Saroj kumar 
Asylum Seekers in the UK are being handed official leaflets from the Home Office warning them that the rape of women or children is illegal and defining “consent.” Available as a paper booklet as well as online, the nine-page document published online on Aug. 19 tells asylum seekers they must understand that laws and customs … Read more
Chinese authorities have raised the death toll from July’s Typhoon Maysak flooding in Guangxi to 159, more than four times the 39 deaths reported six weeks earlier. The Aug. 21 count, announced at post-disaster reconstruction meetings in Nanning and Guigang, also listed 10 people as missing. More than 1.65 million people were affected in the … Read more
The Trump administration is preparing another escalation of sanctions against Iran as Chinese refiners—the buyers of most Iranian oil exports—are already confronting tighter supplies and existing U.S. restrictions on the trade. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an Aug. 20 CNBC interview that Washington would announce the “toughest sanctions in history” against Iran on Aug. … Read more
The economist Lord Jim O’Neill, who has been advising the prime minister, has said he will not be taking a job in Andy Burnham’s government. Lord O’Neill, a crossbench peer, was once a treasury minister under the Conservatives. As first reported by, external the Financial Times, he said he did not want the constraints involved … Read more
Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney said that they tried negotiating but didn’t work out (File photo) Canada has suspended trade negotiations with the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney said, after last-minute changes to Washington’s proposed terms were deemed “unfair” and “uneconomic”.Carney said the decision followed recent progress in talks but added that it had … Read more