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Britain’s new target to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 became law on Thursday, making it the first among the major G7 countries to set such a goal.
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In the UK, the opposition Labour Party wants the government to halt the extradition to the US of Julian Assange Wikileaks founder. He faces charges there related to his work with Chelsea Manning a whistle-blower revealing brutal US actions in Iraq etc.
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Britain’s plans for a worst case Brexit scenario are stupefyingly horrific. The theory goes that the country could run out of food, petrol, medicine, etc. British plans to deal with these risks are, to put it mildly, bizarre.
British PM Theresa May insists that there are no other plausible explanations of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal than that Russia was guilty of the crime. However, the evidence has never proved this.
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Britain has held its general election and the country has decided that it will not give Theresa May and her Conservative Party an increased majority. Where does this leave the U.K. now?
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Conservative Party leader Theresa May has entered into a dispute with social media providers in the wake of the latest terror attack in London. May has used the situation to call for greater governmental regulation of social media.
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In March 2017 the Naylor Review was published. It outlines plans to fund the U.K. health service through asset stripping and property selling. This week Theresa May announced plans to adopt it.
BBC is reporting the Manchester police have stopped sharing information with the U.S. after details of the terrorist attack, not released to the public, appeared in the American media. Theresa May plans to confront Donald Trump about the leaks today.
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The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Theresa May has announced plans to call snap general election on June 8, 2017.
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California-based computer giant Apple on Monday criticized a proposed British law that would grant national security and law enforcement officials expanded surveillance powers.
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Amsterdam, the constitutional capital of Holland, may be viewed as a liberal city, due to its previously lax laws on pot-smoking, but like so many other European countries, Holland is tightening its rules regarding migrant workers.
As the prospect of Greece exiting the euro grows, British Home Secretary Theresa May has announced the government is considering plans to restrict immigration from Greece and other southern European countries caught up in the economic crisis.
Public concern over the unequal treatment of UK and US citizens has followed Home Secretary Theresa May’s decision to allow for the extradition to the US of a Sheffield student, Richard O’Dwyer.
Britain's Tory Home Secretary Theresa May has promised government action on legalising formal marriage for gay couples. Straight couples, she says, will also be able to choose civil partnerships.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday he was appalled at the decision taken by the Supreme Court to allow convicted sex offenders the right to appeal against being kept on the sex offenders register for life.
A new British secretary of state not noted for her positive voting record on issues concerning homosexuality has sent a message of support to today’s International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO).