Tag: United Kingdom

• Saturday, May 30th 2020 - 08:14 UTC

  US-UK clash at UN with China over controversial law for Hong Kong

  

  President Donald Trump said on Friday he would strip several of Hong Kong's special privileges with the United States and bar some Chinese students from US universities in anger over Beijing's bid to exert control in the financial hub.

• Friday, May 29th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  New Labour leadership confirms support for Falklands and self determination

  

  The British Labour Party this week reaffirmed its commitment to the Falklands and Falkland Islanders’ right to self-determination.

• Friday, May 29th 2020 - 08:43 UTC

  EU admits a post Brexit fisheries agreement with Britain can be achieved

  

  The EU is willing to shift its stance on fisheries in negotiations with Britain next week, in what would be the first major concession from the bloc in talks on their new relationship after Brexit.

• Friday, May 29th 2020 - 07:25 UTC

  Johnson, under growing pressure over Cummings issue, announces easing of lockdown conditions

  

  The coronavirus lockdown will ease next week for most of Britain's population, Boris Johnson announced on Thursday, as a row persisted over the prime minister's closest adviser taking a long-distance journey during lockdown.

• Thursday, May 28th 2020 - 08:13 UTC

  Stubborn Johnson insists in keeping Cummings: 59% believe the advisor should resign

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged Britain on Wednesday to move on from what he described as a “very, very frustrating episode” when his closest adviser provoked outrage for taking a long-distance drive during the coronavirus lockdown.

• Thursday, May 28th 2020 - 07:20 UTC

  Boris Johnson will resume Brexit talks next month in Brussels

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will resume Brexit talks in Brussels next month, the Times newspaper reported on Thursday. Britain's negotiator with the European Union, David Frost, said Johnson will meet the presidents of the European Commission and Council to formally assess the state of the talks, according to the newspaper.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  Britain's deaths 'involving' Covid-19 rose to 46,000, not 37,000

  

  Britain's number of deaths “involving” COVID-19 has risen to 46,000, substantially higher than the 36,914 fatalities officially reported so far, according to a statistical update released on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2020 - 07:40 UTC

  People of Gibraltar reject any return to old bilateralism in the Rock's post Brexit future

  

  The “status of Gibraltar” can be negotiated for Gibraltar by any parties other than the government of Gibraltar, and it is unacceptable to suggest that any negotiation could be between Spain and the United Kingdom. In the post-Brexit future, for the people of Gibraltar democratic legitimacy and credibility is above any return to old-style bilateralism.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2020 - 07:19 UTC

  Donald Tusk quips about Brexit mastermind Cummings and his trip

  

  A senior European Union politician couldn't help a Brexit quip as he waded into Britain's row over Dominic Cummings, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's top adviser and mastermind of leaving the bloc who is accused of violating coronavirus travel curbs.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  Argentines love rattling the Falklands' cage and Argentine journalists are us usual 'naughty', MP Bryant

  

  “Argentines love rattling the Falklands cage, and I suspect that journalists in Argentina, are being naughty as usual”, commented Labor MP Chris Bryant who was recently interviewed in several Argentine radio stations but was not able, because of workload, to listen or read to his edited statements, aired rather controversially.