European Union leaders have debated Britain's departure from the bloc amid some relief that Boris Johnson has secured a parliamentary majority that should allow him to push the long-stalled Brexit divorce deal through the UK Parliament.
India's new citizenship law is “fundamentally discriminatory in nature,” the United Nations human rights office said on Friday. The Citizenship Amendment Bill does not extend the same protection to Muslim migrants as to other religious minorities, and this undermines India's commitment to equality before the law, enshrined in the Constitution, UN human rights spokesman Jeremy...
Abdelmadjid Tebboune, a former prime minister and loyalist of Algeria's influential army chief, has been elected the country's new president in a vote boycotted by members of a nationwide protest movement, electoral authorities announced.
Labour went into the British general election promising voters a second Brexit referendum, fatally failing to realise that this election was the second referendum. There was no other game in town, this was the Brexit election and the only way to win it was to promise to get Britain out of the EU and put...
Ten-pin bowling company Hollywood Bowl has reported a major increase in profits, smashing through analysts' expectations for the full year to the end of September.
The head of the Catalan government, Quim Torra, has congratulated the nationalists on their victory in Scotland, Reuters reports. Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon earlier said it must be allowed to hold another independence referendum. “Congratulations to the friends of [SNP] and First Minister [Sturgeon] for this magnificent result that demonstrates the democratic will...
Australia's Qantas Airways has chosen Airbus' A350-1000 planes for its planned non-stop Sydney to London service, which would be the world's longest commercial flight. The carrier said it would make a final decision in March on whether to proceed with an order for up to 12 A350-1000 jets fitted with an extra fuel tank to...
