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FILE - This court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook shows Sara Sharif's father Urfan Sharif, right, and her uncle Faisal Malik appearing via video-link, from Belmarsh prison, at the Old Bailey in London, Dec. 14, 2023 as three members of her family have pleaded not guilty to her murder. (Elizabeth Cook/PA via AP, file)
Father of 10-year-old girl found dead in the UK called police from Pakistan to say he killed her
A jury has heard that the father of a 10-year-old girl found dead in her home in England fled to Pakistan and called U.K. police from there to say he had killed her.
October 14, 2024
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, center, his wife Stella Assange, right, and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks Kristinn Hrafnsson, raise their fists as they arrive at the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg, eastern France, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Pascal Bastien)
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange says he pleaded ‘guilty to journalism’ in order to be freed
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says that he was freed because “I pled guilty to journalism.” In his first public remarks since he was released from prison in June, Assange testified Tuesday to the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly, which includes lawmakers from 46 European countries, on h
October 1, 2024
A woman looks at an artwork by Pio Abad during the Turner Prize 2024 press preview at Tate Britain in London, part of the 40th anniversary exhibition featuring four shortlisted artists, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Thomas Krych)
4 artists’ works shortlisted for the prestigious Turner Prize go on display at a London museum
A large concrete sculpture of a bracelet referencing the excesses of former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos and a collection of portraits focusing on Black men and women are among the eclectic artwork shortlisted for the prestigious Turner Prize.
September 24, 2024
Columnists resign from the Jewish Chronicle over allegations Gaza articles were fabricated
Prominent columnists have resigned from the Jewish Chronicle newspaper over allegations it published fabricated articles about the Israel-Hamas war.
September 16, 2024
FILE - Singer Mel B poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'The Truth' and the opening gala of the 76th edition of the Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy, on Aug. 28, 2019. Former Spice Girl Mel B is among dozens of Black Britons urging Britain's Parliament to update the country's equality laws and prohibit Afro hair discrimination. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)
Mel B joins a campaign calling for a new UK law to bar Afro hair discrimination
Former Spice Girl Mel B is among dozens of Black Britons urging Parliament to update the country’s equality laws and prohibit Afro hair discrimination.
September 10, 2024
Hedge fund investor buys UK political magazine The Spectator for $131 million
A hedge fund investor has bought political magazine The Spectator for 100 million pounds or $131 million. The sale announced on Tuesday came after a months-long search for a new owner for the publication.
September 10, 2024
UK economy grows 0.6% between April and June as it recovers from recession
Official figures show that Britain’s economy continued its recovery from recession at the end of last year, with its GDP increasing by 0.6% between April and June.
August 15, 2024
FILE - A sign stands in front of the New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police, in London, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
Violence against women at ‘epidemic’ levels and is a threat on par with terrorism, UK police warn
Britain’s police chiefs say that violence against women and girls has reached epidemic levels and police are treating it as a threat on the same scale as terrorism.
July 23, 2024
FILE - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech, following his first cabinet meeting as Prime Minister, in London, Saturday, July 6, 2024. Rwanda's government said late Monday, July 8, it is aware of the United Kingdom's intention to terminate its plan to deport asylum-seekers to the East African country. Starmer said in his first news conference Saturday that the Rwanda deportation plan “was dead and buried before it started.” (Claudia Greco, Pool Photo via AP, File)
UK’s scrapped Rwanda migrant plan a ‘shocking waste’ of $904 million in public funds, minister says
The U.K.'s new home secretary says a scrapped plan by former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to send some migrants on a one-way trip to Rwanda was the “most shocking waste of taxpayer money I have ever seen.”
July 22, 2024
FILE - A view of the Burberry store on Regents Street, in London, Thursday, July 16, 2020. British luxury fashion house Burberry said Monday, July 15, 2024, it has appointed Joshua Schulman, formerly head of Michael Kors and Coach, as its new chief executive officer as the company warned it expected to record an operating loss in the first half of the year amid slumping retail sales. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, file)
Burberry appoints a new CEO as the fashion house warns it expects a first-half operating loss
British luxury fashion house Burberry has appointed Joshua Schulman as its new chief executive officer. The unexpected announcement came as the company warned it expected to record an operating loss in the first half of the year.
July 15, 2024
Britain's Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers a speech at the Treasury to an audience of leading business figures and senior stakeholders, announcing the first steps the new government will be taking to deliver economic growth, in London, Monday July 8, 2024. (Jonathan Brady/Pool Photo via AP)
Britain’s Treasury chief says stimulating economic growth is the new Labour government’s mission
Britain’s new Treasury chief says the Labour government will make stimulating economic growth its mission while limiting bureaucracy to allow for easier investments.
July 8, 2024
This combination photo shows the leaders of the political parties in Britain. Clockwise from top left are Conservative Party leader Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Labour Party leader Keir Starmer, Liberal Democrat Party leader Ed Davey, Reform UK Party leader Nigel Farage, Scottish National Party John Swinney and Green Party co-leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay. (AP Photo)
Who are the main players in the UK’s upcoming national election?
Millions of voters in Britain are going to the polls Thursday to choose a new House of Commons and a new government.
July 2, 2024
A junior doctor stands on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital, London, during their continuing dispute over pay, Thursday June 27, 2024. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP)
Thousands of doctors go on strike in England a week before the UK general election
Thousands of doctors in England are staging their 11th walkout in a long-running dispute with the government over pay and working conditions.
June 27, 2024
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage speaks during an interview in Clacton-On-Sea, England, Friday, June 21, 2024. Britain votes in a national election next week at a time of high public dissatisfaction over a host of issues. Many Conservative voters are turning away from the governing party, and some are switching to anti-immigration Reform. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Fed up with the UK Conservatives, some voters turn to the anti-immigration Reform party for answers
In the English coastal town of Clacton-on-Sea, many Conservative voters are considering switching to the anti-immigration Reform UK party in next week’s national election.
June 26, 2024
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak attends a Conservative general election campaign event, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Monday, June 24, 2024. (Phil Noble/Pool Photo via AP)
UK’s gambling watchdog alleges 5 more police officers placed bets on election date
The Metropolitan Police said the Gambling Commission passed on information on the five officers’ alleged misconduct. The officers, who provided protection for royalty, politicians and diplomats, have not been arrested.
June 26, 2024
FILE - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrivies at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in London, Feb. 7, 2011. Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will free him from prison and resolve a long-running legal saga over the publication of a trove of classified documents. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, files)
Timeline of the Julian Assange legal saga over extradition to the US on espionage charges
June 25, 2024
Britain's Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak meets with nighttime economy representatives in central London, Saturday June 22, 2024 as part of a campaign event in the build-up to the July 4 general election. (Benjamin Cremel/Pool Photo via AP)
UK election betting scandal widens as a fourth Conservative Party official reportedly investigated
British media is reporting that the chief data officer of Britain’s Conservative Party has taken a leave of absence amid growing allegations that the governing party’s members have been using inside information to bet on the date of Britain’s July 4 national election.
June 23, 2024
Dominic Watters, a single dad and founder of the Food is Care campaign, speaks at his home in Canterbury, England, Monday, June 10, 2024. Since calling a general election, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been at pains to repeat a key message on the campaign trail: The economy is turning a corner, inflation is down, and things are looking up. That’s not the reality for millions across the U.K. still feeling the squeeze from high food, energy and housing prices. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
The high cost of living is still biting the UK. Many don’t think the election will change anything
Since calling a general election for July 4, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been at pains to repeat a key message on the campaign trail: The economy is turning a corner. Inflation is down. Things are looking up.
June 17, 2024
FILE - A fin whale is seen stranded, possibly stuck on its belly, in a shallow fjord on the western coast at Vejle, Denmark, on June 16, 2010. Iceland's government said Tuesday, June 11, 2024 that it has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation's last fin whaling company to hunt and kill 128 fin whales this year. (Benny F. Nielsen, Polfoto via AP, File)
Iceland issues license for 128 fin whales to be hunted this year
Iceland’s government says it has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation’s last fin whaling company to hunt and kill 128 fin whales this year.
June 11, 2024
FILE - This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left. Amnesty International says the number of executions recorded worldwide last year jumped to the highest level since 2015. The rights group said in a new report it recorded a total of 1,153 executions in 2023 — a 30% increase from 2022. Amnesty said the figure does not include thousands of death sentences believed to have been carried out in China, where data is not available due to state secrecy. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP, File)
Executions worldwide jumped last year to the highest number since 2015, Amnesty report says
Amnesty International says the number of executions recorded worldwide last year jumped to the highest level since 2015.
May 29, 2024
CORRECTS FATHER DENNIS TO HUSBAND BARRIE - Cressida Haughton, left, who's father Derek and Deborah Dennis who's husband Barrie died, react outside Central Hall in Westminster in London, after the publication of the Infected Blood Inquiry report, Monday May 20, 2024. British authorities and the country's public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products, and hid the truth about the disaster for decades, an inquiry into the U.K.’s infected blood scandal found Monday. (Jeff Moore/PA via AP)
Victims of UK’s infected blood scandal to start receiving final compensation payments this year
Britain’s government says thousands of victims of the U.K.’s infected blood scandal will start receiving their final compensation payments this year.
May 22, 2024
CORRECTS FATHER DENNIS TO HUSBAND BARRIE - Cressida Haughton, left, who's father Derek and Deborah Dennis who's husband Barrie died, react outside Central Hall in Westminster in London, after the publication of the Infected Blood Inquiry report, Monday May 20, 2024. British authorities and the country's public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products, and hid the truth about the disaster for decades, an inquiry into the U.K.’s infected blood scandal found Monday. (Jeff Moore/PA via AP)
Britain slammed in inquiry for infecting thousands with tainted blood and covering up the scandal
An inquiry has found that British authorities and the public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products and hid the truth about the disaster for decades.
May 21, 2024
FILE - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures as he talks during a news conference in central London, on Dec. 1, 2011. Assange faces a key hearing Monday May 20, 2024 in his decade-and-a-half-long attempt to avoid extradition to the United States on espionage charges. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)
Timeline of the Assange legal saga over extradition to the US on espionage charges
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been fighting for years to avoid extradition to the United States to face charges related to his organization’s publication of a huge trove of classified documents.
May 20, 2024
A model wears an outfit for the Gucci Cruise fashion show in London, Monday, May 13, 2024. (Photo by Alberto Pezzali/Invision/AP)
Gucci brings glitz and glamor to London’s Tate Modern museum with star-studded fashion show
Luxury Italian fashion house Gucci has brought glitz and glamor to London’s Tate Moden museum with a star-studded cruise collection show.
May 14, 2024
Rain falls into a puddle in Parliament Square, with a backdrop of the Houses of Parliament, in London, Friday, May 3, 2024. A High Court judge ruled Friday that Britain's government acted unlawfully when it approved a plan to meet the U.K.'s climate targets without evidence it could be delivered. It was the second time in two years that the government's main climate action plan was found unlawful and insufficient in meeting targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
The UK government acted unlawfully in approving a climate plan, a High Court judge has ruled
A U.K. High Court judge has ruled that the government acted unlawfully when it approved a plan to meet climate targets without evidence it could be delivered.
May 3, 2024
Abu Dhabi-backed fund pulls out of deal to take over UK’s Telegraph newspaper group
Britain’s Telegraph newspaper group is back up for sale after a United Arab Emirates-backed consortium pulled out of a takeover bid.
April 30, 2024
Forensics officers gesture near the scene of an attack in Hainault, north east London, Tuesday April 30, 2024. A man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and police officers in a east London suburb, killing a 13-year-old boy and injuring four others, authorities said Tuesday. The man was arrested at the scene, police said. Chief Supt. Stuart Bell said the incident is not being treated as terror-related or a “targeted attack.” (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP)
Sword-wielding man attacks passersby in London, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring 4 others
A 14-year-old boy has been killed and four others have been injured by a man wielding a sword who attacked members of the public and police officers in a northeast London suburb.
April 30, 2024
From left, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris, Tanaiste Micheal Martin, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Lord Caine arrive for the British-Irish intergovernmental Conference presser, at 100 Parliament Street, in London, Monday April 29, 2024. (Yui Mok/Pool via AP)
British and Irish officials meet as tensions rise over what to do with asylum seekers
British and Irish officials have met as tensions rise over the movement of asylum seekers from the U.K. to neighboring Ireland and Ireland’s proposal to send them back.
April 29, 2024
EMBARGOED UNTIL 00.01 UTC APRIL 24,2024 Agnes Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International, speaks at a press conference in London, ahead of the launch of 'The State of the World's Human Rights', its annual report on the global human rights situation, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. The report will be published on Wednesday April 24, covering 155 countries and including regional and global analyses, it provides the most comprehensive overview of human rights trends and developments in the world today. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
World seeing near breakdown of international law amid wars in Gaza and Ukraine, Amnesty says
Amnesty International says the world is seeing a near breakdown of international law amid flagrant rule-breaking in Gaza and Ukraine, multiplying armed conflicts, the rise of authoritarianism and huge rights violations in Sudan, Ethiopia and Myanmar.
April 24, 2024
A legal challenge over the UK’s role in arms sales to Israel will go ahead
A judge says a legal challenge over the British government’s role in allowing weapons to be sent to Israel can be heard at the High Court later this year. Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq and the U.K.
April 23, 2024
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