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UK condemns US move to sue foreign companies over Cuba sanctions
Apr 19, 2019 04:26Britain has expressed concern by new attempts by the administration of US President Donald Trump to require foreign companies to abide by American sanctions on Cuba that have been rejected by the UK and other European countries.
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UK statistics chief dismisses official data on reduced homelessness
Apr 19, 2019 02:48Chair of the UK Statistics Authority David Norgrove has dismissed government claims that it has managed to reduce rough sleeping, saying counts provided by council officials on the number of people gripped by acute homelessness cannot be trusted.
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UK climate protesters plan to disrupt London Heathrow airport
Apr 19, 2019 02:40Climate protesters in Britain say they will hold a major protest at London’s Heathrow Airport to disrupt the transportation facility on one of the busiest travel days of the year.
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Timmermans urges UK to 'cool down', drop Brexit
Apr 18, 2019 09:18Britain should use the next few months to “cool down and rethink” its decision to leave the European Union, the socialist candidate to head the next European Commission, Frans Timmermans, said on Wednesday.
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UK PM May faces Tory grassroots action to step down
Apr 18, 2019 02:56The grassroots members of Britain’s ruling Conservative Party are planning to campaign against Prime Minster Theresa May and force her to step down amid a failure to deliver on results of a 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union.
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Climate-change protesters vow to disrupt London underground
Apr 17, 2019 08:57Environmental activists in the UK vowed to disrupt London underground train services in a third day of action on Wednesday in a bid to force the British government to take more radical measures to avert what they cast as an imminent global climate cataclysm.
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UK teacher sacked for opposing homosexual lessons in primary schools
Apr 17, 2019 01:51A female teacher has been sacked in Britain because for campaigning online against homosexual lessons given to children, including her son, in primary schools.
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Thousands of UK environmental activists block London roads, police arrest 113
Apr 16, 2019 07:47Thousands of environmental activists in Britain have paralyzed parts of central London by blocking the capital’s most iconic locations in a bid to force the UK government to do more to tackle climate change.
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Poor students in UK quitting school over inability to afford clothes, equipment: Report
Apr 14, 2019 11:19UK teachers say poor students continue to drop out of schools only because of their ‘worn-out’ clothes that bring them shame among classmates.
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Brexit frustration: Support for Tories hits 5-year low as Labour, anti-EU parties surge
Apr 14, 2019 11:10UK’s opposition Labour Party as well as groups supporting a clean break from the European Union (EU) are surging in the polls as a failure of the Conservative government to deliver Brexit has led to huge frustration in the country.