May faces vote of no confidence: How will it work?
London: The confidence vote in Prime Minister Theresa May’s Government taking place on Wednesday, which she is expected to win, is the first in nearly 26 years. The vote was called by main Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn following the Government’s historic defeat over May’s Brexit deal with the European Union. It...
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Will intensify preparations for no-deal Brexit: Ireland
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B’desh-origin Labour MP delays birth to vote on crucial Brexit deal
A 36-year-old Bangladeshi-origin British lawmaker has delayed giving birth to vote on the UK’s landmark divorce deal with the European Union on Tuesday. Tulip Siddiq, a Labour lawmaker and a niece of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has been advised by doctors to have a caesarean section, but agreed to push...
China slams Trudeau’s ‘irresponsible remarks’ on Canadian’s death sentence
Beijing on Tuesday slammed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formaking “irresponsible remarks” after he criticised a Chinese court’s death sentence against a convicted Canadian drug smuggler. Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, 36, was given the death penalty on Monday after his previous 15-year prison sentence was deemed too lenient — a ruling that...
North Korean official heads for talks in Sweden: Report
A top North Korean diplomat was travelling to Sweden on Tuesday, she told reporters, as speculation mounts over the next summit between the isolated State’s leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump. Choe Son Hui, a North Korean vice-minister of foreign affairs, landed in Beijing on a flight from...
Trump sends letter to Kim: report
Donald Trump has sent a letter to Kim Jong-un, a media report said on Tuesday, days after the US President said he received a “great letter” from the reclusive North Korean leader, amid talks about a second summit between them on denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula. Kim and Trump held a...
Erdogan, Trump mull security zone in Syria
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US counterpart Donald Trump mooted on Monday the creation of a “security zone” in north Syria as tensions rose over the fate of Kurdish fighters in that country. In a telephone conversation, the leaders “discussed the idea of creating a security zone cleared of terrorism...
China cautions countries against helping Taiwan
China on Monday firmly opposed transferring technology to Taiwan to make submarines, saying countries which have relations with Beijing should earnestly abide by the one China principle and stop any form of military links with Taipei. Taiwan media last year reported that the US State Department had approved the transfer of...
US wants Syria ‘safe zone’ to protect Turkey, Kurds: Pompeo
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that talks were under way on Washington’s proposal to establish a “safe zone” in flashpoint border areas of northeastern Syria, where tensions are rising between Turkey and Kurdish militia. “We want to make sure that the folks who fought with us to down...
