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UK Labour joins Facebook ad boycott
Senior lawmaker Rachel Reeves says that Facebook must 'take more responsibility for the lies and propaganda' on the social media platform
UK construction looks to cement recovery from virus woes
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants Britain to 'build, build, build' its way out of the virus-induced downturn with infrastructure investment
UK sheds thousands of retail jobs despite state aid
Pharmacy giant Boots is cutting more than 4,000 jobs, while the John Lewis department store chain is slashing 1,300 positions
Johnny Depp denies slapping ex-wife Amber Heard
'I'm sorry but that is not true, you are mistaken. I didn't hit Ms Heard,' Depp responds to claims that he attacked Heard under the influence of alcohol and drugs between 2013 and 2016
Britain focuses on youth in $37-billion virus package
The UK government pledges £1,000 for firms to take on trainees, and £2 billion to subsidize placements for 16- to 24-year-olds from lower-income families
Ineos sparks fury in UK with possible 4x4 relocation to France
Ineos Automotive is now rethinking its plan to build the Grenadier car in Wales, after entering into talks to acquire a plant from Daimler in France
Russia will impose counter-sanctions on UK – Kremlin
'We can only regret such unfriendly measures,' Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says after London blacklisted Russian officials for their alleged involvement in the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky
Outrage at British PM comments on virus-hit care homes
Critics say the rapid transfer of elderly patients from hospitals to care homes in a bid to free up beds at the start of the pandemic helped spread the coronavirus disease in the UK
Russians, Saudis top UK 'independent' sanctions list for rights violators
'These sanctions are a forensic tool, they allow us to target perpetrators without punishing the wider people of a country that may be affected,' says Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab
Johnny Depp libel trial set to start in London
The actor is suing News Group Newspapers (NGN), publisher of The Sun, for an April 2018 article which referred to him as a 'wife beater' to ex-wife Amber Heard
China accuses UK of 'gross interference' over Hong Kong
The UK government says it will offer Hong Kong residents a broader path to citizenship in response to the sweeping new security law for the former British territory
U.S., China left out as England slashes quarantine list
Under the new rules, a traffic-light system – red, amber, and green – will be used for different countries depending on their prevalence of the coronavirus
Prince Andrew 'bewildered' after Maxwell arrest
Prince Andrew is claimed to be stonewalling a US investigation into alleged sex trafficking of minors by British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell
England begins lifting coronavirus quarantine
'Today marks the next step in carefully reopening our great nation,' Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says
The pitfalls of UK's citizenship offer for Hong Kong
Do Britons want migrants?
London hospital sees spike in child abuse during lockdown
Clinical examinations reveal symptoms including bleeding in the eyes, bruising, and scalp swelling, while X-rays or CAT scans show brain hemorrhaging, internal bleeding, and skull fractures
EU, UK warn of big differences as Brexit talks move to London
The talks this month are being held in a more limited format than earlier rounds, in hopes that a more personal encounter can deliver a breakthrough
UK court sides with Guaido in Venezuela gold dispute
The rival claims come two years after election results handing President Nicolas Maduro a victory sparked mass protests and a violent police crackdown
Ed Sheeran, Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney back urgent call to aid UK live music
Coldplay, Dua Lipa, Sam Smith, and Rod Stewart are also urging the British government to save the country's live music industry from collapsing because of the coronavirus
'Urgent' help needed for UK Airbus staff facing redundancy
The United Kingdom's leading manufacturing union, Unite, describes Airbus' planned layoffs as an 'act of industrial vandalism'
UK offers Hongkongers immigration rights after new China law
Britain's new offer applies to an estimated 3 million Hongkongers but Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab refuses to be drawn about how many would take up the offer
UK economy suffers worst quarterly slump since 1979
The British government revises the gross domestic product contraction in the 1st quarter of 2020 to 2.2%, from the initial 2%
EU, Britain intensify talks on post-Brexit future
Hopes are that the intensification of the discussions will make it possible to deliver results after previous sessions, of mainly videolink talks, achieved little
Under pressure Johnson to launch UK post-virus spending drive
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says there would be no return to controversial austerity policies practiced by his Conservative Party over the past decade
UK shopping mall giant Intu collapses
Intu, which owns 17 malls in the UK, is going into administration
UK teen who threw French boy off gallery balcony jailed for life
(UPDATED) The teenager says he carried out the attack because he had not been given proper treatment for mental health issues
Huawei makes inroads in Britain with new R&D center
Huawei's announcement of the research center comes in the middle of a UK government review of a contested decision to plug the firm's technology into Britain's speedy 5G data network
UK postal operator Royal Mail cuts 2,000 jobs
While Royal Mail sees a jump in demand for parcel delivery, it continues to suffer from a slump in its core letters business
UK car sector warns 1 in 6 jobs in virus danger
Britain's carmakers are ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, with the sector already shedding more than 6,000 jobs in June 2020
UK looks to 'right the wrongs' of 'Windrush' scandal
The move comes after an official report found successive governments pushing a hard line on illegal immigration showed a 'complete disregard' for the plight of the immigrants
Security questions after 3 die in UK knife attack
The knife attack in a park in Reading, west of London, on Saturday evening, June 20, is the third in a year, and has again raised concern about the early release of offenders from prison
Britain opens 'terror' probe into deadly stabbing spree
Police says 'counter terrorism policing can now confirm that the stabbing incident that happened in Reading has now been declared a terrorist incident'
Church and Bank of England apologize for slavery roles
Research finds that nearly 100 clergymen and 6 governors plus 4 directors of the bank benefitted from slavery
Locsin apologizes to U.K. for British man's death in Cebu City hospital
Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr says the British man waited some 8 hours in an ambulance at the Chong Hua Fuente hospital before dying of cardiac arrest
Virus-fighting Bank of England pumps out extra £100-billion stimulus
Analysts say the Bank of England's move is ultimately aimed at avoiding deflation – a spiral of falling prices
UK PM Johnson's car hit in collision outside parliament
Johnson's Downing Street office confirms it is the prime minister's car and there are no reported injuries
UK fines Commerzbank over money laundering failures
Commerzbank is ordered to pay a fine of almost £38 million ($47.9 million)
London mayor takes pay cut over virus funding cut fears
Sadiq Khan says the capital faces a budget shortfall of nearly £500 million ($628 million) over the next two years because of an 'unprecedented' income loss from the crisis
UK inflation hits 4-year low on virus lockdown
Britain's inflation rate slumps to 0.5% in May 2020 despite a rebound in oil prices
UK jobless claims near 3 million on coronavirus
Economists argue that the full extent of the coronavirus will not be clear until Britain's jobs retention scheme ends, as furloughed workers are currently not in the unemployment statistics
More 'oomph': UK's Johnson eyes Brexit trade deal by July
(UPDATED) Both sides hope the intervention of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen could revive proceedings
UK's Johnson announces inequality review after anti-racism protests
Britain has been rocked by protests against racial discrimination, some of them violent, following the death of George Floyd
Outrage sparks over UK story 'justifying' JK Rowling domestic abuse
Domestic abuse campaigners are angry over a front-page story in Britain where the ex-husband of 'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling defended hitting her in the past
UK formally rejects post-Brexit transition delay
London and Brussels have made very little progress in agreeing a new trade deal for when Britain leaves the EU's single market and customs union on December 31
UK PM defends history in statue row
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson believes peaceful anti-racism demonstrations in London have been 'hijacked by extremists'
Airlines launch legal action against UK over quarantine
British Airways, EasyJet, and Ryanair say Britain's quarantine policy for arrivals will have 'a devastating effect on British tourism and the wider economy and destroy thousands of jobs'
UK economy shrinks a fifth on virus lockdown
Britain's gross domestic product nosedives by a record 20.4% in April 2020
HSBC under fire in UK for backing China's Hong Kong law
HSBC's support for China's proposed Hong Kong security law angers business and political circles in Britain
Fearful Hong Kongers rush to secure limited British passports
(UPDATED) Some 2.9 million people – anyone born before 1997 – are eligible for BN(O) status and Britain has said any citizenship plan will also include them
UK beer sales fall flat in virus lockdown – industry group
The British Beer and Pub Association urges the government to reopen pubs as sales drop
