The Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority QFCRA has commenced legal proceedings in New York to compel First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) to pay a court ordered judgment debt of QAR 200,000,000 (USD 55 million) that was first imposed on the bank back in August 2019. The legal action comes after the Emirati bank failed to...
The Common Sense group of more than 50 Tory MPs has demanded that ministers use the planning bill to take on new powers to prevent councils and regional governments from pulling down or replacing statues. Instead they want the decision made by the communities secretary, currently Robert Jenrick. The MPs asked: “We hope that, in...
The University of Manchester’s vice-chancellor has apologised for falsely claiming to have contacted the alleged victim of a racial profiling incident on campus. Nancy Rothwell told BBC Newsnight on Thursday she had written to first-year student Zac Adan, 19, to apologise after he was pinned to a wall by security guards who demanded to see...
The results of a “nightmare” inquiry into Labour infighting are to be published within weeks in a development that will further erode Sir Keir Starmer’s attempts to unify the party. Insiders have become concerned that Starmer has created a “major flashpoint” by launching an independent inquiry to examine the commissioning, publication and contents of a highly controversial...
During next week’s spending review, the Chancellor is widely expected to lower the UK’s commitment of spending 0.7 percent of national income on overseas aid to 0.5 percent in order to raise billions of pounds. But Sir Bob, who is widely recognised for his activism surrounding anti-poverty efforts concerning Africa branded Rishi Sunak’s plans as “unconscionable.”...
Boris Johnson will outline his winter Covid recovery plan to curb the spread of the virus tomorrow. The proposed plans will include the re-introduction of the three tier system once England’s lockdown is lifted on December 2. But Brits will be told to expect a strengthened set of regional restrictions as No 10 fears the virus “could quickly...
Just 39 minutes into its journey on March 8, 2014, from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the plane lost contact with Malaysia Airlines and crashed at an unknown location killing all 239 people on board. What happened to the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? At 12.42am MYT on March 8 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 took off from Kuala...
The daughter and son-in-law of President Donald Trump are due to leave the White House at the end of the Trump administration in January next year. They have both served as senior advisers to the president, with Ivanka in particular heading a number of campaign rallies in the run-up to the election. Before their political...
Londoners are quite excited about the two new Northern line stations coming to the London Underground map, hopefully next year. So it’s only natural that they want to know absolutely everything about these stations as they wait patiently for them to open. An extension is being added to the Northern line from Kennington to Battersea....
A black man who died after being beaten by supermarket security guards in the city of Porto Alegre on the eve of Black Consciousness Day has sparked outrage across Brazil after videos of the incident circulated on social media. Footage showed João Alberto Silveira Freitas being punched in the face just outside the doors of a Carrefour...