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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, holds a roundtable meeting with writer Jack Thorne, centre, and producer Jo Johnson at Number 10 Downing Street in London, Monday March 31, 2025. (Jack Taylor/Pool Photo via AP)

‘Adolescence’ will be shown in schools across the UK to spark conversations on social media harm

The makers of Netflix’s teenage drama “Adolescence” have sparked a conversation on how to protect children from violent misogyny and other harmful content on social media.

Chelsea and Australia football striker Sam Kerr leaves a court after a hearing in London, on Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)

Kerr to rejoin Australia’s squad for the first time since her trial in Britain

Andrew Tate reacts while speaking to media after checking in at a police station as part of his judicial control, which requires him to appear before judicial authorities in Romania when summoned, after returning from the United States, in Voluntari, Romania, Monday, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Andrew Tate’s ex-girlfriend accuses him of sexual assault and battery in new lawsuit

The Royal Standard flag is pictured flying from the Roof of Buckingham Palace in London, Friday, March 28, 2025, after the Palace said King Charles III was hospitalized for observation on Thursday, experiencing "temporary side effects,'' related to a scheduled cancer treatment. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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Britain's King Charles III is driven by car from Clarence House, his London home, along The Mall towards Buckingham Palace in London, Friday, March 28, 2025. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

King Charles III’s brief hospital stay reminds UK that monarch is still a cancer patient

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Prince Harry arrives at London court to appeal losing access to his security detail

Harry is challenging the U.K. government’s decision to strip him of his publicly funded security, after stepping down from his role as a working member of the royal family and moving to the U.S. in 2020.

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Local youth skate with a large Canadian flag on the Rideau Canal to launch celebrations for the 60th Anniversary of the National Flag of Canada Day, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025 in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Defiant Canadians mark their flag’s anniversary as Trump hopes to make their country a state

Family expresses concern at British couple detained in Iran on security charges

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy, right, welcomes Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi ahead of a meeting at 1 Carlton Gardens in London, Thursday Feb. 13, 2025. (James Manning/Pool Photo via AP)

Top diplomats of Britain and China hold talks as part of efforts to rebuild ties

Special forces from Spain land on a beach from a military helicopter as they participate in the Steadfast Dart 2025 exercise, involving some 10,000 troops in three different countries from nine nations and represent the largest NATO operation planned this year, in Nea Anchialos, central Greece, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

NATO tests new deployment model without US ahead of Ukraine war anniversary

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks about her plans for Britain's economy in Eynsham, England, Wednesday Jan. 29, 2025. (Peter Cziborra/Pool Photo via AP)

UK economy ekes out modest growth in final quarter of 2024 after strong December

Newly elected President of Parliament, Constantine Tassoulas waits to receive the results of the fourth round of voting at the parliament in Athens, Greece, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (Angelos Tzortzinis/Pool Photo via AP)

Greece’s new president is a leading advocate of bringing home the Parthenon sculptures from Britain

A warden looks through a magnifyer to check a 500 Pound coin during the "Trial of the Pyx,'' a ceremony that dates to the 12th Century in which coins are weighed in order to make certain they are up to standard, at the Goldsmiths' Hall in London, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Almost 800 years of pomp and circumstance ensures the quality of Britain’s currency

The U.S. Department of the Treasury building is seen in Washington, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Russian cybercrime network targeted for sanctions across US, UK and Australia

In this frame grab from Saudi state television footage, doctoral student and women's rights advocate Salma al-Shehab speaks to a journalist at the Riyadh International Book Fair in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in March 2014. (Saudi state television via AP, File)

Saudi authorities free doctoral student initially sentenced to 34 years for tweets, activists say

People thought to be migrants who undertook the crossing from France in small boats and were picked up in the Channel, arrive to be disembarked from a small transfer boat which ferried them from a larger British border force vessel that didn't come into the port, in Dover, south east England, Friday, June 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

UK touts a clampdown on illegal working as it seeks to look tough on immigration

Nick Hutton, grinder of Emirates Britain SailGP Team, flight controller Luke Parkinson, driver Dylan Fletcher, grinder Neil Hunter, wing trimmer Iain Jensen and strategist Hannah Mills celebrate on the podium after the team won the final race on Race Day 2 of the KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (Patrick Hamilton/SailGP via AP)

Britain comes from behind to beat Canada and Australia in SailGP Sydney

President Donald Trump arrives to meet British Prime Minister Theresa May before their meeting at Chequers, in Buckinghamshire, England, July 13, 2018. (Jack Taylor/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Britain navigates rough transatlantic waters as Trump roils the ‘special relationship’

In this photo released by SailGP, the Australia SailGP team, helmed by driver Tom Slingsby, competes on Race Day 1 of the KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix in Sydney, Australia. Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. (Felix Diemer/SailGP via AP)

Australia on top but France impresses on Day 1 of SailGP Sydney

Leila Soueif, who has been on hunger strike for more than 129 days seeking the release of her son Alaa Abdel Fattah from prison in Egypt, sits outside Downing Street in London, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

A mother pleads for Britain’s help in freeing son from Egyptian prison, one day of hunger at a time

The Grenfell Tower and memorial wall on the seventh anniversary of the fire, in North Kensington, London, June 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

The burnt-out shell of London’s Grenfell Tower will be demolished, almost 8 years after deadly fire

UK announces plans to demolish Grenfell Tower almost eight years after fire in London apartment building killed 72

Palmerston, the Foreign Office cat sits on a photographer's ladder at Downing Street in London, on Feb. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

It’s the ‘purr-fect’ job. Britain’s top feline diplomat comes out of retirement

Britain revokes accreditation of Russian diplomat in tit-for-tat expulsion

A man is silhouetted as he looks on his phone in front of the Bank of England in London, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025 which is widely expected to cut interest rates for the third time in six months later Thursday. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Bank of England halves UK growth projection and cuts main interest rate to 4.50%

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with President Nayib Bukele at his residence at Lake Coatepeque in El Salvador, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

El Salvador’s offer to take in US deportees and violent criminals is unlike any other migrant deal

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Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa leaves by car from the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Tuesday, June 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Anglican Church in South Africa admits failures in handling of sexual abuse claims

Ex-British soldier who spied for Iran and made prison escape is sentenced to 14 years

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a press conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Havana, Pool)

Britain’s Starmer seeks strong ties with both the EU and Donald Trump. That could be tricky

UK’s biggest water company seeks court approval for emergency funding to prevent nationalization

FILE -Ambulance staff adjust a stretcher as other ambulances wait outside the Royal London Hospital in east London, Jan. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

The runaway alligator and other bizarre calls that hampered UK ambulance dispatchers

AstraZeneca scraps plan to expand vaccine plant in the UK in blow to government

Greek police arrest a suspect over online auctions for ancient artifacts

Brexit supporters gather during a rally in London, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. Britain officially leaves the European Union on Friday after a debilitating political period that has bitterly divided the nation since the 2016 Brexit referendum. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

5 years after Britain left the EU, the full impact of Brexit is still emerging

Dubai Airports CEO Paul Griffiths speaks to the Associated Press in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Dubai International Airport, busiest for world travel, sees record 92.3 million passengers in 2024