Prime Minister Theresa May convened an emergency COBRA meeting at Downing Street on Tuesday to discuss counter-terror strategy as a male suicide bomber killed 22 persons, including children, during a concert at Manchester Arena. Fifty nine persons were injured in the attack that occurred at 22:35 BST just as a concert by American pop singer […]
Cathay Pacific Airways confirmed on Monday that it will lay off almost 600 employees from its head office, in the biggest round of job cuts by Hong Kongs flag carrier in 20 years. The airline said most of its restructuring will be completed by this year, citing changing customer habits and a “challenging business environment”, […]
America’s most celebrated circus Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus has staged its final performance in New York, as emotional performers, and wistful crowd-goers bid farewell to an institution in US live entertainment. The circus gave the final performance titled “The Greatest Show on Earth” to a sold-out crowd at Nassau Coliseum on Sunday […]
The US city of Chicago is launching a campaign in response to President Donald Trump’s threats to cut off funding for sanctuary cities, the media reported. Sanctuary city is a broad term applied to jurisdictions with policies in place to limit cooperation or involvement with federal immigration actions, reports CNN. Many US cities, counties and […]
Twenty million people in four African countries are on the brink of famine, senior staffers at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) said. People in northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen face an “unprecedented” humanitarian crisis due to a combination of drought and armed conflict with fundamentalist […]
After several years of protests, authorities have finally banned the sale of dog meat in the Yulin festival, which is celebrated on June 21 every year in the city. The Yulin government will prohibit the sale of dog meat in restaurants, markets and other commercial centres from June 15, Efe reported. Activists from China’s Duo […]
The US government on Thursday admitted that drug trafficking and the criminal groups is Washington’s problem, not just Mexico’s. The administration said that it is necessary to implement a plan to reduce domestic demand for narcotics, Efe reported. “America must also confront the reality that we are the market. But for the seemingly endless demand […]
US President Donald Trump welcomed his Colombian counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos, to the White House, officials said. This was Trump’s first meeting with the South American leader following his government’s hard-won peace deal with the the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, (FARC), reports NBC News. Trump called the effort to end the 52-year conflict that […]
Thousands of people took to the streets across Brazil demanding the resignation of President Michel Temer, who is the target of a corruption investigation. Organised mainly via social media, the largest protests on Thursday took place in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and the nation’s capital, Brasilia, Efe news reported. Besides Temer’s departure, demonstrators also […]
The US Department of Justice has appointed former FBI chief as special counsel to oversee the investigation of alleged Russian efforts to affect the 2016 election in favour of the US President Donald Trump. Robert Mueller, 72, is a Vietnam veteran and former US attorney who ran the FBI from 2001-2013, Efe reported on Thursday. […]