Tower Hamlets Homes  opened a new service on Monday the 17th of September  to help Tower Hamlets residents get accurate and easily accessible advice and assistance on debt management, welfare benefits  including universal credit, housing, employment and training. The event was  hosted by Fokrul Hoque Community Partnerships Manager Tower Hamlets Homes. Tower Hamlets Mayor John Biggs opened the centre, along with ...

Here is an easy-to-understand guide to Brexit – beginning with the basics, then a look at the negotiations, followed by a selection of answers to questions we’ve been sent. What does Brexit mean?   It is a word that is used as a shorthand way of saying the UK leaving the EU – merging the words Britain and exit to ...

Coca-Cola said Monday it is studying the use of a key ingredient in marijuana in “wellness beverages,” as a growing number of mainstream companies develop cannabis-infused drinks.   “We have no interest in marijuana or cannabis,” Coca-Cola said in a statement. But iconic soft drink producer is “closely watching the growth of non-psychoactive CBD (cannabidiol) as an ingredient in functional ...

An Afghan official says at least nine members of the local police force were killed when another policeman opened fire and shot them at a checkpoint in northern Balkh province, the latest in so-called “insider” attacks in Afghanistan. Mohammadudin Khanjer, a police official in the district of Char Boldak, says one policeman was wounded and three others were missing after ...

Iranian media are reporting that at least 21 people died in a road accident when a bus overturned following a collision with a tanker on a road in central Iran. Tuesday’s report by the semi-official Tasnim news agency says the accident happened late on Monday on the road linking the cities of Kashan and Natanz, about some 250 kilometers, or ...

Russia’s military says one of its aircraft with 14 people on board has disappeared over Syria’s Mediterranean Sea coast. The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement Tuesday that the Il-20 jet went off radar 35 kilometers (22 miles) away from the coast late Monday as it was returning to the Russian base near the city of Lattakia. The military ...

At least 27 members of the Afghan security forces have been killed in multiple Taliban attacks on checkpoints as well as police and military bases in different parts of the country, according to officials. The attacks on Sunday and Monday in three separate provinces – Farah, Badghis and Baghlan – and the high casualty toll underscore the difficulties government forces ...

Christine Lagarde warns of ‘dire consequences’ if UK has disorderly exit from EU The UK economy would rapidly start to contract in the event of a disruptive exit from the EU next spring, according to a stark International Monetary Fund report that highlights the recession risks of a no-deal Brexit. Christine Lagarde, the IMF’s managing director, added that there would ...

Counter-terrorism proposals would permit police to listen in to legal consultations at airports and docks Suspects detained at UK borders may be denied the right to consult a lawyer for up to an hour and officers will be allowed to listen in to private consultations under sweeping new security powers, the Law Society has warned. Proposals in the counter-terrorism and ...

By Fatema Miah: What matters to whom? It is concerning that miss phrases, wrong utterances and manipulation culture is in practice by large demography of Muslims in fact in most nations and regions. It  is concerning because wrong breaches misconception to misleading and instigate ill thought to reactionsm.  I stepped back to address this closest matter affecting Islam, highlighting the ...