Day: October 23, 2019

Barmer accident case: Rally driver Gill granted bail

11:06 pm October 23, 2019

Jodhpur: A Barmer court has granted bail to Arjuna awardee Gaurav Gill in an accident case during a National Rally Championship race in which a couple and their young son were killed last month. The bail was granted by the court of additional chief judicial magistrate, Barmer. “Since it was a bailable offence, police accepted […]

Trump lynching claim renews pain for kin of actual victims

10:05 pm October 23, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Alabama: Willie Edwards Jr., a black truck driver, was killed by Ku Klux Klansmen who forced him to jump off a bridge in Alabama in 1957. Two years earlier, white men had bludgeoned black teenager Emmett Till to death in Mississippi. No one went to prison for either slaying. Both people died in racist […]

4th suspect arrested as UK truck deaths case probe deepens

39 dead in 1 of UK’s worst trafficking cases

9:36 pm October 23, 2019

LONDON: Investigators were trying to piece together the movements of a large cargo truck found Wednesday containing the bodies of 39 people in one of Britain’s worst people smuggling tragedies. Police initially said the truck had traveled through Ireland and then to Wales via ferry, but that theory changed Wednesday afternoon when Essex police in […]

UK prime minister Boris Johnson mulls early election over Brexit impasse

UK prime minister mulls early election over Brexit impasse

9:24 pm October 23, 2019

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was weighing Wednesday whether to push for an early election or try again to pass his stalled European Union divorce deal, after Parliament blocked a fast-track plan to approve his Brexit bill before the UK’s scheduled departure from the bloc on Oct. 31. Lawmakers backed the substance of Johnson’s […]

Hong Kong government withdraws bill that sparked protests

9:19 pm October 23, 2019

Hong Kong: Hong Kong authorities on Wednesday withdrew an unpopular extradition bill that sparked months of chaotic protests that have since morphed into a campaign for greater democratic change. Secretary for Security John Lee told the semi-autonomous Chinese territory’s legislature that the government suspended the bill because it had resulted in “conflicts in society.” In […]