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U.K. General Election ends in hung parliament. PM May’s ruling Conservative party is forecast to win 318 seats and lose its parliamentary majority. Results for key seats continue to roll in.  With the bulk of seats declared in the General Election, no party has gained a clear majority and the U.K. now faces a hung […]

Passengers departing from Terminal 3 can use UAE Wallet app at smart gates Dubai: Passengers departing from Dubai International Airport can now use their smart phones at the smart gates instead of their passports as part of a new service called Smart UAE Wallet. Image Credit: Dubai Police Lt-Gen Dahi Khalfan Tamim and Maj-Gen Mohammad […]

North Korea fired multiple anti-ship cruise missiles, South Korea’s military said Thursday, in an apparent display of advanced defense capacity against US military assets near the peninsula. Classified as short-range surface-to-ship cruise missiles, the projectiles lifted off from a launch site in the North’s coastal city of Wonsan and flew at least 200 kilometers with […]

They overran the base and killed soldiers at close range Armed Al-Shabab militants stormed a military encampment in Somalia on Thursday, killing close to 70 people, including government-aligned soldiers and civilians, Al-Jazeera reported. The incident took place in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, hundreds of miles northwest of the capital, Mogadishu. A number of people […]

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani says Qatar has never experienced such hostility, even from an enemy country. Qatar is not prepared to change its foreign policy to resolve a dispute with fellow Arab Gulf states and will never compromise, Qatar’s foreign minister has told Al Jazeera. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani made the […]

As fired FBI Director James B. Comey was testifying against him, President Trump told a conservative audience in Washington Thursday, “We are under siege.” Mr. Trump didn’t refer directly to Mr. Comey in his comments to the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s conference, but his remarks made clear that he believes he’s in a fight for […]

  India will soon sign a pact with Somalia for exchange of sentenced prisoners as the Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave its nod for it. A meeting of the cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, gave its approval for signing and subsequent ratification of the agreement on transfer of sentenced persons between India and […]

Image copyrightEPA/PA Latest updates Guide: How to vote Find your constituency and candidates What CAN’T you do in a polling station? Manifesto guide on where the parties stand How to follow results night and what to watch for Some votes have already been cast, through postal voting, which accounted for 16.4% of the total electorate […]

Gulf crisis continues to escalate despite efforts by US and Kuwait to calm rising tensions among GCC member states. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) threatened to impose an economic embargo against Qatar while Bahrain said “any options” were on the table as the crisis in the Gulf showed no signs of abating on Thursday. The tough […]

North Korea fired multiple cruise missiles into the waters between Korea and Japan on Thursday morning, a day after Seoul said it would suspend any further deployment of a controversial missile-defense system to conduct an environmental review. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said they were likely antiship missiles fired from near the city […]