United Kingdom Votes To Decide The Fate Of Brexit, Again
Voters went to the polls on Thursday in an election that will pave the way for Brexit under Prime Minister...
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Banksy’s Flying Reindeer Highlight Christmas Homeless Plight
Elusive British street artist Banksy has highlighted the issue of rough sleeping in a seasonal mural showing two flying reindeer...
Russia Banned From Olympic Games For Altering Doping Data
Russia was banned from the Olympics and other major world championships on Monday after sporting officials decided to punish it...
Finland Picks World’s Youngest PM, Women-Led Cabinet
Finland’s new prime minister - the world’s youngest premier - will have a finance minister two years her junior in...
Japan Clears Restart At Nuclear Reactor Closest To Epicentre Of 2011 Quake
Japan’s Tohoku Electric Power said on Wednesday it has won initial regulatory approval to restart a reactor at its Onagawa...
Apple Supplier Salcomp To Invest $279 Million In New Indian Plant
Finland’s Salcomp, a supplier to U.S. tech group Apple, is to invest 20 billion rupees ($278.67 million) in India to...
Israel Expels Human Rights Watch Official Over Boycott Accusations
A Human Rights Watch (HRW) official complied with an Israeli expulsion order on Monday, imposed over accusations he backs an...
Fresh Headache For China After Hong Kong Democrats Rout Pro-Beijing Candidates
After months of sometimes-violent unrest in Hong Kong, an election with record turnout handed a big victory to pro-democracy local...
China Attacks U.S. At G20 As The World’s Biggest Source Of Instability
The United States is the world’s biggest source of instability and its politicians are going around the world baselessly smearing...
Protesters Stay Holed Up On Hong Kong Campus, Surrounded By Riot Police
Fewer than 100 protesters remained holed up in a Hong Kong university on Thursday as riot police encircled the campus,...
Prince Andrew Sex Claim Scandal Overshadows UK Election Campaign
A sex claim scandal involving Prince Andrew overshadowed Britain’s election campaign on Monday when Queen Elizabeth’s second son faced a...
Vietnam Jails Music Teacher For 11 years Over ‘Anti-State’ Facebook Posts
A court in Vietnam jailed a music teacher for 11 years on Friday for a series of posts on Facebook...
Activists Urge India, UK To Challenge Pak Atrocities In Balochistan
The UK chapter of the Baloch National Movement (BNM) and associated organisations called on the Indian government to challenge the...
Despite Kashmir Anger, Xi Invites Modi To Visit Again Next Year
Chinese President Xi Jinping has invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit China again next year after two informal...
Violence Brings Hong Kong To ‘Brink Of Total Breakdown’: Police
Hong Kong police fired tear gas on Tuesday in the heart of the Central financial district and at two university...
Hong Kong Spirals Into Rare Working-Hour Violence As Police Shoot Protester
Hong Kong police shot and wounded one protester who, hospital officials said, was in critical condition on Monday, as the...
War Crimes Judges Sentence Congolese Warlord Ntaganda To 30 Years In Prison
The International Criminal Court (ICC) sentenced former Congolese military leader Bosco Ntaganda on Thursday to 30 years in prison for...
World’s Biggest Trade Pact Shapes Up Without India
Although India pulled out at the last minute, China and 14 other countries agreed in Bangkok this week on plans...
Myanmar Ethnic Rebels Release Indians Held In Rakhine After One Dies
Ethnic rebels in Myanmar have detained and interrogated a lawmaker and several Indian nationals, one of whom died, the rebels...
Germany’s Merkel Renews Push For FTA With India, Pledges Green Funds
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday there was a need for a fresh attempt to restart talks on finalising...
Facebook Agrees To Pay UK Fine Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Facebook has agreed to pay a 500,000 pound ($644,000) fine for breaches of data protection law related to the harvesting...
Secretive Military Spaceplane Lands In Florida After Record-Long Orbital Flight
The Pentagon’s secretive X-37B spaceplane landed in Florida on Sunday after a record-long orbital flight lasting more than two years,...
Students Flood Iraq Streets, Defying Government And Parents
Students and schoolchildren hit the streets of Baghdad and southern Iraq on Monday to join escalating calls for the government...
Exclusive: Baghdadi’s Aide Was Key To His Capture — Iraqi Intelligence Sources
In their long hunt for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi intelligence teams secured a break in February 2018 after one of...
Majority Of 39 UK Truck Victims Likely From Vietnam — Priest
The majority of the 39 people found dead in the back of a truck near London were likely from Vietnam,...
