COVENTRY: British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday called for a new customs union with the European Union after Brexit in a policy shift that could force Prime Minister Theresa May to change course. Just days before a keynote speech by May on her desired future trading relationship with the…

TEHRAN: Iran yesterday rejected Western claims that it was arming Huthi rebels in Yemen, saying the conflict was instead the result of British and US arm supplies to Saudi Arabia, reports AFP. "The Islamic republic of Iran wants an end to the aggression in Yemen by Saudi Arabia," said foreign…

SHANGHAI: Xi Jinping's tightening grip on China had already earned the leader comparisons to Mao Zedong, but they came into even sharper focus after the party paved the way for him to assume the presidency indefinitely, reports AFP. State media said on Sunday that the ruling Communist Party had…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will put a hard-fought coalition deal to a vote Monday by her conservative party, which is expected to give its approval after she moved to quash a right-wing rebellion. Officials from Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the party she has led for nearly 18…

LONDON: Four people have died in an explosion at a shop in Leicester, police have confirmed, reports BBC. Leicestershire Police declared a "major…

BARCELONA: The world's largest phone show opened in Barcelona Monday with a visit by King Felipe VI as tensions run high just months after Catalonia's failed bid to break from Spain. The king, a divisive figure in the northeastern region since he made a stern speech in October denouncing the…

Earthquake strikes Papua New Guinea SYDNEY: Papua New Guinea sent troops and rescue workers after a powerful earthquake struck the Pacific nation's mountainous interior yesterday and damaged a gas plant and other buildings, reports AFP. Authorities warned of aftershocks and landslides. There was…