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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP)–Manslaughter charges could be filed over London’s deadly tower blaze, police said Friday after they found that outside cladding had failed safety tests and that the fire started with a faulty fridge. “We are looking at every criminal offense from manslaughter onwards,” Fiona McCormack from London’s Metropolitan Police said at a briefing on the June 14 blaze in west London, which left 79 people presumed dead. Referring to the tiles and insulation […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) – The government is urgently conducting safety checks on an estimated 600 high-rise buildings in England which have exterior cladding panels after at least 79 people are believed to have died when fire consumed a London tower block last week, officials said on Thursday (June 22). Workmen were seen removing cladding of a building in north London on Thursday that has been confirmed to have similar material used in Grenfell. Residents […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — A push by French President Emmanuel Macron to hand Brussels more powers to control Chinese investments in Europe’s key industries faced a setback on Thursday from European Union partners who fear a rise of protectionism. European leaders will discuss the thorny topic of international trade on the second day of an EU summit on Friday, as Europe seeks to champion free trade against the protectionist policies of United States President Donald Trump. […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that the European Union’s future took priority over Brexit talks, in a rebuke to British Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to bring the negotiations up at a Brussels summit. “For me, the future of the (remaining) 27 member-states comes before the exit negotiations with Great Britain” said Merkel as she arrived for the two-day meeting. “We want to conduct these negotiations in a good spirit,” she […]
by Katy Lee Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Europe sizzled in a continent-wide heatwave on Wednesday, with London seeing Britain’s hottest June day since 1976 as Portugal battled to stamp out deadly forest fires. More than 1,000 firefighters were still fighting to control the flames that broke out in central Portugal at the weekend, killing 64 people. Cooler weather was aiding their efforts, but thermometers were still hovering around 35 degrees Celsius (95 […]
by Robin Millard Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Prince Philip, the 96-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has been admitted to hospital as a “precautionary measure” for treatment of an infection, Buckingham Palace said Wednesday. The infection arose from “a pre-existing condition,” the palace said. The Duke of Edinburgh, who is to retire from public duties later this year, was admitted to King Edward VII Hospital in London on Tuesday night. Prince Philip […]
by Marianne Barriaux with Emmanuelle Michel in Lisbon Agence France Presse A fire chief reopened the debate over Portugal’s deadly forest blaze Wednesday, arguing it had a criminal origin, as hundreds of firefighters struggled to contain it. Politicians added their voice to those of local people who have questioned the handling of the disaster by the emergency services, as the funerals of the 64 killed took place. The president of the League of Firefighters, Jaime Marta […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday presented eight draft laws to take Britain out of the European Union in a legislative program read out in parliament by Queen Elizabeth II. The laws include the “Great Repeal Bill” to overhaul existing EU legislation and separate bills on customs, trade, immigration, fisheries and agriculture. The queen said the “Great Repeal Bill” would repeal the European Communities Act, the 1972 legislation that enshrined […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Prince Philip, the 96-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has been admitted to hospital as a “precautionary measure” for treatment of an infection, Buckingham Palace said Wednesday. The infection arose from “a pre-existing condition”, the palace said. The Duke of Edinburgh, who is to retire from public duties later this year, was admitted to hospital on Tuesday night.
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Belgian authorities on Wednesday identified the bomber killed by soldiers in a busy Brussels rail station as a 36-year-old Moroccan national. “The assailant has been identified as O.Z., born 20 January 1981 and of Moroccan nationality,” spokesperson Eric Van Der Sypt said at a press conference after Tuesday’s attack. “He was not known to the authorities for any terrorism connection,” Van Der Sypt said, declining to give the man’s full name […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) — Paris glistened in the heat as temperatures reached 35 degrees Celsius on Tuesday (June 20), but the peak in weather did not stop tourists from enjoying the city and visiting the Eiffel Tower under a roasting sun, albeit with a quick dip in the fountain at its feet. The heat over the past month has beaten various records for this period of the year in France, according to French weather sites […]
by Robin Millard Agence France Presse Police on Tuesday questioned a man suspected of deliberately mowing down Muslims in London, as the interior minister said Britain was “bruised but not broken” by a string of terror attacks. Britain was coming to terms with the aftermath of its fourth bloody assault in three months following Monday’s van attack on people leaving the Finsbury Park Mosque in north London. The family of Darren Osborne, the man […]
