5 Arab States Break Ties With Qatar, Complicating U.S. Coalition-Building
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Egypt, Saudi Arabia and three other Arab countries severed all ties with
3rd London Bridge terrorist named, man not known to police
Zaghba was arrested last year trying to reach Syria, yet was still able to get into the UK. Reports in the Italian media said he was stopped in Bologna. His mother is Italian and still lives there.
Donald to miss US Open
Steve Stricker and Keegan Bradley were among the players to progress through US Open qualifying, as former world No 1 Luke Donald missed out.
Two days from UK election, security dominates campaign after London attack
LONDON Two days from a national election, Britain’s ruling Conservatives and opposition Labour Party battled to defend their records on security after an Islamist attack that killed seven people in London upended the campaign.
Police show black drivers less respect than white drivers – body-cam study
Shocking police body-cam footage of shootings and other violent incidents is the source of outrage but a new study, which looks at hundreds of hours of the footage, finds black people are also treated differently during more mundane interactions with police.
France’s Macron set for biggest majority since De Gaulle: poll
PARIS Emmanuel Macron’s party is set to win the biggest parliamentary majority for a French president since Charles de Gaulle’s 1968 landslide, a survey of voter intentions for the coming legislative elections showed on Tuesday.
Labour’s Diane Abbott pulls out of radio show after yet another car-crash TV interview
As all parties cranked up their messages on investment in police numbers following Saturday’s terrorist attack in London, Abbott was once again left red-faced, unable to point out which recommendations from a recent counterterrorism report she did not feel comfortable with.
Kuwait seeks to mediate Arab crisis over Qatar
DOHA/DUBAI Kuwait’s ruler will travel to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, hoping to heal a damaging rift between Qatar and powerful Arab states over the former’ s alleged support of Islamist militants and of political and religious rival Iran.
Qatar seeks Kuwaiti mediation after major Arab League states cut ties
Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani postponed an address to his country on the recent crisis on Tuesday in order to give Kuwait time to mediate in the ongoing crisis, Qatar’s foreign minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani told Doha-based Al Jazeera.
Tory candidate’s cringey low-budget election campaign video goes viral (VIDEO)
The video is shot entirely in what is presumably Knight’s constituency office in East Yorkshire. It opens with Knight in an ill-fitting jacket speaking awkwardly to a shaky camera, reading from a cue-card just to the left of the lens.