By Associated Press Afghan Taliban militants stand with residents as they took to the street to celebrate ceasefire on the second day of Eid in the outskirts of Jalalabad on June 16, 2018 KABUL, Afghanistan — A coordinated Taliban assault on a military base and police training center in eastern Afghanistan on Monday morning killed at least […] Read more
By: Gordon Brown Parliament must inflict a second defeat on the government – by voting next Tuesday to extend article 50 for a year. Not as a delaying tactic, but for a purpose: to enable a process of nationwide consultation and reflection. Key to this would be a series of citizens’ assemblies whose thinking would […] Read more
By Bianca Britton and Vasco Cotovio At least 170 people are feared dead after they went missing from two separate shipwrecks on the Mediterranean Sea that left from Libya and Morocco, the United Nations said. “Some 53 people have died on the Alborán Sea, western Mediterranean, according to recent information from NGO sources,” the UN […] Read more
US President Donald Trump has set out new plans on his Mexican wall project to try to end a partial government shutdown lasting more than four weeks. One of his “compromises” was on so-called Dreamers – who entered the US illegally when young. He still wants $5.7bn (£4.5bn) to fund the wall. Democrats have refused […] Read more
White House says Trump will meet with Kim Yong Chol, Vice Chairman of the Workers Party of Korea and Chairman of the Korea Asia Pacific Peace Committee, in the Oval Office to discuss “continued progress on North Korea’s final, fully verified denuclearization.” Source: CGTN “Content is King” – For TOP content placement services, visit The Online Publishers ‘TOP Platform’ Read more
By Ashley Strickland NASA says Saturn is losing its iconic rings While Saturn’s rings may disappear in less than 100 million years because gravity is pulling them into the planet, apparently they haven’t always surrounded the planet, either. The finding was published in the journal Science on Thursday. When NASA’s Cassini spacecraft plunged into the planet’s atmosphere […] Read more
Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson outlined his vision for Britain in a speech at construction equipment company JCB’s world headquarters in central England. Standing in front of a digger, Johnson urged Theresa May to return to Brussels to remove the Irish backstop from her Brexit deal. “It has to come out,” he said. “I think […] Read more
What happened to Paweł Adamowicz isn’t just a Polish problem – wherever toxic public debate is indulged, violent acts may be committed The death of Paweł Adamowicz, the popular liberal mayor of Gdańsk, has sent shockwaves across Poland and elsewhere in Europe. Silent marches have been held in Warsaw, Gdańsk and other cities to pay […] Read more
By Miguel Pereira A digger pours sand next to the area where Julen, a Spanish two-year-old boy who fell into a 25-centimetre (9.8 inch) wide and around 100-metre (328 feet) deep well four days ago when the family was taking a stroll through a private estate, in Totalan, southern Spain, January 17, 2019. Rescue workers […] Read more
A sacked aide to French President Emmanuel Macron has been detained over the use of diplomatic passports. The Paris prosecutor’s office said a preliminary inquiry had been opened into Alexandre Benalla’s alleged possession of two passports. He is alleged to have used them despite losing his job as a security officer in Mr Macron’s staff […] Read more
