Astroscale Holdings expects satellite orders to increase under new space-defense guidelines issued by the U.K. and Japanese defense ministries. The new guidelines by U.K. and Japan, announced in June and July, respectively, could generate “up to double-digit satellite orders,” signaling a stronger pipeline, Chief Financial Officer Nobuhiro Matsuyama said in an interview. The moves are…
United States President Donald Trump (File Image) Photo : AP United States President Donald Trump will arrive in Britain on Tuesday for his unprecedented second state visit. This is the first time any world leader received the honor of a second state visit, and the first time the invitation was delivered in a personal letter…
The U.S. and Britain will sign an agreement to make it quicker for companies in both countries to build nuclear power stations when U.S. President Donald Trump visits this week, according to the U.K. government. The nuclear partnership is one of several economic deals that Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s administration intends to announce in an…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will depart Saturday for Israel and the United Kingdom on a trip framed by U.S. unease with Israel’s recent escalation in Gaza and a regional backlash against its strike in Doha. In a State Department press note, deputy spokesperson Tommy Pigott said Rubio will use the visit to “convey America’s…
British Defense Secretary John Healey has underlined his country’s close security ties with Japan amid the changing security environment. “We are forging a golden age of defense cooperation together,” Healey told reporters Friday during his visit to Japan, calling the East Asian country “our closest security ally in Asia.” His visit coincided with port calls…
LONDON — Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s hard-right Reform UK party, said Tuesday that if he wins the next election he will leave the European Convention on Human Rights and immediately detain and deport anyone who arrives in the country illegally, including children. Farage laid out his plans following a significant rise in migrants who arrive…
Kemi Badenoch, leader of the U.K.’s beleaguered opposition Conservative Party, no longer has faith in the existence of a higher power, she told the BBC in a recent interview. Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer is also a nonbeliever, meaning that perhaps for the first time in British political history, both the nation’s premier and the…
LONDON – Antimigrant protests persisted across Britain on Sunday outside hotels housing asylum seekers, a day after police were forced to separate demonstrators and counterprotesters in multiple cities as tensions flared over immigration policies. With immigration polling as the public’s top concern, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government has been under pressure to deliver…
LONDON — British Foreign Secretary David Lammy went fishing with U.S. Vice President JD Vance earlier this month and the closest thing he came to catching was a whopping fine. Lammy was given a written warning for fishing without a license, an Environment Agency spokesperson said Friday. As far as breaking the law goes, it was pretty…
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Monday that the U.K. had agreed to drop its mandate for iPhone-maker Apple to provide a “backdoor” that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens. Gabbard issued the statement on X, saying she had worked for months with the U.K., together with…