Nairobi, Aug 30 : British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday became the first UK leader to visit Kenya in 30 years, bringing security and development funding to East Africa’s commercial hub and neighboring Somalia as Britain seeks to boost economic ties ahead of a bumpy exit from the European Union in March. May met with President Uhuru Kenyatta on ...

Panasonic’s booth at the 2018 IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin (collected photo) Panasonic plans to move its European headquarters from Britain to the Netherlands later this year over concerns about potential tax issues related to Brexit, a company spokeswoman said Thursday. “We will move our European headquarters to the Netherlands,” the spokeswoman told AFP, confirming a report in the ...

A council worker accused of taking money intended for victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster has been charged with fraud. Jenny McDonagh, 39, is alleged to have obtained the cash “while being neither a survivor or bereaved family member”, Scotland Yard said. The Kensington and Chelsea Council employee was charged with four offences, including money laundering. She is due to ...

It might sound like pie in the sky, but Japan’s government is banking on a future with flying cars, launching an initiative Wednesday with the private sector to develop futuristic vehicles.   The initiative aims to draw up a roadmap by the end of the year on commercialising flying cars, a concept that so far remains largely theoretical.  Japanese government ...

Mexico’s first leftist-majority Congress was sworn in Wednesday, swept into office on the coattails of President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in a July election that punished the country’s political establishment. Cheering and chanting Lopez Obrador’s name, lawmakers from the coalition led by his recently founded party, Morena, took the oath of office in the lower house — where they will ...

Germany has launched a probe into who leaked the arrest warrant for an Iraqi murder suspect to far-right groups in Saxony’s eastern city of Chemnitz. A fatal stabbing of a 35-year-old German-Cuban man on Sunday sparked days of violent and xenophobic protests.   The unauthorised disclosure has increased concerns of possible links between police and anti-migrant groups.   Meanwhile, local ...

In 2006, Khady Dieye’s husband left the family home on Senegal’s northern coast and boarded a dugout canoe in the hope of reaching Spain. “Since then, we have not had any news of him,” said Dieye, who lives in the small fishing village of Ndiebene-Gandiol near Saint-Louis.   Like many other would-be migrants, he disappeared, leaving his family not knowing ...

The outgoing UN human rights chief says Myanmar’s de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi should have resigned over the military’s violent campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority last year. Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein told the BBC the Nobel Peace prize winner’s attempts to excuse it were “deeply regrettable”.   His comments come after a UN report said Myanmar’s military leaders ...

Argentina’s government has unexpectedly asked for the early release of a $50bn (£37.2bn) loan from the IMF amid a growing economic crisis. President Mauricio Macri said the move was designed to restore confidence in the Argentine economy.   The Argentine peso has lost more than 40% of its value against the US dollar this year and inflation is rampant.   ...

US President Donald Trump has said White House lawyer Don McGahn will leave his post in the coming months. The president tweeted that Mr McGahn would depart after the confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee in the autumn.   His exit follows reports of White House unease at the extent of Mr McGahn’s co-operation with an ongoing inquiry into alleged ...