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Thousands of protesters have amassed in London’s Hyde Park in an anti-racism demonstration calling for justice over the death of George Floyd. Chants of “black lives matter”, “no justice, no peace” and “we will not be silent” rang out as protesters waited for the demonstration to begin. Star Wars actor …

The European Union and the United Kingdom have kicked off a fourth round of talks on a post-Brexit trade deal and other aspects of their future relations. The four-day negotiations by video conference began on Tuesday with officials trying to make headway after the last three rounds yielded little progress. …

Interpol has issued a wanted notice for Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a U.S. diplomat, who is wanted in Britain over a fatal car crash in a case that has caused friction between London and Washington, ITV reported on Monday. “An Interpol Red Notice has been issued for 42-year-old Anne …

Saudi Arabia investment fund Sidra Capital offered 1.3 billion pounds ($1.6 billion) for the luxurious Ritz Hotel in London before it was eventually sold for nearly half of that sum to a private Qatari investor. The bid was revealed Wednesday during a court dispute between two sides of one of …

Boris Johnson has said the UK is “past the peak” of its coronavirus outbreak and is looking towards a lockdown exit strategy, as he led the British government’s coronavirus briefing for the first time since recovering from Covid-19. “We’re past the peak and we’re on the downward slope,” Johnson said. …

Police are trying to find a person who dressed as a 17th-century plague doctor on their walks during the coronavirus outbreak. Residents in a Norwich suburb have spotted someone strolling around in a long black cloak, hat and pointed beak-like mask over the past few weeks. They posted on a …

British health workers are getting a taste of Iraqi cuisine whilst fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Philip Juma, the British-Iraqi chef renowned for his pop up supper clubs in London, closed his Borough Market spot last month due to the outbreak of Covid-19, but has kept his apron on and is …

A baby girl and a three-year-old boy have been stabbed to death at a home in east London. The children were found injured at the house in Aldborough Road North, Ilford, at 5.30 pm on Sunday. A 40-year-old man was taken from the scene to hospital for treatment to knife …

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth will not celebrate her 94th birthday in any special way and has asked that there be no gun salutes to mark the occasion because it would not be appropriate while the country battles a deadly coronavirus outbreak. Britain is at or near the peak of an outbreak …

NHS staff still do not have the protective equipment they need to treat coronavirus patients, medics have said. The British Medical Association (BMA) said doctors were putting their lives at risk by working without adequate protection. It comes as the health secretary said 19 NHS workers had died with coronavirus …

Boris Johnson “must rest up” after he was moved from intensive care with coronavirus, his father has said. “He almost took one for the team and we’ve got to make sure we play properly now,” Stanley Johnson said. Scientific adviser Prof Neil Ferguson, who was asked about coming out of …

Boris Johnson has spent a second night in intensive care as he continues to receive treatment for coronavirus. Mr. Johnson is being kept in St Thomas’ Hospital in London “for close monitoring”, Downing Street said. The PM is “comfortable, he’s stable, he’s in good spirits”, said health minister Edward Argar …

Boris Johnson remains in intensive care at St Thomas’ hospital in London on Tuesday morning but he has not required a ventilator, the Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has said. Mr. Gove, who described foreign secretary Dominic Raab as “the person who is running the country”, is now self-isolating at …

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is “still very much in charge of the government” despite spending the night in the hospital with coronavirus, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has said. The PM was taken to a London hospital on Sunday evening with “persistent symptoms” – including a temperature – for a …

Britain’s main opposition Labour party on Saturday announced that Keir Starmer had been elected as its new leader, replacing Jeremy Corbyn who resigned after its crushing December election defeat. The 57-year-old former chief state prosecutor defeated Corbyn loyalist Rebecca Long-Bailey and backbencher Lisa Nandy for the top job. Angela Rayner …

Chris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses, asserts some hospitals in London have become inundated with a “continuous tsunami” of coronavirus patients and are likely to be overwhelmed within days. Despite hospitals having expanded critical care capacity between five and sevenfold in the last weeks, …

Up to 20,000 British military service personnel will be put on standby to help tackle the coronavirus outbreak, the defense ministry said on Thursday. The number represented a doubling of service personnel who are on standby.

Boris Johnson is facing harsh criticism from Tory MPs after plans to scrap the BBC’s license fee model were described as “cultural vandalism”. Conservative backbenchers, decrying the suggestion that No 10 Downing Street could ‘compel’ the BBC to downsize its operations and take on a Netflix-style subscription service, urged the …

Flights have been canceled and the army drafted in as Britain prepares for Storm Dennis with the authorities warning of heavy rain and flooding in parts of England. EasyJet has warned of “significant disruption” to its operations whilst Luton Airport is advising passengers to check with their airlines before setting …

Iraqi oil bosses were wooed by shopping trips, cash and offers of new TVs from businessmen seeking lucrative contracts to rebuild export infrastructure after the U.S. invasion that brought down former ruler Saddam Hussein, British prosecutors told a London jury. Michael Brompton, a prosecutor for the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office, …