Over the years, their number has dropped to 175,000 from 450,000 as they seek new routes to leave desperate conditions. Palestinian refugees have been leaving Lebanon for years, either legally or illegally, owing to the dire economic conditions and government regulations that deny them basic rights. A few years ago, there were 450,000 Palestinian refugees […]

PM Theresa May is fighting for her political life after fellow Conservative Party MPs triggered a leadership vote. From all sides of the political spectrum, there was opposition to the Brexit deal British Prime Minister Theresa May brokered with European leaders. Parliament was expected to reject it in a vote on Tuesday, but May pulled […]

Quebec’s criminal prosecution office announced Wednesday morning it is laying charges against Gilbert Rozon, the founder of the Just for Laughs Festival. Rozon was charged with indecent assault and rape, the Directeur des Poursuites Criminelles et Pénales (DCPC) announced. The alleged incidents involve one victim and date back to 1979. The charges laid correspond to the […]

London police say multiple cruisers were damaged, and two people are in custody, after an overnight incident in west London. Police responded to the area around 1 a.m. A man and a woman were arrested within the hour at the intersection of Wonderland Road and Springbank Drive, and remain in police custody. A witness who […]

Lawmakers in British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party on Wednesday triggered a confidence vote in her leadership over Britain’s planned divorce from the European. Below is an explanation of how the leadership challenge works under the ruling Conservative Party’s rules: How was it triggered? A challenge was triggered after 15 per cent of the Conservative members of parliament (MPs) wrote letters […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged Iranians on Wednesday to stay united, saying the United States would exploit divisions and was likely to launch plots against Iran in 2019. Iran is struggling with the economic impact of President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and […]

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian prosecutors on Wednesday filed new graft charges against former prime minister Najib Razak and the former chief executive of scandal-linked state fund 1MDB, in the latest cases over alleged theft of billions of dollars from the fund. Anti-graft investigators this week questioned Najib and the former fund official over accusations […]

SEOUL (Reuters) – North and South Korean officials inspected work to ease tension on their militarized border on Wednesday, checking on the demolition of bunkers and probing for secret tunnels, despite scant progress on persuading the North to give up nuclear arms. The two sides destroyed 11 guard posts within 1 km (0.6 mile) of […]

The spillage quickly solidified and around 25 firefighters in the town of Westoennen were forced to hack away at it with shovels. Bosses at the DreiMeister factory blamed “a small technical defect” for Monday night’s incident, according to German newspaper Soester Anzeiger. The chocolate seeped into the pores of the road and there were worries […]

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May has canceled a meeting of her cabinet of senior ministers which had been scheduled for later on Wednesday, her office said in a statement. Earlier, May vowed to fight a challenge to her leadership of the Conservative Party, saying a change now would delay or even imperil […]