Japan’s Emperor Akihito has strongly indicated he wants to step down, saying he fears his age will make it difficult to fulfil his duties. The revered 82-year-old emperor’s comments came in only his second-ever televised address to the public. Emperor Akihito did not explicitly say he wanted to abdicate as ... Read More »
Symbol of resistance against state violence in Manipur is expected to end her protest to possibly enter politics and get married Almost sixteen years after she started a hunger strike, India’s ‘Iron Lady’ Irom Chanu Sharmila, is expected to eat her first meal on Tuesday. The 44-year old campaigner, who ... Read More »
A Chinese tourist spent nearly two weeks in a German migrant hostel after mistakenly applying for asylum when he actually wanted to report a theft. German media say the 31-year-old backpacker, who spoke neither German nor English, underwent a medical check and his fingerprints were taken. A Red Cross worker ... Read More »
Aviation experts are investigating whether faulty landing gear could have caused a plane to crash at Dubai international airport and burst into flames, killing a firefighter tackling the blaze, although all 300 passengers and crew were able to escape. The Emirates Boeing 777 was engulfed by intense fire, and black ... Read More »
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party has taken an early lead as vote counting continued in local government elections where it faces the risk of losing control of key cities for the first time since coming to power. The party, which toppled white apartheid rule after the country’s first ... Read More »
It is three months since parliament passed the Immigration Act, which includes my amendment that unaccompanied child refugees in Europe should be able to come to live in the UK. I made it clear that we should take our fair share of the total and other countries should do likewise. ... Read More »
Donald Trump has asked why I did not speak at the Democratic convention. He said he would like to hear from me. Here is my answer to Donald Trump: Because without saying a thing, all the world, all America, felt my pain. I am a Gold Star mother. Whoever saw ... Read More »
France has again been stunned by a jihadist attack, after knife-wielding men burst in to a church, slit an elderly priest’s throat and took hostages. Two men entered the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, a suburb of Rouen, during morning mass at about 09:25 local time. Inside was the priest – 86-year-old ... Read More »
Nineteen residents have been killed in a knife attack at a care center for people with mental disabilities in the Japanese city of Sagamihara. Such attacks are extremely rare in Japan – the incident is the worst mass killing in decades. Police have arrested a local man, said to be ... Read More »
The final statement called for the twenty-seventh of the Arab summit which was held in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott to devote efforts to solve the Palestinian issue . The summit has begun its work in the absence of more than half of the Arab leaders . It was decided that ... Read More »
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