Posts tagged with "Britain"

We want to say yes: UK unveils Brexit residency rules for EU citizens Brexit

We want to say yes: UK unveils Brexit residency rules for EU citizens

June 21st, 2018 Britain unveiled its planned residency rules for European Union citizens living in the United Kingdom after Brexit on Thursday, promising an "easy" system that would work in the favour of those wanting to stay. The issue of what would happen to the more than 3 million EU citizens currently living in Britain was one of the most...
Britain's May wins Brexit vote in parliament FRONT PAGE

Britain's May wins Brexit vote in parliament

June 20th, 2018 Prime Minister Theresa May won a crucial Brexit vote in parliament on Wednesday, keeping her deeply divided government's plans to end Britain's more than 40 years of partnership with the European Union on track. After pro-EU Conservative lawmaker Dominic Grieve said he would support the government's proposal for a "meaningful vote"...
SNP MPs walk out of parliament in protest Britain

SNP MPs walk out of parliament in protest

June 13th, 2018 Lawmakers from the Scottish National Party (SNP) staged a dramatic walkout from the British parliament on Wednesday after their leader was ordered to leave the House of Commons in a row over Brexit. Ian Blackford was thrown out of the chamber by the Commons Speaker because he refused to sit down after demanding a new debate on...
Britain proposes one-year Brexit backstop plan to EU Brexit

Britain proposes one-year Brexit backstop plan to EU

June 7th, 2018 The British government set out its plans for a one-year backstop plan for the Irish border on Thursday, finding an agreement on only part of what has become Prime Minister Theresa May's biggest Brexit stumbling block - customs. But by setting a date on the plan for the standby arrangement to ensure no return of a hard border between...
UK top court: can't enforce abortion law change in N. Ireland Britain

UK top court: can't enforce abortion law change in N. Ireland

June 7th, 2018 Britain's Supreme Court said on Thursday that Northern Ireland's strict abortion law was incompatible with human rights, but also said it did not have the powers to make a formal ruling that the law should be changed. Four out of seven Supreme Court justices who considered the issue found that the socially conservative British...
Europe seeks US sanction exemptions for its firms in Iran Europe

Europe seeks US sanction exemptions for its firms in Iran

June 6th, 2018 Ministers from Germany, France and Britain have written to senior US officials urging them to protect European companies working in Iran from getting caught up in Washington's new sanctions on the Islamic Republic. In the June 4 letter, the foreign and finance ministers singled out key areas where they expected exemptions for EU...
Expats – How to ensure your post-Brexit rights Cyprus

Expats – How to ensure your post-Brexit rights

May 26th, 2018 Britain’s top diplomat in Cyprus did much to reassure expats this week that Brexit will not affect their lives – but many remain confused about the precise paperwork they need to confirm their residency and rights on the island. UK nationals “will be able to carry on living, working or studying in Cyprus for as long as you want...
Scientists plan DNA hunt for Loch Ness monster next month Offbeat

Scientists plan DNA hunt for Loch Ness monster next month

May 23rd, 2018 A global team of scientists plans to scour the icy depths of LochNess next month using environmental DNA (eDNA) in an experiment that may disover whether Scotland's fabled monster really does, or did, exist. The use of eDNA sampling is already well established as a tool for monitoring marine life like whales and sharks. Whenever...
Anastasiades asks for Britain’s support for talks’ resumption Cyprus

Anastasiades asks for Britain’s support for talks’ resumption

May 17th, 2018 President Nicos Anastasiades has asked for Britain’s support for the resumption of peace talks, government spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said on Thursday. Speaking to members of the press in Sofia, Bulgaria after the EU-Western Balkans Summit, Prodromou said the Cyprus issue and efforts to resume talks were the key issues discussed...
Teenager held in UK over bomb threats to schools Britain

Teenager held in UK over bomb threats to schools

May 17th, 2018 An 18-year-old youth has been arrested over bomb threats sent to hundreds of schools in Britain and the United States in March, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Thursday. The calls, which resulted in many schools being evacuated, demanded money and threatened to detonate explosives. The teenager was the third 18-year-old in...
BA cutting costs for a quick buck Opinion

BA cutting costs for a quick buck

May 13th, 2018 By Brian Lait Nine months have passed since my last article on Britain’s illustrious national airline, headed up by a Spaniard whose boss is an Irishman. I do apologise for this delay. 2017 was quite a year for BA in a number of ways which to the untrained eye appear unconnected but which, in my humble opinion, come under the...
British nationals taken hostage in eastern Congo park - park service (updt) World

British nationals taken hostage in eastern Congo park - park service (updt)

May 11th, 2018 A park ranger was killed and two British citizens were kidnapped on Friday in Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park, a park service official and a local civil society leader said. Unidentified armed men ambushed the group in the morning near the village of Kibati just north of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province,...
Cyprus launches visa application centres in the UK Cyprus

Cyprus launches visa application centres in the UK

May 11th, 2018 By Stelios Orphanides Cyprus’s embassy in London had four “visa application centres” launched by the UK-based VFS Global, tasked with accepting applications for visas from residents of the UK, which two years ago voted to leave the European Union. “Although UK visitors do not need a visa if they are staying less than 90...
The shameful Windrush scandal Opinion

The shameful Windrush scandal

April 29th, 2018 If Helen of Troy was the face that launched a thousand ships, the Empire Windrush was the ship that launched the face of multiracial Britain. As she sailed from Jamaica in 1948 with the first wave of Commonwealth immigrants the Empire Windrush began an epic journey of her own. A journey that changed Britain to the point that made it...
Facebook to clearly label political advertising in Britain Britain

Facebook to clearly label political advertising in Britain

April 26th, 2018 Facebook will introduce new measures to improve transparency around adverts in Britain by June this year and require political ads to be clearly labelled, the firm's Chief Technology Officer told a parliamentary committee. In a written submission to the British parliament's media committee, Mike Schroepfer said those wanting to run...
Despite Syria strikes, ‘Assad can still wage chemical attacks’ Middle East

Despite Syria strikes, ‘Assad can still wage chemical attacks’

April 19th, 2018 US assessments following the US, British and French missile strikes on Syria show they had only a limited impact on President Bashar al-Assad's ability to carry out chemical weapons attacks, four US officials told Reuters. The conclusion contrasts with the Trump administration's assertion that the strikes on Saturday hit at the...
Russia's RT faces seven investigations in Britain, related to Skripal case Britain

Russia's RT faces seven investigations in Britain, related to Skripal case

April 18th, 2018 Britain's media regulator opened seven investigations into Russian news channel RT, saying it had found an increase in programmes which may have breached impartiality rules since a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy last month. The poisoning, which Britain blamed on Russia, prompted the biggest Western expulsions of diplomats...
Britain says we had to attack Syria, strikes highly successful Middle East

Britain says we had to attack Syria, strikes highly successful

April 14th, 2018 British had no alternative but to take military action to degrade Syria's chemical weapons capability, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Saturday after ordering air-launched cruise missile strikes along with the United States and France. Four Royal Air Force Tornado jets from the Akrotiri base in Cyprus fired Storm Shadow missiles...
Chemical weapons agency confirms UK findings on poison attack Britain

Chemical weapons agency confirms UK findings on poison attack

April 12th, 2018 Testing by four laboratories affiliated with the global chemical weapons watchdog have confirmed British findings on the nerve agent used in last month's attack on a former Russian spy in England, a summary of the findings published on Thursday showed. British Prime Minister Theresa May said on March 12 that Sergei Skripal and his...
Surge in extreme right-wing material online Britain

Surge in extreme right-wing material online

April 6th, 2018 A specialist anti-terror team has registered a jump in reports relating to extreme right-wing material online. More than one in four referrals about web content from the public are now made over far-right concerns. The national unit has instigated the removal of just over 304,000 online videos, web pages and posts in total since it...
Poisoned daughter of ex-spy says she's recovering (Updated) Britain

Poisoned daughter of ex-spy says she's recovering (Updated)

April 5th, 2018   By Michael Holden and Andrey Ostroukh Yulia Skripal made her first public comments on Thursday since being poisoned in Britain last month with her ex-Russian agent father, saying she was getting stronger by the day but shedding no new light on the incident. Yulia and Sergei Skripal, 66, were found slumped unconscious...
German official: Up to UK to prove Russia was behind attack Europe

German official: Up to UK to prove Russia was behind attack

April 5th, 2018 Britain needs to show proof that Russia was behind last month's poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in England, the German government's coordinator for Russia said on Thursday. Gernot Erler said pressure was rising on Prime Minister Theresa May's government after Britain's military research centre, at Porton...
Russian bid for joint inquiry into England spy poisoning fails Britain

Russian bid for joint inquiry into England spy poisoning fails

April 4th, 2018 Russia's call for a joint inquiry to be held into the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in England failed on Wednesday when it was outvoted 15-6 at a meeting of the global chemical weapons watchdog. Russia had called an emergency meeting of the decision-making executive of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical...
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