Tag: Britain
Britain sends second warship to Gulf after Iran tanker standoff
LONDON: Britain said Friday it was sending a second warship to the Gulf and raising the alert level in the oil-rich region as tensions...
Iran demands Britain release oil tanker held in Gibraltar
TEHRAN: Iran demanded on Friday that Britain immediately release an oil tanker it has detained in Gibraltar, accusing it of acting at the bidding...
Britain, NZ failing on children’s rights: global survey
LONDON: Britain and New Zealand are failing on children's rights, scoring lower than war-torn Syria and North Korea relative to their wealth in rankings...
Britain’s shame: The 1919 Jalianwala Bagh massacre
The Amritsar massacre, 100 years ago this Saturday in which British troops opened fire on thousands of unarmed protesters, remains one of the darkest...
AJK president asks Britain to help stop HR violations in IOK
LONDON: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has stressed upon Britain to play its due role to stop India from the perpetuation...
Geoffrey Boycott still her hero as May bats on Brexit sticky...
LONDON: It says something about Britain's fondness for a sport continental Europeans often find baffling that as Theresa May battles with Brexit, the prime minister...
Britain’s Farah wins at Chicago in third marathon start
CHICAGO: Britain's Mo Farah won the Chicago Marathon with a spectacular finishing surge Sunday, shattering the European record to serve notice his distance-racing dominance...
Britain says Russian military intelligence behind host of global cyber attacks
LONDON: Britain accused Russian military intelligence on Thursday of directing a host of cyber attacks aimed at undermining Western democracies by sowing confusion in...
‘Don’t bully us’, Britain takes new combative tone to Brexit talks
BIRMINGHAM: Britain cannot be bullied, Brexit minister Dominic Raab said on Monday, sharpening the government's criticism of the European Union for taunting Prime Minister...
Britain’s mass web-spying faulted by European rights court
STRASBOURG: Human rights groups and journalists scored a victory against the British government's mass electronic surveillance system on Thursday after Europe's top rights court...
Britain must press EU members to help get Brexit deal: May
LONDON: Britain must step up contact with members of the European Union to try to get a Brexit deal as talks to leave the...
Britain calls for immediate release of Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar
LONDON: Britain on Monday called for the immediate release of two Reuters jailed in Myanmar for their reporting of the Rohingya crisis, saying that...
EU, Britain talk up chances of autumn Brexit deal
BRUSSELS: EU and UK negotiators on Friday talked up prospects of agreeing a Brexit deal this autumn, citing recent progress in detailing very close...
PM May says Britain committed to free trade with Kenya after...
NAIROBI: Britain is committed to free trade with Kenya after it leaves the European Union, British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday on...
British-Iranian aid worker temporarily released from Tehran jail
LONDON: A detained British-Iranian aid worker sentenced to five years in jail in Iran has been released from detention for three days, her supporters...
Britain in a frenzy over Boris Johnson’s burqa comments
LONDON: In a quiet summer week, a disparaging quip about the burqa by ex-foreign secretary Boris Johnson has sparked a frenzied debate in Britain...
US hits Russia with sanctions over nerve agent attack in Britain
WASHINGTON: The United States said Wednesday it was imposing new sanctions on Russia over Moscow's involvement in the use of a "lethal" nerve agent...
