London attacker named, was convicted of terrorism offences

British police names the man who stabbed two people to death in London on Friday in what the authorities called a terrorist attack as 28-year-old Usman Khan, who had been convicted of terrorism offences and was released from prison last year.
30 November 2019, 04:37 AM

Assange ‘could die’ in UK jail

More than 60 doctors wrote an open letter published yesterday saying they feared Julian Assange’s health was so bad that the WikiLeaks founder could die inside a top-security British jail.
25 November 2019, 18:00 PM

France slams US’s ME inaction

French Defence Minister Florence Parly yesterday took aim at “gradual US disengagement” in the Middle East and said its failure to respond to provocations blamed on Iran set off a dangerous chain of events.
23 November 2019, 18:00 PM

Facebook would have let Hitler post anti-Semitic ads: British comedian

Adolf Hitler would have been able to put anti-Semitic advertisements on Facebook had the social network existed in the 1930s, according to British comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen.
23 November 2019, 05:16 AM

25 migrants rescued from UK-bound truck

A ferry crew found 25 migrants in a refrigerated container on a boat sailing from the Netherlands to Britain on Tuesday, emergency services said.
20 November 2019, 18:00 PM

Three more killed in Bolivia protests

Three protesters were killed and 30 wounded in clashes Tuesday with Bolivian security forces lifting an opposition blockade of fuel supplies to La Paz, the public ombudsman’s office reported.
20 November 2019, 18:00 PM

Terrorism spreads even as deaths fall

The number of global deaths from terrorism fell 15.2 percent in 2018, even as the number of countries affected by extremist violence continued to grow, the 2019 Global Terrorism Index showed.
20 November 2019, 18:00 PM

Johnson, Corbyn spar over Brexit in debate

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn traded blows Tuesday over Brexit and the health system as they vied for votes during the first ever head-to-head TV debate.
20 November 2019, 18:00 PM

Hitler birth house in Austria to become police station

The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be turned into a police station, Austria’s interior ministry announced Tuesday, after years of legal wrangling as the government looks to prevent the building from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.
20 November 2019, 18:00 PM

Kamal seeks more Turkish investment in Bangladesh

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has sought more Turkish investment in Bangladesh’s various sectors as he attended the first day of the Bangladesh-Turkey Joint Economic Commission meeting in Ankara, an official release says.
20 November 2019, 04:50 AM

Hitler birth house in Austria to become police station

The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be turned into a police station, Austria's interior ministry announces, after years of legal wrangling as the government looks to prevent the building from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.
20 November 2019, 04:47 AM

UK PM drops tax cuts to fund spending as polls nears

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday he was putting on hold further cuts in corporation tax and told voters he would pump the money into services such as health instead, addressing a central issue in the December 12 election.
18 November 2019, 18:00 PM

EU 2020 budget talks drag on because of disagreement

Talks setting the EU's budget for next year are going down to the wire because of disagreement between member states and the European Parliament, officials say.
16 November 2019, 13:46 PM

Bushfire threat still high as Australia begins clean up

Australians yesterday began sifting through the ashes of hundreds of bushfires that have ravaged the country, relieved that their worst fears were unrealised -- but wary of a long and brutal summer ahead.
13 November 2019, 18:00 PM

Trump helping climate fight!

Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg said Tuesday that US President Donald Trump’s climate change denialism was “so extreme” that it had helped galvanize the movement to halt long term planetary warming.
13 November 2019, 18:00 PM

Pneumonia deadliest child killer: aid groups

Pneumonia is the world’s deadliest child killer, with a “forgotten epidemic” claiming one young life every 39 seconds, international health and children’s agencies warned yesterday.
12 November 2019, 18:00 PM

Labour suffers ‘cyber attack’ ahead of polls

Britain’s main opposition Labour party yesterday said it had suffered a “large-scale cyber attack” which undermined some of its campaign efforts for next month’s election.
12 November 2019, 18:00 PM

Hillary slams UK for hiding report

Hillary Clinton yesterday said it was “shameful” that the British government had not published a delayed parliamentary report into possible Russian interference in British politics ahead of December elections.
12 November 2019, 18:00 PM

Macron: Global system in ‘unprecedented crisis’

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday said that the global political system was in “unprecedented crisis”, urging new kinds of alliances and cooperation to solve the world’s problems.
12 November 2019, 18:00 PM

Morales leaves for Mexico amid unrest

Bolivia’s Evo Morales was en route to exile in Mexico yesterday, leaving behind a country in turmoil after his abrupt resignation as president.
12 November 2019, 18:00 PM