Category: World

Emergency flights brought 14,700 people back to the United Kingdom on Monday after the collapse of travel firm Thomas Cook, and around 135,300 more are expected to be returned over the next 13 days, Britain’s aviation regulator said. The collapse of Thomas Cook in the early hours of Monday left hundreds of thousands of people […]

US President Donald Trump put China on notice at the United Nations on Tuesday, declaring that the time of trade “abuses” by Beijing was “over” and calling on the country to protect Hong Kong’s “democratic ways of life.” “For years, these (trade) abuses were tolerated, ignored, or even encouraged,” he told the UN General Assembly, […]

A court in United Kingdom has sentenced a man to four years in jail for sharing photos of himself holding a shotgun and propagating anti-Muslim messages online, BBC reported. Thirty-nine-year-old Jay Davison of Cardiff posted the “extremely offensive” messages in August 2018, a Cardiff Crown Court was told on Monday. He had urged people to “stand up” […]

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday the city’s police force, which has been accused of beating activists and using excessive force during protests, is under extreme pressure and acknowledged it will be a “long road” towards healing rifts. Beijing-backed Lam said it was “quite remarkable” there had not been fatalities during three months […]

At least 35 civilians attending a wedding party were killed and 13 others wounded by explosions and gunfire during a raid by the United States-backed Afghan government forces on a nearby militant hideout, two officials in southern Helmand province said on Monday. The officials said the house being used by the Taliban to train suicide […]

Iran said on Monday that a British-flagged oil tanker is “free” to leave more than two months after it was seized in the Gulf. “The legal process has finished and based on that the conditions for letting the oil tanker go free have been fulfilled and the oil tanker can move,” Iranian government spokesman Ali […]

President Hassan Rouhani on Monday departed Tehran for New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly on a mission to win Iran support against “cruel” pressure from arch-foe the United States. Speaking to reporters before boarding his flight, Rouhani said his delegation was heading to the UN gathering despite reluctance from US President Donald […]

Bomb disposal officers carried out a controlled explosion on a suspicious package at Manchester Airport on Monday, police said, adding a man had been detained by officers at the scene. Flights were unaffected but transport to and from the airport was stopped while officers assessed the suspect package. “A cordon is in place at Manchester […]

Zimbabwe’s founding president Robert Mugabe had “advanced cancer” when he died in hospital in Singapore on September 6, the state-owned newspaper reported on Monday. The former guerilla leader, who died aged 95, came to power at the end of white minority rule in 1980 and ruled Zimbabwe uninterrupted for 37 years and seven months. He was toppled […]

Some 60 world leaders convene on Monday for a UN summit on “climate emergency” aimed at reinvigorating the faltering Paris agreement, at a time when mankind is releasing more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than at any time in history. From heat waves to slow-crawling hurricanes to rapidly acidifying oceans, the impacts of global warming […]