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UK updates advisory for British nationals to be “vigilant” in J&K

9:21 pm August 3, 2019

London: The UK government on Saturday updated the travel advisory for its citizens travelling to Jammu and Kashmir, warning them to “remain vigilant” and up to date with the developments, citing reports in the national media over a heightened security threat in the state. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) updated its advisory a day […]

Eritrean wins asylum in Italy after mistaken trafficking charges

8:56 pm August 3, 2019

Rome: An Eritrean wrongly accused of being a human trafficking kingpin in a case of mistaken identity has been granted political asylum in Italy and set free, his lawyer told AFP on Saturday. Carpenter Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe was arrested in Sudan in 2016 on suspicion of being at the heart of one of the world’s […]

Efforts to shore up UK dam intensify ahead of storms

8:44 pm August 3, 2019

Whaley Bridge (UK): Emergency services battling to stop a reservoir dam in central England from collapsing brought in new pumps Saturday to reduce the water levels, as more storms were forecast. Hundreds of people have been evacuated from the Derbyshire town of Whaley Bridge, after part of the dam holding back the Toddbrook Reservoir above […]

Gmail, other Google services face outage

Germany orders Google to take humans out of audio loop

10:41 pm August 2, 2019

Frankfurt am Main: A German data protection official has convinced Google to stop human workers from listening to audio recorded by its digital assistant across the EU, after a leak showed staff could hear private conversations. “To provisionally protect the rights of privacy of data subjects for the time being,” Hamburg commissioner for data protection […]

UK PM Johnson’s Parliament majority down to one after by-election

10:05 pm August 2, 2019

London: Britain’s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s already slim parliamentary majority has been cut down further to just one with the loss of an MP to the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrat party in a by-election in Wales. In one of his first major election clashes since taking over from Theresa May last month, Johnson’s Conservative Party […]