#Britain

Israel has told the British consulate in East Jerusalem that it must close and that diplomats assigned there will lose their accreditation within 30 days, an Israeli official and two sources ...

Flights to and from Cyprus were affected on Tuesday as a technical failure in the UK air traffic control system caused widespread cancellations and delays at airports across Britain. Three ...

Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has written to British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, asking him to reopen talks over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, a spokesperson said on Tuesday in ...

Israel said on Tuesday it was closing Britain’s consulate in East Jerusalem in response to plans by the UK, France and Canada to block imports from Israeli settlements in ...

Pakistan, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the United States all offered condolences on Sunday after a passenger ferry sank off the coast of Kyrenia, causing the confirmed deaths ...

After enjoying a summer of well-received measures giving “people some breathing space now”, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham faces a much greater test when parliament resumes next week – how to ...

Britain set out plans to spend £10 billion ($13.6 billion) on lower-cost housing for renters with a focus on London, although its target for offering social rent was lower than a pledge ...

The UK’s foreign office has updated travel advice for British nationals visiting Cyprus, following a BBC report that at least 30 children have been conceived through IVF using the wrong ...

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham called on Saturday for reflection following the death of a Black academic accused of plagiarism in a case that has prompted criticism of the University ...

A British man was convicted on Friday of murdering two sex workers after sexually assaulting multiple women in London, with police and prosecutors accepting they made errors which allowed him ...

A former neo-Nazi jailed for hate crimes withdrew on Wednesday as a local election candidate for Britain’s Conservative Party, saying he needed to do more to convince the Jewish ...

Five British police officers were injured after a Metropolitan Police boat struck Westminster Bridge in central London on Friday, the force said. The vessel, from the Met’s Marine Policing ...

British Cypriot member of parliament Nesil Caliskan on Thursday confirmed that she has left her position as parliamentary undersecretary of state for devolution, local growth, and communities, three days after ...

British Cypriot MP Nesil Caliskan expressed gratitude for outgoing Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who is set to resign on Monday and be replaced by former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham. ...

In Cyprus, we build for survival. For summer. Hands up. Who’s in the UK right now? I bet you’re missing Cyprus! Not for the halloumi or the sea ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he would quit, paving the way for what is expected to be an orderly transfer of power to frontrunner Andy Burnham, who could ...

British business minister Peter Kyle said Prime Minister Keir Starmer is reflecting on the “political realities” after party rival Andy Burnham was elected to parliament, setting up a potential leadership ...

Burnham should bide his time Former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham won the Makerfield by-election last Thursday by a huge majority, comfortably trouncing the far right of Nigel Farage’s Reform ...

Former British high commissioner in Cyprus Stephen Lillie has been named as the United Kingdom’s ambassador in Athens. Lillie served in Nicosia between 2018 and 2022, and said that he was “...

British Cypriot MP Nesil Caliskan has been appointed to a government post for the first time, being named by the country’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer as the parliamentary ...

British Minister for European Relations Nick Thomas-Symonds said on Monday his presence on the island was a “historic moment” as he joined counterparts from the EU at the informal European ...

There were municipal and regional elections in England, Scotland and Wales last week in which the Labour government and Prime Minister Keir Starmer were clobbered by Reform UK and Nigel ...

A 45-year-old man appeared in a London court on Friday charged with attempted murder over an attack during which two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green, north London, in ...

Get On George became the second fatality at this year’s Grand National meeting after pulling up in the second race at Aintree on Saturday. The six-year old gelding, trained ...