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Theresa May to set date for resignation soon, says MP

11:04 pm May 11, 2019

London: Theresa May could be forced to set an exact date for her resignation as Conservative Party leader to make way for a new British Prime Minister in the coming days, a senior Tory MP has said. Sir Graham Brady, who chairs the influential backbench 1922 Committee of the Conservative Party, told the BBC that […]

Two in N. Irish court charged with rioting as journalist killed

10:52 pm May 11, 2019

London: Two men appeared in court on Saturday charged with rioting in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry on the night a journalist was shot dead. Paul McIntyre, 51, and Christopher Gillen, 38, both charged with riot and petrol bomb offences, were refused bail at Londonderry’s magistrates’ court. They were arrested on Thursday. They refused […]

Kidnapped French tourists were in Benin ‘red zone’: minister

10:38 pm May 11, 2019

Paris: The two French tourists rescued from their kidnappers in Burkina Faso this week were seized in an area of Benin that France has long advised travellers to avoid, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Saturday. “The zone where our two citizens were has for some time now been considered a red zone, which means […]

An Indian travelling to the UK on a tourist visa has been jailed for 12 months for carrying

Indian jailed in UK for sexual assault on plane

8:55 pm May 10, 2019

London: An Indian travelling to the UK on a tourist visa has been jailed for 12 months for carrying out a “prolonged” sexual assault on a young woman during a long-haul flight from Mumbai to Manchester earlier this year. Hardeep Singh, 36, will be deported back to India at the end of his sentence. Singh, […]

No apology for Jallianwala Bagh as Theresa May repeats deep regret

10:16 pm May 9, 2019

London: Prime Minister Theresa May has repeated the UK government’s deep regret over the Jallianwala Bagh massacre to mark the 100th anniversary of the British colonial era attack in Amritsar on Vaisakhi. The massacre took place at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar (undivided Punjab) during the Vaisakhi festival on April 13, 1919, when troops of the […]