Tag: United Kingdom

• Monday, September 2nd 2019 - 09:32 UTC

  Tens of thousands in UK cities protest the suspension of parliament

  

  Tens of thousands of protesters hit the streets across the UK on Saturday to show their opposition to government moves to close parliament ahead of the Brexit deadline on October 31.

• Monday, September 2nd 2019 - 08:57 UTC

  EU reiterates: no changes to the divorce deal agreed with Britain

  

  EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said the bloc will not change the divorce deal agreed with Britain and that he is “not optimistic” of avoiding a no-deal outcome.

• Monday, September 2nd 2019 - 06:40 UTC

  Petition calling to stop UK Parliament suspension has collected 1.4 million signatures

  

  An online petition calling to stop the UK Parliament being suspended until Brexit has been delayed or cancelled has garnered more than 1,4 million signatures. “Parliament must not be prorogued or dissolved unless and until the Article 50 period has been sufficiently extended or the UK's intention to withdraw from the EU has been cancelled,” the document read.

• Friday, August 30th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Johnson at G7 summit led the way in ocean protection; Ascension island declares 100% of its waters an MPA

  

  During remarks at the close of the recent G7 summit in Biarritz, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the Aichi targets—goals set nearly a decade ago as part of the United Nations’ Strategic Plan for Biodiversity—must be “replaced with new, more ambitious targets to help us get back the biodiversity that this planet is losing, and has lost.”

• Friday, August 30th 2019 - 08:57 UTC

  Court bids in London, Edinburgh and Belfast to stop the “coup”, suspension of parliament; more street protests programmed

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson's suspension of parliament just weeks before Britain's EU departure date faced legal challenges on Thursday amid a furious outcry from pro-Europeans and MPs opposed to a no-deal Brexit.

• Thursday, August 29th 2019 - 10:00 UTC

  Furious reactions, political and in the streets to the suspension of Parliament

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson manoeuvred on Wednesday to give his political opponents even less time to block a chaotic no-deal Brexit before the Oct. 31 withdrawal deadline, winning Queen Elizabeth II’s approval to suspend Parliament, but his critics were outraged.

• Wednesday, August 28th 2019 - 10:51 UTC

  Brexit or no Brexit: Boris Johnson asks the Queen to suspend Parliament

  

  The United Kingdom government has asked the Queen to suspend Parliament just days after MPs return to work in September - and only a few weeks before the Brexit deadline.

• Saturday, August 24th 2019 - 09:08 UTC

  Climate activists protest outside Brazil embassy in London; PM Johnson described fires as “an international crisis”

  

  Climate change activists chanting slogans and waving banners demonstrated outside Brazil's embassy in London on Friday, urging President Jair Bolsonaro to do more to halt the fires in the Amazon rainforest.

• Friday, August 23rd 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Premier Oil trying to sell part of its Falklands' Sea Lion project

  

  Premier Oil is selling its stake in a “world-class” project off the coast of Mexico and wants to reduce its holding in a long-awaited scheme north of the Falkland Islands as it tries to lighten its US$ 2bn debt burden, reports the Financial Times.

• Thursday, August 22nd 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  British Prime Minister girlfriend barred from entering the United States

  

  The girlfriend of new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been denied permission to enter the United States because of her trip to East Africa’s Somaliland in 2018. Carrie Symonds, who moved into 10 Downing Street when Johnson became prime minister in July, was hoping to visit the US in the next few days as part of her adviser role for Oceana, a US-based environmental non-profit organization.