Category: United Kingdom

King Charles III was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London on Saturday in a ceremony replete with ancient traditions, regal pomp and circumstance and a sprinkling of the modern. The grand old church, which has been the site of coronations of 39 monarchs before Charles, was packed to the rafters with 2,000 attendees as international […]

K Labour Party leader Keir Starmer pledged to restore mandatory home-building targets scrapped by the ruling Conservatives in December to achieve his objective of boosting the homeownership rate to 70%. To tackle the housing crisis, a Labour government would hand more power to local authorities to build 300,000 new houses each year, while first-time buyers would have priority on […]

An MI6 agent in the UK murdered his own child after returning with trauma from a mission inside a terrorist training camp in Pakistan, the Sunday Times reported. The operative for Britain’s foreign intelligence service, who was in his 20s at the time, was sent on the spying mission to infiltrate Taliban and Al-Qaeda terror […]

The UK is seeking to curtail a two-day strike by nurses planned for the end of the month by taking court action to declare it unlawful. Nurses earlier this month rejected a new government pay offer and said they’d strike for 48 hours from 8 p.m. on April 30. But the government believes the Royal College […]

Thousands of protesters descended on Britain’s Parliament on Saturday as part of a four-day campaign designed to “highlight the environmental failures” of government. Environmental group Extinction Rebellion or XR kicked off the event on Friday, promising less disruption and more inclusion than the blockades that became its trademark. The group says thousands of people protested […]

The resignation of Britain’s deputy prime minister marks an escalation and not the end of a bullying scandal that threatens to destabilize a government Rishi Sunak said would bear no resemblance to his predecessors. Dominic Raab, who was also justice secretary, quit Friday after a probe upheld two complaints against him by government officials, finding […]

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