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Month: January 2019

Delay to Brexit on way, Cabinet ministers reveal
12Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Delay to Brexit on way, Cabinet ministers reveal

    Brexit looks increasingly likely to be delayed beyond the scheduled exit of March 29, Cabinet ministers today revealed to the Standard. A backlog of at least six essential Bills that must be passed before Britain leaves the European Union has left ministers convinced the timetable will be extended. They include the much-delayed Immigration Bill that has not yet even been published, let alone debated. Even asking MPs to sit at weekends and cancel their half-term holiday in February may not provide enough time to avoid asking for a delay, several sources have disclosed. A senior minister said: “The legislative timetable is now very very tight indeed. Certainly, if there was defeat on Tuesday and it took some time before it got resolved, it’s hard to see how we can ...
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Super gonorrhea has reached the UK: doctors warn
10Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, Life Style

Super gonorrhea has reached the UK: doctors warn

    Super gonorrhea hit the headlines after a British tourist contracted a case described as ‘the world’s worst in Thailand last year but the infection has now reached Britain. Two women have contracted the infection, with one believed to have been infected in the UK, according to Pubilc Health England. Both women have since been cured after the infections were resistant to main therapy, and Public Health England is now investigating if the cases are linked. The infection is usually treated with the antibiotics ceftriaxone and azithromycin but the bacterium in these two cases was resistant to the drugs. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) warns that cases of extensively drug resistant gonorrhea are on the rise Experts have warned that there’...
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Theresa May under massive pressure to call another General Election
10Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Theresa May under massive pressure to call another General Election

    Theresa May is said to be facing intense pressure to call a spring General Election in an attempt to quash opposition to a no-deal Brexit. Senior ministers are attempting to force the PM to call for a vote on April 4 so that Tory rebels trying to thwart Brexit can be stopped, according to the Daily Mail. Over a dozen Remainer Conservative MPs have said they will back a no-confidence vote to force the election if no deal was looking likely. Despite Mr Corbyn’s desire for a General Election, Labour remain behind the Tories in recent opinion polls. A poll of polls for 2018 also put Labour on 38% – just 1% behind the Tories, while Mrs May outscores Mr Corbyn on who would make the best PM. But Brexit supporters in the party are said to be urging Mrs May to decide to h...
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MPs force Brexit plan B on PM
9Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

MPs force Brexit plan B on PM

    Theresa May will be obliged to present MPs with a new Brexit plan within three days if her current proposal is voted down next week, after a procedural amendment to the plan’s progress through the Commons was passed amid chaotic scenes. The amendment to the business motion for the plan, drawn up by the Conservative former attorney general Dominic Grieve, gives May the deadline to put forward new her plans if she loses the vote, as many expect, next Tuesday. The amendment was passed by 308 votes to 297 following stormy scenes which saw a series of Conservative MPs castigate the Speaker, John Bercow, for allowing the amendment. Tory MP Ken Clarke, who backed the amendment, said those who did not like the amendment should “don a yellow jacket and go outside” to join s...
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Afghan trafficker boasts of getting 300 migrants into UK
9Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Afghan trafficker boasts of getting 300 migrants into UK

    A people smuggler has boasted of getting 300 migrants across the Channel to the UK. The Afghan fixer named Anam told undercover reporters that he helps set up speedboat crossings to the UK for £6,000 per person in a speedboat. He said he can also set up the crossing in a riskier three-metre dinghy for the lower price of £2,500. But he claimed he didn’t take the payments himself and instead they had to be made via family or friends to an Indian restaurant in west London. He said he could virtually make a guarantee of residency in Britain to would-be migrants because the police ‘never send you back’ even if they ‘catch you’. Anam, 28, is based in Calais and said he has already been booted out of the UK twice. Using a British mobile phone to run the illegal operati...
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Saudi teen who fled family granted refugee status by UN
9Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, Featured

Saudi teen who fled family granted refugee status by UN

     An 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled her family and refused to leave her Bangkok hotel room is a refugee, a UN agency has said. The case of Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun has been referred to Australia for possible of asylum. In a brief statement, Australia said it would consider the request in the usual way, as it does with all UNHCR referrals. Ms Al-Qunun said she had renounced Islam known as apostasy and punishable by death in Saudi Arabia and that she feared her family would kill her as a result. She arrived in Thailand on Saturday on a layover between Kuwait and Australia, but was detained by the Thai authorities. The Australian government has previously stated that Ms Al-Qunun will not be given special treatment due to the high profile nature of her case. Nonethel...
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Parliament security spend jumps by £10m in a year
8Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

Parliament security spend jumps by £10m in a year

    Parliament's security spending has soared by nearly £10million a year since the Westminster terror attack, it can be revealed today. The dramatic escalation of protection for MPs and peers following the deadly attack has been underlined in figures uncovered by MailOnline - suggesting the measures now cost some £45million annually. The overhaul came amid fears about gaping loopholes, including weaknesses at the main Carriage Gates entrance, no armed officers on site on Sundays, and poor CCTV coverage. There are also mounting concerns about the security of MPs as they arrive at Westminster, after Tory former minister Anna Soubry was confronted by an angry mob who branded her a Nazi and slag. Khalid Masood stabbed PC Keith Palmer to death in March 2017 as he forced h...
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Canary Wharf incident: second man dies after falling from height
8Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

Canary Wharf incident: second man dies after falling from height

    A man has died after falling from a height inside a Canary Wharf shopping centre in the second tragedy in just two days. Emergency crews were called to the scene in east London this morning after the middle-aged man was heard plunging to the ground. Shocked workers described hearing a ping then a "distinct thud" before a body was seen lying on the floor near escalators. Paramedics raced to the scene, but the man, believed to be in his 50s, sadly could not be saved, Scotland Yard confirmed. A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: We were called at 8.39am today to Canada Square, E14 to reports of an incident. We sent an incident response officer, two single responders in cars and an ambulance crew to the scene. We also dispatched London’s Air Ambulance. Sadl...
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PM defeat could shut government
8Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

PM defeat could shut government

    Tory MP Nicky Morgan and Labour's Yvette Cooper have tabled an amendment to the Finance Bill which would limit the government's spending powers in the event of the UK leaving the European Union without a deal. It has the support of Tories Sir Oliver Letwin, Nick Boles and Sarah Wollaston as well as Hilary Benn, the Labour chairman of the Brexit select committee. A separate measure put down by Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable would also prevent ministers from collecting key taxes unless parliament has approved its approach to Brexit. Sky's chief political correspondent, Jon Craig, said the amendments could starve the government of cash and create a Donald Trump-style shutdown in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Ms Cooper said: The risks to our economy and security...
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Women in Saudi Arabia will now be notified of divorce by text
7Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Arab world, Featured

Women in Saudi Arabia will now be notified of divorce by text

    Women in Saudi Arabia will be informed by text message that their marriages have ended under a new regulation aimed at ending the practice of secret divorce, whereby men in the kingdom could unilaterally decide to separate without informing their wives. The new measure was approved by the country’s justice ministry on Sunday, Agence France-Presse reports citing local media. Women… will be notified of any changes to their marital status via text message, the justice ministry said in a statement run on the Saudi state-operated Al-Ekhbariya news channel. The report added that women could access documents related to the termination of their marriage contracts on the ministry’s website. Under previous statutes, Saudi men could trigger a divorce unilaterally without tell...
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