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The vote was taken following 11 days of protests organised by climate activists Extinction Rebellion that brought several London sites to a standstill. (Photo: AFP | File)

UK becomes first Parliament to declare climate emergency

Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said he hoped the vote 'will trigger a wave of action from parliaments and governments around...

2 May 2019 2:47 AM

UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage smiles as he arrives at Trump Tower in New York on Saturday. (Photo: AP)

Brexit Party fails to win first seat in UK by-election

Friday's result is a setback for the Brexit Party founded by eurosceptic figurehead Farage only a few months ago.

7 Jun 2019 7:59 AM

Jonathan Ashworth, a Labour Party MP from Leicester South a constituency with a prominent Indian-origin electorate in the East Midlands region of England, wrote in a letter last week to foreign secretary and prime ministerial hopeful Jeremy Hunt that many of his constituents had raised concerns that the Indian government was not doing enough on the issue. (Photo: Twitter/ @Jonathan Ashworth)

UK's Labour Party leader slams India over attacks on Muslims

Last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that a lynching incident in Jharkhand has pained him and the guilty must...

14 July 2019 7:49 AM

Inmate Nicholas Rotunda Allen, 39, received the phone from someone not incarcerated at the prison and used a caller ID spoofing app to make the call look like it is from Louisiana where the alleged victim lives. (Photo: ANI)

UK govt boosts prisons, police powers in crime clampdown

Official statistics show that violent crime has begun to rise after declining for two decades.

11 Aug 2019 10:55 AM

Raising an allegation of sexual assault is an incredibly difficult thing to do -- for additional distress to be caused through the way these allegations are handled is incredibly distressing, Ardern said in a statement. (Photo: File | AP)

Mistakes made: NZ PM apologises for party's handling of sexual assault...

The 19-year-old woman alleges the staffer sexually assaulted her at his home in February last year.

11 Sept 2019 6:47 AM

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. (Image: Facebook)

Poll says Jacinda Ardern poised for big win in New Zealand election

All recent polls have pointed to a victory for Ardern's Labour Party, governing in a coalition with the Greens and New...

8 Oct 2020 9:33 AM

Meghnad Desai

Kishwar Desai | Anti-Semitism is why Meghnad quit; all hope for...

On the personal front, it was quite a tumultuous week for us, as my husband, Meghnad Desai, left the Labour Party after...

22 Nov 2020 3:37 PM

New Zealands Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern attends the launch of the Labour Partys election campaign in Auckland on August 8, 2020, ahead of the countrys general elections scheduled for September 19. (AFP)

COVID success adds bonus points to Ardern's re-election bid

The polls had pointed to a cliffhanger election this September, but the story has since changed because New Zealand's...

8 Aug 2020 7:37 AM

New Conservative Party leader and Britains Prime Minister-elect Liz Truss delivers a speech at an event to announce the winner of the Conservative Party leadership contest in central London on September 5, 2022. - Truss is the UKs third female prime minister following Theresa May and Margaret Thatcher. The 47-year-old has consistently enjoyed overwhelming support over 42-year-old Sunak in polling of the estimated 200,000 Tory members who were eligible to vote.

AA Edit | Truss' U-turn exposes failures

The Cabinet top brass tried to pass off the proposed cut as a distraction and rounding error .

4 Oct 2022 6:40 PM

Farrukh Dhondy | The outbreak of communal riots in UK's Leicester...

The riots, which police are out in full force to suppress, have been happening, in varying intensity, from Aug 28 till...

23 Sept 2022 6:35 PM

Four Muslim MPs in the British Parliament have been targeted with similar suspicious packages containing a mysterious sticky liquid and a letter calling for Punish a Muslim Day. (Photo: Representational)

4 British MPs receive suspicious' Punish a Muslim day' packages

Britain's counter-terrorism officers continue to investigate after similar Punish a Muslim Day' letters.

14 March 2018 9:00 AM

Jeremy Corbyn, Labour leader

Anti-Semitism plagues UK Labour

The immediate issue which the Jewish organisations and commentators seized upon was not so immediate.

30 March 2018 6:59 PM