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Commonwealth presses UK to atone for brutal past

Britain's King Charles faced calls to reckon with his country's colonial past Friday, as a supposedly friendly summit of Commonwealth leaders turned into a factious debate about the legacy of slavery and empire.

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UK inflation hits 3-yr low

Britain’s annual inflation rate fell to a three-year low in September, official data showed Wednesday, fuelling speculation that the Bank of England will resume cutting...

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UK sanctions Iranian military chiefs

Britain on Monday ordered sanctions against top Iranian military figures after the Islamic republic’s October 1 ballistic missile attack on Israel...

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UK’s investment summit suffers bumpy build-up

The UK government hosts international business leaders on Monday to try and secure much-needed investment for Britain but the build-up has been chaotic with a major firm reportedly threatening to shelve a project...

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UK automakers urge new govt to support EV market

Britain’s automobile trade body Friday asked the country’s new government for greater support to boost sales of electric vehicles, saying manufacturers’ collective discounts...

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UK hands Indian Ocean islands to Mauritius

Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but under what president Joe Biden called a ‘historic agreement’ will keep a strategic Indian Ocean military base with...

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Indo-Bangladesh relationship

I BELIEVE that the relationship between Dhaka and Delhi could have been as strong as the one between Washington and London. The Washington-London relationship is special, characterised by mutual respect and trust. But it is unimaginable for America to interfere in Britain’s internal affairs, or those of France or Germany...

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Princess of Wales makes tentative return to work

Britain’s Princess of Wales has taken a first step towards returning to her work on the early-years development of children, a week after announcing she had completed chemotherapy...

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UK economy stalls, dealing blow to new govt

Britain’s economy stalled again in July, official data showed Wednesday, dealing a blow to the new Labour government that has put growth expansion at the top of its priority list...

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UK growth slows slightly in Q2

Britain’s economy grew 0.6 per cent in the April-June period, a slight slowdown compared with the first three months of the year, official data showed on Thursday. 

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700 migrants cross Channel to Britain in small boats

Over 700 migrants in small boats crossed the Channel to Britain on Sunday, the highest number on a single day since Prime Minister Keir Starmer took power vowing to tackle people-smugglers....

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UK probes Amazon partnership with AI firm Anthropic

Britain’s competition regulator on Friday said it had launched an inquiry into a partnership between US e-commerce giant Amazon and Anthropic, an American developer of artificial intelligence...

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France, Britain win triathlon golds

France’s Cassandre Beaugrand and Britain’s Alex Yee won gold as the Paris Olympics triathlon went ahead Wednesday in a huge relief for organisers, and the star-studded USA chased a spot in the men’s basketball quarter-finals...

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UK deports illegal migrants to Vietnam, East Timor

Britain’s new Labour government on Thursday said it had deported 46 people to Vietnam and East Timor, after ditching the previous Conservative administration’s plan to...

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The old evil

IT COMES back in a rush, the stench of raw sewage, the groan of the diesel, sloth-like Israeli armoured personnel carriers, the vans filled with broods of children, driven by chalky faced colonists, certainly not from here, probably from Brooklyn or somewhere in Russia or maybe Britain. Little has changed. The checkpoints with their blue...

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UK’s biggest water supplier piles on debt

Britain’s embattled Thames Water on Tuesday said its debt continues to rise despite increased revenues, leaving the group with cash reserves taking it through only until May next year...

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