The Egyptian security forces killed at least 52 militants in restive North Sinai Province northeast of the capital Cairo, the armed forces said in a statement on Monday. A total of seven terrorist hideouts in northern and central Sinai were destroyed as part of the Comprehensive Operation Sinai 2018, the statement said.  The army killed 26 militants, and seized a ...

Embattled leader Aung San Suu Kyi vowed Monday to increase transparency over her government’s handling of the Rohingya crisis while pitching for foreign investment in Myanmar ahead of a regional summit in Tokyo. Suu Kyi, once garlanded as a global rights champion, has seen a sharp fall from grace due to her failure to speak up following a brutal military ...

WFP urgently needs US $66mn to provide assistance till Mar 2019   Photo: This file photo shows miserable condition of a Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar. Dhaka, Oct 9 : The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Bangladesh has welcomed a new contribution of US $22.25 million from the United Kingdom that will help meet the immediate food and ...

Fatema Miah: History doesn’t repeat itself. This old phrase has been repeatedly used that ‘history repeats itself’. This is human denial. As it is human nature of pressing their faults onto someone or something else. Repeatedly using the above phrase is another way of human disowning their own faults, by faulting the history itself, other than them. When oppression takes ...

Fatema Miah: Whether History calls for justice or simply asking for a reflection it is very obvious how the world was in the past centuries, power abuse oppression alongside might exercising was right, and in that, one nations Hero was another Nations Villain. Who is Guy Fawkes? Every child in UK that the United Kingdoms and across the world those ...

Watchdog demands meeting with education department over ‘potentially misleading’ claims about school funding The education secretary, Damian Hinds, has been publicly reprimanded by the UK statistics watchdog over his department’s repeated misuse of data, in particular its “potentially misleading” claims over schools funding. The UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) complained it had had reason to write to the Department for Education ...

Tower Hamlets Mayor, John Biggs, and cycling champion Councillor Kyrsten Perry are today underlining their commitment to promoting cycling in the borough. Earlier this year, Canary Wharf Councillor, Kyrsten Perry was appointed as the Mayor’s cycling champion with a brief to monitor progress on the borough’s cycling strategy and suggest measures to improve opportunities to cycle. Over the last two ...

Mayor John Biggs has launched a new Early Help Service aimed at supporting vulnerable families facing serious issues such as family breakdown, housing problems, emotional health and well-being or money troubles. The Service, which was launched at the Brady Centre in Bethnal Green,  aims to address issues early  to avoid the need for statutory services to be involved. Early Help is ...

The Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded Monday to Americans William Nordhaus and Paul Romer, former chief economist of the World Bank, for their work on the compatibility between the imperatives of innovation and the fight against global warming and economic growth.   The two winners “have developed methods that address some of the most fundamental and pressing challenges of ...

German industrial production slipped again in August, official data showed Monday, amid fears that a global trade war could erupt.   Production for August declined 0.3 percent from July, well under the expectation of a rebound of 0.15 percent forecasted by analysts surveyed by Factset financial services.  The fall was however less severe than in July when industrial production dropped ...