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BBC owns up to lie about Syria chemical attack
Sep 08, 2021 01:45In what’s been described as a victory for truth, a western mainstream media channel has been found to have lied about an alleged chemical and biological weapons attack in Syria more than three years ago. The BBC has announced that a documentary it aired last year contained "serious flaws."
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Yemen: US, UK dual approach meant to keep up arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Sep 07, 2021 08:40Yemen’s Foreign Minister Hisham Sharaf Abdullah has slammed the US and Britain for openly supporting Saudi Arabia in its military aggression against Yemen while urging the Sana’a government defending the country to stop fighting, saying such a dual approach is meant to keep up arms sales to the Riyadh regime.
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UK Liberal Democrat members call for Dominic Raab’s salary to be assigned to Afghan refugees
Sep 07, 2021 03:08Members of the Liberal Democrat Party have called on the ministerial salary of Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to be assigned for the resettlement of Afghan refugees.
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British minister retracts comments on UK veteran suicides over US Afghan pullout
Sep 06, 2021 09:15A British junior defense minister has rowed back on his comments about suicides among UK Afghan veterans, saying he was wrong when he said some former British soldiers took their own lives because they were so devastated by the disastrous US-led withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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UK labor crisis could last up to two years: CBI warns
Sep 06, 2021 01:03The labor crisis could last for up to two years, the UK’s leading business lobby group has warned, as it called on the government to relax its new immigration rules to allow in more foreign workers.
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Journalist hails ‘victory for truth’ after BBC concedes serious flaws in alleged Douma attack documentary
Sep 06, 2021 00:47UK's national broadcaster, the BBC, has admitted that there were serious flaws in a Radio 4 documentary on an alleged 2018 chemical attack in Syria, in a “victory for the truth” after a complaint was filed by journalist Peter Hitchens over allegations raised in the program.
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UK's Frost warns of ‘cold mistrust’ with EU due to Brexit rows over Northern Ireland
Sep 05, 2021 05:51The UK’s Brexit minister says that the standoff between his country and the European Union over post-Brexit trading rules for Northern Ireland might create "cold mistrust" in their broader relationship.
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UK's Frost warns of ‘cold mistrust’ with EU due to Brexit rows over Northern Ireland
Sep 05, 2021 03:44The UK’s Brexit minister says that the standoff between his country and the European Union over post-Brexit trading rules for Northern Ireland might create "cold mistrust" in their broader relationship.
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Thousands of UK students left in limbo as Brexit hits visa schemes
Sep 02, 2021 00:32Thousands of UK students hoping to spend the year abroad are caught in limbo after facing challenges to complete their language courses or take up internships in the European Union (EU).
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Deadline for all foreign troops to get out of Afghanistan
Sep 01, 2021 02:27The UK was one of the first countries that joined the 2001 US military invasion of Afghanistan. Over 20 years, it threw billions of dollars in tax-payer money into the illegal war and saw hundreds of its troops coming home in flag-draped coffins. While the British government tries to sell the gains from the war, anti-war activists are calling it a defeat 20 years in the making.