French lawmakers have secured a deal on a bill that would outlaw the use of mobiles phones in schools starting in September, one of Emmanuel Macron’s pledges during last year’s presidential campaign. Senators and National Assembly deputies reached the agreement late Wednesday on the ban for all three tiers of French education (primary, middle and […] …
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Police arrest 129 suspects for organising online gambling
The Police in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality have arrested 129 suspects for organising online gambling, local police said on Thursday. Police in Jiulongpo District confiscated 69 computers and 265 mobile phones and froze more than four million yuan (around 595,000 dollars) involved in the case. READ ALSO: Tory MP urges vote of no confidence in […] …
South Sudan’s president Kiir says he’s ready to accept peace deal
President Salva Kiir of South Sudan said he is ready to accept a peace deal to end a civil war and set up an inclusive new government. The deal being negotiated in Sudan would give the country five vice presidents and also covers security and power sharing. “The people of South Sudan are looking for […] …
Death toll from India building collapse hits nine
The death toll from a collapsed apartment block outside Delhi rose to nine on Thursday as emergency workers pulled four more bodies from a huge pile of rubble and metal, India’s fire brigade said. The six-storey building caved in late Tuesday and crashed into a neighbouring building, trapping more than a dozen people, including labourers […] …
British man plots to kill Prime Minister Theresa May
Migrants go missing in Mauritanian desert
More than two dozen Senegalese migrants have gone missing in neighbouring Mauritania after their boat ran aground while en route to Spain’s Canary islands, Mauritanian authorities said. Regional police chief Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Taleb said 26 or 27 migrants are thought to be “on land, hiding in caves, or they have secretly entered” the port […] …
VIDEO: Passenger films horrifying footage of deadly plane crash
[video src="http://punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Crashed-plane.mp4" poster="http://punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Crashed-plane.mp4"]A passenger has posted the horrifying footage of a deadly plane crash. On July 10, the Convair-340 charter plane crashed outside Pretoria, South Africa, soon after take-off from the airport, killing a flight engineer and a person on the ground, while leaving two pilots critically injured. The charter plane, constructed 64 years ago, crashed near […] …
With constitution reform, Cubans may soon have right to own private property
The Cuban Parliament on Wednesday started discussing a planned Constitution Reform that is expected to introduce recognition of the need for private property into the charter. Parliamentary commissions met behind closed doors to discuss the reform, which is expected to be brought before a plenary session on Saturday, the state television channel Cubavision reported. The […] …
BREAKING: Trump says no president has been as ‘tough’ on Russia
US President Donald Trump, facing criticism that he failed to hold Russian leader Vladimir Putin to account at their Helsinki summit, claimed on Wednesday that no president has been as “tough” on Russia as he has. “We’re doing very well, probably as well as anybody has ever done with Russia,” Trump said at a cabinet […] …
Erdogan files complaints against opposition leader, MPs over cartoon
President Tayyip Erdogan filed criminal complaints Wednesday against the leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and 72 other CHP lawmakers for allegedly insulting him with a cartoon they shared on social media. CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu on Tuesday shared a 2006 cartoon that depicted Erdogan as several different animals on Twitter. He also […] …