Canada said on Monday (March 26) it would expel four Russian diplomats, joining the United States and governments across Europe in punishing the Kremlin for a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in Britain that they have blamed on Moscow. The four diplomats are based at the Embassy of the Russ...
British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday (March 26) that 18 countries have announced plans to expel Russian intelligence officers in response to Moscow’s suspected involvement in a nerve agent attack in England on a former Russian spy this month. May also told Parliament that more than...
Britain’s opposition Labour Party demanded on Sunday (March 25) that the government makes a legally binding promise to avoid a hard border in Northern Ireland once Britain leaves the European Union, saying ministers’ pledges could not be trusted. Northern Ireland, which will become Brita...
Inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have began work on at the scene of the nerve agent attack on former Russian agent Sergei Skripal in the English city of Salisbury, a Reuters photographer said. The inspectors were seen arriving on Wednesday (March 21) at ...
The European Union should brace itself as the most difficult aspects of Brexit negotiations with London have yet to come, the bloc’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Tuesday (March 20) at a news conference in Brussels. Besides the key outstanding question of how to avoid a “...
Visitors to a zoo in Scotland stand a chance of being able to see the first polar bear cub to be born in the UK for a quarter of a century. The cub – whose sex is not yet know – was born in December 2017 and has spent the last four months in the […]...
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Wednesday (March 14) the United States believes Russia is responsible for a chemical attack in Britain on a former Russia double agent and his daughter, and the U.N. Security Council should take action. “The United States believes that R...
The European Union will stand by Britain after London said it was likely that Moscow was behind a nerve toxin attack on a former Russian double agent in England, European Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said on Tuesday (March 13). However, the EU, which has struggled to maintain a common front in imp...
Britain deployed specialist troops on Friday (March 9) to remove potentially contaminated objects from the English city where a Russian former double agent and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent. Sergei Skripal, 66, who passed Russian secrets to Britain, and his daughter Yulia, 33, have be...
Police believe a nerve agent was used to deliberately poison a former Russian double agent and his daughter, Britain’s top counter-terrorism officer said on Wednesday (March 7), in a case that threatens to further damage London’s ties with Moscow. “This is being treated as a major i...
Britain’s Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, visited a primary school in Oxford on Tuesday (March 6) to learn about the work of a charity project that supports the emotional health of students and their families. Kate’s husband Prince William, and his younger brother Prince Harry have made campa...
A Spanish tourist has died and another is critically ill after a suspected carbon monoxide leak at a London hotel, British and Spanish media reported. Some 29 people were evacuated from the hotel in the Kensington area of the city on Monday afternoon (March 5), according to local UK media reports. S...
A former Russian spy was critically ill after being exposed to an unknown substance in western England, British broadcaster BBC said on Monday (March 5). The BBC identified the man as Sergei Skripal who was granted refuge in Britain after a spy swap between the United States and Russia in 2010. Poli...
The Duchess of Cambridge continued her charity work on Wednesday (February 7), opening a new treatment centre for Action on Addiction in Essex. Kate has been a patron of the charity since 2012 and addressed health care professionals, staff and users of the centre during the visit. During the visit sh...
The UK is heading towards “a dilution of Brexit”, former cabinet minister Theresa Villiers has said. The Conservative MP, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, said there was “a real danger” the UK will sign up to an agreement with Brussels which could “keep us in the EU in a...
Three teenage boys have died after a car crashed into them at a bus stop in west London. Police were called to Shepiston Lane, Hayes, at 8.41pm on Friday following reports of a road traffic collision. Despite the efforts of paramedics, all three boys were pronounced dead at the scene. The victims wer...
Britain’s military would struggle to compete with Russia in a war and the UK government must invest more money in order to protect the nation, the head of the army will warn today. General Sir Nick Carter will use a speech on Monday to warn ministers that Britain “cannot afford to sit bac...
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called for U.S. President Donald Trump to be welcomed to the U.K., warning Sunday that resisting a visit risked damaging his country’s national interest. A day ahead of Johnson welcoming his U.S. counterpart Rex Tillerson to Britain for talks, Johnson said post...
The government will stop workers’ pensions being put at risk from “executives who try to line their own pockets”, the prime minister has said. In the Observer, Theresa May said a government white paper would set out “tough new rules” for company bosses. It comes as const...