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'Safe haven' Cyprus nets record tourism year ASIA

'Safe haven' Cyprus nets record tourism year

Almost three million tourists visited Cyprus in the first 10 months of 2016, data showed on Thursday, ensuring a record year for the island seen as a regional safe haven.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Britain has no Brexit plan, leaked memo claims INTERNATIONAL

Britain has no Brexit plan, leaked memo claims

The British government has no overarching plan for Brexit and may take another six months to agree a negotiating strategy, according to a leaked memo published by The Times on Tuesday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
British 'sharia courts' under scrutiny INTERNATIONAL

British 'sharia courts' under scrutiny

For more than 30 years, sharia courts enforcing Islamic law have been operating quietly across Britain. But two official inquiries have put them in the spotlight amid accusations that they discriminate against women.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Drugs displayed as Kenya's $6m cocaine trial gets underway INTERNATIONAL

Drugs displayed as Kenya's $6m cocaine trial gets underway

Cocaine dusted the vinyl flooring of the drab third-storey conference room at Nairobi's CID headquarters as Kenya's top narcotics cop sliced open another kilogramme slab of the drugs.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
British government loses court case on how to trigger Brexit INTERNATIONAL

British government loses court case on how to trigger Brexit

England's High Court ruled on Thursday that the British government requires parliamentary approval to trigger the process of exiting the European Union, a major upset for Prime Minister Theresa May's plans for Brexit.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Briton's family 'ostracised' since Bangladesh cafe attack INTERNATIONAL

Briton's family 'ostracised' since Bangladesh cafe attack

The wife of a British Bangladeshi man arrested over the South Asian country's deadliest attack says her husband is innocent and unaware that his father has died while he's been in prison.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
British murder accused Jutting 'sexually assaulted' at school INTERNATIONAL

British murder accused Jutting 'sexually assaulted' at school

The British banker accused of murdering two Indonesian women in his upscale Hong Kong apartment is a narcissistic sexual sadist who had been abused at school, a court heard Monday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
France urges Britain to take in 1,500 'Jungle' minors INTERNATIONAL

France urges Britain to take in 1,500 'Jungle' minors

French President Francois Hollande on Saturday urged Britain to take in 1,500 unaccompanied minors from the ‘Jungle’ as officials stepped up efforts to finish demolishing the almost-deserted Calais migrant camp.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
France begins demolition of 'Jungle' migrant camp INTERNATIONAL

France begins demolition of 'Jungle' migrant camp

Workers escorted by scores of French police officers moved into the ‘Jungle’ in Calais on Tuesday, demolishing shacks and tents emptied of migrants being bussed to shelters around France.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
UK's 'Fake Sheikh' sting journalist jailed for 15 months INTERNATIONAL

UK's 'Fake Sheikh' sting journalist jailed for 15 months

British journalist Mazher Mahmood, better known as the ‘Fake Sheikh’ who caught out a string of celebrities in tabloid stings, was on Friday jailed for 15 months for perverting the course of justice.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
British Al-Jazeera reporter freed in Somalia INTERNATIONAL

British Al-Jazeera reporter freed in Somalia

A British journalist arrested in Mogadishu while on a reporting assignment has been released by Somalian security forces, his employer Al-Jazeera said on its website Thursday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Calais 'Jungle' teens set to join relatives in Britain INTERNATIONAL

Calais 'Jungle' teens set to join relatives in Britain

Fourteen unaccompanied teenagers who have been living in the Calais "Jungle" were set to be reunited with relatives after being transferred to Britain on Monday, ahead of the demolition of the French migrant camp.

4:45 AM November 25 2016