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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer greeted President Volodymyr Zelenskiy with a warm embrace on Saturday after the Ukrainian leader flew to London for talks following his clash at the White House with U.S. President Donald Trump, reports Reuters. In an extraordinary Oval Office meeting on Friday, Trump threatened to withdraw support for Ukraine, three years after Russia invaded its smaller ...

The number of people claiming asylum in the UK in 2024 has reached its highest level since records began in 1979, Home Office figures show. According to data published on Thursday, 108,138 people claimed asylum in the year to December 2024 – an increase of 18% on 2023 and almost twice the number in 2021. The Home Office said the ...

MP Mike Amesbury, who admitted repeatedly punching a constituent in the street, has had his 10-week prison sentence suspended following an appeal. The Runcorn and Helsby MP assaulted Paul Fellows, 45, following a row in Frodsham, Cheshire, last year and was jailed by magistrates on Monday. Amesbury, who had the Labour whip removed in October, launched an appeal and a ...

Sir Keir Starmer has reiterated his call for a US security guarantee in Ukraine to deter Vladimir Putin from invading again, as he prepares to meet Donald Trump. Speaking on the plane to Washington DC, Sir Keir said he hoped the UK-US relationship could go from “strength to strength”. But the two leaders appear to be at odds over the ...

Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury has been jailed for 10 weeks after he admitted punching a man to the ground in his Cheshire constituency. Amesbury, 55, who represents Runcorn and Helsby as an independent MP, pleaded guilty to assaulting 45-year-old Paul Fellows after video footage emerged showing the confrontation. He had his Labour whip removed after the incident in Frodsham, ...

US President Donald Trump has “changed the global conversation” on Ukraine, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said, three years on from Russia’s full-scale invasion. Sir Keir suggested Trump had “created an opportunity” to end the war, in a speech to an international summit on supporting Ukraine in Kyiv. The prime minister also appeared to contradict President Trump by saying ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :   Karim Foundation Trust UK has distributed Tk 12 lakh in cash to  200 helpless and extremely poor families in Jagannathpur Upazila on the occasion of the upcoming holy month of Ramadan and Eid. This money was distributed to over 200 families in Kishorpur, Noapara, Mojahidpur, Ulukandi, Gainakandi, Khalishapara, Ramapatipur, Burhanpur and Gazirkul villages of Pailgaon ...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Saturday that Europe “must take on a greater role in NATO” and work with the United States to “secure Ukraine’s future”. His comments came ahead of an expected gathering of European leaders in Paris on Monday, although France has yet to confirm the meeting. Starmer will attend the get-together if it goes ahead, a ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : Karim Foundation Trust and Al-Mostafa Welfare Trust jointly organized a free medical camp in Kishorpur of Pailgaon Union of Jagannathpur Upazila on Sunday 9th February 2025. People from ten to twelve adjacent villages gathered the camp under the huge pandal of the open hour. Editor of Weekly Bangla Mirror and Online Portal Sylhet Mirror, Founder of  ...

Former UK City minister Tulip Siddiq was listed as a resident of a luxury 10-storey tower block in the capital’s Gulshan named after her family, according to British daily The Telegraph reports. Officials in Dhaka believed the former anti-corruption minister’s “permanent addressâ€� was the upmarket apartment complex named “Siddiquesâ€� in 2014, while she was a councillor in Camden, north London. ...