Britain was heading towards its first December election in almost a century after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s bet on breaking the Brexit deadlock with an early ballot gained support from opposition parties on Tuesday. As the European Union finalises a third delay to the divorce that was originally supposed to take place on March 29, […]

Saad al-Hariri, the Lebanese Prime Minister on Tuesday promised to tender his government’s resignation to the Lebanese President Michel Aoun in response to the protests, saying he had “reached a dead end”. Lebanon has been gripped by unprecedented nationwide anti-government protests. Hariri called on all Lebanese to protect civil peace. Lebanese President invites protesters for […]

…1.2 million baht (£30,967) already withdrawn from her account by murderers The body of a millionaire businesswoman has been found entombed in concrete in her own fridge. Dailymail reports that the Property developer Wannee Jiracharoenying, 58, had not been seen since October 18  after she visited a local temple in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand. Her […]

Turkish authorities have detained 43 people suspected of belonging to Islamic State (ISIS) and of plotting attacks targeting celebrations of Turkey’s national day on Tuesday, police and state media said. The detentions came two days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed in a raid by […]

Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) after the publication of its third report on benchmarking reform in Ireland’s penal system has advised the government to reduce its numbers of prisons. The executive director of the Trust, Fíona Ní Chinnéide, stated that a prison sentence is not usually the best sanction for people found guilty of an […]

United States, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the U.S. military had killed the person who likely would have succeeded the ISIS’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as the leader of Islamic State. “Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops,” Trump said on Twitter. “Most likely would have […]

At least 20 soldiers were killed in an overnight Taliban attack in Afghanistan’s northern province of Jawzjan, officials said on Tuesday. At least two other soldiers disappeared following the attack on a military base in the Aqchah district of the province. READ ASLO: British ex-soldier climbs Everest, 13 other highest mountains in 7-month A member of […]

A former British Marine, Nirmal Purja has surpassed an eight years record after climbing Mount Everest and thirteen other highest peaks in the world ― within seven months. Purja, 36 years old, reached the top of his 14th mountain, Shishapangma in China, on Tuesday morning. The mountaineer joined the British Army in 2003 and became […]

Iranian beauty queen detained for almost two weeks at an airport in the Philippines on Tuesday pleaded for help, saying she fears for her life. Bahareh Zare Bahari was held after arriving in Manila from Dubai on Oct. 17 based on a request for her arrest by Interpol, the Bureau of Immigration said. ALSO READ: Iran […]

At least 14 people were killed and 865 wounded overnight after Iraqi security forces opened fire on protesters in the Shi’ite holy city of Kerbala, medical and security sources told Reuters on Tuesday. ALSO READ: Breaking: Recession hits Hong Kong as protests linger Three protesters died in the southern city of Nassiriya from wounds sustained in […]

Vietnam is trying to speed up the identification of its citizens who are suspected to have been among the people found dead in the back of a truck near London last week, Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Cuong told Reuters on Tuesday. A UK court heard on Monday that a global ring had been involved […]

…on the orders of a woman, 35, who wanted the child for herself …says she was sexually abused by sister’s husband A 13-year-old girl has murdered her pregnant sister and her son before tearing the unborn baby from the womb on the orders of a 35-year-old woman who wanted to keep the baby for herself. […]

A mother-of-three died following breast enlargement and tummy tuck procedures on the advice of staff who told her it would be cheaper to have both done at the same time, an inquest heard. Dailymail reports that Louise Harvey, 36, died from blood clots following the surgeries, carried out by Transform plastic surgery clinic at Riverside […]

Kenya will reduce its borrowing from capital markets in the next three years to make its repayments schedule more bearable, a senior treasury official said on Monday. Geoffrey Mwau, the Economics Adviser to the Finance Minister, told reporters in Nairobi that the country would focus more on concessional borrowing. READ ALSO: Here’s how U.S. forces tracked […]

The United States Treasury said on Monday it expects to borrow $29 billion less during the fourth quarter than previously estimated. The department said in a statement it expects to issue $352 billion through credit markets during the October-December period, assuming an end-December cash balance of $410 billion. ALSO READ: United States imposes sanctions on […]