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UK sends navy vessels to Jersey amid post-Brexit fishing row with France

Polls open as Starmer promises to ‘carry the can’ for Labour election results

UK government faces action over lack of age checks on adult sites

Jersey row: fishing leader says French threats ‘close to act of war’

Labour talks down election hopes but Starmer could face heat

Convicted Hong Kong journalist wins press award for investigation

China to suspend economic accord with Australia

Ukraine seeks aid, NATO support from Blinken’s visit

UAE records 1,724 new COVID-19 cases, three deaths in 24 hours

Taliban capture Afghanistan’s second-biggest dam as fighting rages

Lawyer charged with insulting Thai king contracts COVID-19 in custody

Israeli troops shoot dead Palestinian teen during West Bank clashes

UK

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speak during a press conference about the charges laid over the 2019 White Island volcanic eruption, in Wellington on November 30, 2020. (File photo: AFP)

UK

Coronavirus: New Zealand set to end lockdown on largest city

New Zealand will lift a COVID-19 lockdown on nearly two million people on Sunday, as authorities say they are confident...

FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, June 8, 2020, people walk past the empty plinth after a statue of notorious slave trader Edward Colston was pulled down during a Black Lives Matter demo, in Bristol, England. (File photo: AFP)

UK

Four involved in toppling of slave trader statue in England plead not guilty

Four people pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a charge of criminal damage over their alleged role in the toppling...

The UN warns of famine-like conditions in Yemen, including cases where people are eating leaves. (Supplied)

UK aid charities caution risk of pandemic-induced famine in poorer nations

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (L) and New Zealand's health department director-general Ashley Bloomfield (R) take part in a press conference about the COVID-19 coronavirus at Parliament in Wellington on June 8, 2020. (File photo: AFP)

New Zealand’s largest city Auckland back to lockdown after COVID-19 case

February 27, 2021

Britain’s Prince Philip enters a car as he leaves the King Edward VII's Hospital in London, Britain, on December 24, 2019. (Reuters)

UK’s Prince Philip in hospital for seventh consecutive night

February 23, 2021

Britain's Prince Philip is driven away from Papworth Hospital in southern England. (File photo: Reuters)

Britain’s Prince Philip spends third night in London hospital

February 19, 2021

Britain's Conservative Party Chairman James Cleverly is seen outside 10 Downing Street London, Britain, January 21, 2020. (Reuters)

UK calls on Iran to comply with nuclear deal

February 19, 2021

Royal Marines and sailors stand around the confiscated 2.4 tons of drugs. (File photo: UK MoD Crown)

British Royal Navy seizes $15 million worth of drugs in Arabian Sea

February 18, 2021

Two of the injured victims are in critical condition.. Two men have so far been arrested

Two of the injured victims are in critical condition.. Two men have so far been arrested

February 6, 2021

A view shows morning rush hour traffic in central London. (Reuters)

Britain resists giving EU envoy full diplomatic status, sparking dispute

January 21, 2021

International

Bao Choy Yuk-Ling, a freelance journalist with RTHK, poses for pictures outside West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts as she arrives for charges of making a false statement to obtain data for a documentary on the police's handling of a mob attack, in Hong Kong, China April 22, 2021. (File photo: Reuters)

Convicted Hong Kong journalist wins press award for investigation

A Hong Kong journalist who was prosecuted over investigating an attack on democracy supporters by government loyalists won a prestigious...

The national flags of China and Australia. (File photo)

China to suspend economic accord with Australia

China said on Thursday it had suspended an economic agreement with Australia, in an apparent tit-for-tat response to Canberra’s scrapping...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington. (Reuters)

Ukraine seeks aid, NATO support from Blinken’s visit

British soldiers arrive at Kandahar air base at the end of operations for US Marines and British combat troops in Helmand. (File photo: Reuters)

Taliban capture Afghanistan’s second-biggest dam as fighting rages

A human rights lawyer Arnon Nampa speaks before he was detained, during a Thai anti-government mass protest, on the 47th anniversary of the 1973 student uprising, in Bangkok, Thailand October 14, 2020. (File photo: Reuters)

Lawyer charged with insulting Thai king contracts COVID-19 in custody

Suspected coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients lie on hospital beds outside the emergency room of Amang Rodriguez Memorial Medical Center, in Marikina City, Metro Manila, Philippines. (File photo: Reuters)

Philippines Duterte orders arrest of mask violators to contain COVID-19 surge

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (R) and European Council President Charles Michel leave after a joint press conference in Brussels, on February 25, 2021. (AFP)

EU ready to ‘discuss’ COVID-19 vaccine patient waivers

European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium August 21, 2020. (File photo: Reuters)

EU countries agree to open up to Israeli tourists

In this Feb. 12, 2012 file photo, foreign tourists arrive in a resort in the Kurumba island in Maldives. (File photo: AP)

Maldives imposes night curfew after spike in COVID-19 infections

Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint outside Bagram prison, north of Kabul, Afghanistan April 8, 2020. (File photo: Reuters)

Taliban insurgents capture northern Afghan district amid surge in violence

Gulf

Gyrocopters fly over Dubai during the World Air Games 2015, United Arab Emirates December 9, 2015. (File photo: Reuters)

UAE records 1,724 new COVID-19 cases, three deaths in 24 hours

The United Arab Emirates confirmed 1,724 new COVID-19 cases, 1,682 recoveries and three deaths over the last 24 hours, the...

UAE's Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan meets Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. (SPA)

Saudi Arabia chooses lavender as color for ceremonial carpets, symbolizing identity

Saudi Arabia on Wednesday announced that it chose lavender as the new color for ceremonial carpets used at official state...

Palestinian midwife Sara Abu Taqea (R), 23, who works in the maternity ward at Gaza's Al-Ahli hospital, weighs a newborn at the hospital in Gaza City (File photo: Reuters)

WHO sounds alarm on global midwife shortage, UAE experts urge more to consider career

Never-before-seen detailed images of the Maqam Ibrahim, or the Station of Abraham, located in Mecca’s Grand Mosque. (Twitter)

Saudi Arabia releases new detailed images of Maqam Ibrahim in Mecca’s Grand Mosque

Flydubai Boeing 737 Max. (Twitter)

Flydubai expands network to over 80 destinations, resumes flights to Russia and Iran

A close up image of the Black Stone, known as the Hajar Aswad, in the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. (Twitter)

Saudi Arabian authorities release never-before-seen images of Kaaba’s Black Stone

Emirates planes seen at Dubai International Airport. (File photo: Reuters)

Dubai carrier Emirates will operate at 70 pct capacity by winter: CCO

People walk outside the Dubai mall during the holy month of Ramadan in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 23, 2021. (Reuters)

UAE confirms 1,699 new COVID-19 cases, two deaths

A general view shows the musical fountain in front of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 31, 2020. (File photo: Reuters)

UAE reports 1,772 new COVID-19 cases, three deaths

Newly elected president Abdelmadjid Tebboune talks to the press during a news conference, in Algiers, Algeria December 13, 2019. (Reuters)

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune seeks to calm social anger

Arabic

A Palestinian protester is arrested by Israeli security forces, during a demonstration as Palestinian families face eviction, part of an ongoing effort by Jewish Israelis to take control of homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of occupied east Jerusalem, on May 5, 2021. (AFP)

Israeli troops shoot dead Palestinian teen during West Bank clashes

Israeli troops shot and killed a 16-year-old Palestinian male during clashes in the occupied West Bank late on Wednesday, the Palestinian health ministry said. The Israeli military said troops had...

Residents in Baghdad have been captured on camera cheering after billboards of Iran’s former and top leaders were torn down in the Iraqi capital. (Via Twitter)

Baghdad residents celebrate removal of Iran’s Khomeini, Soleimani billboards

Members of Israeli forces gather at the scene of a shooting incident in the Israeli-occupied West Bank May 2, 2021, in this still image taken from a video. (File photo: Reuters)

Palestinian arrested over West Bank drive-by shooting after three-day chase

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian walks after a meeting with Lebanon's President Michel Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon May 6, 2021. (Reuters)

French foreign minister tries to break Lebanese govt deadlock

Iraqi workers walk through the Nassiriya oilfield in Nassiriya, 300 km (185 miles) southeast of Baghdad, September 8, 2012. (File photo: Reuters)

At least one policeman killed after militants attack oil wells in Iraq: Ministry

French Navy Rafale fighter jets are seen onboard the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, currently moored at the port of Limassol, Cyprus February 21, 2020. (Reuters)

Egypt confirms purchase of 30 Rafale jets from France: Military

Members of Israeli border police aim their weapons as unarmed Palestinians take part in an anti-Israel protest over tension in Jerusalem, in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank April 24, 2021. (Reuters)

Two arrested, 10 injured in clashes with Israeli police in east Jerusalem

A base for peacekeepers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is pictured in Naqoura, near the Lebanese-Israeli border, Nov. 11, 2020. (Reuters)

Lebanon, Israel resume talks on disputed maritime border: Source

Reports

HMS Severn, one of the two vessels sent to Jersey.

UK sends navy vessels to Jersey amid post-Brexit fishing row with France

Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner campaigning in Birmingham on Wednesday.

Polls open as Starmer promises to ‘carry the can’ for Labour election results

Age verification for legal pornography sites was introduced under part 3 of the Digital Economy Act in 2017 but the government never enforced it.

UK government faces action over lack of age checks on adult sites

French fishers are threatening a blockade at St Helier on Thursday.

Jersey row: fishing leader says French threats ‘close to act of war’

Keir Starmer has repeatedly said his party has a ‘mountain to climb’.

Labour talks down election hopes but Starmer could face heat

Michel Barnier: ‘Brexit is a failure for the EU. It is also a waste, for the UK and for us.’

Tory quarrels determined UK’s post-Brexit future, says Barnier

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