International

The death of Nancy Reagan, widow of the late US President Ronald Reagan, was announced at the weekend. She was widely heralded in the press as a woman who had sacrificed her own career in order to support her husband ...

China sneezes: will the world catch a cold? This could be – and is – a phrase being used today to headline articles about China’s admission that its annual economic growth has sunk below 7%. It was also a headline ...

Warning: potentially offensive islamophobic image below. Alas, it seems Donald Trump is slightly cleverer than we thought. The two major parties in the USA, the Democrats and the Republicans, are choosing their candidates for November’s presidential elections. The candidates are ...

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake occurred at approximately 5am on the morning of 3rd January. The epicentre was near Imphal, the capital of that Manipur state of India, just to the east of Bangladesh – about 200 miles from Dhaka. The ...

A 29 year old man drove a red Peugeot 307 at a mosque in Valence, France, on New Year’s day: no one yet knows why. Initially it seemed like a terror attack. The French army has been on guard outside ...

The stowaway rat – was it a tourist? going to visit friends in the UK? an aspiring illegal immigrant? a refugee? an economic migrant? lost? – allegedly spotted on the Air India flight on 30th December is not the airline’s ...

Emdad Rahman A team from the UK-based charity Human Relief Foundation (HRF) has returned from visiting various locations in Jordan to distribute aid to the most vulnerable refugees. Volunteers handed out school stationery kits to young children in Madaba, distributed over ...

East London newspaper London Bangla has reported that journalists are facing a severe crackdown by the state in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The report states: “Police reports confirm that local journalist Mushfiqur Rahman Tuhin (38) of Kutubpur village at ...

Palestinian delegation to tour Tower Hamlets From 6th to 16th October, the Tower Hamlets Jenin Friendship Association (THJFA) was hoping to host three delegates from the Palestinian Authority on an information and cultural exchange to the borough. THJFA has been ...

Many travellers are grateful to the Foreign Office for providing intelligence on conditions overseas. However, the Independent newspaper has spotted an instance of the Foreign Office rather over-estimating the reach of Britain’s far right extremists. On 15th January, there was ...