UK risks more in post-Brexit talks

European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen yesterday warned that failing to rapidly negotiate a new trade deal after Brexit would hurt Britain more than it would the EU.
18 December 2019, 18:00 PM

UK PM to outlaw Brexit extension beyond 2020

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was seeking yesterday to outlaw extending the Brexit transition period beyond the end of 2020, as he prepared to put the EU divorce deal before MPs.
17 December 2019, 18:00 PM

UK PM can’t keep Scotland in union against will: Sturgeon

Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, yesterday warned Prime Minister Boris Johnson that he could not keep Scotland in the United Kingdom against the country’s will.
15 December 2019, 18:00 PM

How Johnson’s gamble paid off

It was a straight forward message: “Get Brexit done.” The mantra of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party during the national election campaign was aimed at harnessing voter frustration at a parliamentary logjam over Britain’s exit from the European Union. It worked.
13 December 2019, 18:00 PM

World leaders react to Boris Johnson's British election victory

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party secures a majority in a landslide election victory, results showed on Friday.
13 December 2019, 10:07 AM

How Boris Johnson’s election gamble paid off

It was a straight forward message: “Get Brexit done.” The mantra of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party during the national election campaign was aimed at harnessing voter frustration at a parliamentary logjam over Britain’s exit from the European Union.
13 December 2019, 09:32 AM

UK elections: Tulip, Rushanara, Rupa re-elected

Bangladeshi-origin candidates Tulip Siddiq, Rushanara Ali and Rupa Huq are were re-elected as parliament members in the UK national election.
13 December 2019, 06:02 AM

Pound soars as Johnson heads for landslide British election win

The British pound surged more than 2% on Thursday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party looked set for a decisive election victory that markets believe makes an orderly exit from the European Union all but certain.
13 December 2019, 04:57 AM

British PM Johnson: We have a powerful mandate for Brexit

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that his government appeared to have won a powerful new mandate to get Brexit done.
13 December 2019, 04:26 AM

Britain speeds towards Brexit as Johnson wins large majority in election

Prime Minister Boris Johnson wins a resounding election victory that will allow him to end three years of political paralysis and take Britain out of the European Union by Jan. 31.
13 December 2019, 01:15 AM

Possible outcomes

Britain went to the polls yesterday to decide the future of Brexit in a snap pre-Christmas election aimed at ending years of political deadlock and bitter divisions over the country’s European Union membership.
12 December 2019, 18:00 PM

Rohingya genocide: Full transcript of last 2 days' hearing at ICJ

The hearings at an international court in a case filed by Gambia against Myanmar alleging genocide against the minority Rohingya population at the International Court of Justice in The Hague roles into the third and final day.
12 December 2019, 10:36 AM

Climate pledges ‘misleading’

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg yesterday accused wealthier nations of inventing ways to avoid slashing their greenhouse gas emissions, branding their climate action “misleading” at a summit in Madrid.
11 December 2019, 18:00 PM

All you need to know

Months of fractious political disagreement over Brexit saw MPs agree in October to hold an early general election.
11 December 2019, 18:00 PM

Youth vote an unpredictable factor

Young voters are the most europhile and left-wing in Britain, yet also the least likely to vote, representing an unknown factor in Thursday’s battle for Downing Street.
11 December 2019, 18:00 PM

Gambia has 'failed' to explain genocidal intent: Myanmar

Myanmar's lawyer William Schabas claims that the Gambia has "failed" to explain genocidal intent in the crimes that took place in Rakhine state in 2017.
11 December 2019, 10:26 AM

30,000 face extinction

Already facing the threat of habitat destruction, hundreds of plant and animal species are now under further pressure from manmade climate change, the IUCN yesterday said in its updated “Red List of Threatened Species”.
10 December 2019, 18:00 PM

UK PM pockets reporter’s phone in hospital row

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was accused on Monday of grabbing a journalist’s phone and putting it into his pocket to avoid looking at an image of a boy sleeping on a hospital floor.
10 December 2019, 18:00 PM

2 Algeria ex-PMs get long jail terms in graft trial

An Algerian court yesterday sentenced two former prime ministers to long jail terms in the first of a series of high-profile corruption trials launched after longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned in the face of mass protests in April.
10 December 2019, 18:00 PM

NZ volcano toll rises to six

Fearing the volcano could erupt again, search parties were unable to set foot on New Zealand’s White Island for eight people still missing yesterday, as police raised the death toll to six from the eruption a day earlier.
10 December 2019, 18:00 PM