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Several hopefuls vying to replace British Prime Minister Theresa May turned their fire on favourite Boris Johnson, questioning his pledge to leave the European Union by the end of October no matter what. With former London mayor and foreign minister Johnson keeping a low profile, the other candidates have targeted the air waves to present their cases to lead the governing Conservative Party.  His absence was marked by an empty lectern. That left the five other candidates to argue over which man was best placed to deliver Brexit in testy exchanges International Development Minister Rory Stewart described as a competition…

Troubled construction and services firm Kier has said it will cut 1,200 jobs as it seeks to make cost savings of £55m a year by 2021. The cuts came as the firm’s boss announced a plan to simplify Kier’s business and reduce its debt. The company will sell its homebuilding business, Kier Living, and will shut or sell other interests, including its recycling and rubbish processing units. Kier will now focus on activities such as construction and road maintenance. Shares in the company have fallen by more than 85% in the past year, and they fell a further 9% in…

Members of Mexico’s National Guard began patrolling an area along the country’s southern border, as Mexico stepped up efforts to reduce a surge of migrants toward the U.S. under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, who has vowed to hit Mexican goods with tariffs if Mexico does not do more to stem illegal immigration. As part of those efforts, Mexico has pledged to deploy 6,000 National Guard members along its border with Guatemala. Mexico made a deal on June 7 with the United States to avert the tariffs, setting the clock ticking on a 45-day period for the Mexican government…

Activist Joshua Wong, who has become the face of Hong Kong’s push for full democracy, walked free from prison on Monday and vowed to join a mass protest movement demanding that the city’s Beijing-backed leader, Carrie Lam, steps down. His release comes as a political crisis in the Chinese-ruled city enters its second week, amid growing uncertainty over the fate of current Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam and a controversial extradition bill she postponed at the weekend. Protest organizers said almost 2 million people turned out on Sunday (June 16) to demand that Lam resign, in what is becoming the…

The president of Uruguay’s government-owned utility UTE said that the massive power failure that began in Argentina and left tens of millions in South America without power would be an opportunity to improve the country’s power systems. Argentina’s grid “collapsed” around 7 a.m. local time (1100 GMT), leaving the entire country without power and cutting electricity to much of neighboring Uruguay and swaths of Paraguay, as well. Energy distributors in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, whose populations total nearly 55 million, said power was being quickly restored to major cities and heavily populated coastal regions, including Montevideo and Buenos Aires. UTE…

Several hopefuls vying to replace British Prime Minister Theresa May turned their fire on favourite Boris Johnson, questioning his pledge to leave the European Union by the end of October no matter what. With former London mayor and foreign minister Johnson keeping a low profile, the other candidates have targeted the air waves to present their cases to lead the governing Conservative Party.  His absence was marked by an empty lectern. That left the five other candidates to argue over which man was best placed to deliver Brexit in testy exchanges International Development Minister Rory Stewart described as a competition…

Israeli aircraft attacked a Hamas target in the Gaza Strip after a Palestinian rocket strike, the Israeli military said, in the first serious cross-border flare-up since a surge in fighting last month. A second rocket launched on Thursday evening hit a house in Sderot but caused no casualties, police said. There was no immediate comment from Palestinian factions. The latest hostilities followed Israel’s closure of offshore waters to Gaza fisherman on Wednesday (June 12) in what it said was a response to incendiary balloons launched across the frontier that caused fires in fields in southern Israel this week. In a…

The Trauma Care International Foundation is today organising a Voluntary Blood Donation drives, marking the World Blood Donor Day, which is today 14th June 2019. The World Blood Donor Day is a global UN campaign aimed at highlighting the issues surrounding blood donation. World Blood Donor Day has been celebrated on the same day every year since it was established in 2004, encouraging people worldwide to give blood. Just 1 pint of blood can help save 3 lives. There are 1.3 million registered voluntary blood donors in England and Wales, and every day in England, around 8,000 blood transfusions are…

A new report from the Foreign Office has placed freedom of belief at the very heart of promoting human rights and democracy. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Human Rights and Democracy report focuses especially on the persecution of Christians. In the preface, the Foreign Secretary wrote: “I was deeply disturbed to learn that 215 million Christians faced persecution in 2018, according to a study by the campaign group Open Doors… I am not convinced that our efforts have always been commensurate with the scale of the problem or the empirical evidence that Christians often endure the greatest burden of persecution.”…

A secret ballot was held in the House of Commons, with the result given some time after 13:00 BST. Outgoing leader Theresa May refused to say which of the 10 contenders she had voted for, telling reporters: “That’s none of your business.” Any candidate who fails to secure at least 17 MPs’ votes will be eliminated from the contest and the results are in.  Three contenders – Mark Harper, Andrea Leadsom and Esther McVey – have been knocked out – so we are down to seven.