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Singapore Airlines on Tuesday said it has offered $10,000 in compensation to passengers who suffered minor injuries on a flight hit by violent turbulence last month and will discuss higher payouts with those more badly hurt. A 73-year-old British man died and several other passengers and crew onboard flight SQ321 from London suffered skull, brain and spine injuries during the ...

President Emmanuel Macron has called snap parliamentary elections later this month in the wake of a big victory for his rival Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in the European Parliament vote. The far-right party is on course to win 32% of the vote, exit polls say, more than twice that of the president’s Renaissance party. Announcing the dissolution of parliament, ...

Narendra Modi has been sworn in as India’s prime minister for a third term in a grand ceremony at the presidential palace in Delhi. The leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party took his oath, saying he would “do right to all manner of people without affection or ill-will”. Mr Modi’s BJP-led National Democratic Alliance won the general election with 293 ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swearing in ceremony will be attended by around It will also mark the first time his cabinet will require a coalition in order to function. It is expected that very few ministers will hold more than one portfolio. Here are 10 facts on the big story: ① PM Narendra Modi will take oath as the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chief rival Rahul Gandhi was nominated on Saturday to lead India’s opposition in parliament after national election. Modi will be sworn into office for a third term this weekend following a poll that deprived his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of a majority, forcing it to rely on coalition allies to govern. Gandhi defied analysts’ expectations ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected as the Leader of Lok Sabha, Leader of the BJP and Leader of National Democratic Alliance Parliamentary Party during a meeting of newly elected MPs of the alliance on Friday, thus paving the way for the coalition to stake claim to form the government. Senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh proposed Modi’s name as the ...

The Supreme Court of Saudi Arabia on Thursday announced that Friday (June 7) will mark the first day of Zil Hajj, as the crescent moon of Zil Hajj has been sighted in the kingdom on Thursday evening. “Arafat Day falls on Saturday, 15 June, while Sunday, 16 June will be the first day of Eid-ul-Azha,” according to a Saudi Supreme ...

An Israeli air strike on a UN school packed with displaced Palestinians in central Gaza has reportedly killed at least 35 people. Local journalists told the BBC that a warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the school in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp. Videos showed the destruction and a number of bodies. Israel’s military said ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan and tendered his resignation along with his council of ministers on Wednesday, ahead of the oath-taking ceremony of the new cabinet for a third time. He also recommended the dissolution of the 17th Lok Sabha. Prime Minister Narendra Modi may take oath on Saturday evening (June 8). ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was set to meet his allies on Wednesday to discuss forming the government, a day after his Hindu nationalist party lost its outright majority in parliament in a surprise election verdict. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 240 seats on its own in the general election, 32 short of the halfway mark in the 543-member ...