LONDON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Britain’s anti-EU party UKIP will announce a new leader Monday to succeed Nigel Farage and seek to unite a party beset by infighting and division despite its Brexit victory. Since his resignation following the EU referendum in June, Farage has ridden the wave of his campaign’s success to the United States where […]
International News
Troubled UKIP seeks to unite as Trump ally Farage leaves
-
Canada tweaks electoral system to allow expats to vote
OTTAWA, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Canada’s Liberal government introduced a bill Thursday to increase voter eligibility, including rolling back a measure that excluded more than one million expatriates from voting in 2015. Maryam Monsef, the minister for democratic institutions, told a news conference the reforms will “break down unnecessary barriers to voting, while enhancing the efficiency and […]
-
Mexican boy designs bullet-proof backpack
MEXICO CITY,(MILLAT+APP/AFP) – An 11-year-old Mexican boy who lives in a northern city plagued by drug violence and shootouts has designed a bullet-proof backpack with a GPS tracker and an alarm system. Juan David Hernandez, who lives in Matamoros on the border with the United States, presented his special school gear at a science fair […]
-
32 bodies, 9 human heads found in Mexico mass graves
MEXICO CITY, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Authorities have exhumed 32 bodies and nine heads from several clandestine graves in Mexico’s violence-plagued southern state of Guerrero this week, officials said Thursday. “The discoveries are terrible,” Guerrero state security spokesman Roberto Alvarez said after the remains were found between Tuesday and Thursday in 17 pits on a hill in […]
-
Strikes in Greece against new cuts
ATHENS, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Strikes hit Greece on Thursday against a new round of tax hikes and labour changes imposed by the government under the country’s EU rescue deal. Civil servants, teachers, sailors and hospital doctors walked off the job to protest against the new austerity measures currently negotiated with the country’s creditors. “(A government) elected […]
-
S. Korea president impeachment vote in December: lawmakers
SEOUL, (MILLAT+APP/AFP): A vote to impeach South Korea’s scandal-hit president could take place as early as next week, lawmakers said Thursday. A growing number of ruling party politicians have endorsed the opposition-led campaign to oust President Park Geun-Hye over the scandal involving her friend Choi Soon-Sil, who leveraged their mysterious ties in milking business companies […]