Professor says US years away from civil war and ‘instability’
The Duke of York has been stripped of his remaining patronages and honorary military roles.
More than two million London households face having to pay Sadiq Khan’s proposed “clean air charge”, research by the Evening Standard suggests. The Labour mayor is considering whether to slap a levy of up to £2 a day on motorists driving a petrol or diesel car by May 2024. This is one of four options under consideration in a bid to cut the number of car journeys in the capital by 27 per cent by the end of the decade to improve the environment.
A woman has been sentenced to death by a court in Pakistan after allegedly sending blasphemous messages on WhatsApp and Facebook. Aneeqa Atteeq, 26, was convicted and sentenced in Rawalpindi on Wednesday following a complaint against her under Pakistan's cybercrime and blasphemy laws.
Mr Justice Scoffield said the proposed judicial review of ministers Nichola Mallon and Deirdre Hargey related to issues that were now academic.
Former US President Donald Trump's company allegedly used "fraudulent or misleading" asset valuations to get loans and tax benefits.View on euronews
Bidding for the 'Stone III' sale closes on Wednesday evening and can be followed online.View on euronews
At least one child was killed in northern Syria this week when a storm blanketed tented camps in snow and brought freezing temperatures, compounding the misery of thousands of people displaced by the Mediterranean country's decade-long war. The child died and its mother was in intensive care after snow caused their tent to collapse in the Qastal Miqdad area, as a result of the storm that struck on Jan. 18, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. "I was scared the tent would fall down on the kids," Abu Anas said in Zaitoun camp in northern Syria, after his family fled from eastern Gouta, an area on the outskirts of Damascus that was devastated by the conflict.
Israel is hoping the U_N_ General Assembly will unanimously adopt a resolution rejecting and condemning any denial of the Holocaust and urging all nations and social media companies “to take active measures to combat antisemitism and Holocaust denial or distortion.”
NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York state's attorney general has accused Donald Trump's family business of repeatedly misrepresenting the value of its assets to obtain financial benefits, citing what it said was significant new evidence of possible fraud. The accusations by Attorney General Letitia James mark a substantial escalation of her civil probe into the Republican former U.S. president's business, the Trump Organization, and the roles of his adult children. They are part of her effort to force Donald Trump and his children Donald Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump to comply with her subpoenas to testify under oath, which the family has asked a judge to block https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/donald-trump-jr-ivanka-trump-subpoenaed-new-york-probe-2022-01-03.
University student gets transatlantic plane all to himself
The Indian army has established contact with China’s military through a ‘hotline’ over the teen’s whereabouts
'Just pack it in': Brother of British hostage-taker pleads with him to surrender
Violence against women: Changing the discourse
Trump biographer says family can't 'wriggle out' this time
A prominent “Red Wall” Tory MP dismissed on Thursday as “bonkers” that she was leading a coup against Boris Johnson but suggested his future was still in doubt. Dehenna Davison, MP for Bishop Auckland, a seat the Conservatives had never won before 2019, stressed she was “incredibly angry” about the Downing Street parties and the Prime Minister’s response.
Prince William is asked 'Do you support Prince Andrew?' by reporter
Shadow Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds says that Boris Johnson cannot focus on the “real issues facing this country right now” because the prime minister is “in a scandal of his own making”.
Several Afghan women's rights activists said Thursday they are going into hiding to escape a Taliban crackdown, just days after the hardline Islamists used pepper spray to break up a rally in the capital.
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