new video loaded: Starmer Pressured to Resign Over Ambassador’s Ties to Epstein transcript Back transcript Starmer Pressured to Resign Over Ambassador’s Ties to Epstein The British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been left on politically unstable ground as more political figures call for his resignation over his appointment of the former ambassador to the United…
A Hong Kong court sentenced former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying to 20 years in prison on Monday for violating the national security law, closing a chapter of what has become a geopolitical flashpoint between China and the West. Three High Court judges handed down penalties to Lai, as well as six senior executives of…
BEIJING, Feb. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A news report from China.org.cn on the wave of high-level interactions between China and Western countries in recent weeks: First Canada, then Finland, followed by the United Kingdom — the opening of the new year has seen a peak in high-level engagement between Western developed countries and China. The recent…
new video loaded: Keir Starmer Apologizes to Epstein’s Victims For Appointing Mandelson transcript Back transcript Keir Starmer Apologizes to Epstein’s Victims For Appointing Mandelson Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain apologized for having picked Peter Mandelson to be his ambassador to the United States despite being aware that he was friends with Jeffrey Epstein, the…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told Chinese President Xi Jinping that Hong Kong’s prosperity and stability are in the shared interests of both China and the United Kingdom in a high-profile meeting during his four-day trip to Beijing. Starmer, the first British leader to visit China since 2018, confirmed after the meeting, when asked…
He will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang on Thursday, before heading to Shanghai on Friday for talks with local executives, as the government attempts to reboot the UK’s relationship with China. Over 50 British business and cultural leaders have also made the trip, including representatives from HSBC, GSK, Jaguar Land Rover…
By JAMES TAPSFIELD, UK POLITICAL EDITOR Published: 09:19 GMT, 20 January 2026 | Updated: 09:26 GMT, 20 January 2026 Ministers are poised to give the go-ahead for China‘s new ‘mega-embassy’ in London today despite security fears. The government is expected to sign off the plans for the London site this morning, despite furious opposition from…
Labour is facing “fierce battles” to retain control in at least 12 London boroughs at the May local elections, says a leading pollster. Lord Hayward expects Sir Keir Starmer’s party to have a “torrid time” as it seeks to defend more than 1,150 seats out of just over 1,800 up for grabs in London. Now,…
BEIJING (AP) — A leader of the Canadian government is visiting China this week for the first time in nearly a decade, a bid to rebuild his country’s fractured relations with the world’s second-largest economy — and reduce Canada’s dependence on the United States, its neighbor and until recently one of its most supportive and…
The Government has condemned an activist’s “abhorrent” social media posts, which have sparked a backlash following his return to the UK from detention in Egypt. Alaa Abd El-Fattah, a British-Egyptian dual national, was detained in Egypt in September 2019. In December 2021, he was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of spreading false…