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France’s European affairs minister warned Britain not to play games with special post-Brexit trading rules for Northern Ireland, as fears rise of a summer of violence in the province. Clement Beaune urged London to be “responsible” over the so-called “protocol” for Northern Ireland, which kept it in the EU single …

European Union leaders will urge Britain to respect the rights of their citizens, according to a draft of the statement they will agree at a summit next week, a reference to concerns about the handling of EU nationals by British immigration authorities. “The European Council calls on the UK to …

Amazon is to create more than 10,000 new permanent UK jobs this year across its corporate offices, Amazon Web Services division and its operations network. The move will take the online retail giant’s total UK workforce to more than 55,000 by the end of the year. Corporate roles will be …

UK gov’t says Radovan Karadzic, currently behind bars in The Hague, will serve the rest of his sentence in Britain. Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, sentenced to life for war crimes and genocide, will serve the remainder of his sentence in a UK prison, the British government has said. …

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday apologised “unreservedly” on behalf of the British government for the deaths of 10 innocent people killed in a 1971 incident in Belfast during a British Army operation. A judge-led inquiry on Tuesday found that British soldiers unjustifiably shot or used disproportionate force in …

The head of the Al-Fateh Alliance, Hadi Al-Ameri, called on the British Ambassador not to interfere in Iraqi internal affairs. Al-Amiri said in a statement: The British Ambassador must know the limits of his work, and we will not allow him to interfere in internal affairs, stressing that the Ministry …

Former British diplomat, Craig Murray, has been sentenced to eight months imprisonment over his blog posts about the infamous Alex Salmond trial. Murray, who was UK ambassador to Uzbekistan between 2002 and 2004, posted a series of articles online about the Scottish nationalist leader’s High Court trial in 2020. Prosecutors …

Spain plans to lift its requirement for Britons to present a negative coronavirus PCR test upon arrival from May 20, provided that the infection rate in Britain keeps declining, the Spanish tourism minister said on Tuesday. “It will allow the opening of the British market so they can come to …

The British government was criticised by lawmakers in its own party on Sunday after a mounting row over English exam grades awarded during the pandemic intensified, in the latest hit to its reputation. With a nationwide lockdown forcing exams to be cancelled, the government used an algorithm to assess grade …

Britons rushed home from summer holidays in France on Friday after their government said it would soon impose a 14-day quarantine on travellers from across the Channel due to rising coronavirus infections there. Britain’s government announced late on Thursday that it would impose a quarantine from 0300 GMT on Saturday …

Britain will impose a 14-day quarantine on all arrivals from France, the Netherlands, Malta, and three other countries, transport minister Grant Shapps said on Thursday, citing rising COVID-19 infection rates. The British government, wary of the second wave of coronavirus, has been removing countries from its safe travel list over …

Three people died in a train derailment in eastern Scotland on Wednesday that left carriages overturned and piled on top of each other on a steep wooded slope, making it hard for emergency services to access the scene. Dark smoke billowed from the site of the accident for most of …

Britain and Japan have reached a substantial agreement in most areas for a bilateral post-Brexit trade deal and will try to clinch a preliminary deal by the end of this month, top officials from both countries said on Friday. “We agreed to accelerate talks with an aim of reaching an …

The UK government has urged medicine suppliers to build up stockpiles to prepare for possible border disruptions when Britain severs ties with the European Union at the end of the year. In a letter published late Monday, the health ministry set out how firms could prepare for the end of …

An unnamed British lawmaker and the former minister were arrested on Saturday after police received allegations of rape, sexual assault, and coercive control, The Sunday Times reported. A woman in her twenties reported to police she had been assaulted and forced to have sex, the newspaper reported. The woman was …

Britain’s AstraZeneca said on Thursday that good data was coming in so far on its vaccine for COVID-19, already in large-scale human trials and widely seen as the front-runner in the race for a shot against the novel coronavirus. The drugmaker, Britain’s most valuable listed company, also announced second-quarter results …

Britain is closely watching rises in coronavirus cases in other European destinations such as France and Germany after slapping a 14-day quarantine on travellers from Spain at the height of the summer vacation season. The imposition of a British quarantine on Spain is one of the starkest indications to date …

Spain is safe for tourists and Spaniards, the government insisted on Sunday after Britain abruptly imposed a two-week coronavirus quarantine on travelers returning from there, a decision that filled holidaymakers with dismay. Last year, Britons made up over a fifth of foreign visitors to Spain, which relies heavily on tourism …

There is no evidence of Russian meddling in the 2016 Brexit referendum and Britain’s spies did not take their eyes off the ball on Russia, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Wednesday. “There needs to be some evidence that there’s an issue there – which there isn’t,” Shapps told Sky …

China threatened a “forceful counter-attack” on Tuesday in response to Britain’s announcement that it would suspend its extradition treaty with Hong Kong following Beijing’s introduction of a national security law for the former British colony. On Monday, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told parliament the extradition treaty would be suspended …