Factbox: What laws does UK PM Johnson want to pass after election win?
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth set out Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s legislative agenda on Thursday, outlining Brexit and the National Health Service (NHS) as the government’s main priorities.
UK PM Johnson promises ‘most radical’ agenda in a generation
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out his government’s legislative agenda on Thursday, describing it as “the most radical Queen’s Speech in a generation”.
Hundreds defy ban on protests against Indian citizenship law
Hundreds of Indians held for defying a ban on demonstrating against a controversial new citizenship law continued their protest in police detention on Thursday.
Putin says impeachment case against Trump is ‘fabricated’
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that U.S. Democrats had impeached President Donald Trump for “fabricated” reasons in order to reverse his 2016 election victory.
Russia’s Putin expects Trump to survive impeachment proceedings
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he expects his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump’s to remain in office despite the House of Representatives voting to impeach Trump on Wednesday.
Progress of non-Muslims ‘left us in lurch’, Malaysia tells Islamic summit
Muslim nations need to do more business among themselves, trade in each other’s currencies and keep up with non-Islamic countries to stop being left at their mercy, their leaders said on Thursday at a summit boycotted by Saudi Arabia.
Catalan regional leader barred from holding public office: court
The pro-independence leader of Catalonia’s regional government has been barred from holding public office for 18 months over his refusal to order the removal of separatist symbols from buildings, the Spanish region’s highest court said on Thursday.
Lights out for multilateralism? Alarm as U.N. faces cash squeeze
During talks on disarmament at the U.N.’s Geneva headquarters last month, alarm bells went off in the chamber to indicate that delegates had infringed new cost-cutting rules that restrict the length of meetings.
Pakistan finds fault with death sentence for Musharraf who plans to appeal
The Pakistan government has found fault with a special court’s death sentence for former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, apparently taking sides in a split between the military and the judiciary, and the general’s lawyers said he plans to appeal.
Jailed Catalan leader was lawmaker and entitled to immunity: EU court
A jailed Catalan separatist leader was a member of the European Parliament despite not being able to take up his seat and so enjoyed the immunity that position guaranteed, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) said on Thursday.
