London – Hong Kong democracy activist Tony Chung, who once called for the city’s independence and was the youngest person to be jailed under its national security law, has been granted asylum in the U.K. Chung, 24, posted a letter from the U.K. interior ministry on his Instagram page on Sunday, which read, “Your claim…
london – A “one-in, one-out” deal in which Britain can return some migrants who cross the Channel in small boats back to France came into force on Tuesday, the U.K. government announced. The interior ministry said that British authorities were “operationally ready” and that migrant detentions were expected to begin “within days” following ratification of…
Not long before World War I, HMS Dreadnought, a battleship that made all existing vessels obsolete, was launched at Portsmouth in the presence of the King-Emperor Edward VII. Fire-breathing patriots soon took up the cry, “We want eight and we won’t wait.” Winston Churchill, then a young home secretary in a government committed to spending…
LONDON — Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Tuesday that the U.K. will recognize a Palestinian state in September — unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza and takes steps toward long-term peace. Starmer called ministers together for a rare summertime Cabinet meeting to discuss the situation in Gaza. He told them that Britain will recognize a…
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has welcomed the recent decision on Saturday, 19 July, by the United States and the United Kingdom to upgrade their travel advisories for Egypt to Level II: Exercise Increased Caution. This classification places Egypt alongside countries like France and Germany. Tamim Khallaf, the official spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry, described in…
London – An independent panel investigating the British post office scandal involving a faulty accounting system developed by Fujitsu has urged the Japanese firm, the British government and others to take relief measures for wrongly convicted post office workers. The panel set up by the British government recommended financial redress measures should be taken promptly…
Britain is preparing to emulate the United States by appointing an envoy tasked with freeing citizens arbitrarily detained abroad, as it faces calls to do more to bring them home. High-profile cases like jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and imprisoned Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai have spotlighted the plight of Britons held in…
LONDON – Britain’s competition regulator has finally come up with a plan to control Google’s huge search business, but a shift in the political wind in favor of big tech and the money it invests makes it more of a bark than a bite. The Competition and Markets Authority spent years setting up a regime…
London – Chinese spying and attempts by Beijing to undermine Britain’s democracy and economy have risen in recent years, the U.K. government said Tuesday in a report on the Asian giant. Foreign minister David Lammy told Parliament the Labour administration would invest £600 million ($818 million) in its intelligence services as a result of the…
London – Britain will reintroduce fighter jets capable of carrying atomic weapons to support NATO’s nuclear mission, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office said, as he prepares for a NATO summit Wednesday. The country will purchase 12 nuclear weapon-capable F-35A fighters, expanding the country’s deterrence arsenal, which is currently limited to submarine-launched missiles. “These F35 dual-capable…