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Britain takes swipe at 'indecisive' EU as trade talk rancor grows
Feb 23, 2020 10:27Britain criticized the European Union on Sunday over the process of agreeing on its negotiating mandate for post-Brexit trade talks, saying the bloc was “hamstrung by indecision and delay” because different members wanted different things.
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Pro-Assange rally held in London ahead of hearings
Feb 23, 2020 08:23Hundreds of people have staged a rally in support of Australian whistle-blower Julian Assange in the British capital of London, calling for his release.
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Man storms building and attacks worshipper while he prays
Feb 20, 2020 15:41London police have arrested a man on Thursday after a stabbing at a mosque near Regents Park which injured one person. Police officers, called to the holy building at 3:15pm, found that a man in his 70’s had sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
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Australian MPs have no doubt Assange held as ‘political prisoner’
Feb 19, 2020 05:10Two Australian MPs who have visited Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in a high-security prison in the British capital, London, have described him as a “political prisoner,” expressing doubt that the whistleblower can receive a fair trial in the United States, where he is wanted for publishing classified US documents incriminating America in potential war crimes.
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Keir Starmer defends Labour's Brexit policy at last general election
Feb 17, 2020 04:27Labour Party leadership contender, Keir Starmer, has strongly defended his party’s Brexit policy despite the disastrous outcome of last December’s general election.
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UK post-Brexit rules to 'turn off tap' of low-skilled foreign labor
Feb 16, 2020 08:46Britain says it will no longer accept low-skilled labor from overseas and will make it a requirement for anyone wishing to come to the country to have a job offer and meet salary and language requirements.
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UK finally lets its national sleeping on streets in Europe come home – but charges him £100
Feb 14, 2020 12:10A British man left sleeping on foreign streets after being locked out of the UK by the Home Office has finally been allowed to return – but been charged £100 to replace the passport they confiscated.
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Boy suffers head injury from UK police truncheon after Barnsley football match
Feb 10, 2020 11:54South Yorkshire police have said they will hold a “full and open” investigation after a 16-year-old boy sustained a head injury after apparently bring struck by a police officer following a football match.
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UK cancer patients ‘left in the dark’ amid staff shortages
Feb 10, 2020 11:47Cancer patients in England are left uninformed and not given even basic information about their diseases and the potential side effects of their treatment because of staff shortages in the NHS, Macmillan Cancer Support has warned.
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About 500,000 EU citizens yet to apply for UK residency after Brexit
Feb 07, 2020 04:14An estimated 500,000 European Union nationals in Britain have yet to apply for a new immigration status, which most will need to remain in the country after Brexit.