Tag: United Kingdom

• Saturday, January 21st 2023 - 10:22 UTC

  UK cost of living: King Charles wants profits from his wind farm be distributed among the public

  

  King Charles III has requested that the annual profits from his wind farm deal be directed towards helping the cost of living crisis in the UK rather than support the royal family, the Crown Estate confirmed this week.

• Saturday, January 21st 2023 - 10:10 UTC

  British PM Sunak fined for riding a car without a seat belt

  

  British police issued Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with a fine on Friday evening for riding in a car without a seat belt in a video clip that Sunak's team had published on social media. Sunak's spokesperson had apologized the previous day for a “brief error of judgment” after people had noticed and criticized the indiscretion published on Sunak's Instagram account.

• Friday, January 20th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

  Taiana says UK attitude a “lack of respect for international law”

  

  Argentina's Defense Minister Jorge Taiana Thursday demanded once again that Great Britain agrees to discuss the Malvinas/Falklands issue and insisted that the latter's reluctance to do so was a “lack of respect for international law.” Taiana also argued that “the powerful should not use force to impose their interests.”

• Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 10:08 UTC

  Falklands Customs and Immigration Service: Fee increase for new Passports from next February

  

  The Falkland Islands Government Customs and Immigration Service has announced on Wednesday that the UK Passport Office, have made a fee increase to passports, which will be implemented Thursday 2 February 2023.

• Thursday, January 12th 2023 - 18:58 UTC

  UK, Japan sign reciprocal defense treaty for troop deployments

  

  Following an agreement signed Wednesday between Prime Ministers Rishi Sunak and Fumio Kishida, Japan and the United Kingdom will be able to deploy military forces in one another’s territory, as Tokyo draws closer to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) concerns over Chinese warfare growth in recent years.

• Wednesday, January 11th 2023 - 10:22 UTC

  Falkland Islands celebrated Margaret Thatcher's Day, remembering her visit 10 January 1983

  

  January 10 is a very special anniversary in the Falklands Islands because Margaret Thatcher's Day is celebrated. On this day in 1983 then Prime Minister Thatcher visited the Islands and was awarded the honorary freedom of the Falklands.

• Monday, January 9th 2023 - 10:31 UTC

  Prince Harry “very stupid” for giving details of his Talban skills, Admiral Lord West

  

  The Duke of Sussex has been accused of making the Invictus Games a target for extremists by revealing he killed 25 people in Afghanistan. Falkland Islands Veteran Admiral Lord West, former head of the Royal Navy, called Prince Harry “very stupid” for giving details of his Taliban kills.

• Saturday, January 7th 2023 - 06:51 UTC

  Prince Harry in the eye of a storm, British Army and Taliban condemn his account of killing “chess pieces” in Afghanistan

  

  A retired British Army colonel, famous for his inspirational speech on the eve of battle in Iraq, says the Duke of Sussex has “now turned against the other family, the military”. In his new tell-all memoir, Prince Harry has disclosed that he killed 25 people in Afghanistan while serving as an Apache pilot in the British Army.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2023 - 09:39 UTC

  UK might contribute to Brazil's Amazon Fund

  

  The United Kingdom might join Germany and Norway as a donor to Brazil's Amazon Fund to boost sustainability in the rainforest, British Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey said.

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 10:08 UTC

  UK activists Extinction Rebellion promises an end to disruptions and targets public opinion support

  

  The UK environmental grassroots group Extinction Rebellion famous for staging acts of civil disobedience by closing key roads, train lines and bridges in central London, plus blockading oil refineries, smashing windows at bank headquarters and spaying fake blood over the finance ministry building is changing its aggressive policies to try and win more public opinion support for its campaign against climate change.