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One analyst said it was a question of ‘when, rather than whether’ Hong Kong follows sister city Singapore and other former British colonies in removing foreign influence from its judiciary. Source link

Former British prime ministers Gordon Brown and Sir John Major are among those calling for the creation of a new international tribunal to investigate Vladimir Putin and his underlings for their attacks in Ukraine.The former prime ministers have joined a campaign – along with leading names from the worlds of …

Most Hong Kong residents who successfully applied for a pathway to UK citizenship are university educated, married or in a relationship with children, and have no plans to return to the city, according to a British Home Office survey.The survey interviewed a random sample of 500 British National (Overseas) visa …

An “immersive” Princess Diana documentary offering an “origin story” for the British royal family’s latest woes was among the opening night films at the online Sundance film festival Thursday.Sundance, which celebrates independent cinema, was forced to go virtual for a second year running by the Omicron variant of Covid-19’s surge …

Authorities on Sunday identified a 44-year-old British national as the man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue for 10 hours before an FBI Swat team stormed the building, ending a tense stand-off that President Joe Biden called “an act of terror.”Malik Faisal Akram was shot and killed …

As many as 320,000 recruits from the Punjab took part in WWI. It’s time we acknowledged their valour. More than a century after the guns fell silent in Europe, the University of Greenwich has disclosed records of the Punjabi servicemen who played a crucial role in Britain’s WWI victory. The registers …

BRITISH PAEDOPHILE: The British government acknowledged that more can be done to help and assist Afghan nationals and their families settle in Britain as they escape from Afghanistan following its takeover by the Taliban. Britain earlier announced plans to welcome up to 5,000 Afghans fleeing the Taliban during the first …

It may surprise many what the Afghans thought about partition and the fate of India’s Muslims The partition of India, needless to say, was a colossal undertaking in the region’s history. Due to its enormity and importance, partition is a topic that has interested me since my elementary school days …

In November 1878, Britain, for a second time in 40 years, declared war on Afghanistan. A year later, Britain decided to dismember Afghanistan once and for all. As per the plan, Herat and Seistan (present-day Nimruz province and its surroundings) would be handed over to Persia, and Qandahar would be …

Interestingly, the Muslim demand for separate electorates is called undemocratic by some authors The concession of separate electorates to Muslims by the British in 1909 is mentioned in almost every book of history written about that period. However, very few writers have written about the process by which this concession …