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Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday promised to lead Britain out of the European Union on October 31 “no matter what” as Ireland warned that the bloc would not be renegotiating the thrice defeated divorce deal.
“The prime minister made clear that the UK will be leaving the EU on October 31, no matter what,” Johnson’s Downing Street office said in...
Parliament yesterday passed a law against the controversial practice of triple talaq, making it a criminal offence punishable by up to three years in prison.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government pushed through the bill despite stiff resistance from several opposition parties and a previous failed attempt to move the bill in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house.
“An archaic and medieval...
Protesters stepped up demands yesterday for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party to sack a state lawmaker accused by a young woman of raping her, holding several demonstrations just days after the accuser was critically injured in a highway collision.
Opposition groups say Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP is protecting Kuldeep Singh Sengar, a legislator from the northern state of Uttar...
Police yesterday launched a major hunt for coffee tycoon V G Siddhartha, amid mounting fears for the billionaire who admitted in a letter before disappearing that he had “failed as an entrepreneur”.
The founder of the Cafe Coffee Day chain that beat Starbucks at its own game in India was last seen on Monday night walking across a bridge near...
At least 17 people, including two minors, have died as rain lashed the provincial capital of Sindh since Monday.According to rescue sources, two children were electrocuted while playing in the rainwater in the Malir area of Karachi.
Another two people were electrocuted following rain in the Paposh Nagar area, while the other deaths took place in Defence, Clifton, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, and...
Nineteen people were killed when a small military plane crashed into a residential area in Rawalpindi early yesterday, officials told AFP.
The plane crashed into a poor village near an upscale neighbourhood in the garrison city that is home to the army’s headquarters, creating a fireball that lit up the night sky and terrified residents.
“We have taken 19 dead bodies...
Two American teens arrested after an Italian police officer was stabbed to death in Rome during a botched drug bust broke down into tears during their interrogation, police said yesterday.
Finnegan Elder, 19, and Gabriel Natale Hjorth, 18, have been charged with aggravated homicide and attempted extortion following the killing of officer Mario Cerciello Rega, who suffered multiple knife wounds...
A Frenchman who has captured the country’s imagination with his jet-powered “flyboard” will make a new bid to cross the English Channel after a failed first attempt last week, his team said yesterday.
Former jetski champion Franky Zapata plans for an early take-off from Sangatte in northern France on Sunday for the roughly 20-minute trip toward St Margaret’s Bay in...
House panel says 'corporate and foreign interests use unique access to advocate for transfer of US nuclear technology'.
Washington, DC - Since President Donald Trumpwon the 2016 election, a group of US businessmen have sought to profit on deals to build nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia, while trying to avoid US restrictions designed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, the House Oversight...
Four school children among five shot dead by security forces during rally against rising costs, opposition groups say.
At least five protesters, including four high school students, have been shot dead after security forces broke up a student protest in the Sudanese city of El-Obeid, opposition groups have said.
The killings on Monday came a day before protest leaders and ruling generals...
Air raids by coalition forces at a busy market in the northern Saada province kills civilians, including two children.
Air attacks by Saudi-led coalition forces have killed at least 10 civilians, including children, in a busy market in northern Yemen's Saada province, a medical source and Houthi-run media reported.
The manager of the local Al Jomhouri hospital on Monday said 13 people...
Palestinian nationalist Balad was the last to join the reunited Joint List of Arab parties before September polls.
Israel's four Arab political parties have formally announced a decision to join forces in September's election, in a move aimed at boosting turnout among the minority that comprises a fifth of the country's population.
The four parties are the Democratic Front for Peace...
The legislation would have blocked the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia and other countries.
The United States Senate on Monday failed to override President Donald Trump's vetoes of legislation passed by Congress that would have blocked the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia.
In the first of three separate efforts to overturn the Republican president's vetoes, supporters failed by a vote of...
LuLu Hypermarket has become the first in the region to allow customers to borrow shopping bags in an effort to cut down on plastic waste.
The scheme allows shoppers who have forgotten a shopping bag or purchased more than expected, to borrow a bag rather than purchase one.
The innovative scheme is one more strategy by LuLu Hypermarket to cut down...
