British MPs will on Tuesday vote again on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal, making the historic decision whether to back her plan or risk a chaotic exit from the EU in less than three weeks time. Two months ago, the House of Commons rejected the withdrawal agreement by a huge majority, and sent May back to renegotiate.
Shamima Begum was stripped of her citizenship on security grounds last month, leaving her in a detention camp in Syria where her baby died, the third of the 19-year-old's infant children to die since she travelled to Syria in 2015. The Labour party said the move to leave an innocent child in a refugee camp, where infant mortality rates are high, was morally reprehensible.
After a series of conflicting reports, a Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesperson confirmed the death of the newborn son of the UK's runaway ISIS bride, Shamima Begum, in a refugee camp in Syria.
In a message posted on social media on Friday, the teenager's family lawyer Mohammed Akunjee said the family has received unconfirmed reports from within her refugee camp in the Middle East that her newborn son named Jerah has passed away
"Our armed forces are made strong by being made up of people of every single community and background..contributing to keep us safe," said Williamson, on receiving his award.
The fate of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been a bone of contention between Tehran and London since her arrest in Iran in January 2016. The 41-year-old was returning from a family visit with her infant daughter when she was detained at Tehran airport.
Police in eastern England said they had put a cordon in place at the University of Essex and evacuated some buildings after receiving a call about a suspect package. The bomb squad had been called in. In Scotland, the University of Glasgow also said several buildings had been shut and classes cancelled after a suspicious package was found in the mailroom.
The ‘Haptic Baton’ contains sensors that pick up even slight motions. These are then transmitted via radio signals to vibrating devices attached to musicians' wrists or ankles. Violinist Abie Baker, who went blind as a child due to a cataract operation, said she was confident that with the device she could start playing her instrument at the same time as others.
After months of drama and delay, the country's fate could be decided next week in a series of Brexit votes in which lawmakers must choose one of two wood-panelled corridors to shuffle down inside the neo-gothic Westminster palace.
The elaborate and time-consuming way British lawmakers make decisions in parliament has been thrust to the fore by Brexit, with the outcome of a series of votes next week set to determine how and when the country leaves the European Union.
Nearly 100 nationals from the two countries took part in the “India-Pakistan Solidarity Demonstration” outside the Radcliffe Camera, one of Oxford’s iconic landmarks, on Saturday. Holding placards saying “This is not our war” and “No to war”, they read out anti-war poems in Bengali, Urdu, Punjabi and English and sang Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s nazm “Hum Dekhenge”
Officials say the Met Police Counter Terrorism Command "is treating the incidents as a linked series." One mailer was found near Heathrow Airport. A building was evacuated as a precaution after the package was opened and part of it burned. Officials say the building is not at the airport and flights were not affected. There were no injuries.
The row has exposed deep divisions between Labour members denouncing Corbyn's complacency, and his hard left supporters defending him to the hilt. Nine MPs have quit the party in recent weeks to sit as independents, with many citing alleged anti-Jewish racism seeping through Labour's ranks as a primary reason.
The “Stronger Towns Fund”, details of which appeared in newspapers last month, is seen by many as part of May’s efforts to win support for her Brexit deal from opposition Labour lawmakers who represent areas, particularly in northern England that voted strongly in favor of leaving the European Union.
