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File: This July 16, 2013, photo shows a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
January 13, 2018, 12:26 am
Facebook joins Europol talks to fight Islamist propaganda
Representatives from social network and European agency aim to 'identify and secure the swift removal of terrorist and violent extremism content'
By AFP
In this Friday June 26, 2009 photo, BBC Persian service presenter Fardad Farahzad, right, gets ready to present the news, at the corporation's London headquarters. (AP Photo/Simon Dawson, File)
December 21, 2017, 5:47 am
BBC says it will insert more religion into programming
British broadcaster to feature more reports on non-Christian festivals after publication of yearlong review into its coverage of religion and ethics
By JTA
A picture taken on December 6, 2017, shows a giant US flag screened alongside Israel's national flag by the Jerusalem municipality on the walls of the Old City. (AFP PHOTO / Ahmad GHARABLI)
December 9, 2017, 9:09 am
US Jerusalem Consulate in fresh warning to its citizens in wake of Trump speech
Americans told to avoid Jerusalem, West Bank, and Gaza amid fear US interests could be targeted for attacks
By TOI staff and Agencies
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
December 6, 2017, 11:13 pm
US embassies warn Americans to exercise caution in wake of Trump speech
Missions in Turkey, Jordan, Germany and Britain issue warnings of potential violence after US president announces decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital
By AP
A young girl gives blood at a Magen David Adom emergency services blood donation mobile center on July 9, 2008. (Daniel Dreifuss/Flash90)
December 6, 2017, 4:12 am
London Muslims give blood at synagogue for Mitzvah Day
Annual British Jewish community charity drive sees several interfaith efforts, inspiring other initiatives
By JTA
A tweet shared by a British far-right leader and shared by Donald Trump on November 29, 2017, showing a rooftop skirmish in Cairo in 2013. Screen capture: Twitter)
November 30, 2017, 6:24 am
Anti-Muslim videos shared by Trump don’t show whole story
Footage of 'migrant' beating up boy on crutches is actually a Dutch-born teen and circumstances of roof melee unclear. But yes, a man really did smash a Virgin Mary statue
By Calvin Woodward
President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May react to a question from a member of the media during their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)
November 30, 2017, 4:05 am
Trump pushes back at UK’s May over her criticism of his anti-Muslim tweets
Worry about terror, not me, US president tells British leader after she says it was wrong for him to share videos posted by far-right leader
By Agencies
Britain's International Development Secretary Priti Patel arrives at 10 Downing Street in London on November 8, 2017, (AFP/Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS)
November 9, 2017, 2:20 am
May government seen in tailspin after minister ousted over Israel meetings
Politicians criticize prime minister for inability to rein in cabinet after second minister sacked in a week, with several more under fire
By TOI staff and Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with British Prime Minister Theresa May in London on November 2, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
November 3, 2017, 8:55 pm
30 years after Thatcher’s rebuff, Theresa May celebrates Balfour with Israel
Downing Street's warm reception for PM Benjamin Netanyahu comes amid close trade ties and diminishing antagonism between Israel and Arab states
By Robert Philpot
British Foreign secretary Boris Johnson drinks a toast at the UK embassy in Paris on October 27, 2017, during a European tour. (AFP PHOTO / GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT)
October 30, 2017, 6:19 am
British FM says he’s ‘proud’ of Balfour Declaration, 100 years on
Boris Johnson acknowledges parts of the document dealing with Arab rights have 'not been fully realized,' urges two-state solution
By AFP
The UN Security Council votes to extend investigations into who is responsible for chemical weapons attacks in Syria at the United Nations on October 24, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY)
October 28, 2017, 2:48 am
Britain calls for UN sanctions on Syria over sarin attack
Watchdog group says Assad's air force dropped bomb on opposition-held town on April 4, releasing deadly nerve agent that killed more than 80 people
By AFP
A woman places her vote in a ballot box for the Israeli general elections for the 19th parliament, January 22, 2013, in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90, illustrative)
October 17, 2017, 4:14 pm
More Israelis satisfied with their democracy than Americans, survey finds
Pew research also finds only 10% support in Israel for military rule -- less than in America, France and Britain
By Stuart Winer
German WWII bunker 'The Odeon' in Alderney. The bunker is about three to four stories high and has an anti-aircraft emplacement at the back. Alderney is said to have been the most heavily fortified of the Channel Islands. (CC-SA-Tim Brighton)
October 16, 2017, 6:43 am
In Nazi-occupied Britain, graves at Alderney’s ‘Little Auschwitz’ may be defiled
A 137-mile project will connect British and French energy grids via the Channel Islands, but the route may bisect mass burials on the one-time concentration camp island
By Robert Philpot
Illustrative: Britain's opposition Labour party's leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech at a rally on the eve of Labour Conference in Brighton, September 23, 2017. (AFP/Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS)
September 24, 2017, 5:07 pm
Triumphant Corbyn eyes path to power at UK Labour conference
Opposition leader increasingly seen as a realistic candidate to become Britain's next prime minister
By James Pheby
An Iraqi Yazidi family that fled the violence in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, sit at at a school where they are taking shelter in the Kurdish city of Dohuk in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on August 5, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Safin Hamed)
September 22, 2017, 12:16 am
UN sets up probe of IS atrocities in Iraq
Terror group's massacres of Yazidis denounced as genocide
By Carole LANDRY
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