In today’s briefing update, the Sunday Papers lead with the controversial algorithms to set 97% of GCSE results – more than 280,000 A level students…
Month: August 2020
Dubai sends 24.88 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Beirut A plane with more than 43 tonnes of medical equipment left Dubai on Wednesday to help…
200,000 UAE residents stuck abroad no longer need ICA approval to return All UAE residents trapped approved no longer need to wait for special approval…
By Yvonne Ridley. Syrian-based American journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem who took the US Government to court for putting him on a “kill list” in the…
GLOBAL COVID-19 TODAY CORONAVIRUS CASES: 21,082,038 DEATHS: 757,633 RECOVERED: 13,933,175 …………………………………… Lockdown to ease further Saturday BBC News says more beauty treatments, small wedding receptions…
Israel launches new attacks on Hamas targets in Gaza, following ‘explosive balloons’ that started 80 fires Israel attacked Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on…
Severe storms forecast after scorching temperatures An amber storm warning has been issued for most of Wales, the West Midlands and parts of the North…
GLOBAL COVID-19 TODAY CORONAVIRUS CASES: 20,810,640 DEATHS: 747,291 RECOVERED: 13,712,440 …………………………………… England’s Death toll revised down by more than 5,000 The Guardian says the…
Disney ends 20th Century Fox brand Walt Disney has ended one of the best-known names in entertainment, 20th Century Fox. Disney has rebranded the TV…
Biden picks Senator Kamala Harris as US election running mate Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he has chosen Senator Kamala Harris…
GLOBAL COVID-19 TODAY CORONAVIRUS CASES: 20,525,620 DEATHS: 745,971 RECOVERED: 13,446,405 …………………………………… UK in recession for first time in 11 years BBC News says the UK…
A dramatic gunpoint confrontation with “his torturer” saw British aid worker Tauqir ‘Tox’ Sharif being re-arrested in rebel-controlled Idlib in Syria yesterday. Sharif was originally…
Trump says Spanish Flu ‘ended WW2’ – a conflict that started two decades later Twitter is mocking US President Trump after he suggested the Second…
UK employment drops by the biggest amount in a decade The UK has seen the biggest employment dip in over a decade between April and…
Trump escorted out of White House briefing after shooting on grounds US President Donald Trump was abruptly escorted out of a White House press room…
GLOBAL COVID-19 TODAY CORONAVIRUS CASES: 20,257,466 DEATHS: 738,956 RECOVERED: 13,121,562 …………………………………… Universities told to hold places open until September 7 appeal deadline BBC News says…
The Israeli government has threatened to destroy a Palestinian family’s home, built inside a cave with a wooden door opening onto cushion-lined rooms, in the…
Volunteers desperately trying to keep 4,000-tonne oil spill away from Mauritius Volunteers are scrambling to create cordons to keep leaking oil from a ship away…
Mass resignation of Lebanese government expected Monday The Lebanese government is heading toward a mass resignation on Monday following the horrific explosion in Beirut. The…
GLOBAL COVID-19 TODAY CORONAVIRUS CASES: 20,026,161 DEATHS: 734,020 RECOVERED: 12,900,625 …………………………………… Covid-19: only 53% of Britons would definitely have vaccination The Guardian says only half…
Angry Lebanese vow new protests over deadly blast that killed 158, following a night of clashes Lebanese protesters are enraged by official negligence blamed for…
Afghanistan to release 400 ‘hardcore’ Taliban paving the way to ‘peace-talks’ Afghanistan agreed on Sunday to release 400 “hard-core” Taliban prisoners, paving the way for…
In today’s briefing update, the Sunday Papers lead with the PM’s plans to open schools in September, warning children will suffer more harm by staying…
Lebanon hit with anti-govt protests after Beirut blast, police use tear gas Lebanese security forces late Thursday fired tear gas to disperse dozens of anti-government…
Trump bans US transactions with Chinese-owned TikTok and WeChat President Trump has issued executive orders banning any US transactions with ByteDance – the Chinese company…