Tag: United Kingdom

• Thursday, May 27th 2021 - 08:50 UTC

  Royal Navy's Type 31 frigates have names; HMS Active recalls her predecessor and Falklands liberation

  

  The names of five next-generation Type-31 frigates for the Royal Navy have been announced. Approved by HM The Queen, the vessels will be named HMS Active, HMS Bulldog, HMS Campbeltown, HMS Formidable and HMS Venturer.

• Wednesday, May 26th 2021 - 08:02 UTC

  Argentine Air Force faces another hurdle for its re equipment plans

  

  Another hurdle has cropped up for the Argentine Air Force attempt to begin recovering its once might, which succumbed during the Falkland Islands conflict and with obsolescence. In effect, a long list of countries have been most willing to sell supersonic fighter jets to Argentina, but mainly costs and the British arms embargo have conspired.

• Wednesday, May 26th 2021 - 06:49 UTC

  Dogs can be trained to detect Covid-19 infections even with asymptomatic patients, UK research

  

  Dogs can be trained to detect more than 90% of COVID-19 infections even when patients are asymptomatic, according to research published by the London School of Tropical Medicine.

• Wednesday, May 12th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Queen makes first public appearance after Prince Philip's funeral

  

  Queen Elizabeth II Tuesday made her first public appearance as British head of state after the death of her husband of 73 years, the Duke of Edinburgh.

• Monday, May 10th 2021 - 21:36 UTC

  Boris Johnson announces further restrictions to be lifted May 17

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Monday announced the gradual lifting of mobility restrictions against coronavirus spreading as he confirmed stage three will go ahead as planned on May 17.

• Friday, May 7th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Warlike tensions between UK, France over Jersey fisheries subside, for now

  

  The Royal Navy late Thursday withdrew two vessels off Jersey Island, thus easing tensions with France over fishing rights and a demonstration by trawlers in demand of access to waters under a different legal status since Brexit.

• Thursday, May 6th 2021 - 23:59 UTC

  Falklands economy boasts healthy trade surplus but income inequality increases

  

  The value of goods exported from the Falkland Islands recorded a compound annual growth rate of 8.1% between 2010 and 2019, according to the Falkland Islands Government’s State of the Economy report.

• Thursday, May 6th 2021 - 08:36 UTC

  London has a new, logical post-Brexit foreign ambassador

  

  The British government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson finally agreed to grant the representative of the European Union the diplomatic status held by all foreign ambassadors, which seemed natural after Brexit, but not for those who claimed the EU is not a nation-state.

• Tuesday, May 4th 2021 - 21:26 UTC

  The long shadow of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: no celebrations on its hundredth anniversary

  

  On Monday, May 3, Northern Ireland marked its centenary under coronavirus restrictions, growing post-Brexit unrest and a leadership crisis marring the anniversary in the British-ruled province.

• Saturday, May 1st 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  British MPs unanimously declare genocide is taking place in China against Uyghurs

  

  In 2021 the governments of the United States, Canada and the Netherlands all independently stated China was committing genocide against Uyghur people in the region of Xinjiang. Last week, April 22, UK Parliament was the latest to accuse China of committing crimes against humanity and genocide in its treatment of ethnic and religious minorities.