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A parliamentary vote on Wednesday elected Japanese ruling party leader Yoshihide Suga as prime minister. This makes him the country’s first prime minister in nearly eight years. Suga’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party used its majority vote in the powerful lower house of parliament. He came into power to lead the world’s third-largest economy as it tries to recover from the ...

Boris Johnson has urged Conservative MPs to support his plan to override part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement. He said the party must not return to “miserable squabbling’’ over Europe in a zoom call with over 250 of the MPs. The European Union warned the UK about facing legal action should it fail to ditch controversial elements of the Internal ...

Google and Twitter have said they are going to fight wrong information spread online ahead of the November US polls. It is expected that online messaging platforms will flood with false claims and misleading information. Twitter said it plans to aggressively identify and remove false tweets related to the forthcoming elections. Google also said it would scan more auto-complete results ...

A huge fire broke out on Thursday at the Port of Beirut leaving residents in panic. People were left in shock because they were still traumatized by the explosion that happened about a month ago. The explosion killed many and left thousands injured. The cause of the Beirut fire remains unknown but people claim it is related to the August ...

Dubai allows four passengers to travel in Hala (Dubai taxi) vans booked via the Careem app from today. This is due to new guidelines from the Dubai Road and Transport Authority (RTA), a statement from Hala read Thursday. Dubai authorities had previously restricted all taxis to only two passengers in a bid to combat the spread of the coronavirus. “As ...