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Boris Johnson’s call for general election rejected by MPs
Boris Johnson has faced a double defeat in the House of Commons after MPs turned down his motion for a general election. Earlier, MPs backed a bill aimed at blocking a no-deal Brexit if the prime minister had not agreed
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Oil prices slip after surprise build in US inventories
TOKYO: Oil prices fell today, giving up some of the strong gains of the previous session, after an industry report showed US crude stockpiles rose last week, against analyst expectations of a decline. Brent crude was down 18 cents, or
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Amazon fires: Indigenous tribes fear hard year ahead
TENHARIM TERRITORY: The vice-chief of the village of Pakyri knows that next year his people will face hard times, as the fires raging in the Amazon forest burn their food, medicine and livelihoods. Deusdimar Tenharim estimates that about 60,000 hectares
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Snap polls looms after parliament voted against Brexit
LONDON: The British parliament voted on Wednesday to prevent Prime Minister Boris Johnson taking Britain out of the European Union without a deal on Oct. 31, but rejected his first bid to call a snap election two weeks before the
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Hong Kong leader to kill bill, too little, too late
HONG KONG: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam will announce the withdrawal of an extradition bill that triggered months of unrest and has thrown the Chinese-ruled city into its worst crisis in decades, Cable TV and other media said, but the
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Churchill’s grandson to be axed from Conservative Party for defying Johnson
Nicholas Soames, the grandson of Britain’s World War Two leader Winston Churchill, will be expelled from the Conservative Party after voting against Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Brexit. The move against the Conservative Party grandee marks one of the most
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Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan would risk civil war
The majority of America’s ambassadors to Afghanistan since the removal of the Taliban government have condemned the US approach to negotiating a troop withdrawal, warning it risked a return to “total civil war”. Writing the day after a draft agreement
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HK activists advise Merkel before her China trip
BERLIN: Days before Angela Merkel leaves for a tricky visit to Beijing, prominent Hong Kong activists have written to the German Chancellor calling her to be guided by her memories of life in dictatorial East Germany in her dealings with
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Opponents of ‘no-deal’ Brexit defeat Johnson, snap polls looming
LONDON: British lawmakers defeated Boris Johnson in Parliament yesterday in a bid to prevent him taking Britain out of the EU without a divorce agreement, prompting the prime minister to announce that he would immediately push for a snap election.
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Democrats to probe Trump on hush-money payments
WASHINGTON: US congressional Democrats are planning to investigate allegations of President Donald Trump’s involvement in hush-money payments to women who say they had affairs with him, the Washington Post reported yesterday. The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee is preparing to
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