Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein won the most seats in Northern Ireland’s local elections, according to the full tally released on Sunday. People across Northern Ireland voted on Thursday to elect new local councils. More [Read More]
British multinational telecommunications holding company BT on Thursday announced its plan to cut up to 55,000 jobs by 2030, about 40 percent of its global workforce. Such a layoff is partly due to its adaptation [Read More]
Iraq recently recovered 6,000 antiquities that Britain borrowed 100 years ago “for scholarly purposes.” Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid told reporters that these antiquities have been in Britain since 1923, and their return resulted from [Read More]
The United Kingdom’s (UK) economy grew by 0.1 percent in the first quarter (Q1) of this year, official figures showed on Friday. In output terms, the services sector grew by 0.1 percent between January and [Read More]
Britain’s ruling Conservative party has lost over 1,000 seats in local elections across England, latest election results showed on Friday. Senior Conservatives had predicted ahead of the elections that major losses were to be expected [Read More]
A direct passenger flight route linking southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality and London will resume on May 3, according to Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport. The route will be operated by Tianjin Airlines. It is planned to [Read More]
Junior doctors across England are staging a four-day walkout until Saturday morning, calling for a 35 percent pay increase amid Britain’s ongoing cost-of-living crisis. It is the second round of strike action aimed at achieving [Read More]
The United Kingdom’s (UK) Parliament passed a key part of the government’s new post-Brexit trade deal on Northern Ireland on Wednesday despite opposition from the region’s major unionist party. The vote was on the so-called [Read More]
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted on Tuesday that the Parliament was “misled” by his statements on rule-breaking government parties held during the COVID-19 pandemic. “I accept that the House of Commons was misled [Read More]
Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) on Monday said it would vote against a key part of the United Kingdom (UK) government’s new post-Brexit trade deal in Parliament this week. Whilst representing real progress, the [Read More]
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