Tag: Great Britain

• Monday, April 30th 2018 - 07:23 UTC

  Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Chile in June 2018

  

  Mr Jamie Bowden CMG OBE MVO has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Chile in succession to Ms Fiona Clouder. Mr Bowden will take up his appointment in June 2018.

• Friday, April 27th 2018 - 12:46 UTC

  Prince Louis Arthur Charles will be known as His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Cambridge

  

  The prince born on Monday morning at the London Lindo Wing hospital and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge third baby, --fifth in line to the throne after Princes Charles, William, George and Princess Charlotte--, has a name.

• Friday, January 26th 2018 - 14:53 UTC

  Royal Navy received the new Offshore Patrol Vessel HMS Forth

  

  British Defense Minister Guto Bebb formally announced on Thursday the acceptance of HMS Forth, the Royal Navy’s new Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV), from manufacturer BAE Systems at the company’s Scotstoun shipyard.

• Saturday, December 23rd 2017 - 10:30 UTC

  Theresa May says she is more than “Madame Brexit”, and is “in for the long term”

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May has insisted she is more than “Madame Brexit,” having been given the title by Poland's prime minister. She said there were “other things” she wanted to achieve apart from delivering a successful exit from the EU - such as improvements to education and training, and insisted she was “in it for the long-term”, shrugging off suggestions she had had a bad year.

• Friday, December 8th 2017 - 01:10 UTC

  UK disagrees with US: Jerusalem should be the shared capital of the Israeli and Palestinian states

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May has said Great Britain disagrees with the US decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem, as the Israeli capital, and underlines that Jerusalem should be the shared capital of the Israeli and Palestinian states. She added that the UK embassy to Israel is based in Tel Aviv and there are no plans to move it.

• Tuesday, November 28th 2017 - 09:46 UTC

  Very much anticipated: Prince Harry is to marry American actress Meghan Markle

  

  Prince Harry is to marry his American actress girlfriend Meghan Markle. The much-anticipated news was confirmed on Monday by the Prince of Wales in a brief statement issued by Clarence House.

• Tuesday, November 21st 2017 - 08:20 UTC

  Britain sends special highly skilled unit SPAG, to help with the submarine search

  

  Britain has increased efforts to help find the missing Argentine submarine ARA San Juan in the vast stormy South Atlantic. HMS Protector, the Royal Navy's Ice Patrol ship, is now in the search area where the submarine last made contact on Wednesday.

• Friday, September 22nd 2017 - 08:47 UTC

  Falklands' Patrol Vessel HMS Clyde to be relieved by HMS Forth

  

  HMS Clyde celebrates her tenth anniversary in the South Atlantic this week. The Falklands Patrol Vessel was commissioned on July 5, 2007 and arrived on September 21.

• Thursday, September 21st 2017 - 06:59 UTC

  UK urges UN to be efficient and transparent, “win our trust”... and funding

  

  Theresa May has warned the United Nations that Britain could withhold up to 30% of its £90m core funding each year unless the organization reforms. The PM told delegates at the UN general assembly there was a gap between “the nobility of its purposes and the effectiveness of its delivery”.

• Saturday, September 9th 2017 - 19:57 UTC

  Argentine embassy disappointed with Falklands stand at the Prado show

  

  The Argentine embassy met with officials from the Uruguayan Rural Association, ARU, to express their disappointment since the Falkland Islands have a stand at the Great Britain pavilion in the Prado agro-industry show in Montevideo, according to a report from Television Nacional, which belongs to the Uruguayan government media complex.