Day: August 18, 2019

UK strips Jihadi Jack of his British dual nationality: Reports

10:16 pm August 18, 2019

London: A former Islamic State recruit referred to as Jihadi Jack for his British links has been stripped of his UK nationality, according to UK media reports. Jack Letts, a 24-year-old Muslim convert from the town of Oxford, had travelled to Raqqa in Syria as a teenager in 2014 and fought with ISIS before leaving […]

Defiant Iran prepares for oil tanker to leave Gibraltar with Indian crew

9:08 pm August 18, 2019

London: An Iranian oil supertanker released from detention by Gibraltar authorities earlier this week could be ready to sail on with its Indian crew on board soon, in defiance of a US warrant after the British territory’s government said it was unable to seek a court order to detain the vessel. Grace 1, which had […]

Boris Johnson planning to put UK on obesity-busting diet: Report

UK’s Johnson to visit European capitals seeking Brexit breakthrough

9:06 pm August 18, 2019

London: Britain’s Boris Johnson will visit European capitals this week on his first overseas trip as prime minister, as his government said Sunday it had ordered the scrapping of the decades-old law enforcing its EU membership. Johnson will travel to Berlin on Wednesday for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and on to Paris Thursday […]

Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinians near Gaza fence

9:03 pm August 18, 2019

Gaza City (Gaza Strip): Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israeli troops have killed three Palestinians and severely wounded a fourth near the heavily guarded perimeter fence. The Israeli military said Sunday that a helicopter and a tank fired at armed suspects near the fence overnight. After weeks of calm, Palestinian militants have attempted a number of […]

Clear weather, below-normal temperatures in Delhi

Delhi’s Sunday air quality best of the year so far

8:57 pm August 18, 2019

New Delhi: Delhiites on Sunday breathed the cleanest air of the year so far, thanks to widespread rainfall in the National Capital Region over the past few days, officials said. According to the Central Pollution Control Board, the air quality index in the city on Sunday was recorded at 47, which falls in the ‘good’ […]