Month: May 2019

Turkey’s opposition accused the country’s election board members of being “mobsters” under the control of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish president, after they voided an opposition victory in the Istanbul mayor’s race and ordered a re-run of the election.  The Republican People’s Party (CHP) narrowly won the Istanbul’s mayor’s election in March, dealing a serious…

A 22-year-old steward who gave his life helping passengers escape was among the heroes of an airliner’s fiery emergency landing in Moscow on Sunday, which killed 41 of the 78 people on board.  Meanwhile, thousands have signed a petition to ban the Russian-made Sukhoi Superjet 100 involved in the tragedy. Social media posts have called…

The Duchess of Sussex’s estranged father has said that he hopes his grandson will “serve with dignity”, as he sent his best wishes to his daughter. Thomas Markle, 74, congratulated his daughter with a statement issued from his coastal retirement bungalow near the Mexican city of Tijuana. He was not named on the official list…

People can help preserve up to a million species at risk of extinction in five simple ways, 150 scientists say in a United Nations-sponsored report released on Monday. The report comes after a week-long meeting of experts from 50 countries in Paris. They  warn that a “mass extinction event” precipitated by human activities is already underway – the…

The US will strengthen its Arctic presence to keep in check the "aggressive behaviour" of China and Russia in the resource-rich region, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday. Speaking ahead of talks in Finland between the eight Arctic states, Mr Pompeo warned that "the region has become an arena of global power…

Two prizewinning Reuters journalists were released from a Burmese prison on Tuesday morning after spending more than 500 days behind bars for reporting on the country’s brutal crackdown on its Muslim Rohingya minority.  Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, smiled and waved at their supporters as they walked out of the gates of…

Forty-one people have been killed after a Russian Aeroflot plane burst into flames as it made an emergency landing at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow. The Sukhoi Superjet 100 took off from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, destination Murmansk, at 6.03pm local time. Six minutes later the pilots transmitted a 7600 alert, signifying a failure of radio communications. …

A British man has been rearrested by police investigating the deaths of a woman and her one-year-old daughter in Canada. Robert Leeming was taken back into custody after the bodies of Jasmine Lovett, 25, and her daughter Aliyah Sanderson were found in woodland west of Calgary on Monday. The mother and daughter’s family said their…

The Sri Lankan government has deployed troops and imposed a curfew after clashes broke out between Catholic and Muslim communities in Negambo, one of the sites of the Easter Sunday bombings. Mobs attacked homes and businesses in the first reported outbreak of violence since the bombings on churches and luxury hotels that left 257 dead.…

The US is sending an aircraft carrier strike group and a fleet of bombers to the Middle East in response to a “troubling and escalatory indications” of Iranian activity in the region, the White House announced. Click Here: John Bolton, the White House national security advisor, gave no details of the threats but said the…