The UK’s world-leading life sciences sector will receive a £279 million boost to tackle significant health challenges, with an intent expressed by Lilly, the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, to invest in the UK as part of a collaborative partnership with UK government, announced at the International Investment Summit today (Monday 14 October). Plans to form...
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Secretary General Praises United Kingdom’s Contributions To NATO And Ukraine
On Thursday (10 October 2024) NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte travelled to London for meetings with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, and UK Defence Secretary John Healey. The visit marked Mr Rutte’s first official trip to an Allied nation since taking office as NATO Secretary General....
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Middle East latest: Israel’s retaliation against Iran will be ‘lethal, precise and surprising’, minister warns
By Ben van der Merwe, data journalist For the past two weeks, Israel has been periodically ordering people in Lebanon to evacuate certain towns, villages and parts of the capital, Beirut. Sky News analysis of the IDF’s evacuation orders shows that the area affected now covers 432 square kilometres of Lebanon, an area larger than...
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Marconi: UK Embassy celebrates ‘Britishness’ of Italian genius
In the year in which Italy celebrates the 150th anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi’s birth, the British Embassy in Rome hosted a special event – “Guglielmo Marconi and the UK – Stories of Italian Talent and Innovation Across the Channel ’ – to celebrate the close ties that the Italian genius, Nobel Prize for Physics in...
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Irregular migration into UK and large European countries is same as 2008, research shows
The number of irregular migrants living in the UK and other large European countries has not changed for years despite hostile political discourse about migrants overwhelming the continent, according to researchers. Migration researchers from 18 of the world’s leading universities and research organisations including the University of Oxford have released the public database as part...
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Why war in Middle East involves UK, BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg writes
BBC “Let’s be real, the war has started,” a former minister tells me. “What happens in the Middle East never stays in the Middle East.” It’s hard not to be moved by the burning conflict – the killing of Israelis by Hamas almost a year ago and agony of the families of hostages snatched; the...
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Boris Johnson alleges Israel’s Netanyahu spied on UK during his 2017 visit
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (PTI) 3 min read Last Updated : Oct 04 2024 | 2:58 PM IST Amid the escalating tensions in West Asia with Israel leading the aggression, former United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reportedly accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of spying on his office. Johnson stated that...
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United Kingdom to consider ‘historic’ bill to legalise assisted dying
The practice is currently illegal in England and Wales and carries a maximum prison sentence of 14 years. File | Photo Credit: Reuters British lawmakers will soon consider whether to give terminally ill adults a choice to end their own lives with medical assistance, in the first parliamentary move to legalise assisted dying in almost a...
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Diego Garcia: what “historic” UK deal means for US’s Indian Ocean base
The United States has applauded a landmark deal between the United Kingdom and Mauritius that secured its continued use of Diego Garcia, a vital British and American joint military outpost in the Indian Ocean. The future of the strategic atoll was addressed at the top of Britain’s announcement on Thursday of a “historic political agreement”...
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India Applauds UK-Mauritius Agreement on Chagos Archipelago Sovereignty – NewsX World
India expressed its support for the United Kingdom’s landmark decision to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands India expressed its support for the United Kingdom’s landmark decision to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands on Thursday, including the strategically important Diego Garcia, to Mauritius. This historic agreement is viewed as a significant step towards the...
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‘America will be furious and Beijing delighted’: How Starmer handed Chagos to China
It was immediately clear, however, that Downing Street had already anticipated the significant backlash that the decision would provoke. Just over 40 minutes later the Foreign Office sent journalists an email directing them to a statement by Joe Biden. No 10 had called in the cavalry with the US president immediately dismissing speculation that the...
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Chagos Islands: UK’s last African colony returned to Mauritius
The agreement follows 13 rounds of talks that began in 2022 after Mauritian calls for sovereignty were recognised by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the UN General Assembly in 2019 and 2021. The world court, as the ICJ is known, is the principle judicial organ of the UN which adjudicates disputes between nations....