Wednesday, September 30

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Deadly attack in Manchester leaves children among 22 dead
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Deadly attack in Manchester leaves children among 22 dead

    Police say a lone male attacker carrying an improvised explosive device was responsible for the bombing at Manchester Arena. The explosion at the end of a sold-out Ariana Grande concert has killed 22 people and injured 59 others. Greater Manchester Police chief constable Ian Hopkins has confirmed that children are among those who died. Investigators are trying to establish whether the attacker, who also died at the scene, was part of a wider network. A detailed forensic search is under way at the arena, and nearby Manchester Victoria train station remains closed. Several young people have been reported missing following the explosion with concerned friends and relatives appealing for information on Twitter. A hotline has been set up for those with concerns over loved ones ...
Party leaders attack to avoiding TV debate
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Party leaders attack to avoiding TV debate

    Party leaders rounded on Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn for shunning the first TV leaders’ debate of the election campaign, though Ukip’s leader, Paul Nuttall, was widely derided by other parties as the prime minister’s spokesman. Despite their absence from the stage at the ITV debate, the Labour and Conservative leaders cast long shadows over the procedure as the main targets of attacks from the Liberal Democrat, Scottish National party, Green and Plaid Cymru leaders. In her opening statement Plaid’s leader, Leanne Wood, said the prime minister was too scared to come here tonight for your U-turns to be highlighted, for your cruel policies to be exposed. Subverting May’s Conservative campaign slogan, Wood said it was weak and unstable leadership not to appear. I hope all of...
UK Threatens to Quit Brexit Talks If It Faces Massive Bill
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

UK Threatens to Quit Brexit Talks If It Faces Massive Bill

    The U.K. will quit talks on leaving the European Union unless the bloc drops its demands for a divorce payment as high as 100 billion euros ($112 billion), Brexit Secretary David Davis said. Britain’s negotiations would otherwise be plunged into “chaos,” and even a 1 billion-pound settlement would be a lot of money, Davis said in an interview published in the Sunday Times. The size of Britain’s exit bill, and which types of negotiations can begin before it has been agreed, has been a source of debate for weeks. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said the U.K. will have to pay about 50 billion pounds, while Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel has signaled a figure between 40 billion euros and 60 billion euros. The Financial Times estimated the cost ...
Donald Trump Touched a Glowing Orb in Saudi Arabia
Arab world, ENGLISH

Donald Trump Touched a Glowing Orb in Saudi Arabia

    Jordan's King Abdullah II, Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, U.S. President Donald Trump and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan pose for a photo during… A picture of Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi with their hands on a glowing orb has the internet confused—prompting comparisons with Lord of the Rings, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and other films. In reality, the widely shared photograph depicts Trump, King Salman and al-Sissi at the opening of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology in Riyadh. During the center’s opening ceremony, the leaders placed their hands on the globe in a gesture of solidarity to launch the center. Saudi Arabia was the initial stop on Trump’s fi...
UK Weather Forecast: Met Office Predicts A Heatwave Will Warm This Week
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

UK Weather Forecast: Met Office Predicts A Heatwave Will Warm This Week

    The weather Gods are smiling upon us, for Britons should be able to bask in the hottest temperatures since September this week. A band of warm air will be moving across the country starting on Monday where highs of up to 25C are expected in some parts of the country. Come Friday, the mercury could rise even further to a sizzling 27C – which would make it the hottest day this year so far. Much of England and Wales will enjoy temperatures in the 20s throughout the week, with only the odd shower predicted in the west of the country. UK set for a heatwave, says Met Office Scotland and northern Ireland will also see higher than average temperatures, although cloud coverage is expected to keep things slightly cooler. Alex Burkill, meteorologist at the Exeter-based Met Office, sa...
News Brief: Bangladesh High Commission London
ENGLISH, London

News Brief: Bangladesh High Commission London

The first-ever Arab-Islamic-American (AIA) Summit kicked off in Riyadh on Sunday afternoon with the slogan “Together We Prevail”. Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud inaugurated the summit at the King Abdul Aziz International Conference Center in the Saudi capital. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the US President Donald Trump and 56 Arab and Muslim leaders joined this highly anticipated event, the first of its kind in history, to discuss ways to combat extremism and illicit financing. Sheikh Hasina was scheduled to deliver her speech later in the evening when she is expected to put forward a number of proposals. The main objective of the summit is to establish a new partnership to face the challenges of global terrorism and militancy, expand values of tolerance and coexistence and streng...
Free school lunches will be end by Theresa May: limited budget families to be hit
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Free school lunches will be end by Theresa May: limited budget families to be hit

    Almost one million children from poor backgrounds will lose the right to free school meals if lunch snatcher Theresa May pushes through cuts in the Conservative manifesto, an educational think tank has warned. The Prime Minister announced last week that universal free lunches for infants will be stopped if the Tories win the June 8 General Election, with free breakfasts on offer instead. The move will cost families around £440 a year for each child affected and is thought likely to save around £650 million a year, according to the research by the Education Policy Institute (EPI). In analysis conducted for The Observer, the EPI found that those losing hot lunches would include 100,000 from families living in relative poverty and 667,000 which it defined as coming from ordin...
Trump takes part in traditional Saudi sword dance
Arab world, ENGLISH

Trump takes part in traditional Saudi sword dance

    US President Donald Trump along with other male White House officials participated in a ceremonial sword dance in Saudi Arabia outside the Murabba Palace, the media reported. Trump arrived in Riyadh accompanied by First Lady Melania Trump on Saturday on a two-day trip, beginning his first foreign trip as President that includes visits to Israel, the Vatican City, Belgium and Italy where he is to take part in NATO and G7 summits. Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner were also travelling as part of the presidential entourage. Video of the dance shows Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross dancing with swords perched on their shoulders as part of a line of men in traditional Saudi garb ahead of a state dinner, reports CNN. Trump, ...
Saudi Arabia to invest huge funds in US infrastructure
Arab world, ENGLISH

Saudi Arabia to invest huge funds in US infrastructure

    US asset management giant Blackstone and Saudi Arabia’s main sovereign wealth fund announced Saturday they are launching a US$40 billion investment vehicle to finance infrastructure renovation in the United States. The announcement comes as President Donald Trump, who has promised to invest US$1 trillion in a major infrastructure plan in the United States, visits Saudi Arabia during his first trip abroad. The Saudi Public Investment Fund [PIF] will contribute $20 billion to the new vehicle, while the remaining US$20 billion will be raised from other investors, Blackstone said in a statement without providing details on the timeframe. Ultimately, this new fund aims to invest US$100 billion in infrastructure projects, “principally” in the United States, according to the rele...
Brussels must pay its own Brexit bill of billions of pounds
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Brussels must pay its own Brexit bill of billions of pounds

    Britains's Prime Minister Theresa May gestures as she gives a speech at the launch of the Scottish manifesto on May 19, 2017 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Brussels must pay its own Brexit bill of billions of pounds for Britain's share of the European Investment Bank and other joint projects, Theresa May has indicated. The Prime Minister says in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph that money paid in the past by the UK must be taken into account in the final divorce bill. She insisted that the UK has financial rights that must be respected during discussions about payments as well as obligations to the body it is leaving. The intervention is a clear rejection of hardline EU countries who have argued that the UK should not get back its proportion of EU assets. Reports from Bruss...