[ad_1] LONDON: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak praised his defence minister Ben Wallace as “fantastic” and admired around the world on Monday, suggesting he was firmly behind a bid for him to become secretary-general of the United States-led Nato military alliance.Sunak will meet Joe Biden this week, the fourth meeting in as many months, and…
[ad_1] LONDON: A 43-year-old man arrested earlier this week on charges of criminal damage and dangerous driving related to a car crash into the gates of 10 Downing Street was released pending further investigation and appeared at a court here on Saturday after being re-arrested on an unrelated charge. Seth Kneller appeared at Westminster Magistrates’…
[ad_1] London: Travellers arriving in the UK faced hours-long delays on Saturday after a technical problem shut electronic border gates at airports across the country, forcing everyone to have their passports checked manually on what was expected to be one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. The Home Office, the government agency responsible…
[ad_1] Gay British soldiers were subjected to electric shock treatment in an effort to “cure” them of their homosexuality, according to a damning investigation into historic homophobia in the UK armed forces.Military personnel were still being referred to doctors for conversion therapy as recently as the 1990s, according to anonymous testimony in a government-commissioned review…
[ad_1] UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak spent seven months trying to persuade the public that he could put the turmoil of the Brexit years and the pandemic behind him. Now, some in the ruling Conservative Party fear their leader has allowed chaos to return and torpedoed his own salvage job.Sunak’s dramatic decision to take the…
[ad_1] A new exhibition at the Tower of London — backed by Buckingham Palace — about the crown jewels, which opened to directly follow the coronation of King Charles, states that the Kohinoor was “taken by” the East India Company and that Maharaja Duleep Singh was “compelled” to surrender it.The new permanent Crown Jewels exhibition…
[ad_1] LONDON: The British government is looking at plans to have retailers cap the prices of basic food items such as bread and milk, the Telegraph reported, as the cost of such essentials continued to rise in the double digits.However, asked about such price controls, health minister Steve Barclay told BBC TV it was “not…
[ad_1] LONDON: The UK government said on Thursday it will mount a legal challenge over the release of documents to a public inquiry probing its handling of the Covid pandemic.The Cabinet Office announced that it was seeking a judicial review of the order by inquiry chair judge Heather Hallett to hand over all correspondence.In particular,…
[ad_1] LONDON: A rare 18th century decorated gun made in India for Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan, and valued at around 2 million, has been barred from export to allow time for a UK-based institution to acquire it for the public study of a “fraught period” in the India-UK history and in the hope that it…
[ad_1] LONDON: The big cheese of extreme UK sports events is back.Hundreds of spectators gathered Monday to watch dozens of reckless racers chase a 7-pound (3 kilogram) wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down the near-vertical Cooper’s Hill, near Gloucester in southwest England.The first racer to finish behind the fast-rolling cheese gets to keep it.The cheese-rolling…
