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Britain’s royal family has begun a fightback against racism claims made by Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, indicating the couple’s comments will not go unchallenged as the country divides into partisan camps. A keenly awaited statement from Queen Elizabeth II issued Tuesday was conciliatory towards her grandson and his mixed-race spouse, after their explosive
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Britain on Wednesday emphatically rejected EU claims it had slapped a ban on Covid vaccine exports, in the latest spat over supply since Brexit took full effect. European Council chief Charles Michel had claimed London had imposed an “outright ban on the export vaccines or vaccine components produced on their territory”. But Prime Minister Boris
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Britain is launching a new visa system to make it easier for science, research and technology workers overseas to move to Britain, the country’s Chancellor of the Exchequer said on Wednesday. Rishi Sunak told lawmakers that he hoped to make Britain the best place in the world for high-growth, innovative companies and to make the
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Britain has expelled three Chinese spies working in the UK while posing as journalists over the past year, the Daily Telegraph has reported. The three were understood to be intelligence officers for Beijing’s Ministry of State Security, the paper said Thursday, citing an unnamed senior government source. “Their true identities were uncovered by MI5 and
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U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration plans to renew travel restrictions on most non-citizens who have recently been in the European Union, Britain, Ireland, and Brazil, according to U.S. media reports.
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Councils in Britain will be able to boost staffing levels in the social care sector as the government set aside an additional 120 million pounds (163 million dollars), to address absences due to the pandemic. The Department of Health and Social Care said the funding would increase workforce capacity at care homes and providers affected
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Schools and colleges across the United Kingdom closed on Tuesday ahead of a national lockdown as the country battled to control surging coronavirus cases that are threatening to overwhelm its healthcare system. The tough new measures were announced Monday even as Britain began rolling out the Oxford-AstraZeneca shots, a possible game-changer in fighting Covid-19 worldwide,
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A major storm swept across Britain and into northern France on Sunday, leaving thousands of households without power. Around 18,000 households in northern France are without electricity, with coastal regions of Brittany and Normandy worst affected, the AFP news agency reported, citing the network operator Enedis. The weather service Meteo France warned of strong gusts
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Canada and Britain have signed a temporary agreement to avoid an increase in tariffs between the two countries after the British exit from the European Union in early 2021, Ottawa said Tuesday. At the end of November, the two countries announced they had concluded a provisional post-Brexit trade agreement that would reflect, as of January
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The list of European Union (EU) countries stopping flights from Britain continued to grow on Sunday as alarmed officials reacted to a new, highly contagious variant of the Coronavirus that has sent London and south-eastern England into lockdown. The Netherlands was the first on Sunday to announce an immediate ban on flights, with similar advisories
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