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London, July 20 (AFP/APP): Climate demonstrators on Wednesday triggered a lengthy tailback on Britain’s busiest motorway, warning that a record-breaking heatwave was a dire reminder for urgent action. Members of the group Just Stop Oil climbed gantries over the M25 encircling London, causing police to […]

London, July 20 (AFP/APP): Conservative rivals Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, offering competing answers to Britain’s multiple crises, will duel in the coming weeks to become the next prime minister after the party’s lawmakers held a concluding vote Wednesday. Former finance minister Sunak, a centrist […]

LONDON, July 18 (ONLINE) Yesterday (Monday) was the hottest day in Britain’s history on record with temperatures hitting 40C for the first time, forcing train companies to cancel services, schools to close early and ministers to urge the public to stay at home, Reuters News […]

GAZA 17 July (Online): Israel hit the Gaza Strip before dawn on Saturday in what it said was a retaliatory strike for rocket fire from the Palestinian territory controlled by the Islamist movement Hamas. The exchange of fire came hours after US President Joe Biden […]

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 17 (AFP/APP): President Joe Biden on Saturday assured Arab leaders the United States would remain fully engaged in the Middle East, as he wrapped up his first tour of the region since taking office. “We will not walk away and leave […]

Kavala, Greece, July 17 (AFP/APP): All eight crew members of a cargo plane that crashed near the Greek city of Kavala died in the accident, Serbia’s defence minister said on Sunday. The Ukrainian-operated Antonov An-12 was carrying mines and around 11 tonnes of weapons to […]

NEW DELHI 16 July (Online): An Indian court on Friday granted interim bail to Muslim journalist Muhammed Zubair, co-founder of fact-checking site Alt News, in another case relating to one of his tweets in 2018, however, he will stay in jail over two more cases, […]

isbon, July 16 (AFP/APP): A plane that was battling forest fires in northern Portugal crashed Friday, killing its pilot, the civil defence said. No one else was on board the single-engine air tanker that plunged to its end near Vila Nova de Foz Coa, as […]

San Francisco, July 16 (AFP/APP): A bomb scare at San Francisco airport sparked an evacuation of the international terminal on Friday evening, local police said. By about midnight (0700 GMT), operations had returned to normal, the airport said. Officers received a bomb threat and found […]

Bogota, July 15 (AFP/APP): Colombian forces have killed FARC dissident leader Nestor Vera and nine other rebels in a raid in the country’s southwest, the defense minister said on Friday. The operation “allowed us to neutralize nine individuals on the FARC dissident frontline as well […]