UK General Election 2017
Voters across the UK are casting their ballots in a snap general election Voters across the UK are casting their ballots in a snap general election that could have a big impact on how the country...
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Election 2017: Tories To Be Largest Party
play videoThe survey taken at polling stations across the UK suggests the party could get 314 MPs Britain's Conservative Party will be the largest party but may not have a majority, says an exit poll...
Theresa May Could Lose Parliamentary Majority, Exit Poll Shows
British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party appears on course to lose her parliamentary majority in the UK general election, according to a shock exit poll compiled for the UK's main...
Britain Goes To the Polls
Several voters in the United Kingdom are heading to the polls to cast their votes in the 2017 general elections. More than 40,000 polling stations have been opened across the country and a total of...
India Opposition Leader Gandhi Arrested Amid Farmers Protest
Indian police on Thursday briefly arrested leading opposition figure Rahul Gandhi as he tried to reach farmers striking in Madhya Pradesh, where five protesters were earlier killed in clashes. The...
Kofi Annan, Patrick Awuah Among 100 Most Reputable People
Ghana’s Kofi Annan (a former UN Secretary General) and founder of the Ashesi University, Patrick Awuah, have been named among the 100 most reputable people on earth for the year 2017. South African...
Israel Advances Plans For Further 1,500 Settler Homes
Israel has advanced plans for a further 1,500 homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Peace Now said on Thursday, the second such announcement in a week. More than 3,000 units have...
India Unnerved By Student Anger In Kashmir
Another student death in clashes in Indian-administered Kashmir has heightened tensions in the disputed territory and worsened India's worries about a foe that it cannot control -- youths who do not...
Suu Kyi, Trudeau Talk Federalism For Myanmar
Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi sat down with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Wednesday to learn about Canadian federalism, a system of government she believes could bring stability to her...
Turkish Parliament Approves Troop Deployment In Qatar
Turkey's parliament has approved a legislation allowing its troops to be deployed to a Turkish military base in Qatar. The bill, first drafted in May, passed with 240 votes in favour, largely with...
Israel Settlement Plans ‘challenge’ To Trump
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's spokesman said Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's vow to build across the occupied West Bank was a "challenge" to Donald Trump's efforts...
US Envoy Haley In Jerusalem Vows To Defend Israel At UN
US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley hailed a "new day" for Israel at the global body Wednesday as she held talks with Israeli leaders in Jerusalem. Speaking ahead of a meeting with...
India’s Central Bank Keeps Rates At 6.25 Percent
India's central bank held interest rates in line with analysts' expectations on Wednesday, rebuffing the finance ministry's desire for a cut after India's growth slowed. The Reserve Bank of India...
Akufo-Addo Interacts With Ghanaians In Belgium
He told the Ghanaian community about his government's plan for the country President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, 6 June met and addressed the Ghanaian community in Belgium. Mr Akufo-Addo...
S.Korean Linked To Ferry Disaster Extradited, Arrested
The daughter of the South Korean tycoon blamed for the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster arrived in Seoul Wednesday to face questioning over her own role in the affair, after being extradited from France....
Human Rights Won’t Stop Terror Fight
Theresa May has said she will change human rights laws if they “get in the way” of tackling terror suspects. The PM said she would make it easier to deport foreign terror suspects and “restrict...
Clapper Warns Australia On Foreign Interference
Australia must be alert to foreign government interference in its democratic systems, former top US intelligence official James Clapper warned Wednesday, after China was accused of meddling in the...
Nepal Parliament Elects New Prime Minister
Three-time former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was elected as Nepal's president by the country's parliament on Tuesday. The political veteran, who has previously served three times in the top...
Netanyahu Tells Israeli Settlers ‘nobody Will Be Uprooted’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday told Israeli settlers marking 50 years since the Six-Day War he would keep building across the occupied West Bank and that no one would be "uprooted from...
Israel Advances Plans For 1,500 West Bank Settler Homes
Israeli authorities on Tuesday advanced plans for 1,500 settler homes in the occupied West Bank, including units for the first new official settlement in some 25 years, the Peace Now NGO said. A...