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A fire swept through a Pakistani train killing at least 65 people, police said, after a gas canister passengers were using to cook breakfast exploded.  The number of people reported dead has been rising as investigations continue. The fire destroyed three of the train’s carriages near the town of Rahim Yar Khan, in the south of the Punjab province. People sneaking stoves onto trains in order to prepare meals on long journeys is a common problem, said the Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed. Pakistan’s colonial-era railway network has fallen into disrepair in recent decades due to chronic under-investment and…

Qantas Airways Ltd confirmed that they are inspecting 33 aircraft for structural cracks on Boeing Co’s 737 NGs, after discovering problems with planes that did not require urgent inspections. Qantas Fleet Safety Captain, Debbie Slade confirmed that the airline had found one crack in an aircraft component. The cracks are on what is known as the “pickle fork” – a part that attaches the plane’s fuselage, or body, to the wing structure. Boeing on October 11 said 38 planes worldwide had been grounded after urgent checks but has not provided a further update.  The issue surfaced while the newer 737…

Police and sniffer dogs have joined the search for missing British backpacker Amelia Bambridge on the island of Koh Rong, Cambodia on Wednesday. Bambridge, 21, disappeared after attending a beach party on the popular tourist island of Koh Rong, Cambodia on Thursday. The next morning, a bag containing her watch and mobile phone – which showed photos posted online until 3:23 a.m. – was found on a rock near the water’s edge. Her movements thereafter are not known. Police also revealed her belongings were still in the bag, while her passport was at the hostel, a 40-minute walk from the…

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has readmitted 10 of the 21 Conservative MPs he expelled from his parliamentary party last month, a spokesman for the governing party said on Tuesday.  The spokesman said Johnson met the 10 in his office in Britain’s House of Commons. Among their number was former business minister Greg Clark and Nicholas Soames, grandson of British wartime leader Winston Churchill. Some of them have already said they will stand down at the next election. “The expectation of all (Conservative) MPs (members of parliament) and candidates standing for an election will be that when we come back we…

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that he was asking parliament to approve a national election to take place on December 12 as part of his efforts to ensure Britain leaves the European Union. Johnson said in a letter to opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn that if the European Union offers Britain a Brexit delay to January 31 then he would seek to pass legislation to ratify his exit deal by November 6 and would make available “all possible time” to do so. This would mean Brexit could be completed before a December 12 election. If parliament, which earlier this…

French Europe Minister, Amelie de Montchalin, questioned whether an additional delay to the Brexit process was justified, after the British parliament rejected the government’s accelerated timetable to approve a deal negotiated with the European Union. Lawmakers in Westminster backed the withdrawal agreement itself but refused Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to speed up the process, designed in order to respect the current October 31 deadline, saying it did not allow for proper scrutiny of the legislation. On Saturday Johnson was forced by parliament to send a letter to the European Union requesting an extension. European Council President Donald Tusk tweeted…

The deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, Nigel Dodds, asked British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to “sit down and talk” to the party after a defeat in parliament made ratification of his deal by the October 31 deadline almost impossible. In another day of Brexit drama in the 800-year-old Westminster parliament, lawmakers handed Johnson the first major parliamentary victory of his premiership by signalling their support for his withdrawal deal in an early legislative hurdle. But that was overshadowed just minutes later when parliament defeated him on his timetable to rush the legislation through the House of Commons in…

Cabinet ministers arrived at Downing Street ahead of two pivotal votes in parliament that will decide if Prime Minister Boris Johnson can deliver on his promise to lead the United Kingdom out of the European Union in nine days’ time. As the clock ticks down to the latest Oct. 31 deadline for Britain’s departure, Brexit is hanging in the balance as a divided parliament debates when, how and even whether it should happen. In yet another day of high drama, MP’s will vote at around 1800 GMT on the 115-page Withdrawal Agreement Bill and then vote on the government’s extremely…

The UK government published the full text of its European Union Withdrawal Agreement bill on Monday, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces potentially perilous ratification of the Brexit separation deal in parliament after the speaker refused to allow a vote on it on Monday. With just 10 days left until the United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union on Oct. 31, the split is again in disarray as Britain’s politicians argue over whether to leave with a deal, exit without a deal or hold another referendum. The government is trying to get the legislation needed for Britain to…

On Monday, the government will make a second attempt to hold the meaningful vote, presenting MPs with a straight choice to approve or oppose the deal in principle. Whether the Speaker, John Bercow, will allow that, though, is not yet clear – he could rule it out on the grounds it amounts to debating the same matter twice. No 10 said: “Letwin’s delay amendment turned Saturday into a meaningless vote and denied MPs and the public the chance to end the uncertainty.” It added: “Parliament needs a straight up-and-down vote on the deal – do MPs want to respect the…