DUTCH POPULIST SURGE STUNS PM RUTTE

Dutch anti-immigration populists stunned Prime Minister Mark Rutte to become the joint biggest party in the senate yesterday following
21 March 2019

No deal Brexit beckons

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday warned Prime Minister Theresa May that Britain would face a disorderly departure from the European Union if she fails to get parliamentary approval for her deal on the third attempt next week.
21 March 2019

UK police probe attacks on 4 mosques in Birmingham

Four mosques in the central English city of Birmingham have been attacked overnight, with a man wielding a sledgehammer seen smashing windows at two places of worship, the police say.
21 March 2019

Finland tops list: UN

Finland ranked as the world's happiest country for the second year running while war-torn South Sudan sank to the least contented in a United Nations report released yesterday.
20 March 2019

Brexit delayed?

Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday requested a three-month delay to Brexit after her failure to get a deal ratified by parliament left the United Kingdom's divorce from the European Union in turmoil.
20 March 2019

UK PM seeks brief Brexit delay from hesitant EU

Britain will write to the EU to seek a short delay to Brexit, but Brussels has warned any decision may only come next week -- just before the scheduled departure date.
20 March 2019

Constitutional chaos

UK Prime Minister Theresa May's government has been plunged into constitutional chaos after the Speaker blocked the prime minister from asking MPs to vote on her Brexit deal for a third time unless it had fundamentally changed.
19 March 2019

Terror motive being probed

Dutch prosecutors yesterday said they were investigating a possible terrorist motive behind the shooting on a tram in the city of Utrecht in which three people were killed and five wounded.
19 March 2019

3 dead, 9 injured in Utrecht shooting: Mayor

At least three people are killed and nine others injured in a shooting in a tram in the central Dutch city of Utrecht, the mayor says.
18 March 2019

UK govt warns it might not hold vote this week

British leader Theresa May's government warned yesterday it might not hold a planned Brexit vote this week unless it feels it can secure a win that avoids a lengthy delay to pulling out of the EU.
17 March 2019

France slaps sanction on JeM chief

A couple of days after China put a “technical hold” on the UN Security Council's efforts to designate Jaiesh-e-Mohammed founder
16 March 2019

UK's Bangla newsweekly celebrates 50th year of publication

Janomot, oldest Bangla weekly news magazine in Britain, celebrates its half a century of journalism.
16 March 2019

Long Brexit delay unless you back PM's deal

Prime Minister Theresa May's deputy yesterday warned lawmakers that unless they approved her Brexit divorce deal after two crushing defeats, Britain's exit from the European Union could face a long delay.
15 March 2019

'Change is on the horizon'

It began with a solitary, 15-year-old girl camped out in front of Sweden's parliament next to a hand-written sign: "SCHOOL STRIKE FOR CLIMATE".
14 March 2019

Brexit chaos goes on

British MPs yesterday voted massively against delaying leaving the EU in order to hold a second Brexit referendum, dealing a major blow to pro-European campaigners urging a fresh public vote.
14 March 2019

How much Brexit delay can EU allow?

The European Union expects British Prime Minister Theresa May to request a Brexit delay beyond March 29 after the divided UK parliament voted down her divorce agreed with the bloc for the second time on Tuesday.
13 March 2019

UK PM May suffers blow ahead of big Brexit vote

British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal suffers a major blow ahead of a historic vote, when her chief attorney ruled that risks from its most contentious points remained "unchanged".
12 March 2019

Brexit crunch looms for May

British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy was in meltdown yesterday after her failure to win last-minute concessions from the European Union set the stage for another humiliating defeat of her divorce deal in parliament.
11 March 2019

'Brexit in perilous waters'

Brexit could be reversed if lawmakers reject the government's exit deal, British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said yesterday after two major eurosceptic factions in parliament warned that Prime Minister Theresa May was facing a heavy defeat.
10 March 2019

What game is EU playing?

The leader of Britain's parliament Andrea Leadsom said she was beginning to wonder what game the European Union was playing over
9 March 2019