Turkey threatens tough sanctions

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan threatened to impose sanctions against Kurdish northern Iraq over a planned
20 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Eiffel Tower starts work on anti-terror upgrade

Works have started Monday to boost security at the Eiffel Tower as an anti-terrorism measure, city hall said, with bulletproof glass walls set to go up around the world's most visited monument.
20 September 2017, 13:47 PM

Twitter says its controls are weeding out users advocating violence

Twitter says its internal controls have been allowing it to weed out accounts being used for the "promotion of terrorism" earlier rather than responding to government requests to close them down.
20 September 2017, 11:35 AM

'The man who saved the world' dies in Russia

Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet military officer who is widely credited with helping prevent a nuclear war with the United States, has died
19 September 2017, 18:28 PM

British cyclist sets new world record

A British cyclist set a new world record Monday by travelling around the globe in 79 days -- beating the fictional exploits of Phileas Fogg
19 September 2017, 18:27 PM

Rohingya refugee crisis: Britain suspends Myanmar military training

Britain suspended its training programme for military in Myanmar due to the violence in Rakhine state, a British government spokesman says.
19 September 2017, 16:50 PM

Top official leaves Brexit ministry

The top official at Britain's Brexit ministry quit yesterday to start working directly for Prime Minister Theresa May, in what opposition
18 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Threat level lowered after second arrest

Britain downgraded its terrorism threat level to severe from critical yesterday, after police made a second arrest in
17 September 2017, 18:00 PM

No softening of stance

The White House pushed back Saturday at a European suggestion it was softening its stance on the Paris climate accord, insisting Washington will withdraw from the agreement unless it can re-enter on more favorable terms.
17 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Water: Garments’ invisible price

Bangladesh boasts as the world’s number two garment exporter. Every third European has a t-shirt made in Bangladesh on his back. Every fifth American wears jeans manufactured in Bangladesh. But this is not a story of how many million pieces we export. This is a story of the invisible price we pay every time a jeans rolls out of a factory in Bangladesh. The western buyers little know how much water, that precious resource, was used to wash and dye his shirt. The figures are mind boggling.
17 September 2017, 09:01 AM

18-year-old arrested

British police arrested an 18-year-old man in the southern port of Dover yesterday in a "significant" development in
16 September 2017, 18:00 PM

A fifth of global deaths linked to diet: study

Fewer children are dying before their fifth birthday and although humans are living longer than ever before, one in
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Knife-wielding man attacks soldier in Paris

A knife-wielding man attacked a soldier in Paris yesterday, the latest assault to raise questions over whether France's
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM

TERROR ATTACKS IN BRITAIN

London Bridge attack (June 3, 2017): Three men wearing fake suicide vests mow down pedestrians with a van at a
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM

3 powers agree Idlib safe zone

Russia, Iran and Turkey yesterday agreed a deal to jointly police a fourth safe zone around Syria's Idlib province as
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Russia begins war games 'eyeing Nato'

Russia yesterday began major joint military exercises with Belarus along the European Union's eastern flank -- a show of strength that
14 September 2017, 18:26 PM

'Wind back in Europe's sails'

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, in a flagship speech yesterday, declared the "wind is back in Europe's sails" after
13 September 2017, 18:50 PM

Germany drops case against Auschwitz medic Zafke

A German court yesterday said it had dropped a case against a 96-year-old former medical orderly at the Auschwitz death camp because
12 September 2017, 19:15 PM

Turkey to get Russian S-400 missile systems

Turkey has signed a deal for its first major weapons purchase from Moscow to buy S-400 missile defence systems, both sides
12 September 2017, 19:14 PM

Brexit bill passes first vote in UK parliament

British MPs yesterday voted in favour of a bill to end Britain's EU membership, a key moment for the government's Brexit strategy.
12 September 2017, 19:10 PM