United States’ job market hit hard by the health crisis, and only last week 1.3 million more Americans filed ‘first-time jobless’ claims, with over 17-million people claiming ‘ongoing welfare...
From Iraq’s Mont Sinjar to eastern France: The price of exile for Yazidi women
During 2019, dozens of Yazidi women and their children arrived in France in small groups to start a new life in safety. In their home country of Iraq or Syria, the Yazidis were the prey of the Islamic State group...
Shamima Begum wins right to return to UK
A UK court has ruled that Shamima Begum, who as a teenager ran away to join Daesh in 2015, should be allowed back into the UK to contest a home office decision to revoke her citizenship.
BREAKING: PM to drop ‘work from home’ advice from August – UK COVID-19 update
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that anyone can now take public transport and that from 1 August employees will not be encouraged to work from home. The government said large gatherings will recommence from...
Good old ‘Russian interference’ | Russia rejects UK’s claims of meddling
What would a government need should it find itself in a tricky situation? Right. Good old friend you can always turn to if you need a bit of a break from being bashed – Russian interference. This time – it’s UK’s...
The woman leading the first Arab interplanetary mission – BBC News
The United Arab Emirates is sending a spacecraft, Hope, to Mars. The mission aims to find out more about how the Red Planet became the barren, dusty place it’s known to be today, by studying its weather and...
Court rules IS schoolgirl Shamima Begum can return to UK to appeal loss of citizenship – BBC News
The Court of Appeal has ruled that one of three schoolgirls who left London to join Islamic State fighters in Syria must be allowed to return to the UK — to challenge the decision to strip her of her British citizenship...