LONDON, April 17 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday faced renewed calls from his political opponents to resign after it was revealed that his former ambassador to the United States failed security vetting and was still allowed to take up the job. The government on Thursday confirmed Mandelson – who was subsequently…
Hong Kong police have arrested a syndicate led by a beautician that allegedly stole credit cards from patrons of a beauty salon in Mong Kok, causing losses of more than HK$410,000 (US$52,347). The force said on Thursday that four men and two women, aged between 39 and 52, had been arrested over the past two…
WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) – U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Friday that the United States is trying to maintain a stable relationship with China, but if Beijing gets involved with Iran in a way that is counter to U.S. interests, that would complicate matters. “The underlying goals of our economies are so different….
LONDON, April 9 (Reuters) – Russian human rights group Memorial was designated as an “extremist” movement on Thursday at a closed-door hearing of the Supreme Court, state news agency TASS said. The ruling – the latest in a sweeping, years-long crackdown on free speech in Russia – provides a legal mechanism for authorities to prosecute…
Locals say that some shops are hit up to 50 times a day (Image: Getty) A UK seaside town, recently named the best place to retire in the UK, is facing a shoplifting epidemic with “30 to 50 incidents a day.” Worthing, Sussex, was recently crowned by the Telegraph as the nation’s best coastal retirement…
BUDAPEST, March 26 (Reuters) – Hungary’s opposition leader Peter Magyar called on the chief prosecutor late on Wednesday to launch a probe into what he called a state intelligence operation against his Tisza party, after a report by news site Direkt36 published this week. Speaking on the campaign trail, Magyar, whose party looks set to…
Three Hong Kong police officers fired a total of five shots at a knife-wielding man suspected to have mental problems after he charged at them in the early hours of Saturday morning, hitting him twice. The assailant, a 43-year-old construction worker, was struck in the right chest and thigh, the force said. He was unconscious…
A partner of a Labour MP is among three men who have been arrested in London and Wales on suspicion of spying for China, it has been alleged. Three men were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed. The country to which the investigation is related…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! China executed 11 people convicted of intentional homicide, fraud and other crimes linked to a cross-border scam operation, after the country’s top court approved their death sentences, authorities said Thursday. The announcement was published on the website for the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, China’s highest state body responsible…
Union Parish Sheriff’s Office Erin Elizabeth Sutton was boozed up, claim cops, when she went skinny-dipping in a neighbor’s pond — insisting she was a mermaid — and then fought with deputies like a wildcat after she was pulled out. The fishy tale began when neighbors reported the 41-year-old Marion, La., gal was in their…