Flights at London’s Gatwick airport remained suspended early on Thursday, five hours after the UK’s second-busiest airport halted them to investigate reports of two drones flying over its airfield, inconveniencing passengers days before the Christmas holiday period. Planes were unable to depart, while a number of flights scheduled to land were diverted to other airports, […]

Explosions rocked Yemen’s Red Sea city of Hudaydah for a second day on Wednesday despite a UN-mediated ceasefire meant to pave the way for peace negotiations to end Saudi war on the impoverished Arab country. Residents said six blasts near the 7 July eastern suburb broke the calm, but it was not clear who was […]

The White House criticized the decision of a Washington Court to block some of US President Donald Trump’s administration’s migration policies restricting conditions for granting asylum to migrants. “Today, a court has, once again, overridden and undermined United States immigration law. Under the law, asylum is a discretionary benefit for aliens who have a well-founded […]

Britain can still hold a second Brexit referendum, France’s European Affairs Minister Nathalie Loiseau said on Thursday. “The door remains open, but it will be up to them to choose, not us,” Loiseau told French TV station CNews. Former prime minister Tony Blair is among those leading calls for a second Brexit referendum as Prime […]

North Korea said Thursday it will never unilaterally give up its nuclear weapons unless the United States removes its nuclear threat first. The statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency came amid a deadlock in nuclear negotiations between the United States and North Korea over the sequencing of the denuclearization process and removal […]

President Donald Trump has begun what will be a total withdrawal of US troops from Syria, declaring they have succeeded in their mission to defeat Daesh and were no longer needed in the country. “They’re all coming back and they’re coming back now. We won,” Trump declared on Wednesday in a video posted on Twitter. […]

 A Syrian Arab army unit foiled attempts by terrorist groups to attack military posts positioned in the surroundings of al-Masasneh town in Hama northern countryside. SANA’s reporter in Hama said that army units engaged in violent clashes with terrorist groups affiliated to the so-called “al-Ezza Brigades” which are positioned in al-Latamina town after they tried […]

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas told Mehr News correspondent that his country has provided Iraq with over 1.5 billion euro worth of financial aid to help with its reconstruction process. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas travelled to Baghdad on 17 December to hold talks with President Barham Salih, Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi and Foreign Minister Ali Al-Hakim, with […]

 The foreign ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey said on Tuesday that a new Syrian Constitutional Committee should convene early next year, kicking off a viable political peace process. In a joint statement read out by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after the trio met UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura in Geneva, they said […]

The scope of British interaction with the Southeast Asian region extends from security-military to economic-educational, and as predicted, this gets more intense post-Brexit, with the Five Power Defense Arrangements (FPDA) treaty, Asia’s only collective security arrangement. British presence in the southeastern Asia security treaty, the adherence to the deployment and maintenance of some British military […]