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Day: October 14, 2018

Saudi Arabia says it will hit back at threats over Jamal Khashoggi
14Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Arab world, Featured

Saudi Arabia says it will hit back at threats over Jamal Khashoggi

    Saudi Arabia has said it will retaliate against any sanctions imposed over the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, as the Riyadh stock market had its biggest fall in years. A host of western companies have distanced themselves from the Gulf state following the journalist’s disappearance, imperilling Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s efforts at economic reform. Khashoggi has been missing since he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October and is presumed to have been murdered. Donald Trump has threatened the US ally with “severe punishment” if Khashoggi, who has been critical of Bin Salman, has been killed. On Sunday, Riyadh vowed to hit back against any action. The kingdom affirms its total rejection of any threats and attempts to undermine it, whether th...
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NHS fail to provide terminal breast cancer patients
14Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, Life Style

NHS fail to provide terminal breast cancer patients

    Thousands of terminal breast cancer patients are being left abandoned after being denied access to a specialist nurse, the charity Breast Cancer Care has warned. According to figures released to coincide with the international awareness day for the disease, almost three quarters (72 per cent) of NHS trusts across the UK do not provide dedicated nurses. The charity said that there had only been a 7 per cent increase in trusts providing crucial nursing support in the two years since they last looked into the issue. That comes despite the government's cancer strategy promising three years ago that all cancer patients would have access to a designated nurse by 2020. Abandoned patients People living with incurable breast cancer tell us that access to a specialist nu...
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DUP chief ready for no-deal Brexit
14Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Europe, Featured

DUP chief ready for no-deal Brexit

    DUP leader Arlene Foster gives a press conference after a meeting with Michel Barnier in Brussels. Theresa May has been told that the DUP leader, Arlene Foster, is now ready to trigger a no-deal Brexit and regards this as the likeliest outcome following a hostile and difficult exchange with the EU’s chief negotiator, an explosive set of leaked government emails reveal. Foster emerged from a meeting last week in Brussels with Michel Barnier, the French official leading the EU’s negotiating team, convinced that the prospects for a Brexit deal were fading so fast that, given Brussels’ stance on Northern Ireland, an agreement had become the least likely outcome. Senior government advisers were swiftly informed that the DUP leader was ready for the UK to crash out of th...
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Labour MPs to rescue PM’s Brexit
14Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Labour MPs to rescue PM’s Brexit

    The MPs include the first to state publicly that they will struggle to vote against a deal secured in Brussels if the alternative is a no-deal Brexit – even if, as expected, Jeremy Corbyn orders his party to oppose it. They say that crashing out of the EU would be a disaster for their constituents, while also fearing a backlash from voters accusing them of blocking Brexit. It comes as Ms May appears resigned to having to rely on Labour votes to secure parliament’s support for her deal in the face of staunch opposition from many of her own Eurosceptic backbenchers. Labour MPs told The Independent that at least 15 could rebel against Mr Corbyn and back the government, which could be enough to tip the balance in the Commons in favour of the deal. One prepared to go p...
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