by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 20, 2017 | World
British police detained on Wednesday two more men over the bombing of a packed London Underground train last week which injured 30 people. The men, aged 48 and 30, were held under terrorism laws in Newport in south Wales. Another 25-year-old man was arrested on...
by Raneem Hannoush | May 24, 2016 | World
London-London’s Night Tube service will launch on August 19 on Fridays and Saturdays after a delay caused by union protests, Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced. “Our latest statistics show that more than half of underground travelers use the system after 10:00 pm,”...
by Adhwan Alahmari | Nov 14, 2015 | World
A press officer for the British Transport Police, Jimmy Thomas, said in a statement to “Asharq Al-Awsat” that Yoshiyuki Shinohara, the pensioner who pushed a woman towards an underground train at Piccadilly Station last Tuesday is currently in custody charged with...
by Ali Ibrahim | Apr 2, 2013 | Opinion
On March 21 a couple from both sides of the Sinai border, an Egyptian bride and Palestinian groom, chose a strange place to take pictures of their wedding. They posed in one of the tunnels that pass underground through the border between Rafah in Egypt and the Gaza...