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Fewer British holidaymakers have booked a summer holiday inside the European Union this year amid continuing Brexit uncertainty, Thomas Cook has said. The travel firm says almost half (48%) of the holidays it sold up until the end of February were to non-EU destinations, up 10% on last year. Despite this, the firm says Spain is still its most popular destination. Its findings chime with separate Post Office figures showing currency sales for long-haul destinations have jumped. Sales of the Japanese yen were up 12% so far this year compared with last, while sales of the Indonesian rupiah have increased…

The Duke of Cambridge, Britain’s Prince William, visited Christchurch’s al Noor mosque where over 40 people were killed on March 15 when a lone gunman opened fire on worshippers. The prince spoke to survivors of his own grief, pain and loss and told of his shock when hearing the news of the attack, adding that he stood by New Zealand and Christchurch. The suspected white supremacist from Australia has been charged with 50 counts of murder over the shootings on March 15 and will next appear in court in June.

Britain’s top civil servant has demanded ministers cooperate with his inquiry into the leaking of discussions at the National Security Council. Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark, who is also the National Security Adviser, is leading the internal inquiry. He has written to ministers on the council and their special advisers after the Daily Telegraph reported details of a meeting about Chinese telecoms firm Huawei. It comes amid mounting pressure for a more robust response to the leak and several cabinet ministers have already denied they were involved. There has been a backlash against the leak, with Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright saying…

Manchester City took a big step towards retaining the Premier League title with a 2-0 win over Manchester United at Old Trafford on last night sending them back to the top of the table. City have 89 points, one more than rivals Liverpool, with both teams having three games to play and none of them against top-six opponents. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side remain in sixth place with 64 points, outside the Champions League qualification slots as the early promise of the Norwegian’s reign dissipates. Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola hailed his team for the way they have responded to the…

On the final day of protests, environmental activists climbed onto a train at Canary Wharf station and blocked the entrance of the London Stock Exchange in London. The Extinction Rebellion group has caused mass disruption in recent weeks across London, blocking Marble Arch, Oxford Circus and Waterloo Bridge, smashing a door at the Shell building and shocking lawmakers with a semi-nude protest in parliament. At the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in Canary Wharf, five protesters from the group climbed aboard a train and unfurled a banner which read: “Business as usual = Death”. One glued herself to a train.…

Then Britain’s Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, joined New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to lay wreaths and commemorate the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) Day at Auckland War Memorial. Heightened security saw about 1,000 police deployed across New Zealand at hundreds of locations and security concerns meant ANZAC Day events in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, and elsewhere were scaled back. ANZAC Day commemorates the bloody battle on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey during World War One. On April 25, 1915, thousands of ANZAC were among a larger Allied force that landed on the narrow beaches…

Before Ukraine’s new president Volodymyr Zelenskiy was even elected, an opposition leader was plotting to curb his powers and make it easier for him to be impeached. Ukrainian lawmakers attend a parliament session in Kiev, Ukraine February 28, 2019. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich Andriy Sadovyi, head of the Samopomich party, the second largest opposition group in parliament, announced two days before the vote he was garnering support for a parliamentary bill to weaken the presidency. The opening salvo is a measure of the hostility that may be in store for Zelenskiy, a 41-year-old comedian who beat incumbent president, Petro Poroshenko, in Sunday’s…

Prime minister Theresa May has used her Easter message to offer support to Christians around the world who face “huge danger” because of their faith. The Prime Minister said, “we must stand up for the right of everyone, no matter what their religion” to follow their beliefs. Mrs. May, a vicar’s daughter said that while she will spend Easter “giving thanks in church”, “for many Christians around the world, such simple acts of faith can bring huge danger”. She added: “Churches have been attacked. Christians murdered. Families forced to flee their homes.”That is why the Government has launched a global…

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Seven suicide bombers took part in the devastating attacks on churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka that killed 290 people and wounded more than 500, a senior investigator said on Monday. Two of the suicide bombers blew themselves up at the luxury Shangri-La Hotel on Colombo’s seafront, said Ariyananda Welianga, a senior official at the government’s forensic division. The others targeted three churches and two other hotels. A fourth hotel and a house in a suburb of the capital Colombo were also targeted, but it was not immediately known how the attacks were carried out. “Still…

Sudan’s ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC) warned on Monday against protestors blocking roads and limiting the movement of citizens as protests continued after president Omar al-Bashir was forced from power. The TMC also said it was unacceptable that some young people were exercising the role of the police and security services, in violation of the law, a reference to youths who have been searching protesters taking part in a sit-in outside the Defence Ministry. The TMC and the opposition have traded threats since Sunday, with the Sudanese Professionals’ Association (SPA), the main organiser of the protests, saying it would suspend…