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Britain was unprepared for COVID-19, spending watchdog finds
Nov 19, 2021 04:44The British government was unprepared for a crisis like the coronavirus pandemic, failed to learn from simulation exercises and was distracted by its departure from the European Union, the government's spending watchdog said on Friday.
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Iran climate chief calls COP26 a failure because of colonialist approaches
Nov 17, 2021 02:33Iranian authorities say the United Nations’ recent climate conference in the Scottish city of Glasgow (COP26) failed to reach its objectives because of the colonialist approaches of rich countries toward developing nations.
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UK needs to sort out its labour market, warns French minister
Nov 15, 2021 10:25The French government is “negatively affected” by UK’s labor laws which have forced thousands of migrants toward the perilous crossing of the English Channel, according to French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.
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Liverpool Explosion: Three arrested under Terrorism Act after blast kills one
Nov 15, 2021 05:11Three men have been arrested by the UK police under the Terrorism Act following a car explosion outside a hospital in Liverpool that resulted in one death.
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UK MPs urge govt. to pressure Saudis to drop jailed scholar’s death penalty
Nov 14, 2021 05:12More than a dozen British legislators have called on the London government to pressure ally Saudi Arabia into cancelling the death sentence handed down to an imprisoned Muslim scholar and academic.
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UK military accused of keeping secret killing of unarmed Afghans
Nov 13, 2021 05:09The High Court in Britain is hearing a case involving killings of unarmed Afghan men by British troops during the war in Afghanistan around a decade ago. Court documents show senior British military officials were aware of these killings but officers failed to properly investigate the incidents.
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Russia scrambles jet to intercept UK spy plane: Defense Ministry
Nov 12, 2021 06:45Russia's Defense Ministry says the country has been forced to scramble a fighter jet to intercept a British spy plane operating near Crimea.
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Iran's deputy FM in London ahead of Vienna Talks
Nov 12, 2021 04:29London was the next stop on the whistle-stop tour of Europe by Ali Baqeri-Kani, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for political affairs and the country’s chief nuclear negotiator at the P4+1 talks due to resume in Vienna at the end of November.
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Iran climate chief blames US sanctions for failure to meet Paris targets
Nov 12, 2021 01:47Iran’s climate chief has blamed the illegal sanctions imposed by the United States for the slow pace of efforts to meet global environmental targets, including those set under a landmark agreement reached in France five years ago.
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US appeals decision by UK Judge not to extradite Assange to US
Nov 11, 2021 05:10The United States is appealing a ruling by a British judge not to extradite Julian Assange, the Australian journalist and founder of WikiLeaks. In January, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser found that US prison conditions would be too oppressive, and that Assange would be likely to take his own life.