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1/11/2023 3:52:25 PM
The leaders of Britain and Japan are signing a defense agreement on Wednesday that could see troops deployed to each others' countries.
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1/9/2023 6:31:40 PM
UK trade unions branded talks Monday with the government to discuss pay rise demands across the public and private sector "disappointing", as workers prepare to stage the latest in months of damaging strikes.
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1/5/2023 8:58:57 PM
Prince Harry's memoir "Spare" officially goes on sale next week but much of its contents have already been leaked in British and US media.
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1/5/2023 4:49:03 PM
Britain had its warmest year on record in 2022, official figures showed Thursday, the latest evidence that climate change is transforming Europe's weather.
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1/5/2023 3:52:25 PM
Britain's opposition Labour party vowed Thursday to overhaul the country after 13 troubled years of Conservative rule -- but insisted it would not spend its way out of trouble.
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1/2/2023 10:03:53 PM
UK medical bodies on Monday said patients were dying due to inadequate care and urged the government to act as Britain's health service grapples with a winter crisis of strikes and soaring demand.
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12/31/2022 2:29:33 PM
Britain has had a tough 12 months and its problems will not ``go away'' in 2023 - but the coronation of King Charles III will help bring the country together, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Saturday in his New Year message.
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12/30/2022 1:33:30 PM
Britain's cost-of-living crisis has turned into a bitter winter in households trying to keep their energy bills down some lecture flatmates for keeping the lights on. Others move to better-heated homes.
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12/26/2022 4:25:12 PM
Iran on Monday blasted Britain's "non-constructive role" a day after the Islamic republic announced the arrest of a UK-linked "network" involved in the three-month protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death.
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12/25/2022 7:56:29 PM
King Charles III evoked memories Sunday of his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, as he broadcast his first Christmas message as monarch in a speech that also paid tribute to the ``selfless dedication'' of Britain's public service workers, many of whom are in a fight with the government over pay.
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12/13/2022 8:21:57 PM
UK rail workers on Tuesday began a two-day national strike, kicking off a month of walkouts involving professions from nurses to passport control workers that could spell Christmas misery for millions.
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12/9/2022 1:27:39 PM
Britain on Friday announced wide-ranging sanctions against 30 targets worldwide, including officials in Iran accused of pursuing "egregious sentences" against anti-regime protesters.
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12/5/2022 6:28:42 PM
The UK government Monday stressed the British Museum is legally forbidden from breaking up its vast collection, after a report said it could possibly hand the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece.
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12/2/2022 2:42:36 PM
Britain's opposition Labour Party has handily won a special election for a northwest England seat in Parliament, the first test of voter sentiment since Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took office in October.
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11/30/2022 11:59:49 AM
Britain's government on Wednesday rejected union pay demands after ambulance workers joined nurses in voting to go on strike.
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11/29/2022 4:43:16 PM
Britain on Tuesday summoned the Chinese ambassador in London for a rebuke after the arrest and alleged assault of a BBC journalist covering Covid protests.
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11/25/2022 2:32:15 PM
Nurses across most of Britain will hold the first strikes in their union's 106-year history next month, joining a host of other workers taking industrial action over pay.
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11/24/2022 2:37:00 PM
"Unprecedented" world events including the war in Ukraine are driving record numbers of people to move to Britain, statisticians said Thursday, even as ministers vow to clamp down on post-Brexit immigration.
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11/23/2022 2:10:01 PM
Britain's highest court on Wednesday rejected a bid by the devolved Scottish government in Edinburgh to hold a new referendum on independence without London's consent.
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11/23/2022 1:00:18 PM
Britain's Supreme Court is due to rule Wednesday on whether Scotland can hold a vote on independence without the consent of the U.K. government, a case with huge implications for the future of the United Kingdom.
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