Here’s a quick summary of what has happened around the world over the last 24 hours, brought to you exclusively by British Herald.
Starting off with local news, a prayer leader was stabbed in a mosque in London and the assailant was arrested for attempted murder, according to police and mosque officials. The attacker was apprehended by worshippers till police arrived at the scene and arrested him.
In other terror-related news, London’s Metropolitan Police said Paul Golding, leader of British far-right group Britain First, was charged “with wilfully failing to comply with a duty” under the so-called schedule 7 powers in the terrorism law, which give police the authority to search travellers at borders and makes it a crime to fail to comply. He had refused to provide the pin codes to access his phone in October when he was stopped by police at Heathrow Airport on his way back from Russia.
London would be ready to host the 2020 Olympics if the outbreak of the coronavirus forced the Games to be moved from Tokyo, Shaun Bailey, the Conservative candidate for mayor of the British capital, has said. This announcement from mayor hopeful Bailey did not go down very well with Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike who deemed the suggestion inappropriate.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks forward to his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump this coming June. An expected meeting between Johnson and Trump was scheduled for early 2020 but was postponed.
Ending local news with the royal family, Britain’s Prince Harry will visit Abbey Road Studios in London on Feb. 28 to meet singer Jon Bon Jovi and members of a military veterans’ choir, in one of his last engagements as a senior member of the royal family.
U.S. President Donald Trump will be accorded the biggest public reception given to any foreign leader in years during his visit to India beginning on Monday, officials say, one that could help paper over the two countries’ growing friction over trade.
Close political and security partners, India and the United States have hit each other with retaliatory tariffs. Over the past month, they have engaged in intense negotiations to produce a mini trade deal, but officials say it remains elusive.
The two sides have been arguing over U.S. demands for access to India’s huge poultry and dairy markets, Indian price controls on medical devices such as stents and stringent local data storage rules that U.S. companies say will raise the costs of doing business.
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