Brexit: Push for May's Brexit deal after quit pledge
Efforts to persuade MPs to back Theresa May's Brexit deal will continue on Thursday, a day after she promised to quit as PM if it was approved.
Her pledge brought some on-side, such as ex-foreign secretary Boris Johnson.
But challenges remain for the PM after Northern Ireland's DUP, who she relies on for support, said it would not back the deal because of the Irish backstop.
Meanwhile, none of eight alternative Brexit proposals brought by MPs secured backing in a series of Commons votes.
The options - which included a customs union with the EU and a referendum on any Brexit deal - were supposed to help find a consensus over how best to leave the EU.
Brunei brings in death by stoning as punishment for gay sex
From 3 April, people in the tiny south-east Asian kingdom will be subject to a draconian new penal code based on sharia law
Brunei is to begin imposing death by stoning as a punishment for gay sex and adultery from next week, as part of the country’s highly criticised implementation of sharia law.
From 3 April, individuals in the tiny southeast Asian kingdom will be subject to a draconian new penal code, which also includes the amputation of a hand and a foot for the crime of theft. The capital punishments are to be “witnessed by a group of Muslims.”
Brunei, which has adopted a more conservative form of Islam in recent years, first announced back in 2014 its intention to introduce sharia law, the Islamic legal system which imposes strict corporal punishments. It was a directive of the Sultan of Brunei, who is one of the world’s richest leaders with a personal wealth of about $20bn and has held the throne since 1967.
Maltese navy seizes tanker hijacked by migrants
Migrants reportedly hijacked a cargo ship in Libyan waters and forced the crew to redirect the vessel toward Europe. Maltese armed forces have now escorted it to port.
Malta's navy said that a special operations team had taken control of a tanker that was hijacked by migrants off the coast of Libya. The ship arrived at a Maltese port on Thursday morning.
The migrants had taken control of the vessel on Wednesday, and directed it north toward Europe, according to Italian and Maltese authorities.
Opposition has no programme for government
Venezuela’s missing future
Juan Guaidó has assumed the presidency of Venezuela even though Nicolás Maduro hasn’t relinquished the office; but in spite of foreign backing, the opposition is deeply divided.
by Julia Buxton
The Venezuelan opposition, paralysed by personal grudges and strategic divisions, seems to have unified, which is remarkable. The perception that President Nicolás Maduro’s re-election in May 2018 lacked legitimacy has led to attempts at inter-opposition solidarity. The opposition-dominated congress regards Maduro as having ‘usurped’ power, and in these circumstances the 1999 Bolivarian constitution requires the president of the National Assembly to take over control of the government.
Greenland's most critical glacier is suddenly gaining ice, but that might not be a good thing
Updated 0421 GMT (1221 HKT) March 28, 2019
Greenland's largest and most critical glacier, Jakobshavn, is gaining ice, according to NASA researchers.
Although this finding is surprising and temporarily good news for the glacier, limiting its contribution to sea level rise, the reason for the ice accumulation might spell disaster in the long run.
For two decades, Jakobshavn sustained remarkably consistent thinning that scientists thought would continue, if not accelerate, due to large-scale warming of the polar atmosphere and oceans -- but that rate dramatically slowed in 2014, and the glacier actually thickened between 2016 and 2017 and again between 2017 and 2018, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature.
Campaigners target firms doing business with Myanmar's military
Facebook and Western Union are among the most recognisable names on 'dirty list' distributed by human rights activists.
Sprinklers whirled as workers swept leaves and pushed lawn mowers on a recent sun-baked afternoon at the Okkala Golf Resort in Myanmar's main city.
As he steered a golf buggy between the fairways, the caddy master gestured to a man teeing off nearby who he said was a local movie star.
Another well-known patron of the club, he added, was Zaw Zaw - a tycoon whose dealings with the former military government previously earned him a place on a United States's blacklist of sanctioned individuals.
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