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India election 2019: PM Narendra Modi takes spiritual break
Sunday's voting covered Modi's constituency of Varanasi , a holy Hindu city where he was elected in 2014 with an impressive margin of over 200,000 votes. Modi has issues to deal with neighboring Muslim-majority Bangladesh because his party backed a bill that would make it easier to deport millions of Bangladeshis who migrated to India since Bangladesh's independence in 1971. [Full Article...]
US warship sails in disputed South China Sea amid trade tensions
Washington's daring actions followed last week's Chinese announcement that it will impose tariffs of up to 25 percent on $60 billion worth of American products, in retaliation for Trump's levies on $200 billion of Chinese goods. China and the USA have repeatedly traded barbs in the past over what Washington says is Beijing's militariation of the South China Sea by building military installations o... [Full Article...]
New Ukrainian leader dissolves parliament after being sworn in
Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky steps into his new role as Ukrainian president with his inauguration on Monday, launching a new era for the country wracked by war and economic difficulties. "But we need to be the one to finish it". The new president called on lawmakers to use the two months until the snap election to pass one bill that would strip them of immunity from prosecution and another that b... [Full Article...]
Swedish prosecutors file request for Assange's detention over rape inquiry
Detaining someone in their absence is a standard part of Swedish legal procedure if a suspect is outside the country or can not be located. If the request is accepted, Sweden will issue an arrest warrant for the Wikileaks founders. The Swedish prosecutor said she would request Assange be detained in his absence on probable cause for an allegation of rape and that her office would issue a European ... [Full Article...]
Buttigieg 'doesn't care' about Trump's trolling, slams tax cuts
They forgot the people who got them here. Hours before the town hall was set to begin, Trump criticized Fox News for showcasing Buttigieg, saying on Twitter the right-leaning network was "wasting time " covering him. Fox host Chris Wallace said in introducing Buttigieg that his appearance on the network had drawn the largest in-person audience of any town hall so far. [Full Article...]
Al Jazeera suspends journalists over anti-Semitic Holocaust video
In the video, Hawwa claims that the number of Jewish Holocaust victims remains "one of the most prominent historical debates to this day", and says that some people believe that Hitler supported Zionist ideology. Yaser Bishr, executive director of Al Jazeera's digital division, said the network "completely disowns the offensive content in question". In an email to staff, he also announced a mand... [Full Article...]
Kate Middleton shocks fans at the Chelsea Flower Show in TRAINERS
But then it does help if your mother has helped design a Chelsea garden, and your parents have organised a sneak preview. Inspired by her passion for childhood development, the " Back to Nature " garden will use natural materials and plants to create a woodland wilderness where children and adults alike can feel closer to the great outdoors. [Full Article...]
May to make MPs a final ‘bold offer’ on Brexit deal
The WAB - which is needed to ratify the deal with Brussels - is expected to include new measures on protecting workers' rights, an issue where agreement with Labour was said to have been close. "It would be reasonable to have a public vote to decide on that", Corbyn said on the BBC's Andrew Marr show . Government figures are telling MPs that such a relationship could be broken off after just ... [Full Article...]