The investigation into a fatal shooting and siege in Brighton yesterday continues. Police were called to a serviced apartment complex in Bay Street about 4pm on 5 June in relation to reports of gun shots. When police arrived at the address, a 36-year-old male employee was located deceased with a gunshot wound in the lobby […]
China on Friday expressed grave concern over the reported killing of two Chinese nationals kidnapped in Pakistan late last month. “We have taken note of relevant reports and we express our grave concern. We have been trying to rescue the two kidnapped hostages over the past days,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in response […]
British Prime Minister Theresa May is on course to lose her overall majority in the British general election, according to an exit poll released as soon as voting finished Thursday night. The poll, commissioned by Britain’s main broadcasters, showed May’s Conservatives would have 314 seats, losing 17 seats and the overall majority she had before […]
The Labour Party is ready to form a minority government if it is confirmed that no party has won an absolute majority in the June 8 elections in the UK, the Labour Foreign Secretary has said. “It looks tonight like we could form the next government,” Emily Thornberry told the BBC on Thursday night. According […]
Catholic priest and former President of the UN General Assembly Miguel D’Escoto has died following a long illness, the government reported. He was 84. D’Escoto was also a former Foreign Minister. He headed the UN General Assembly from 2008-2009. He died in a hospital here, first lady and Vice President Rosario Murillo said, reading a […]
With no parties showing majority in the June 8 UK General Election, the pound was down sharply as traders reacted to the early results, a media report said. The currency market had been expecting a clear victory for Theresa May’s Conservative Party, but the results so far, and the exit poll, have cast doubt on […]
Authorities here in the valley imposed curfew-like restrictions in seven police station areas on Friday to prevent separatist-called protests against the killing of a youth in security firing earlier this week. The areas include Nowhatta, Rainawari, Khanyar, M.R.Gunj, Kralkhud, Maisuma and Safa Kadal police stations. Restrictions under section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure […]
Key Indian equity market indices opened in the red on Friday following global cues. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) was trading 71.17 points or 0.23 per cent lower during the early session. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading 14.50 points or 0.15 per cent lower at 9,632.75 points. […]
UK opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn called for Prime Minister Theresa May to resign as exit polls from the snap general election has indicated that her ruling Conservative Party will lose their overall majority in Parliament. “The Prime Minister called this election because she wanted a mandate. The mandate she’s got is lost votes, […]
Millions of people across the UK are set to vote in the general election on Thursday where the ruling Conservatives are predicted to secure an overall majority despite an energetic bid for power by the opposition Labour Party, the media reported. Voting will begin at 7 a.m. (local time) in over 40,000 polling stations across […]