Prince Harry’s highly anticipated return to the UK for the Invictus Games celebration may be in jeopardy. 2024 has already been a turbulent year for the Royals, marked by health concerns for King Charles and Kate Middleton, as well as Harry’s court battle loss. Now, reports suggest the Duke of Sussex is considering cancelling his...
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Asylum seekers pouring into Ireland from UK, says minister
Infrastructure on the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland has gradually been dismantled since the Good Friday Agreement more than 25 years ago. During the Brexit negotiations, Dublin insisted that the border on the island of Ireland be kept “invisible”, without infrastructure such as checkpoints. It argued this would protect the peace process and...
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After years of debate, UK Parliament signs off on sending migrants to Rwanda
The British Parliament has finally passed legislation to send some migrants to Rwanda, clearing the runway for flights this summer under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s controversial plan aimed at deterring risky English Channel crossings by people desperate to reach the U.K. A bill designed to unblock a plan beset by court challenges and legislative battles was approved...
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International investigation disrupts the world’s most harmful cyber crime group
The National Crime Agency is today, Tuesday 20 February, revealing details of an international disruption campaign targeting LockBit, the world’s most harmful cyber crime group. Today, after infiltrating the group’s network, the NCA has taken control of LockBit’s services, compromising their entire criminal enterprise. LockBit have been in operation for four years and during that...
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Expulsion of migrants from the United Kingdom, a winning bet for Rwanda
“Although we are a small country, we feel solidarity with women and men in distress. We know what it’s like to have been abandoned by the world. The arrival of these migrants expelled by London does not pose a problem for us,” says Venuste, a survivor of the 1994 Tutsi genocide who lives in Kigali,...
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Sunak promises to boost UK defence spending by 2030
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledges to boost spending to 2.5% of GDP, putting the defence industry on a ‘war footing’. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he would lift defence spending to 2.5 percent of the country’s annual GDP by 2030, saying the British arms industry must be on a “war footing” when the...
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UK to boost defence spending to 2.5% of GDP, Sunak says
Britain will boost its defence spending to 2.5% of national output by the end of the decade as Rishi Sunak pledged to put the UK’s arms industry on a “war footing” in response to global threats. The prime minister’s plan, which he said would help the UK deal with an “increasingly dangerous” world, would steadily...
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United Kingdom: New Gold and Silver Proof £2 coins mark 200 years of London’s Iconic National Gallery
The National Gallery is regarded as one of the greatest art galleries in the world. From its very beginnings, the National Gallery was founded by an act of Parliament in April 1824. With just 38 pictures acquired from the financier John Julius Angerstein for the princely sum of £57,000 equal to more than £5,200,000 in...
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UK to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP – meaning tens of billions of pounds of extra funding
The UK will increase defence spending to 2.5% of national income by 2030 and put its arms industry on a “war-footing”, the prime minister has said. The rise is less ambitious than some insiders say is needed – but it will mean tens of billions of additional pounds for the armed forces over the next...
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At least 5 people have died while crossing English Channel, hours after U.K. approved deportation bill
PARIS – Five more people died in the English Channel on Tuesday, underscoring the risks of crossing one of the world’s busiest sea lanes in overloaded inflatable boats just hours after British lawmakers approved a controversial migrant bill to stop the traffic. The migrants, including a 7-year-old girl, died when their boat got...
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It’s official: Four of the world’s best B&Bs are right here in the UK
TripAdvisor has officially announced the winners of its 2024 Travellers’ Choice Hotels Awards. The awards celebrate the highest rated hotels, B&Bs and inns across the globe, based on TripAdvisor review data from the past 12 months. And this year the UK scrubbed up pretty nicely. Not one, not two but four British B&Bs made it onto...
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UK announces $620 million in new military aid for Ukraine and plan to up own defense spending – World News
Photo: The Canadian Press Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left, Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk, center, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, right, visit the Armourd Brigade barracks in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced Tuesday that the country is to increase defense spending to 2.5%...