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UK health system rife with ‘stark ethnic inequalities’, reveals NHS watchdog
Feb 14, 2022 09:02A damning new study has revealed “stark ethnic inequalities” in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), harming the health of millions of patients belonging to ethnic minorities.
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UK activists mark 11th anniversary of Bahrain uprising
Feb 12, 2022 08:55With a few days shy of the 11-year anniversary of the uprising in Manama and surrounding districts, activists in the UK are marking the occasion.
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After tense meeting, Russian FM says facts 'bounce off' his British counterpart
Feb 10, 2022 14:25Russia’s foreign minister says his British counterpart appeared ignorant and not listening to his proposals over the Ukraine crisis during their meeting in Moscow.
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Russian-UK relations plunged to low not seen in years: Lavrov
Feb 10, 2022 10:47Russian-British relations have hit a serious, multi-year low, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a meeting with British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Thursday.
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UK goods into Germany down 8.5% in further sign of Brexit damage
Feb 10, 2022 08:26In what is the latest signal that extra costs and red tape caused by Brexit are damaging the UK’s trading relationships, imports of British goods into Germany decreased by 8.5 percent last year.
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UK police widening probe into Downing Street lockdown parties
Feb 10, 2022 04:25More than 50 people believed to have attended lockdown parties at British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Downing Street will be contacted by police to explain their involvement, officers said on Wednesday, as they considered widening their investigation.
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Russia calls Ukraine's reported plan to acquire US missiles 'provocative'
Feb 09, 2022 09:52Russia has censured as “a provocation” a reported Ukrainian request for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile systems from the United States, stressing that considering such supplies would deal a setback to efforts to ease an ongoing crisis between Moscow and the West over Ukraine.
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UK house prices rise at slowest pace as purchase power at historic low, report
Feb 07, 2022 09:17Housing prices in the UK in January rose at their slowest monthly pace since June last year, while the affordability remained at its historically low level, according to the UK-based banking company Halifax.
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Scottish energy secretary: ‘Lives could be lost’ as UK energy prices soar
Feb 07, 2022 04:32The Scottish government’s energy secretary says there is a “real risk that lives could be lost” amid the UK government’s failure to sufficiently deal with the scale of the financial crisis facing many households as a result of soaring energy prices.
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13th British parliamentarian calls on Boris Johnson to step down as prime minister
Feb 05, 2022 10:26British member of parliament Aaron Bell has become the 13th Conservative parliamentarian to submit a no-confidence letter to 1922 Committee Chair Sir Graham Brady, publicly calling for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation over government violations of its own lockdown rules.