Sources said it was the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Ms Gray who gave Lord Alli the right to come and go at No 10.

More than 100 guests, including Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves , attended the glittering event that millionaire TV mogul Lord Alli funded in London last year.

The Prince and Princess of Wales have set their sights on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex 's home turf as they relaunch plans for their charitable foundation in the US.

Margot McCuaig, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and novelist, said that 'reading about this monster Al Fayed reminds me of the time I met him'.

GLEN OWEN: Ms Cooper, who entered the Cabinet with husband Ed Balls after Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in 2007, must be sucking her teeth in private over the maelstrom in No 10.

KAMPALA, Uganda | Xinhua | The Ugandan military on Friday announced investigations into a military helicopter crash in Somalia where four peacekeepers survived the accident, a spokesperson said here.

Somalia’s move to invite Egyptian troops on its soil is playing out in differences between Mogadishu and its federal states, in what could derail the country’s focus on security needs.

The Djibouti top envoy to the US says his country has offered a pathway towards resolving the tensions between Somalia and Ethiopia. It comes after Ethiopia signed an agreement with Somalia's breakaway region Somaliland that grants Addis Ababa access to the Red Sea.

It will be difficult for both sides to de-escalate now, US officials told Politico Read Full Article at RT.com

Moscow will not attend the second Ukraine “peace summit” as it will once again try to impose Kiev’s terms on Russia Read Full Article at RT.com

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine hit EU tourism as the market was recovering from the Covid-19 slump, a report shows Read Full Article at RT.com

Over the summer some municipalities in the region didn’t have drinking water because of the amount of blue-green algae in the lakes and rivers. They’re asking the Quebec government to step in.

Steered by big-name influencers, many parents today are striving to raise their children differently than how their own authoritarian-style parents treated them. But recently there's been a shift as parents question if a gentle parenting style is actually too rough — on them.

A Canadian Armed Forces veteran who was a poster boy for Canada's 2023 Invictus Games team says he is thousands of dollars out of pocket after learning he was not covered by medical insurance for injuries he sustained while representing his country.

According to the report, two men and a woman died at the scene

SINGAPORE - A brawl near Kim Sam Leng Eating House along Verdun Road on Sept 22 left one man dead and another injured. By 9am on the same day, a large police cordon stretching from Novotel Hotel at Kitchener Road to the perimeter of Mustafa Centre and Sam Leong Road had been set up. Evidence cards were placed by slippers left strewn on a trail from Kim Sam Leng Eating House to the alley behind nearby Sam Leong Street Chicken Rice restaurant. Both establishments were closed. Bloodstains were also splattered on the pavement outside Novotel Hotel. Over 10 police officers were gathered outside Kim Sam Leng Eating House at around 10 am, and at least one police officer stood guard at each section of the large cordoned area. The Straits Times has contacted the police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force for more information. This is a developing story.

Unhappy after talking to his boss allegedly over wages owed, a chicken rice stall employee took things into his own hands, at one point grabbing a chopper from the stall. The incident which happened on Sept 20 at about 7.50pm involved two men, the cook and the co-owner of Millennium Hainan Chicken Rice stall, reported Shin Min Daily News. The stall is located within the food centre at Block 90 Whampoa Drive. According to the boss' wife who spoke to Shin Min, the altercation happened after a discussion over the cook's payment went south. «They spoke in Hokkien which I don't understand. But later on, I heard that the cook was not happy with the amount discussed,» said the woman, surnamed Luo. Based on CCTV footage captured by the stall and seen by Shin Min, the two men were seen seated at a table in front of the stall when the cook suddenly stood up and waved his fists at the other man. He then took a swipe at the other and the two men engaged in a brawl, reported Shin Min.

A 36-year-old man was arrested following a hit-and-run accident involving a car and a van on the PIE on Sept 20. The police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) told The Straits Times that they were alerted to an accident on the expressway towards Changi Airport at around 1pm. The car driver was arrested for driving without a valid licence and possessing a scheduled weapon, reported by 8World to be a knuckle-duster. The van's passenger, a 28-year-old man, was taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital conscious. Lianhe Zaobao reported on Sept 21 that the accident was witnessed by a woman, 49, alongside her husband and child as they were driving on Mount Pleasant Road, near the PIE Stevens Road exit. The Chinese daily also shared a video of the collision.

Rose Ayling-Ellis, 29, who has been deaf since birth, was pictured larking around in Hertfordshire on the set of ITV thriller Code of Silence.

Some of them was intercepted, according to the statement

This includes 22 people who became victims of the Israeli attack on a school building in the Az-Zeitoun area

According to PressTV, this measure was introduced after the Lebanese authorities banned such devices from being brought into Beirut airport and transported by air

There were no reports of casualties, and no tsunami threat was declared.

The meeting took place on the sidelines of a summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, which includes Australia, India, the United States and Japan and is also known as QUAD, in Wilmington, a city in Delaware

Voronezh Region Governor Alexander Gusev said the situation didn’t warrant a drone attack alert

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Israeli troops have raided Al Jazeera’s studio in the West Bank Read Full Article at RT.com

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has canceled a planned trip to the UN due to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah Read Full Article at RT.com

An aide to Ukraine’s former top commander Valery Zaluzhny has been killed in a missile strike Read Full Article at RT.com

Islamic states should cut relations with Israel to support Palestinians amid the war in Gaza, the Iranian supreme leader has said Read Full Article at RT.com

Seychellois academic and director of the Creole Language and Culture Research Institute (CLCRI) at the University of Seychelles (UniSey), Dr. Penda Choppy, has identified that the traditional folktales in the Seychelles repertoire could be used to trace the diasporic origins of the island nation's people. Taking three years in total to complete, Choppy's PhD thesis entitled «Creativity, Creolisation and Identity in Seychellois Creole Folktales,» delved into the intriguing world of Seychellois folklore, uncovering its rich history and its potential to reveal crucial insights into Seychellois culture and identity. Her research examines how Seychellois folktales represent the diverse diasporas that shaped the island nation's population and part of her research delves into what she has described as the Arabian Nights, where she looks at the origins of several old folktales. Choppy stated that an example showing the diasporic origins of the Seychellois people is «The Arabian Nights or The One Thousand and One Nights,» which appears in the Seychelles folktale repertoire and is part of this inheritance. «Because Seychelles is now a literate society, most people assumed that The Arabian Nights was introduced to the general population via fairytale books or Hollywood renditions of stories from the series, for example 'Sinbad the Sailor', and more recently, 'Aladdin by' Disney. However, during my study of Seychelles folktales as showcases of the creolisation process and identity markers, I put together the beginnings of a folktale database. I discovered that certain stories from our repertoire are linked to The Arabian Nights. What was more surprising was that not all of these stories necessarily came from European written sources, but could have come through oral transmission from regional sources,» she shared. Choppy mentioned Eleonore Finesse, a Seychellois who shared several accounts of folktales she knew for documentation, for example for the story of Aladdin. «It is interesting that Marvelle Estrale, the researcher who collected the story in 2002 revealed the fact that the informant, Eleonore Finesse, who at that time had been 80 years old, had said that the story had been transmitted to her by her grandparents. During some fieldwork in June 2020, another informant, Rene Bastienne, said that he remembered being told the Aladdin story by his grandfather when he was a child. At the time of the interview, Bastienne was 73 years old,» said Choppy. Choppy remarked that The Arabian Nights is not the largest section of the thesis, comprising only about five stories and one motif (the forty thieves), but it was one of the most interesting and surprising findings.   «A search for the possible origins from which the stories came to Seychelles was made using Google, through a comparison of texts from the different online databases such as the Multilingual Folktale Database. It was possible to establish which text had the closest resemblance to the Seychelles one. This was then analysed in the historical context of folklore transference in the Indian Ocean region,» she added. Choppy surmised that these folktales contained clues relating to their origin in the way they were structured and the kind of terms and names used. «For example, there are two sets of tales originating from India in the Seychelles repertoire: those that were transferred via Europe, and those that were transferred either directly from India or from Eastern Africa. Close text comparison made it possible to determine the specificities of each,» she stated.  Dr Choppy concluded that many popular fairy tales associated with the European tradition originated from Asia namely India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, China, Egypt and Persia. «It seems that stories and other types of folklore from India and Southeast Asia might have been transferred to the Middle Eastern region by Arab seafarers who later translated them into Arabic. As a Creolised culture, this is part of our inheritance from various periods of cultural transference in our region,» she said. 

British-educated Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono, 49, has not appeared publicly since the deadly simultaneous attack which targeted Hezbollah on Tuesday.

Three women who worked on his £35 million Gulfstream IV have contacted lawyers saying they were molested mid-air by the former Harrods tycoon, with others said to be about to come forward.

Photos of Jennifer Lopez in bed with her ex Diddy have resurfaced following the disgraced rapper's recent arrest. The viral image was taken at Diddy's 2000 Fourth of July party.

Speaking shortly after being acquitted of fraud in America in June, UK ­businessman Mike Lynch said the verdict was so ­unexpected, he felt like he had 'jumped universes'.