However, while Mr Davis is in charge of the Brexit negotiations, the final decisions will be made by Prime Minister Theresa May, who was a Remain supporter during the referendum. But the appointment of the Brexit minister has been seen by Leave campaigners as a positive sign that Brexit will not be delayed. In an article on 11 July, Mr Davis said that Britain should take a "brisk but measured" approach to initiating the two-year process of thrashing out a new relationship with Brussels under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.

Before the Article is invoked, "serious consultation" must take place with the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as stakeholders in the City, business organisations, the TUC, the National Farmers Union, universities and research foundations, he said. Mr Davis wrote: "None of them should have any sort of veto, but we should try to accommodate their concerns so long as it does not compromise the main aim. This whole process should be completed to allow triggering of Article 50 before or by the beginning of next year."

In the article published on the ConservativeHome website, Mr Davis said the ideal - and most likely - outcome of Article 50 negotiations would give the UK continued tariff-free access to the European single market while allowing it to impose new controls on migration. He said: "Once the European nations realise that we are not going to budge on control of our borders, they will want to talk, in their own interest. There may be some complexities about rules of origin and narrowly-based regulatory compliance for exports into the EU, but that is all manageable."

China’s Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin issued the warning during a news conference in Beijing on Wednesday while introducing a government paper on the tribunal's findings. The remarks came a day after the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled against China and sided with the Philippines in a case brought by the latter.

The tribunal said China had violated the Philippines' sovereignty and caused "severe harm to the coral reef environment" by building what it called artificial islands in the contested waters. The Chinese official described the ruling as waste paper, emphasizing that his country had "the right" to establish an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over the South China Sea.

"Whether we need to set up one in the South China Sea depends on the level of threat we receive," he said, adding, "We hope other countries will not take the chance to blackmail China."

Vast quantities of fresh produce grown in the US are left in the field to rot, fed to livestock or hauled directly from the field to landfill, because of unrealistic and unyielding cosmetic standards, according to official data and interviews with dozens of farmers, packers, truckers, researchers, campaigners and government officials.

From the fields and orchards of California to the population centres of the east coast, farmers and others on the food distribution chain say high-value and nutritious food is being sacrificed to retailers’ demand for unattainable perfection. “It’s all about blemish-free produce,” says Jay Johnson, who ships fresh fruit and vegetables from North Carolina and central Florida. “What happens in our business today is that it is either perfect, or it gets rejected. It is perfect to them, or they turn it down. And then you are stuck.”

Food waste is often described as a “farm-to-fork” problem. Produce is lost in fields, warehouses, packaging, distribution, supermarkets, restaurants and fridges. By one government tally, about 60 million tonnes of produce worth about $160 billion (£119 billion), is wasted by retailers and consumers every year - one third of all foodstuffs.

But that is just a “downstream” measure. In more than two dozen interviews, farmers, packers, wholesalers, truckers, food academics and campaigners described the waste that occurs “upstream”: scarred vegetables regularly abandoned in the field to save the expense and labour involved in harvest. Or left to rot in a warehouse because of minor blemishes that do not necessarily affect freshness or quality. When added to the retail waste, it takes the amount of food lost close to half of all produce grown, experts say.

What’s easy to miss, however, is that there’s a grand irony on both sides of the budding rapport between Pope Francis and his Orthodox counterparts.

Irony #1: It’s precisely Francis’ perceived “liberalism” in the West that may open doors for him in the generally more doctrinally and morally conservative East.

Irony #2: If Pope Francis should somehow succeed in restoring a form of communion with Orthodoxy, then arguably one of the greatest historical legacies of this “progressive” pope would be injecting a staunchly conservative force into Catholic life.

Of course it’s impossible to say how things will play out from here, and one more meeting in Tbilisi hardly means that reunion is around the corner. Still, when Francis and Ilia get together on September 30, it will be a reminder that when it comes to Catholic/Orthodox relations in the Pope Francis era, there’s more than one irony in the fire.

These are the locations and times for the protests:

Phoenix: 5:00PM (EASTLAKE PARK, 1549 E Jefferson St , Phoenix, AZ 85034)

Tuscon: 5:00PM (CATALINA PARK, 900 N 4th Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85705)

Little Rock: 6:00PM (OUTSIDE STATE CAPITOL BUILDING, Dr Martin Luther King Jr Dr., Little Rock, AR 72201)

San Francisco: 4:00PM (CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, 355 Mcallister St, San Francisco, California 94102)

Oakland: 4:00PM (FRANK OGAWA PLAZA, 1 Frank H Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA 94612)

Los Angeles: 4:00PM (LEIMERT PLAZA PARK, 4395 Leimert Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008)

Denver: 5:00PM (CIVIC CENTER PARK, 100 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, Colorado 80204)

Washington DC: 7:00PM (OUTSIDE WHITE HOUSE, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500)

Atlanta: 7:00PM (OLD DECATUR COURTHOUSE, 101 E Court Sq, Decatur, GA 30030)

Tampa: 7:00PM (OUTSIDE HILLSBOROUGH COURTHOUSE, 800 E Twiggs St, Tampa, FL)

Orlando: 7:00PM (LAKE EOLA PARK, 195 N Rosalind Ave, Orlando, Florida 32801)

Miami: 7:00PM (GWEN CHERRY PARK, NW 71 St., Miami, Florida, 33147)

Chicago: 6:00PM (RICHARD J DALEY CENTER, 50 W Washington St, Chicago, Illinois 60602)

Des Moines: 6:00PM (IOWA STATE CAPITOL, 1007 E Grand Ave, Des Moines, IA 50319)

New Orleans: 6:00PM (LAFAYETTE SQUARE, New Orleans, LA 70130)

Baltimore: 7:00PM (201 E Pratt St, Baltimore, MD 21202)

Boston: 7:00PM (MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE, 24 Beacon St, Boston, MA 01233)

Detroit: 7:00PM (Campus Martius Park, Detroit, Michigan 48226)

Lansing: 7:00PM (STATE CAPITOL BUILDING, Capitol Avenue at Michigan Avenue, Lansing, MI 48933)

Ann Arbor: 7:00PM (THE DIAG, Burns Park, Ann Arbor, MI 48109)

Minneapolis: 6:00PM (MINNEAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE, 2100 Plymouth Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411

St. Louis: 6:00PM (GATEWAY ARCH, St. Louis 63102)

Carson City: 4:00PM (NEVADA STATE CAPITOL BUILDING, 101 N Carson St, Carson City, Nevada 89701)

Manhattan, NY: 7:00PM (TIMES SQUARE, Manhattan, NY, 10036)

Newark: 7:00PM (NEWARK CITY HALL, 920 Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey 07102)

Durham: 7:00PM (200 E. Main St. Durham, North Carolina)

Columbus: 7:00PM (GOODALE PARK, Columbus, Ohio 43215)

Cleveland: 7:00PM (CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY, 325 Superior Ave E, Cleveland, Ohio 44114)

Portland: 4:00PM (PIONEER COURTHOUSE SQUARE, 701 SW 6th Ave, Portland, Oregon 97204)

Philadelphia: 7:00PM (LOVE PARK, 1599 John F Kennedy Blvd, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102)

Pittsburgh: 7:00PM (PITTSBURGH CITY-COUNTY BUILDING, 414 Grant St, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219)

Nashville: 6:00PM (801 Broadway Nashville, TN 37203 Estes Kefauver Federal Building)

Memphis: 6:00PM (Health Sciences Park Memphis, TN)

Austin: 6:00PM (TEXAS STATE CAPITOL, Outside South Gate-11th and Congress Ave.)

Salt Lake City: 5:00PM (SALT LAKE CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 4600 S Redwood Rd, Salt Lake City, Utah 84123)

Seattle: 4:00PM (QUEEN ANNE BAPTIST CHURCH, 2011 1st Ave N, Seattle, Washington 98109)

Milwaukee: 5:00PM (DINEEN PARK, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

And if your home happens to be in or near one of these areas, be aware that your city could be under siege. Make plans to stay safe and hunker down with emergency food and purified water, or to go someplace safer.

President Francois Hollande said the attack was of "an undeniable terrorist nature". A state of emergency, in place since November's Paris attacks, has been extended by three months. France had been on high alert since those attacks in which 130 people died and hundreds were wounded.

"France is badly hit," Mr Hollande said, adding that "we need to do everything we can to fight against" such attacks. "All of France is under the threat of Islamic terrorism," he said, adding that several children were among the dead. European Council President Donald Tusk condemned the attack, saying "it's a tragic paradox that the subjects of this attack were people celebrating liberty, equality and fraternity".

He said: “In France populist voices may get very strong. It would be highly likely though that the EU would be destroyed if France was to exit. Anything else, aside from Germany, the EU can take. “There would be an urgent need for reforms for the Euro as well. Southern countries who can't afford to would have to leave the eurozone. Instead we are doing the opposite, meaning, we are now also burdening the German banking system with a union based on joint liabilities only to drag on the insolvency of the south and to go into insolvency together one day.”

Economists are already fearing struggling Italian banks could spark a major financial crash as the European Central Bank deals with a struggling eurozone economy and debt-burdened Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal. EU bosses have told Italy to stop asking for a £3.4 billion payout to save its banks as German finance chiefs warned Berlin cannot be expected to foot the bill. Mr Otte said at some point the eurozone will explode.

He said: “Today we know that the Euro has damaged and thrown back the EU immensely. I said in my presentation in April 1998 that the system will last for about ten years, before the difficulties would begin. It lasted for about eleven years before the issues began. The issues are gigantic. The states in Europe have conspired to keep this art project alive. As long as I apply this constraint, as long as there are still reserves in the system this will continue. I don't expect that the Euro will explode in the next years. At some point it has to explode because it's artificial and can't function in this form.”

In June it was decided the European Central Bank would be allowed to buy up debt and prop up the eurozone’s ailing economies, supported by Germany’s central bank. At the height of the financial crisis, chief of the ECB Mario Draghi pledged to do "whatever it takes" to keep the eurozone's financial structure from imploding. But Mr Otte said the crisis is ongoing when the EU needs to pull together. He said: “We have indeed entered a financial crisis in instalments. We're facing tough times - I can confirm that. I can't yet see the figurative light at the end of the tunnel.” He added: “The Brexit can and has to be the impetus for a basic reformation of Europe.”

All across the country, things are going poorly. But this isn’t the fault of the people. By constantly using phrases that divide people by race, the mainstream media and the powers that be are attempting to pit us against each other. When these situations reach a boiling point, both sides will turn violent and blood will be shed. The whole country will fall into absolute chaos and the government will intervene with the only answer they see fit: martial law.

The federal government is attempting to push through a “reasonable tyranny” where they slowly begin to take our rights away under the guise of protecting our safety. This has occurred time and time again throughout history and the groundwork has already been laid for it to happen here in America.

Pretending that they care about our lives, the federal government will inevitably begin to take away everything we have protecting us — and then they will expand their powers more and more until we’re living under a form of slavery in our own backyards. If the government does choose to enact martial law — which doesn’t seem too far off — then the freedom of our country will be put at risk. It’s an absolutely terrifying possibility that seems more likely every day. We had all better be ready if we want to survive in the most unsure of times.

During her speech in Berlin, Mrs von der Leyen added: “Europeans are right to expect that the EU tackles the big questions. We now have that opportunity." Germany's defence plan calls for a "permanent structured co-operation in the defence sector" which Britain has consistently opposed while being an EU member.

Despite the timely announcement, Mrs von de Leyen said the plans would have gone ahead with the announcement even without the Brexit vote. She said: "I am of firm conviction that some of the frustration of people in Europe is connected with the fact that Europe did not progress much on an issue which the majority of people agree - that a European security and foreign policy is the right thing."

The potential for an EU army is allowed under the Lisbon treaty yet the British government has consistently opposed such a move. Retired army officers have warned staying in the EU would damage Britain's military capabilities and have been critical about the lack of accountability an EU army would have.

Their website questions: “Who would control the EU armed forces? The EU Commission? Can we call them to account? Can we seriously believe that our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines should be sent into danger by a body over which we have no control, and which answers to none of us.”

France is said to be delighted with the German announcement, and will submit similar proposals soon.

Mr Acheson told the Commons Justice Committee it was a “bit nuts” there were no plans in place to extend extremism training in jails beyond April. Writing about radicalisation in prisons, the ex-prison governor proposed the idea that terrorists should have a “prison within a prison” to stop the spread of their extremist ideology.

Justice Secretary Michael Gove said he was open to reforming the prison system to upgrade Category B prisons, which Mr Acheson said were “frequently destabilised”. This could be a factor in missing the early signs of radicalisation, according to Mr Acheson. There are currently around 12,500 Muslims behind bars in England and Wales.

A former convict who served time in HMP Belmarsh says a gang of at least 20 Muslim inmates, who where jailed for terror-related offences, cheered when ISIS captured the Iraqi city of Mosul. The convict, known as Jamal, said: “I watched how prison officers seemingly took no action, leaving new inmates like myself with the impression that the real people in charge were not the warders, but a terrifying group of radical Islamists.”

They will then face deportation and as little as a week to lodge an appeal. The new rules come in the wake of last year’s migrant crisis which left the continent in turmoil as countries on the outer edges of the Schengen free movement zone, notably Greece, struggled to cope with the numbers arriving.

West European countries such as Germany and Sweden were inundated with migrants who travelled freely across member states in a bid to get to the wealthier countries. This all happened despite the Dublin Regulation which makes the member state in which asylum seekers first enter the EU responsible for fingerprinting and processing an asylum application.

The lawsuit seeks “to redress the incitement, threats and killings provoked by the defendants." In his lawsuit, Klayman also named Al Sharpton and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan in the suit. The lawsuit, filed Saturday in Dallas, alleges that the defendants are guilty of civil rights violations, terrorist promotion of gang activity, and aiding and abetting murder.

The defendants are accused of… “inciting the imminent serious bodily injury and killing of police officers and other law enforcement persons of all races and ethnicities, Jews, and Caucasians by convincing their supporters and others that there is a civil war between blacks and law enforcement, thereby calling for immediate violence and severe bodily injury or death in response to that non-existent and fictitious threat.”

Klayman had this to say upon the filing of this class action complaint: "For too long, law enforcement and others, including white and non-white Jews and Christians, have remained silent, scared to speak and act, for fear of being branded racists over the fear of being threatened and harmed by the defendants and their accomplices. This must stop and justice must be done to preserve the integrity of our great nation and to avoid an all out race war that will destroy the freedom that our Founding Fathers dedicated their sacred honor, their fortunes and risked their lives for."