[ad_1] LONDON: The British government said it would begin evacuating its citizens from Sudan on Tuesday after the African country’s warring factions agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire.Britain said military flights would depart from an airfield outside Khartoum, and would be open to those with British passports. Priority will be given to family groups with children,…
[ad_1] LONDON: Charles III will be officially crowned king next month, in a solemn religious service eight months after the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II. The set-piece coronation at Westminster Abbey on May 6 is the first in Britain in 70 years, and only the second in history to be televised. Charles will…
[ad_1] Britain’s Prince Harry says in an upcoming book that his older brother and heir to the throne Prince William knocked him to the floor during a 2019 argument over Harry’s wife Meghan, the Guardian reported on Wednesday.The Guardian said it had obtained a copy of the memoir, “Spare,” which is due to be published…
[ad_1] LONDON: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised on Wednesday to tackle Britain’s most pressing problems, from cutting inflation to ending illegal migration, in a speech aimed at reassuring his restive Conservative Party before the next election. In an address that was high on ambition but low on detail, Sunak said his government would build “a…
[ad_1] LONDON: British prime minister Rishi Sunak will set out his priorities for 2023 on Wednesday, using his first speech of the year to try to reassure his restive Conservative Party that he has what it takes to lead them into the next national election.After one failed attempt at becoming prime minister last year, Sunak…
[ad_1] LONDON: UK rail staff disrupted the New Year return to work on Tuesday in the latest strike action by workers in a range of sectors over the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.Workers across the economy are at loggerheads with the government as they demand big pay rises to cope with decades-high inflation, currently…
[ad_1] British rail workers will walk off the job much of this week, paralyzing transport and adding to the troubles piling up for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government.Union workers will strike for five days starting Tuesday, snarling the usual return to work following the holidays and interrupting January sales that are crucial for retailers.The protests…
[ad_1] LONDON: Britain‘s Prince Harry said his troubled relationship with the royal family “never needed to be this way” and he wants to get his father King Charles and his brother “back”, in an excerpt from an interview with broadcaster ITV released on Monday. “It never needed to be this way,” he said in the…
[ad_1] LONDON: British police investigating clashes between groups of men on the streets of the eastern England city of Leicester following an India-Pakistan cricket match earlier this year have made 12 more arrests over the course of December. Police said this week that its investigating team is working through the evidence and has identified a…
[ad_1] LONDON: G7 foreign ministers on Thursday called on Afghanistan to “urgently reverse” a ban on women working in the country’s aid sector, a joint statement said.The ministers said they were “gravely concerned that the Taliban‘s reckless and dangerous order barring female employees of national and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from the workplace puts at…
