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Britain’s May chairs emergency session on seized tanker

9:03 pm July 22, 2019

London: British Prime Minister Theresa May chaired an emergency security session on Monday to discuss how to respond to Iran’s seizure of a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. The meeting of security ministers and officials discussed how to secure shipping in the sensitive region, which is vital to the world’s oil supply. Foreign […]

Final hours of voting in race to become British PM

2:14 pm July 22, 2019

London: The voting closes Monday in the contest to become Britain’s next prime minister, with Boris Johnson expected to be confirmed as the winner charged with delivering Brexit. After a month-long contest between former London mayor Johnson and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, the postal votes of up to 160,000 grassroots Conservatives will decide the governing […]

UK finance minister says will quit if Johnson becomes PM

11:14 pm July 21, 2019

London: British finance minister Philip Hammond said Sunday he would make a point of resigning before Boris Johnson became prime minister, saying he could never agree to his Brexit strategy. “I’m sure I’m not going to be sacked because I’m going to resign before we get to that point,” he told BBC television, assuming that […]

Ukraine’s Zelensky aims to consolidate power in parliament polls

11:11 pm July 21, 2019

Kiev: Ukrainians on Sunday went to the polls to elect a new parliament as comedian-turned-president Volodymyr Zelensky seeks to bring in political newcomers and consolidate power. Zelensky’s newly-created party is expected to win the largest share of the votes in the early polls expected to usher in a new era in the country dominated up […]

Trump uses Scotland Yard IT service hack to attack London Mayor

9:06 pm July 20, 2019

London: US President Donald Trump on Saturday used a brief hack into Scotland Yard’s news and Twitter service to reopen his feud with London Mayor Sadiq Khan, blaming him for the breach. A series of bizarre messages from the official news website and Twitter were sent out to more than a million followers of the […]