Nigeria gunmen attack villages as US military team deploys

Nestle has fired its chief executive after just one year in the job because he failed to disclose a “romantic relationship” with a “direct subordinate”. The Swiss food giant, which makes Kit Kat chocolate bars and Nespresso coffee capsules, said Laurent Freixe has been dimissed with “immediate effect” following an investigation led by Nestle’s chair…

Reuters President Donald Trump has said the US has carried out a strike on a “dock area” linked to alleged Venezuelan drug boats. Speaking to reporters in Florida on Monday, Trump said there had been a “major explosion” last week where “they load the boats up with drugs”. He did not give details on where…

Getty Images As Ugandans go to the polls next week they are faced with a choice of propelling a leader into his fifth decade in power or backing a candidate seeking to capitalise on the desire for change from some quarters. President Yoweri Museveni, 81, in office since 1986, is aiming for a seventh successive…

At least 13 people have been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian republic of Tatarstan, local officials have said. They confirmed one child was among those killed, with 75 more people injured as drones hit Nizhnekamsk, more than 1,100 kilometres (680m) from the Ukrainian border. Ukraine’s Armed Forces said the city’s Tanevo…