Qatar has been removed from Britain's safe travel corridor list, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps explained to the BBC on Thursday. The Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and...
A refugee who arrived in the UK after fleeing Iraq has said that 'life in Hull is the same as in Iraq'
Britain and Morocco are considering plans to revive a decades-old project for a tunnel connecting Europe to Africa by linking the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar to the northern...
The United Kingdom has spent over £2.4 million ($3.27 million) over the past four years to assist Saudi Arabia's military in accordance with international humanitarian law, it has been...
Efforts by Britain's Conservative government to force universities to adopt the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, and to cut their funding if they don't, have...
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January 12, 2021 |
Martin Kemp The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is Britain's largest children's NGO. It is under pressure to renounce its relationship with J C Bamford Excavators...
British-Palestinian Zaher Birawi has agreed to accept a settlement after the World-Check site wrongly listed him on its terrorism categorisation. Refinitiv Ltd, owners of World-Check – which describes itself...
A man who fought for an Islamist militant group as a teenager in Libya was jailed for the rest of his life on Monday for murdering three men in...
A group of lawyers and retired judges have warned that the highly controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism undermines freedom of expression. In a letter to...
Iran has prohibited the import of American and British Covid-19 vaccines
World leaders reacted with shock and dismay to the storming of the US Capitol by supporters of US President Donald Trump, protesting congressional certification of President-elect Joe Biden's electoral victory, Anadolu Agency reports....
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US The British government has appointed Richard Oppenheim as its new envoy to the Saudi-based, UN-recognised Yemeni government. Oppenheim currently serves as the deputy head of the UK's Riyadh mission,...
A 38-year-old British social worker and mother-of-three, Abimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, died in August after buying an overseas package deal for treatment in Turkey, PA News Agency reports. Her husband, Moyosore Olowo,...
The Syrian National Coalition yesterday welcomed Britain's announcement that it was fully committed to holding to account officials responsible for war crimes in Syria. Earlier on Friday, Britain's Foreign,...
Iran said on Sunday it has extended a ban on flights from and to the UK till January 19 over fear from the new coronavirus variant, the semi-official Fars...
Turkey has banned Britons from entering the country after detecting 15 cases of a new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus in travellers from Britain, the government said...
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January 2, 2021 |
Naima Morelli MEMO speaks to London-based Libyan gallerist and curator Najlaa Elageli
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January 1, 2021 |
Elif Selin Calik One of the enduring images of 2020, the year of the pandemic, has been the sight of people connected to ventilators in hospitals. It is an image that helped...
Labour leader Keir Starmer expressed his opposition to Israel's proposed plan to annex large swathes of the West Bank but he does not support boycotting products of the Zionist state...
The free trade agreement signed by Turkey and the UK on Tuesday will ease the two countries' bilateral trade target of $20 billion, said a top official, Anadolu reports....
A Canadian student with a history of denying the existence of Palestine and its people has been refunded £15,000 ($20,375) in fees by the School of Oriental and African...
One of Britain's leading experts on anti-Semitism has clashed with the government's adviser on anti-Jewish racism during the Limmud Festival, an annual event focused on Jewish themes organised by...
Britain and Turkey are set to sign a free trade deal on Tuesday, the UK trade ministry said on Sunday, the first since Prime Minister Boris Johnson secured a...
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December 24, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley Earlier this month, Israeli and British military officials signed a joint agreement to formalise and increase their "defence relationship". The full terms of the pact are secret, but it...
Saudi Arabia has granted licenses to more than 200 projects with 100 per cent foreign ownership during the third quarter of this year, Saudi Arabia's Investment Highlights reported. According...
Israel has detected four cases of the new, highly infectious variant of the coronavirus that has emerged in Britain, the Israeli health ministry said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Three...
The United States has imposed a new set of sanctions on Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's wife and her father, in the latest round of measures against the regime and...
December 23, 2020 |
Usman Butt Our interview with Dr Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, historian of nationalism and race at King's College London, about Islamophobia in France in light of President Emmanuel Macron's recent comments about Islam being 'in crisis'.
A report by Bloomberg News has uncovered further details of the sordid relationship between UAE Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed and the Luxembourg-based private bank, Banque Havilland. A trove of emails, documents,...
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December 22, 2020 |
Lauren Lewis Jawahir "JJ" Roble is so dedicated to her career as a football referee she has "cut down" on her consumption of chicken nuggets in favour of "good food, like...
British Ambassador to Iraq Stephen Hickey on Sunday blamed an armed groups' evasion for scaring investors and causing instability in the country. On his Twitter, he wrote: "The rocket attacks...
The United States on Monday unsealed criminal charges against a third alleged conspirator in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people,...