Parliament asserts its institutional role in European policy-making by exercising its various functions. Parliament’s participation in the legislative process, its budgetary and control powers, its involvement in treaty revision and its right to intervene before the Court of Justice of the European Union enable it to uphold democratic principles at European level. Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP
King Charles needs to take a leaf out of his mother's book - and be decisive when it comes to his younger son and his role as a Counsellor of State, writes RICHARD EDEN.
The Duke of Sussex cannot resign from the stand-in role as a Counsellor of State which means he can technically still deputise for the monarch if he is overseas on an official trip or ill.
The brothers were discussing the move by Travis' Kansas City Chiefs to sign the former Wales rugby player Louis Rees-Zammit, who has switched sports and joined the Super Bowl winners.
WARNING: This article contains upsetting images. The girl's mother told DailyMail.com the bullying has been going on for weeks.
Julia Rausing passed away peacefully on Thursday morning surrounded by her family, her friends have revealed.
When kindly Rachel Candappa handed Prince William two cards wishing both his wife and father well today in their individual cancer battles earlier today, his emotion was hard to miss.
The plane crashed in a field in the Krasnogvardeysky district of southern Russia’s Stavropol Region
A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces declined to comment on the reports of the strike
According to Iranian media reports, three drones were downed by air defenses in the skies over the city of Isfahan
Sergey Shoigu handed down an instruction for the defense enterprise to ramp up the production of T-80BVM tanks, the Defense Ministry said
Imam Khomeini International Airport and Mehrabad International Airport suspended their operations until 10:30 a.m. local time
The yuan rate declined to 12.854 rubles
Tasnim refuted foreign media reports about an incident at a nuclear site in Isfahan
The Moscow Film Festival was founded in 1935, which makes it the world’s second oldest film festival after the Venice event
The Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH) is being hailed by a former beneficiary for “levelling the playing field”. Doctoral candidate Jordon Freeman was presented with the PATH Trailblazer Award by the Ministry of Labour...
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Well-known Jamaica-born Bronx-based accountant, Alfred Simms, has died at the age of 78 years. Simms, who succumbed on April 5 after a long illness, was one of the founding members of the Arnett Gardens Football Club. He was part of the management...
Although the United Reformed Church in the United Kingdom (UK) issued an official apology to Jamaica and the Caribbean on Sunday for its participation in the dreadful transatlantic slave trade from 1501 to1867, Pastor Bruce Fletcher, chief...
Christopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST JAMES Parish Court is expected to hear on Friday whether the prosecution in the case of Mickey Miller, who is before the court on cocaine charges stemming back to 2007 when he was first...
Mogadishu (HOL) — Muslims in Kenya are expressing outrage over a circulating video on social media showing the Speaker of the Nairobi County Assembly, Hon. Kennedy Okeyo Ng'ondi, forcibly shaking hands with a female Muslim lawmaker at a ceremony in Nairobi.
Liverpool failed to overcome a three-goal deficit and was eliminated from the Europa League on Thursday despite beating Atalanta 1-0 in the second leg of their quarterfinal matchup.
Minneapolis (HOL) — Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), found herself at the center of a controversy on Thursday when she was suspended from Columbia University's Barnard College. Her suspension, which came after her participation in a pro-Palestinian protest, has ignited a national debate on free speech and political activism in academic settings, drawing international attention to the prestigious Ivy League institution.
Google has fired nearly 30 employees for protesting against Israel Read Full Article at RT.com
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Dubai airport, one of the world's busiest, witnessed major disruption for a third straight day Thursday after the heaviest rains on record drenched the desert United Arab Emirates. Emirates, Dubai's state-owned flagship airline, and sister carrier flydubai resumed check-ins after telling passengers to stay away on Wednesday, when thousands of delayed passengers clogged the airport. The airport, which handles more international passengers than any other, hopes to resume «something approaching normality» within 24 hours, Dubai Airports CEO Paul Griffiths told AFP. Some 1,244 flights were cancelled and 41 diverted on Tuesday and Wednesday, after torrential rains flooded the Middle East financial centre including its homes, malls and offices, and highways. Traffic congestion remained severe on Thursday, two days after the storms, with at least one major road completely blocked by water and multiple junctions cut off by flooding. Climate experts say the rains, the UAE's heaviest since records began 75 years ago, are consistent with changes caused by global warming. «There's no news here,» Karim Elgendy, associate Director at the Buro Happold engineering consultancy and associate fellow at Britain's Chatham House think tank, told AFP. «We are expecting an increase in variability of rainfall, which means more extreme events, more drought and an increase in intensity of rainfall when it does rain.» - 'Deeply distressed' - Dubai airport has witnessed chaotic scenes with crowds of marooned travellers clamouring for information about their flights. Even as Emirates and flydubai resumed check-ins, more than 200 departures were listed as delayed or cancelled on the airport's website. Griffiths said it was «challenging» to get the airport fully functional, with supplies and staff also held up on flooded roads. «Getting supplies through, people and all of the necessary things to the airport to help the schedule recover, was a massive challenge because all of the roads were blocked,» he said in an interview. «We just hope that the level of customer care that we've been able to provide will go some way to mitigate the impacts that we had to customers. But obviously we're deeply distressed by all of the disruption and concern that we've created,» he added. One elderly couple's 14-hour flight from Brisbane took 24 hours on Tuesday after it was diverted, and they were then unable to reach their hotel because of the flooding. «It's just the start of our holiday and I feel like going home -- and I don't know how to do that either,» Julie, 72, told AFP through tears. «When they landed the plane on this airfield that was deserted, there was no terminal, there were no other planes and I thought we had been hijacked by terrorists,» she added, without giving her surname. - Makeshift ferry - Although schools and public sector offices have been closed until next week, traffic returned to the roads with some motorists, finding their route blocked, driving the wrong way down highways. Supermarkets had empty shelves as deliveries failed to arrive, and retail staff reported having to stay overnight or sleep at hotels because they could not get home. «We're working but the problem is we're not receiving chicken,» said one employee at a chicken restaurant that had no chicken or fries on display. «The delivery cannot come here because of the flood.» In the Arjan district, a man used a canoe to paddle passengers across a flooded street. With taxis hard to book and hail, private motorists were stopping at queues of people and offering rides for high prices. British visitor Chris Moss, 30, was one of those looking for a cab as he tried to reach the airport and locate his lost luggage. «When we arrived the baggage area was full of bags but my luggage was nowhere to be seen,» said Moss, whose plane, hastily booked after his original flight was cancelled, arrived five hours late. «It was still on the plane because the baggage area was flooded and they couldn't get the bags off.» © Agence France-Presse
Voting starts today to elect the 18th Lok Sabha. From Udhampur to Kanyakumari and Ganganagar to Itanagar, 102 constituencies in 17 states and 4 UTs go to polls in the first and largest phase, the only one with 100+ seats in the 7-phase election. BJP-led NDA is aiming for a hat-trick and the oppn, under INDIA bloc, is out to stop Modi
CPI(M) emerged victorious in Coimbatore's recent election, with key contenders from BJP, DMK, and ADMK. The battleground showcased national allies, post-1998 serial blasts impact, and environmentalists in the Vanniyar heartland.
As heavy rain lashes the Gulf nation, the Indian Embassy in Dubai on Thursday emphasised that they are in constant touch with the UAE authorities and airlines, and have facilitated connect between stranded Indian passengers and their family here.
Google has unveiled a new Doodle to commemorate the start of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, which began in India on Friday. The Google Doodle, which replaces the iconic «Google» logo on the search engine's homepage, features an uplifted index finger marked with indelible ink, symbolizing the essence of Indian elections.
In Mahmoud Abbas' opinion, Washington’s foreign policy constitutes «an outrageous aggression against the international law»
According to Bloomberg, Israel informed the United States about its plans to strike Iran within the next 24-48 hours
RIYADH: The Italian Embassy in Riyadh on Tuesday celebrated the inaugural “Made in Italy Day” with the opening of a new visa application center and exhibition space. Giuliano Fragnito, the deputy head of the mission, told Arab News the event provided an opportunity to showcase Italian expertise in a variety of fields, including the fashion, design, automotive and space industries. “Today we are celebrating ‘Made in Italy Day,’ which is a day that celebrates the creativity, innovation and the territories of Italy and Italy’s products,” he said.