Germany to tighten people-smuggling law in UK deal
PA Media Germany has said it will tighten its law to make it easier to prosecute those helping to smuggle migrants to the UK, as part of a new plan…
Israel carries out over 100 air strikes in Syria, report says
Getty Images Syrian media reports say Israeli warplanes have carried out dozens of attacks across the country, including on the capital, Damascus. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR)…
Shaken by Assad’s sudden fall, Syria faces seismic turning point
Getty Images Syrians may be celebrating the fall of Assad, but the country’s future is uncertain In the end the Assad regime was so hollow, corrupt and decayed that it…
Relatives of those killed and imprisoned react after Assad’s fall
Some Syrians are hopeful that loved ones detained under Bashar al-Assad’s regime may still be alive. Those who expressed any form of dissent were disappeared, with tens of thousands being…
UK sanctions Kenyan businessman over illicit gold trade
The UK and US governments have imposed sanctions on a British-Kenyan businessman over his alleged involvement in the illicit gold trade. Kamlesh Pattni, and four others including his wife and…
Former BBC journalist jailed over child sex abuse offences
A former BBC journalist has been jailed for eight years for a string of child sexual abuse offences. Duncan Bartlett, 52, was jailed at Wood Green Crown Court in north…
Syrian asylum seekers in limbo as countries halt applications
EPA Several European countries have suspended the processing of asylum applications for Syrians, after the downfall of former president Bashar al-Assad. Austria’s caretaker government has stopped all asylum claims from…
Assad’s police threatened to bury me and my reporting. Now I’m back, and free
BBC Eleven years ago, I left Damascus not knowing if I would ever be back. Back then, the city was in the grip of war. Intense violence, which followed President…
John Mahama triumphs over Mahamudu Bawumia
AFP Supporters of John Mahama have taken to the streets across the country to celebrate his victory Official results from Saturday’s presidential election in Ghana have confirmed the victory of…
Renishaw founder and Concorde engineer Sir David McMurtry dies
Renishaw Sir David McMurtry co-founded Renishaw, which employs more than 2,500 people in Gloucestershire Renishaw, the global engineering firm headquartered in Gloucestershire, has announced that its co-founder, Sir David McMurtry…