Palestinian and settler killed in separate incidents near Hebron, as Israel arrests top West Bank Hamas official. Israeli authorities have arrested Hassan Yusef, here pictured in 2006, several times in the past. A Palestinian man has been killed by Israeli forces near the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank after he allegedly tried to stab an Israeli soldier, ...

Los Angeles prosecutors say they will not press charges against a Saudi prince accused of sexual assault. Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 28, was arrested last month on suspicion of forced oral copulation with a worker at his Beverly Hills mansion. But prosecutors say they do not have enough evidence against Mr Al-Saud. Mr Al-Saud’s lawyer, Alan Jackson, said his client was ...

At least 45 people have been killed in Russian air strikes on a rebel-held area of north-western Syria, a monitoring group says. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Russian warplanes bombed the rugged Jabal al-Akrad region of Latakia province on Monday afternoon. The commander of a Western-backed Free Syrian Army brigade and the families of rebels were among ...

Japan’s government has acknowledged that a worker involved in clean-up work at the Fukushima nuclear plant may have developed cancer as a result. Officials say the man will be entitled to compensation for work-related illness, in the first cancer case linked to the Fukushima plant meltdown. The man, in his 40s, is suffering from leukaemia. The nuclear plant was badly ...

French National Front leader Marine Le Pen has arrived at a court in Lyon, to answer charges of inciting racial hatred, for comparing Muslims praying in the street to the Nazi occupation. She made the comments at a rally in the city in 2010 when she was fighting for the leadership of the party. Ms Le Pen’s anti-immigration and anti-EU ...

Statement of John Biggs, Executive Mayor, Tower Hamlets I was deeply shocked and disappointed to learn this week of the decision of the London Metropolitan University to relocate out of the Borough. The loss of all the student places in the Aldgate area is a blow, but the decision to relocate the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and ...

Jalalabad Probashi Kalyan Parishad organised a protest meeting demanding the return of visa office from Delhi to Dhaka on 20th October at Impression venue in Milner Road in East London.  52 organisations took part in the meeting. Community activist Ashikur Rahman presided over the meeting and Moinuddin Ansar conducted it where Abdul Halim Chowdhury recited from the Quran in the ...

Tower Hamlets Council opened the borough’s first Coding Club, with partners Kano and the Elysium Foundation on Wednesday, October 14 as part of Digital Inclusion Week (October 12-16) celebrations. The first session saw young people building their own computer, before taking a taster session in coding. The training was led by industry experts Kano at a state of the art ...

Bianibazar Welfare Trust is organising its fund raising dinner and award giving ceremony on Sunday 15th November in Regence Hall in Manor Park in East London. The Trust also decided to organise its biyearly general meeting and election 2016 on Sunday 7th February. To make the abovementioned events successful, an executive committee meeting was held on Sunday 18th October in ...

Sheikh Russell Memorial Association UK celebrated the 51st birthday of Sheikh Russell by cutting a cake. President of the organisation Abdul Ahad Chowdhury and Secretary Shohidur Rahman cut the cake and observed the birthday at a restaurant in West London. Guests who were also present at the event included Vice-president Taraul Islam, Syed Suruk Ali, Joint Secretary Abdul Hafiz Bakkar, ...