Tag: United Kingdom

• Tuesday, March 9th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  British regulators fined Chinese state CGTN €260,000 for breaching UK broadcast code

  

  British regulators on Monday fined Chinese state broadcast CGTN €260,000, a month after having revoked its license. Peter Humphrey complained to broadcasting watchdog Ofcom about the channel's airing of a criminal confession that he says he was forced to make.

• Saturday, March 6th 2021 - 09:12 UTC

  UK-Gibraltar partnership strengthened by new funding stream

  

  The UK Government has included Gibraltar in the UK Community Renewal Fund for 2021-22. This means that projects in Gibraltar will be eligible for funding up to a maximum of half a million pounds.

• Wednesday, March 3rd 2021 - 08:38 UTC

  Louise De Sousa is the new British Ambassador to Chile

  

  Ambassador Mrs. Louise De Sousa will lead the British Embassy’s efforts further strengthening ties and co-operation between the United Kingdom and Chile. Ambassador De Sousa’s priorities will focus on UK and Chile co-operation responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and a clean, resilient global economic recovery; promoting meaningful action to tackle climate change in the lead-up to the COP26 climate conference; and further strengthening trade and prosperity between the UK and Chile. The ambassador’s work will also include defence and security co-operation, science and innovation, educational and cultural links, and gender equality, reflecting UK global priorities.

• Tuesday, March 2nd 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  UK officials tracking one of six individuals affected with a Covid-19 Manaus variant

  

  U.K. health officials are anxious to trace one of six individuals infected with a more contagious variant of the coronavirus, initially identified in Brazil. Up to six cases of the new strain — dubbed P.1 and considered a “variant of concern” by global health experts — have been detected in the U.K., with three cases in Scotland and three in England.

• Wednesday, February 24th 2021 - 09:34 UTC

  The Falkland Islands receives second batch of Covid-19 vaccines

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has received its second batch of Covid-19 vaccines, supplied by the UK government. These 2,200 doses arrived today via the South Atlantic Airbridge and are of the same Oxford/AstraZeneca type as the first batch received at the beginning of the month.

• Wednesday, February 24th 2021 - 08:33 UTC

  UK planning to spend billions to prop the economy over the next four months

  

  The United Kingdom is set to spend billions of pounds in extra support for the economy over the next four months, as pandemic curbs pushed unemployment to its highest level of almost five years. The chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak will set out the details in his Mar 3 budget.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:15 UTC

  Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party will take legal action against Brexit

  

  Members of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) are set to take part in legal action challenging part of Brexit, the party said on Sunday. DUP opposes the Northern Ireland protocol, which covers post-Brexit trade between Britain and Northern Ireland, because it creates barriers between the British region and the rest of the UK and has caused disruptions.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:15 UTC

  UK back at Human Rights Council with a long list of targets, China, Russia, Belarus and Myanmar

  

  Britain this Monday will call for the United Nations to be given “urgent and unfettered” access to Xinjiang to investigate reports of abuses in the Chinese region.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 07:30 UTC

  PM Johnson pledges all UK adults can be vaccinated by end of July

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged that every adult in the United Kingdom should have been offered a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of July. The accelerated vaccine rollout would help protect the most vulnerable sooner and also enable the easing of some restrictions, the prime minister said.

• Saturday, February 20th 2021 - 08:59 UTC

  Johnson praises Biden as the leader of the free world helping to unite the West

  

  United States Joe Biden has put the United States back as leader of the free world in a fantastic move that has helped the West to unite, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday.