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Sixty-two African migrants onboard the Open Arms rescue ship celebrated after Italian authorities finally agreed to grant the vessel access to a port for disembarkation. Migrants were seen dancing and singing after crew members announced that they were going to be disembarked on the day after. Italy initially refused entry for the group of 73 African migrants which the Open Arms crew plucked out of a packed rubber dinghy drifting about 50 miles off Libya on Wednesday, suggesting that the vessel should instead put them ashore in Tripoli. Among the group of mostly Central and West Africans are three women,…

Labour has vowed to “put bad landlords out of business” and bring in rent controls in England, if it wins power. Private rents would not be allowed to go up by more than inflation – and landlords would be fined for letting out substandard property. A Labour government would also bring in “open-ended” tenancies, to protect tenants from unfair evictions. The Tories have also set out plans to help tenants – including scrapping “no fault” evictions. Under Labour’s “private renters’ charter”, landlords would face an annual “property MOT”, with fines of up to £100,000 or forced repayment of rent if…

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn slammed the Conservative Party’s “billionaire” manifesto on Sunday saying it would favour the rich at the expense of everyone else. Corbyn was addressing supporters during a campaign in Essex on the same day as the governing Conservative Party launched its manifesto for the December 12 election. The Conservatives rolled out an election manifesto that promised more public sector spending and no further extensions to the protracted departure from the EU. They also pledged no new taxes, drawing a distinction with the opposition Labour Party that has promised to raise taxes on the rich and businesses…

Former prime minister Tony Blair said that Britain was “in a mess” and that neither his own Labour Party nor Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives deserved to win an election on December 12. Britain is holding an election three years ahead of schedule because parliament was deadlocked over Brexit, unable to agree on how or even whether to leave the European Union. Blair, Labour prime minister from 1997 to 2007, said both major parties were peddling fantasies, adding that if the opinion polls were accurate, Johnson’s party looked likely to win a majority. Blair also said that a UK-U.S. trade…

‘Overflow’ by Sinach, ‘In Your Presence’ by CSO, ‘Never Go Down’ by Israel Strong, others join the ranks of Best Songs of the Year. 2019 was a phenomenal Year of Lights for artistes in the LoveWorld Music and Arts Ministry, evidenced in several inspiring and anointed songs sung all around the world. Among so many beautiful songs, written and produced for the body of Christ all over the world, selected songs were recognized as Best Songs of the Year 2019. The list was made up of the following timeless tracks: ‘Overflow’ by Sinach, which also stood out as Song of…

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that the Labour Party’s election manifesto unveiled by Jeremy Corbyn had “no economic credibility”. During a campaign visit to a building site in Bedford, Johnson criticised his opponent for refusing to take a clear position on Brexit. Corbyn announced his party’s election manifesto on Thursday, setting out radical plans to transform Britain with public sector pay rises, higher taxes on companies and a sweeping nationalization of infrastructure. Speaking in Birmingham, Corbyn set out his crowd-pleasing plans, offering something for almost everyone in Britain – from help to parents with young children to free university…

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with International Monetary Fund President Kristalina Georgieva and representatives from an international economic forum at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday. During a meeting with representatives from the New Economy Forum , Xi said that China wants to work out an initial trade pact with the United States and has been trying to avoid a trade war, but is not afraid to retaliate when necessary. Global financial markets retreated this week on fresh fears that the trade talks could flounder, with U.S. President Donald Trump expected to sign into law two…

Queen Elizabeth presented broadcaster David Attenborough with an award for his hit BBC nature series Blue Planet II, which raised public awareness around the world of the danger of plastic pollution in oceans. Attenborough, who like the monarch is 93 years old, was awarded the Chatham House prize along with the BBC Studios Natural History Unit for “the galvanizing impact” of the series, the London-based international affairs think tank said. The annual Chatham House Prize honours people or organizations deemed to have made the most significant contribution to the improvement of international relations. In the wake of the series, the…

Malta police arrested one of the country’s most prominent businessman in connection with an investigation into the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, two sources said. Yorgen Fenech was detained after police intercepted his yacht off the Mediterranean island, sources with knowledge of the matter said. His arrest came the day after the government said it would offer a pardon to a suspected middleman in the 2017 murder of Caruana Galizia if he provided legal binding evidence of who was behind the killing. In February 2017, eight months before she died in a car bomb, Caruana Galizia wrote in her…

British naturalist David Attenborough has said that people are changing their habits when it comes to plastic waste, following the global impact of the broadcaster’s Blue Planet II documentary and the campaigning of young people. In September millions of young people flooded the streets of cities around the world demanding political leaders to take urgent steps to stop climate change, uniting in a worldwide protest inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. Alarmed by images of the Greenland ice sheets melting and the Amazon rain forests burning, protesters abandoned schools, shops and offices in nearly every corner of the globe,…