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by Alice Ritchie © Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Cambridge Analytica, the British firm at the centre of a major scandal rocking Facebook, suspended its chief executive Alexander Nix Tuesday, as he became embroiled in fresh controversy and lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic demanded answers over the data breach. Recordings of Nix emerged Tuesday evening in which he boasts about the company’s expansive role in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, claiming it did […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain will invest £48 million in a new chemical weapons defense center and vaccinate thousands of British soldiers against anthrax, the defense minister said on Thursday after the nerve agent poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. “We are investing £48 million (54 million euros, $67 million) in a new Chemical Weapons Defense Center to maintain our cutting edge in chemical analysis and defense,” Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson […]
LONDRES, United Kingdom (AFP) — It may have been a frosty welcome, but the dramatic birth of a British baby on a snowy roadside has warmed hearts as the country shivers in a blast of freezing weather. The child was named Sienna but quickly earned her own social media hashtag “#A66snowbaby”, referencing the name of the road in northern England where her mother Daniella Waring gave birth on Thursday morning with the help of her husband […]
LONDRES, United Kingdom (AFP) — Three men were charged on Saturday over a fatal explosion in central England which left five people dead and demolished a building, police said. The suspects were charged with arson with intent to endanger life and five counts of manslaughter, Leicestershire Police said in a statement. The blast on February 25 in the city of Leicester destroyed a supermarket and a two-storey flat above it. The force of the explosion […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British police responded to a “major incident” that critically injured at least four people on Sunday in Leicester, a central English city, after an explosion and building collapse, according to local authorities. “There has been a major incident…” local police wrote on Twitter. “All emergency services are currently dealing with this.” It advised people to avoid the area and added that local roads had been closed. The Fire and Rescue […]
by Dario Thuburn Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Scandal-hit British charity Oxfam was reeling Tuesday after fresh claims of sexual assault and cover-up in South Sudan, as Haiti’s president condemned the behavior of some of its staff in his country as “undignified and dishonest”. The latest revelations by Helen Evans, former global head of safeguarding, heaped pressure on chief executive Mark Goldring just hours after his deputy resigned over a scandal […]
BRUXELLES, Belgium (AFP) — The European Union will be able to punish Britain for breaking the rules of its post-Brexit transition period under plans agreed by Brussels on Tuesday, EU sources said. Under plans for the 21-month transition after Britain leaves the bloc on March 29, 2019, London must abide by all EU laws without having any decision-making power — turning the country into what critics call a “vassal state”. The latest EU draft of the transition […]
MALÉ, Maldives (AFP) – Opposition leaders in the Maldives urged the international community Monday to pressure President Abdulla Yameen into obeying a court order to free political prisoners and “restore democracy” to the troubled honeymoon islands. Yameen’s regime has so far refused to release nine jailed dissidents and reinstate opposition lawmakers as ordered by the Maldives’ top court in a shock ruling last week that has deepened turmoil in the atoll nation. The Supreme Court on Sunday […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A man accused of deliberately driving a van into a group of London Muslims told his trial on Tuesday that he wanted to kill the British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn. Darren Osborne said killing the leftist Labour leader would have been “one less terrorist off our streets,” while killing Labour London Mayor Sadiq Khan as well “would have been like winning the lottery.” Osborne is accused of murdering 51-year-old Makram Ali and […]
by Alice RITCHIE Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Britain’s Brexit, finance and business ministers displayed a united front on Friday with a letter seeking to reassure eurosceptics worried over the country’s path out of the European Union. Publication of the letter late Friday followed a speech by Brexit minister David Davis, in which he admitted there were “different views” within the government over Britain’s departure from the bloc. Davis joined forces with finance minister Philip […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Brexit minister David Davis will seek to reassure eurosceptics about the government’s strategy for leaving the EU on Friday after fresh splits emerged in the ruling Conservative party. Prime Minister Theresa May rebuked her finance minister, Philip Hammond, on Thursday after he suggested Britain would only move “very modestly apart” from the EU’s economy after Brexit. Meanwhile backbench MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, who leads a group of more than 50 Brexit-supporting Conservative MPs, […]
by Shaun Tandon Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Elton John announced Wednesday that he is retiring from touring, with the consummate showman saying he wants to devote himself to his children — but after a final, massive swing around the world. The 70-year-old British entertainer, revealing his plans at a gala New York event, said he planned to “go out with a bang” with a global tour that will open on September […]
