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France threatens to reject May’s Brexit delay request
France on Wednesday threatened to reject British Prime Minister Theresa May’s request for a three-month delay to Brexit unless she can guarantee to get her departure plans though parliament, potentially...
Read moreBill Clinton lauds eight-year-old Nigerian boy for winning Chess Championship
Former US President, Bill Clinton, has congratulated the eight year-old Nigerian chess champion, Tanitoluwa Adewunmi and also invited him and his parents to his office for personal introduction.
Read moreNew Zealand begins funerals for mosque shooting victims, PM visits school
The bodies of victims from New Zealand’s mosques mass shooting were carried in open caskets on the shoulders of mourners into a large tent at Christchurch’s Memorial Park Cemetery on...
Read moreFour dead, many feared trapped in fresh building collapse
The death toll in a building collapse in a southern Indian town has risen to four, with more people still feared trapped, police said on Wednesday.
Read moreBritish PM May to request short delay to Brexit
Prime Minister Theresa May will request a short delay to Brexit on Wednesday after her failure to get a divorce deal ratified left the United Kingdom’s divorce from the European...
Read moreSupreme Court gives Trump power to detain immigrants
The Supreme Court on Tuesday endorsed US Government authority to detain immigrants awaiting deportation anytime, even years after they have completed prison terms for criminal convictions.
Read moreMay seeks Brexit delay with option of two-year extension
British Prime Minister, Theresa May, will write to the EU on Tuesday to ask for a Brexit extension until the end of June and with a possible two-year delay, the...
Read moreVeteran Kazakh leader Nazarbayev resigns after three decades in power
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Tuesday unexpectedly resigned after three decades in power, saying his oil-rich Central Asian nation now needed “a new generation of leaders”.
Read moreUN says 1.7m in path of cyclone in Mozambique
A storm ravaging southern Africa is possibly the worst weather-related disaster ever to hit the southern hemisphere, with 1.7 million people in the path of the cyclone in Mozambique, UN...
Read moreBrexit crisis: PM May plots new course round Speaker’s obstruction
Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans were in disarray on Tuesday as her government sought to plot a way around the speaker of parliament’s ruling that she had to change...
Read moreEthiopian Airlines black boxes successfully read
The black boxes of the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed with the loss of 157 lives recently have been read successfully, French accident investigators said on Monday.
Read moreFoul play suspected in death of witness in ex-Italian Prime Minister’s sex trial
Italian authorities are treating the death of Imane Fadil, a Moroccan model who was a witness in former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s “bunga bunga” trial, as a potential murder case.
Read moreAnticipation grows ahead of Germany’s lucrative 5G auction
The issue of 5G licences marks a major step in the expansion of internet access in Germany, Jochen Homann, head of the Federal Network Agency, said in the western city...
Read moreUK hopes to go ahead with Brexit vote on Tuesday – Hunt
Britain’s government will only hold another meaningful vote on Prime Minister, Theresa May’s Brexit deal on Tuesday if it is certain that the divided House of Commons would back it...
Read moreSeveral injured in shooting in tram in Dutch city of Utrecht
Dutch police said on Monday that several people had been injured in a shooting that took place in a tram in the central city of Utrecht.
Read moreSeveral people injured in shooting in the Netherlands
Several people have been injured by gunfire in the city of Utrecht, Dutch police said on Twitter on Monday. Emergency services tweeted that the shooting took place in a tram.
Read moreGerman Pilots’ union concerned about pilotless planes
The new head of Germany’s Pilots’ Association has come out strongly against moves towards licensing pilotless aircraft, in an interview with dpa.
Read moreUN honours 21 staff members killed in Ethiopian Airlines crash
The UN came together in sadness and solidarity on Friday to honour its 21 staff members, who died on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight which crashed on Sunday.
Read more49 killed, 20 injured in New Zealand mosque shootings
A gunman killed 49 people and wounded more than 20 during Friday prayers at two New Zealand mosques in the country’s worst ever mass shooting which Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern,...
Read moreUN Chief to women activists: Power is not given, power is taken
The United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has underscored the importance of women seizing the initiative in the struggle for gender equality.
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