UK SC hears Johnson’s
parliament suspension
LONDON, Sept 17: Boris Johnson sought to suspend Parliament to avoid the risk of MPs "frustrating or damaging" his Brexit plans, the Supreme Court has heard. Lawyers for campaigners challenging the suspension said there was "strong evidence" the PM saw MPs "as an obstacle" and wanted to "silence" them. The judges are hearing two challenges relating to the five-week prorogation. — BBC
Lanka PM faces challenge
in presidential race
COLOMBO, Sept 17: Sri Lanka's ruling coalition became embroiled in a power struggle on Tuesday as two challengers came forward to oppose Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to be candidate for a looming presidential election. Wickremesinghe had been the clear frontrunner to be the United National Party candidate until parliament speaker Karu Jayasuriya and deputy party leader Sajith Premadasa threw their hats into the ring. — AFP
Air strikes kill 10 pro-Iran
fighters in Syria
BEIRUT, Sept 17: Overnight air strikes killed 10 pro- Iranian Iraqi militiamen in eastern Syria, a war monitor said on Tuesday, without specifying who carried them out. The strikes targeted "three positions of the (Iranian) Revolutionary Guards and allied (Iraqi) militias" in Albu Kamal, in the Euphrates Valley just across the border from Iraq, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. — AFP
20 die as truck falls in
ravine in Philippines
MANILA, Sept 17: Twenty people, including children, were killed on Tuesday in the southern Philippines when the flatbed truck they were riding in plummeted into a ravine, police said. The vehicle was bringing a group of people home from a trip to the beach when the driver lost control near the town of T'boli in the latest deadly crash on the nation's dangerous roads. "Based on eyewitness accounts, the truck lost its brakes. We will conduct further investigations on the actual cause," T'boli town police investigator George Tabayan said. — AFP
Four perish as tourist boat
capsizes in Senegal
DAKAR, Sept 17: At least four people died and three were missing after a boat carrying dozens of tourists capsized under heavy storms in Senegal, authorities and emergency services said on Tuesday. The boat was carrying 24 Senegalese nationals, six French people, two Germans, two Swedes and one person from Guinea-Bissau, when it turned over in driving rain and a heavy swell, fire department chief Papa Angel Michel Diatta said. The identities and nationalities of the victims are not yet known. — AFP
Tehran charges three detained
Australians with spying
TEHRAN, Sept 17: Iran has charged three detained Australians with spying, a judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday, after the reported arrest of a travel-blogging couple and an academic. Two of the Australians were alleged to have used a drone to take pictures of military sites, while a third was accused of spying for another country, spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili told reporters. It was the first official confirmation that Australians have been detained in Iran after the families of three of them said last week they had been arrested in the Islamic republic. — AFP
Outcry forces NW Pakistan officials
to scrap veil order for students
PESHAWAR, Sept 17: Pakistan education authorities have reversed a decision making it compulsory for female students in two major northwestern cities to wear veils, one day after the move sparked a rights outcry on social media. District education officials in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Haripur, another city in the conservative province, had announced that girls must cover themselves fully "to protect them from any unethical accident". — AFP
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