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http://ift.tt/2rhbGFc Britain's opposition Labour party Leader Jeremy Corbyn gives a thumbs up as he arrives at Labour Party headquarters in central London on June 9, 2017 after results in a snap general election showing a hung parliament with Labour gains and the Conservatives losing its majority. British Prime Minister Theresa May faced pressure to resign on Friday after losing her parliamentary majority, plunging the country into uncertainty as Brexit talks loom. The pound fell sharply amid fears the Conservative leader will be unable to form a government and could even be forced out of office after a troubled campaign overshadowed by two terror attacks. / AFP PHOTO / Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS The pound struggled on Monday to bounce back from last week’s sharp losses triggered by a shock British election result that has thrown the country into uncertainty. Sterling took a beating on Friday after Prime Minister Theresa May’s ruling Conservative Party lost its Westminster majority, ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J I have many friends in the intelligence agencies both within Nigeria and outside. I was at Harrow School, Kelly College and Cambridge University in the United Kingdom with many that ended up in M15 and M16 and their sister agencies all over the world and we are friends till today. Most of them are decent, law-abiding patriots whose purpose is simply to ensure that their country is safe and that its citizens are well-protected. One of them, who is a good friend of mine till today and who actually heads a formidable and weĺl-known intelligence agency, recently told me that he sees his country as a plane that is in mid-flight which is being flown and piloted by the politicians and whoever may be the President, Head of State or Prime Minister at any given point in time. He said the role of the intelligence services is to ensure that the engine of that plane runs well and that it does not overheat or knock whilst the flight is in motion and whilst the plane is in mi...

http://ift.tt/2rTOID0 (FILES) This file photo taken on March 01, 2016 shows Iranian MPs attending a parliament session in Tehran on March 1, 2016. An armed man burst into the mausoleum of Iranian revolutionary founder Ruhollah Khomeini on June 7, 2017 and shot several people, state media reported. State broadcaster IRIB and the Fars news agency said the armed man was inside the mausoleum in southern Tehran, at the same time as reports of attacks inside Iran's parliament building several kilometres (miles) away. / AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE Several people were reported injured after armed men burst into Tehran’s parliament building and the mausoleum of revolutionary founder Ruhollah Khomeini, with state media reporting at least one suicide bombing. One member of parliament told state broadcaster IRIB that there were four gunmen inside the parliamentary complex in central Tehran, armed with rifles and a pistol. News agencies ISNA and Fars said three people had been shot after the ...

http://ift.tt/2sMzgGf Afghan men by the belongings of blast victims at the site of a series of explosions that targeted a funeral of a politician's son, who was killed during an anti-government protest a day earlier, at Badam Bagh in Kabul on June 3, 2017. Witnesses reported three blasts at the burial site of Salim Ezadyar, who was among four people killed on June 2 when the protest degenerated into street clashes with police, fuelling anger against the government. / AFP PHOTO / WAKIL KOHSAR The death toll from a devastating truck bomb in Kabul’s diplomatic quarter last week has jumped to more than 150, President Ashraf Ghani told an international peace conference in the capital on Tuesday. Kabul has been on edge since the bombing in the highly fortified area last Wednesday, the deadliest in the city since 2001. “Over 150 innocent Afghan sons and daughters were killed and more than 300 wounded were brought to hospitals with burns and amputations,” Ghani said. Previously offic...

http://ift.tt/2qvPSUJ PHOTO:AFP The European Commission on Thursday fined US social media giant Facebook 110 million euros ($120 million) for providing incorrect and misleading information on its takeover of WhatsApp. “Today’s decision sends a clear signal to companies that they must comply with all aspects of EU merger rules, including the obligation to provide correct information,” EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said in a statement. “The Commission must be able to take decisions about mergers’ effects on competition in full knowledge of accurate facts,” Vestager said. Facebook said in response that it cooperated with the Commission and that the errors made were not intentional. “We’ve acted in good faith since our very first interactions with the Commission and we’ve sought to provide accurate information at every turn,” a Facebook spokesperson said. “The errors we made in our 2014 filings were not intentional and the Commission has confirmed that they d...

http://ift.tt/2p7GjYA An Indian village has banned women from using mobile phones in public in an attempt to restrict their contacts with men and plans hefty fines for violators, police said Wednesday. PHOTO:AFP An Indian village has banned women from using mobile phones in public in an attempt to restrict their contacts with men and plans hefty fines for violators, police said Wednesday. Village elders ruled that women found using a mobile phone outside their homes would be fined 21,000 rupees ($325) — a sum it would take most rural Indians several months to earn. The ruling was issued on Tuesday in Madora, a mainly Muslim village in the conservative northern state of Uttar Pradesh. “We have received reports about the Khap ordering the ban on women using mobile phones,” local police chief Arun Kumar Singh told AFP, referring to the informal village councils known as khap panchayats in India. “Such orders are against the constitution and we will take action.” The council ...