaks in circuitous, long-winded yarns that reference esoteric texts and periods of history to prove his points.

In our conversation, he outlines his "Patchwork" concept,

Many National Rally supporters will be relieved Le Pen is running instead. She has made politics her life, has already run three presidential campaigns, and her decision has boosted her lead in the polls.

Bardella's age and lack of experience, many feared, would have come under close scrutiny and could have become a liability.

Still, Bardella's body language at Wednesday's campaign event in the north-west was telling.

While Le Pen beamed at the cameras, brushing off suggestions her deputy would mind being

Acting mayor Regina Kharchenko told the BBC that during one particularly intensive attack she "did not go to the shelter, but when it got too loud I took cover in the toilet".

A Shahed drone crashed not far from Anna's office with a big bang, and another drone struck a cable, taking down the internet. "That's just another ordinary day in Zaporizhzhia," she said.

Their city is the administrative capital of Zaporizhzhia region, one of five regions in Ukraine's south and east

Apple has accused OpenAI of gaining access to valuable inside information through the hiring of its former employees.

In a federal lawsuit filed on Friday, Apple sued the artificial intelligence (AI) company, two of its employees, as well as io Products, claiming it has engaged in "a pattern of theft" of Apple's confidential product development and related work.

At least two long-time Apple workers who left the company to join OpenAI allegedly took part in this pattern by, in part, emailing themselves internal Apple