Author: Fatimah Idera

Swedish police detained a 16-year-old on suspicion of murdering three people in a hair salon in the city of Uppsala, prosecutors said. The victims, aged 15-20, were shot dead late on Tuesday afternoon just as Uppsala, a university town 40 minutes north of Stockholm, was gearing up for Walpurgis Night, one of the busiest holidays in the city. “An intensive investigation is underway. We are now gathering information and the police are conducting door-to-door inquiries and interviewing witnesses,” the Swedish Prosecution Authority said in a statement “In addition, mobile phones and other material that has been seized are being analysed.”…

Barclays booked a stronger than expected 19% increase in first-quarter profit on Wednesday, as trading activity surged in the early months of the U.S. President Donald Trump’s tenure and the bank made progress on boosting its share of the lucrative UK lending market. The British bank’s profit before tax for January-March was 2.7 billion pounds ($3.62 billion), up from 2.3 billion a year ago and above analysts’ forecasts for 2.5 billion, according to LSEG data. Income at the investment bank rose 16% from a year ago to 3.9 billion pounds, above analysts’ forecasts for 3.5 billion. The bank’s results beat…

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that there were referrals for fraud made to the Justice Department based on the findings of the Department of Government Efficiency, the cost-cutting agency that Trump ally and billionaire Elon Musk spearheaded. In an interview with ABC News aired on Tuesday, Trump said, “Of course, there have been referrals for fraud from the work of DOGE.” Trump did not give details on who the allegations were against, but repeated that there have been referrals several times during the interview. Since taking office on January 20, the Trump administration has been on a cost-cutting…

Asylum seekers will be denied the right to stay in the UK if they have been convicted of sexual offences, the government has announced. Any offender sentenced to more than a year in prison, as well as terrorists and war criminals, can currently be refused asylum and deported under the Refugee Convention. The government wants to widen the scope to include anyone convicted of a crime that places them on the sex offenders register, regardless of the length of their sentence. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said this would “ensure these appalling crimes are taken seriously”. Cooper said ministers would…

Cyclists who kill pedestrians by dangerous cycling could face life imprisonment in England and Wales under new amendments to the crime and policing bill. The offence of causing death by dangerous cycling would be brought into line with driving laws under amendments tabled on Thursday, the Department for Transport said. Dangerous or reckless cycling is usually punished with a maximum two-year jail term. The amendments renew a planned change of the law under the Conservatives that was derailed by the general election. The transport secretary, Heidi Alexander, plans to close a loophole whereby reckless cycling was caught under legislation dating…

President Donald Trump’s administration said on Monday it was probing whether Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review violated civil rights laws when the journal’s editors fast-tracked consideration of an article written by a member of a racial minority. Information of the new probe came hours after a federal judge agreed to expedite Harvard University’s lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from freezing $2.3 billion in federal funding that the Ivy League school has warned will threaten vital medical and scientific research. The announcement of the probe by the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services said…

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration had touted the early results of his immigration crackdown despite concerns over due process, as Trump acted to take further steps while photos of alleged criminal offenders were displayed on the White House lawn. The president signed three executive orders on Monday. The first calls for the attorney general to identify cities and states failing to comply with federal immigration laws, the second relates to protections for law enforcement officers, and the third is tied to English literacy for commercial truck drivers. Trump launched an aggressive enforcement campaign after taking office, surging troops to the…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals retained power in the country’s election on Monday, but fell short of the majority government he had wanted to help him negotiate tariffs with the U.S. President Donald Trump. The Liberals were leading or elected in 167 electoral districts, known as seats, followed by the Conservatives with 145, with votes still being counted. The Liberals needed to win 172 of the House of Commons’ 343 seats for a majority that would allow them to govern without support from a smaller party. “Our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on steadily increasing…

Australia’s ruling Labor Party said on Monday it would raise visa fees for international students to A$2,000 ($1,279) if reelected, the latest measure aimed at the lucrative education sector that has been a major source of immigration. The visa fee hike, from A$1,600 currently, will bring in A$760 million over the next four years, Australia’s Treasurer Jim Chalmers and finance minister Katy Gallagher said in a statement on Labor’s policy costings for Saturday’s federal election. “We think that’s a sensible measure that really prizes, I think, the value of studying here in Australia,” Gallagher told a news conference. ​The government…

The U.S. military said it will not reveal specific details about its military strikes in Yemen, citing what it called the need to preserve operational security, while also saying the strikes had “lethal effects” on Houthi rebels.