Author: Fatimah Idera

Turkish authorities on Saturday detained 47 more members of the Istanbul municipality over accusations of corruption, broadcaster NTV and other media reported, amid a widening legal crackdown against the opposition and the city’s jailed mayor. Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who is also President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival and leads him in some polls, was jailed in March pending trial over charges of corruption and aiding a terrorist group. The mayor has denied all charges and his arrest triggered mass protests, economic turmoil, and broad accusations of a politicised judiciary. On Saturday, NTV said the municipality’s secretary general, Imamoglu’s…

The Trump administration said on Friday that it is restoring the student visa registrations of potentially thousands of foreign students in the United States whose legal status had recently been abruptly terminated. The decision was announced during a court hearing before a federal judge in Boston who was hearing a challenge by one of the many international students nationally suing over the administration’s actions. Those students’ status had been revoked as a result of their records being terminated from a database of the approximately 1.1 million foreign student visa holders, putting them at risk of deportation. Since Trump took office…

China has granted some exemptions on U.S. imports from its 125% tariffs and is asking businesses to identify goods that could be eligible in the clearest sign yet that Beijing is worried about the economic fallout from its trade war with Washington, according to businesses notified. The dispensation is the latest sign that the world’s two largest economies were prepared to rein in their trade war, assuaging concerns about the impact of the tariffs. Beijing’s possible consideration of wider tariff exemptions for dozens of industries follows a shift in tone from Washington, pushing the U.S. dollar up slightly and lifting…

In a budget watchdog report on Friday which revealed that Britain’s regulators have failed to drive sufficient investment in the water sector, highlighting their role in causing an environmental crisis in the industry. Water companies in England and Wales are at the centre of a public backlash over rising bills after ageing pipes and overwhelmed treatment works resulted in repeated sewage spills in recent years, polluting Britain’s rivers and seas. “The consequences of government’s failure to regulate this sector properly are now landing squarely on bill payers who are being left to pick up the tab,” said Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, chair of…

Three people, including a child, were killed, and eight more were wounded in a Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad, the regional governor said on Friday. The governor for the central Dnipropetrovsk region, Serhiy Lysak, said on Telegram that “the aggressor again conducted a mass attack on the region with drones,” adding that 11 drones were destroyed over the region. Lysak said that several fires had broken out in the city, posting a photo of a fire raging on some levels of a multi-storey building. He said that six of the wounded were hospitalized while two others, including…

Britain could gain 400 billion pounds ($533 billion) from AI-driven growth if it trained its workforce, Google said, after a pilot scheme in the UK showed workers could save more than 120 hours a year by using AI in administrative tasks. Simple steps such as giving workers permission to use AI and a few hours of training to get them started could help double the adoption of the new technology, and in turn boost economic growth, Google said in a report on its pilot scheme, published on Friday. The U.S. tech giant, which developed the Gemini AI chatbot, said that…

Tesla’s sales in Europe are tumbling despite a broader rebound in demand for electric vehicles (EVs) across the Continent as Elon Musk gets a fresh headache as he refocuses his attention on his struggling car company. Just 36,167 Teslas were sold in the EU during the first quarter of 2025, down 37pc compared to a year earlier, according to industry figures. It came as overall EV sales in the bloc accelerated, rising by 24pc to 412,997, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) said. The drop is a fresh headache for Elon Musk as he refocuses his attention on Tesla to…

A federal judge in New Hampshire on Thursday restricted the ability of Republican President Donald Trump’s administration to cut off funding to public schools that engage in diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. U.S. District Judge Landya McCafferty in Concord issued a preliminary injunction preventing the U.S. Department of Education from enforcing its policy against members of three groups including the National Education Association, the largest U.S. teacher’s union. Read also: Harvard may lose ability to enrol foreign students, Trump threatens The NEA, its local New Hampshire affiliate and the Center for Black Educator Development sued after the Education Department in…

UK Firms are encouraged to self-report suspected wrongdoing to Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and cooperate with investigators as they get a chance to avoid prosecution, according to guidance published by the SFO on Thursday. The SFO, which has a remit covering complex financial crimes, fraud and corruption, said companies that flag potential breaches would be offered the chance to negotiate a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA), except in exceptional circumstances. Such agreements typically allow the accused to avoid prosecution unless they reoffend or violate other terms during the term of the agreement. Prosecutors agree to suspend legal proceedings in exchange…

President Donald Trump slammed Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday for his comments that Ukraine wouldn’t recognize Russian control of Crimea, calling the remarks very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia. In his post on Truth Social which reads; It’s inflammatory statements like Zelenskyy’s that makes it so difficult to settle this War. He has nothing to boast about! The situation for Ukraine is dire. He can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country,” Any move to recognize Russia’s control of Crimea would reverse a decade of US policy and could…