As voting closed in the United Kingdom today, exit polls predict a Conservative Party majority in the 2019 General Election. 

Votes are currently being counted across Britain with results being declared throughout the night.

All of the country’s major parties have campaigned for British Tamil votes this election, with Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Boris Johnson releasing a video message praising the Tamil community in the early hours of the morning. “I want to thank the Tamil community for everything they do for our country,” he said.

The Upper House of the Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha) approved the Citizenship Amendment Bill on Wednesday with 125 votes in favour and 105 against.

Two alleged leaders of a mostly Christian militia operating in the Central African Republic will face trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity against the nation’s Muslim community.

Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has travelled to the Hague to defend her regime over the charges of alleged genocide against its Rohingya Muslim population.

Campaigners have criticised a much anticipated boxing match set to take place in Saudi Arabia’s newly built Diriyah stadium on Saturday, accusing it of “sportswashing” the country’s human rights record.

On Saturday, Anthony Joshua will take on Andy Ruiz Jr, in what the BBC Sports Editor Dan Roan termed “one of the most controversial sporting contests in recent times”.

 At least 208 people have been killed in Iran, as security forces have cracked down on protests that have swept across the country.

Iranian state television admitted that deaths had occurred during the unrest, but claimed those killed were "armed thugs and rioters” or security personnel. Video footage of the protests, however, show uniformed members of Iran’s security forces, firing at unarmed protestors.

A court case against a former British, known as Soldier F, who has been accused of murder and attempted murder during Bloody Sunday has been delayed until New Year, as courts request to hear from 25 witnesses.  

Soldier F is charged with the murder of 22-year old James Wray and 27-year old William McKinney on Bloody Sunday, 30 January 1972.

The family of Daphne Caruana Galizia have urged Malta’s prime minister, Joseph Muscat to be investigated over a possible role in the journalist’s death in 2017. 

Muscat announced on Sunday that he will resign in January, after investigators had allegedly found connections between his administration and those who arranged for the killing to happen – which he has dismissed. However, the family of Caruana Galizia and protestors have called for his immediate resignation. 

Just a weeks after the United States declared that Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank would not be an infringement of international law, Israel’s defence minister, Naftali Bennett, announced a plan to “double the number of Jewish residents” in Hebron.