Tag: Britain
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Western ambassadors to skip Nagasaki memorial after Japan exclude Israel
Ambassadors from Western countries including the United States will skip a ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki after Israel was snubbed, officials said Wednesday. Nagasaki’s mayor last week said that Israel’s ambassador Gilad Cohen was not invited to Friday’s event in the southern Japanese city because of the risk of possible…
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Israel increases Gaza aid; admits ‘mistakes’ in aid worker deaths
TEL AVIV: The Israeli army on Friday admitted a series of errors and violations of its rules in the killing of seven aid workers in Gaza, saying it had mistakenly believed it was “targeting armed Hamas operatives”. The two brigade officers who ordered the drone strikes, a colonel and a major, are being fired, the…
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Defiant Houthis to continue targeting Israel-linked ships despite US, UK airstrikes
Heavy US and British air strikes pounded targets in Yemen early on Friday after weeks of attacks on Red Sea shipping by Houthi forces acting in solidarity with Gaza. Yemen’s Houthi, however, have vowed to continue targeting Israel-linked ships in the Red Sea despite overnight air strikes by the US and Britain, their spokesman said…
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British student finds lost sketches 4,000 miles away in Lahore
A British student of fashion and arts lost her collection of sketches but miraculously found all her work, thousands of miles away, in Pakistan. BBC reports that 20-year-old Grace Hart was worried that she would not get into the university where she applied for admission when her mother accidentally discarded her portfolio required for her…
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Family Members Deny Murder Of British-Pakistani Girl In England: Court
The father of a British-Pakistani 10-year-old girl whose death sparked an international manhunt pleaded not guilty to her murder in a UK court on Thursday, together with two other family members. Sara Sharif’s body was discovered at her home in Woking, southern England, on August 10. A post-mortem examination found she had sustained “multiple and…
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British Home Secretary dismissed over remarks about pro-Palestine March
British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been asked to leave the job by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday morning. This is the second time Braverman has been removed from her post. She resigned from Liz Truss’s government after she broke the ministerial code. She got restored by Rishi Sunak a week later, as he…
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‘I grieve with you and stand with you’; British PM visits Israel
British prime minister Rishi Sunak landed in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Thursday morning to meet his counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu and President Herzog. He wrote on X (formerly Twitter), “I am in Israel, a nation in grief. I grieve with you and stand with you against the evil that is terrorism. Today, and always.” I am…
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Pakistan’s Namira Saleem set to launch into space
The Galactic 04 spaceflight will take off today carrying three passengers, including a Pakistani, Namira Salim. On Tuesday, Virgin Galactic announced a day’s delay in the space tourism mission to Friday, October 6. “The slip will give our team an additional day to complete vehicle prep and checks,” they wrote on their X account. “We…
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Pakistani-born British neither studying nor working: Government report
British government statistics from 2017 to 2019 reveal that British youth of Pakistani origin are dropping out of education. The British government collects data during the annual population survey. According to the report, among the British youth, the majority of young Pakistani origin ones are not studying. The survey revealed that this young lot is…
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Buckingham Palace reject’s request to send remains of Ethiopian prince to family
Buckingham Palace has once again rejected a request from Ethiopian officials to send back the body of Prince Alemayehu, who passed away at the age of 18 in the United Kingdom. Born in Magdala in 1861, Alemayehu was only seven years old when the British arrived in Ethiopia in 1868 and laid seige to Tewodro’s…