LONDON: A last-minute election called, thrilling campaigning and a hung parliament at the end. Theresa May thought she could increase her majority prior to starting the EU Brexit negotiations and so, despite denying it several times, she called a general election. The campaign started with the Conservative Party (right-wing) well in front in the polls, but Labour’s leader Jeremy Corbyn ...

LONDON: Prime Minister Theresa May was fighting to hold on to her job on Friday as British voters dealt her a punishing blow, denying her the stronger mandate she had sought to conduct Brexit talks and instead weakening her party’s grip on power. With no clear winner emerging from Thursday’s parliamentary election, a wounded May signalled she would fight on, ...

LONDON: Sterling dived and the FTSE share index was set to fall 1 per cent on Friday after a shockingly bad election result for Prime Minister Theresa May plunged Britain into political chaos days before the start of Brexit talks. The surprise of a result that raises questions about how Britain will advance with its plan to leave the European ...

Germany’s energy utilities look set to receive refunds of billions of euros after the government’s tax on their use of nuclear fuel rods was declared illegal by the country’s top court. Between 2011 and 2016, nuclear power operators made payments of more than 6bn euros (£5.2bn) to the government. The Constitutional Court has ruled the tax was “unconstitutional and void”. ...

TEHRAN: Gunmen and suicide bombers attacked Iran’s parliament and the shrine of its revolutionary leader on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people, wounding dozens and igniting an hours-long siege at the legislature that ended with four attackers dead. Pirhossein Kolivand, the head of Iran’s emergency department, was quoted by Mizan Online, an Iranian state-run news website, as saying that 12 ...

LONDON: Militants drove a van at high speed into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing Saturday night revellers on the street and in nearby bars, killing at least six people and wounding more than 30. Armed police rushed to the scene and shot dead the three male attackers in the Borough Market area near the bridge, as authorities urged Londoners ...

RUSSIA: American hackers could have planted false evidence that Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election, President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying by NBC News on Saturday. U.S. intelligence officials have said Russia tried to interfere in the U.S. election by hacking the Democratic Party to sway the vote in favor of Donald Trump, a charge the Kremlin has ...

Students in the German city of Nuremberg have clashed with police to bloc the deportation of an Afghan refugee. https://youtu.be/RejZaBEVCv8 Clashes erupted on Wednesday between students and police at the vocational school at Berliner Platz, where officials were trying to evacuate a 20-year-old Afghan asylum seeker from the camp. The Afghan student was among many others who were due to be ...

GERMANY: Europe “must take its fate into its own hands” faced with a western alliance divided by Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidency, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday. “The times in which we could completely depend on others are on the way out. I’ve experienced that in the last few days,” Merkel told a crowd at an election rally ...

Security forces arrested the father and younger brother of the suicide bomber in Libya while British police arrest a seventh suspect. TRTWORLD: More arrests have been made in connection with the deadly suicide bomb attack at a concert venue in Manchester. The attack was claimed by Daesh. At least 22 people were killed and dozens others wounded when a suicide ...