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Iraq PM demands protesters leave US embassy ‘immediately’

7:54 pm December 31, 2019

Baghdad: Iraq’s caretaker premier Adel Abdel Mahdi said on Tuesday that crowds that had stormed the US embassy in anger at deadly US air strikes should leave the compound “immediately.” Demonstrators had breached the embassy walls in protest at the Sunday strikes that killed at least 25 fighters from a hardline pro-Iran faction known as […]

UK police to get stricter with fines for COVID-19 lockdown breaches

UK police arrest 21-year-old man suspected of terrorism plan

8:09 pm December 28, 2019

London: British counter-terrorism police have arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of preparing an extremist act. The suspect was arrested Saturday morning at a residence in east London. Police say he is being questioned on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. The property where he was arrested is being searched […]

Udham Singh’s birth anniversary celebrated in Uttarakhand

9:07 pm December 26, 2019

Rudrapur: The birth anniversary of Udham Singh, the revolutionary who was hanged for killing Michael O’Dwyer in London to avenge the massacre of hundreds of Indians at Jallianwala Bagh, was celebrated on Thursday with great enthusiasm in Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand. Officials of the district, which is named after the revolutionary, garlanded his […]

UK PM to outlaw Brexit extension beyond 2020

8:25 pm December 17, 2019

London: Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to pass a law guaranteeing Britain’s Brexit transition period cannot run beyond the end of 2020, a source in his office said on Tuesday. Johnson won a big majority in last week’s election on a promise to take Britain out of the European Union by the end of January, […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

UK’s Apostrophe Protection Society shuts down amid laziness

10:19 pm December 3, 2019

London: A former journalist who set up the UK’s Apostrophe Protection Society to promote the correct use of the apostrophe has announced its closure in the face of laziness that is leading to the demise of the important punctuation mark. John Richards started the Apostrophe Protection Society in 2001 after he retired and now at […]