Tag: United Kingdom

• Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  UK/Uruguay agree to establish a Trade Dialogue to develop economic relations

  

  During a three-day official visit to Uruguay UK's Minister for International Trade, Ranil Jayawardena, M.P., met with Uruguay’s Foreign Minister, Ambassador Francisco Bustillo, and confirmed both countries’ desire to continue strengthening their bilateral trading relationship.

• Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  UK pledges HGVs will be zero-emission by 2040; unveils new chargepoint design

  

  The United Kingdom has announced all-new road vehicles in the country will be zero-emission within the next two decades, while charge points are to be the main focus to adapt to the EV revolution.

• Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  Royal Navy's Type 83 destroyer project will enter concept phase early next year

  

  The Royal Navy's Type 83 destroyer project, the replacement for the Type 45, will enter the concept phase early next year, it was announced in Parliament. Minister for Defence Procurement, Jeremy Quin was responding to being asked when the concept and assessment phase for the Type 83 destroyer would formally begin.

• Wednesday, November 10th 2021 - 08:19 UTC

  South Georgia releases Blue Belt Program stamps

  

  The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands is releasing a stamp set to celebrate its involvement in the UK Blue Belt Program.

• Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 20:40 UTC

  UK adds brands of COVID-19 vaccines to list of treatments admitted for travelers

  

  Health authorities from the United Kingdom have added Sinovac, Sinopharm Beijing and Covaxin to the list of immunizers to be accepted in order to spare incoming travelers a mandatory quarantine.

• Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  A UK-EU trade war?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – International treaties are serious business. A lot of time and effort goes into negotiating them and they become part of international law. It’s very rare for a politician to say, only a couple of years after negotiating a treaty, that his country always felt it was “a little bit provisional and open to review.

• Monday, November 8th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Second bus in two weeks torched in unionist neighborhood of Belfast

  

  Four men hijacked and set fire to a double-deck bus in Newtownabbey, Belfast, Northern Ireland. According to the police report, the driver and a small number of passengers were able to leave the bus before it was torched, with no reports of injuries, but the vehicle was a total loss.

• Saturday, November 6th 2021 - 09:38 UTC

  UK Overseas Territories in support of COP26 and marine biodiversity

  

  The Association of United Kingdom Overseas Territories has published a joint statement in support of COP 26 and its commitment to protecting 30% of the world's oceans by 2030. The UK and its OTs are described as the world's fifth-largest marine estate.

• Friday, November 5th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  UK green-lights use of Merck's COVID-19 pill

  

  The United Kingdom Thursday became the first country in the world to authorize the use of molnupiravir, a pill developed by US laboratories Merck, to treat COVID-19.

• Thursday, November 4th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  UK flagged fishing vessel released by French court; London and Paris officials to meet to de escalate dispute

  

  A UK trawler impounded by French authorities over a fishing licenses' dispute with Britain was released on Wednesday by a French court overturning an earlier demand that it pays a €150,000 bond.