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Tobacco giant Philip Morris will stop selling cigarettes in the United Kingdom within the next ten years, the international company’s chief revealed to UK-based online news media The Daily Mail on Sunday. The decision means that iconic cigarette brand Marlboro will no longer be sold in the UK for the …

The British government will be exposed to financial risks for decades over the estimated £372 billion it spent on pandemic-containing measures, according to two reports by UK parliament’s Public Accounts Committee. Over 2 billion pounds had been spent on unusable protective equipment, showed the reports Sunday on the response by …

The UK government has spent at least £350-million promoting opposition forces and projects in rebel-held areas in Syria, Declassified has found. Several projects have directly supported what the UK government claims are the “moderate” armed opposition fighting the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Whitehall’s Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF), …

German officials said on Tuesday coronavirus measures should be maintained until more of the population has been vaccinated, and one called England’s plan to lift most restrictions despite the spread of the Delta variant “a highly risky experiment”. England will become from July 19 the first part of the United …

UK Labor party is calling for a “full-scale” investigation into cabinet ministers’ use of private emails after the leaked information from a meeting at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) showed that Matt Hancock had been using an unofficial account since the onset of the pandemic. Angela Rayner, …

The European Union agreed on Wednesday to a ceasefire with the United Kingdom in a post-Brexit dispute dubbed the “sausage war” by extending a grace period for shipments of certain meat products from Britain to Northern Ireland. The bloc will also make it easier for medicines and guide dogs to …

At least two people were injured and several buildings evacuated after a fire broke out in a building near London’s Elephant and Castle train station on Monday afternoon. Smoke could be seen pouring into the sky from beneath the railway arches at the south London station and up toward large …

Russia warned Britain on Thursday that it would bomb British naval vessels in the Black Sea if there were any further provocative actions by the British navy off the coast of Crimea. Summary Russia’s warns Britain over navy confrontation Raab: Russia being ‘predictably inaccurate’ Russia says London is sowing barefaced …

People who miss the June 30 settlement scheme deadline will be issued warnings to apply or risk losing their rights.

Eighty years ago on Thursday, British lawmakers drove from their debating chamber by World War Two Nazi bombs secretly set up a new home less than 100 yards away, from where Prime Minister Winston Churchill ran the country’s wartime government.

The UK government is dealing a blow to the country’s struggling steel industry in the name of Brexit and free trade, said Tory MPs in “red wall” seats, backed by the Labour party and steel industry leaders, on Saturday.

Alaa was executive director of a UK-based non-profit that advocated for human rights in the Gulf.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered an embarrassing defeat in an election on the outskirts of London on Friday when his governing Conservative Party lost a previously safe parliamentary seat to the Liberal Democrats. The Conservatives had comfortably held the leafy, affluent Chesham and Amersham constituency in southern England since …

Dominic Cummings, former Downing Street Chief of Staff, has revealed Boris Johnson’s private WhatsApp messages in his weblog, sensationally escalating his feud with the British prime minister to new heights. The messages, exchanged at the beginning of the COVID pandemic in March 2020, show the British premier slamming his health …

Michel Barnier, the European Union’s former Brexit negotiator, said on Monday that the reputation of the United Kingdom was at stake regarding tensions over Brexit. EU politicians have accused British Prime Minister Boris Johnson of not respecting engagements made regarding Brexit. Growing tensions between Britain and the EU threatened to …

When Joe Biden was preparing for his first audience with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as a young senator, his mother — an Irish American born with the surname Finnegan — had a piece of advice. “Don’t you bow down to her,” she told him in 1982, according to a memoir …

The variant first identified in India currently accounts for more than 90 percent of Britain’s new COVID-19 cases. Health authorities in Britain have said the new Delta coronavirus variant is 60 percent more transmissible in households than the previous dominant Alpha variant that forced the United Kingdom to lock down …

Wealthy nations begin a key summit with Biden in attendance, as some campaign groups condemn vaccine ‘charity’ plan as a drop in the ocean. G7 leaders are meeting for their first in-person talks in nearly two years, with an expected pledge to donate one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to the …

After talks in London ended without a breakthrough, European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic said patience with the UK was wearing “very, very thin” The EU has threatened to launch a trade war against the UK if it fails to implement checks on goods entering Northern Ireland under the terms of …

The government blamed the Taliban for the attack on the British-American charity, the HALO Trust. The militant group denied any responsibility. At least 10 people were killed and 16 others injured in an armed attack on staff members of a British-American charity in Afghanistan that has been clearing land mines …