Author: News Desk
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India ‘bombs Pakistan army posts’ in Kashmir
India’s army says it bombed Pakistani army posts along the de facto border dividing the two countries in Kashmir. Army spokesman Ashok Narula said the action ... -
Air strikes on Isis-held Mosul ‘leave 230 civilians dead’, reports local media
Approximately 230 people are reported to have been killed in what is thought to have been a US-led coalition air strike on an Isis-held neighbourhood in Mosul. ... -
Somalia Is On The Brink Of Another Catastrophic Famine
As Somalia inches closer to a calamitous famine, the prospect of utter devastation and colossal loss of human life is once again becoming an imminent reality. ... -
Homes cost more than seven times income
The typical property cost 7.6 times average annual earnings of employees in England and Wales, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. The aftermath of the ... -
EU workplace headscarf ban ‘can be legal’, says ECJ
Workplace bans on the wearing of “any political, philosophical or religious sign” such as headscarves need not constitute direct discrimination, Europe’s top court has ruled. But ... -
Men and women struggle to get on at work and find time for their families
Once only women got penalised for taking time out to look after children nce it was simple. Men worked and most women stayed at home to ... -
Paul Beatty: ‘For me, Trump’s America has always existed’
Booker prize winner says president’s rise is not a shock and race relations have improved very little, even under Obama When Donald Trump was being inaugurated, ... -
Russia Signs Deal for Syria Bases; Turkey Appears to Accept Assad
Russia signed a long-term agreement on Friday to greatly enlarge its military presence in Syria, more than doubling the space for warships in Russia’s only Mediterranean ... -
UN says 82 civilians shot on the spot in Aleppo
Syrian pro-government forces have been entering homes in eastern Aleppo and killing those inside, including women and children, the UN says. The UN’s human rights office ... -
Junaid Jamshed, wife and family were on board Pakistan plane crash flight, says brother
There are unlikely to be any survivors, a government official on the scene said The brother of Junaid Jamshed has confirmed the Pakistan singer was on ... -
Why Germany’s famously tolerant chancellor just proposed a burqa ban
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been under fire in Germany for allowing hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees into the country — and, according to her ... -
Judging the Casey review: ‘I’m sick of being told I don’t get on with people’
In Sparkhill, Birmingham, a handful of those mentioned in Louise Casey’s report react to it with a mixture of exasperation and criticism – some of it ... -
UK courts more likely to jail black than white people for same crimes
Britain’s courts are more likely to send people from ethnic minorities to prison for certain types of crime than white people convicted of the same offences, ... -
Teaching assistant sacked for objecting to 9/11 footage rejects compensation
Suriyah Bi to take case to court after being fired by Heartlands Academy in Birmingham for raising concernsA teaching assistant who was sacked for objecting to ... -
Syria conflict: Food rations run out in rebel-held Aleppo
The last remaining food rations are being distributed in besieged rebel-held eastern districts of the Syrian city of Aleppo, the UN has said. Humanitarian adviser Jan ... -
Tottenham hijab attack: police e-fit of man hunted after woman’s headscarf is ‘pulled off’
Police have released an image of a man they are hunting over a “sickening” racist attack when a woman’s hijab was torn from her face on ... -
Syria rebels ‘in push to break Aleppo siege’
Rebels in Syria have announced a big offensive aimed at breaking the government siege of east Aleppo. A UK-based monitoring group says rebels fired “hundreds” of ... -
Yemen conflict: Saudis blame funeral hall bombing on mistake
The Saudi-led coalition bombing Houthi rebels in Yemen has said it attacked a funeral hall in the capital, Sanaa, based on “bad information”. At least 140 ... -
Syria conflict: Aid convoy hit by ‘air strike’ near Aleppo
A convoy of aid trucks has been hit by an air strike near the Syrian city of Aleppo, reports say, hours after the military declared the ... -
Kashmiri boy, 11, is ‘killed by Indian government forces’ and thousands defy official curfew to attend his funera
Thousands of people have defied restrictions to mourn an 11-year-old boy who is said to have been killed by Indian Government forces in Kashmir. Nasir Shafi ... -
American commandos ‘forced to run away’ from US-backed Syrian rebels
Video footage appears to show US commandos fleeing a Syrian town under a barrage of abuse and insults hurled at them by fighters from the American-backed ...
