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Tuesday, 1 August 2017

Trump fires White House communications director 10 days after his appointment

Other international headlines worth a skim this morning:

  • How to lose a guy in 10 days: US President Donald Trump fired recently appointed White House communications director and former Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci just over a week into his role, Reuters reports. The Donald’s new chief of staff, John Kelly, reportedly demanded The Mooch be axed after he “attacked then-White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, in profanity-laden terms” in comments to The New Yorker.
  • Los Angeles will host the 2028 Summer Olympics, swapping the 2024 games withParis, Reuters reports. The agreement between the two cities “turned the spotlight on security challenges facing the French capital while giving Los Angeles, which last hosted the Olympics 33 years ago, ample time to upgrade its public transportation system.”
  • UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s office has said that free movement for European Union citizens will end in 2019, Reuters reports.

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