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Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Migrant crisis: UK set to send second warship to Libya

 
David Cameron said Britain was ready to take an "active role" in helping Libya

Migrant crisis
Anatomy of a shipwreck
Italy-Austria row over migrant crossing
Europe's migrant story enters new phase
EU migration: Crisis in seven charts

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Legal highs ban comes into force across the UK



The substances mimic the effects of illegal drugs such as ecstasy and cannabis

A blanket ban on so-called legal highs has come into force in the UK.

Laws criminalising the production, distribution, sale and supply of what are otherwise known as new psychoactive substances began at midnight.

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Nicholas Winton: Memorial service for Holocaust hero



Sir Nicholas Winton organised the "Kindertransport" of children from Czechoslovakia
A memorial service will be held later for Sir Nicholas Winton, who rescued hundreds of children from the Holocaust in the months before World War Two.

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

'Hope she was worth it' spray-painted on Range Rover car




Photos of a car with angry messages spray-painted on the body have been shared thousands of times on Twitter.

The white Range Rover Revere - with a starting price of £75,000 - was seen parked near Harrods in west London and daubed with angry messages by what appears to be a scorned lover.

Sunday, May 1, 2016

Princess Charlotte: Photographs released to mark first birthday

 Princess Charlotte photographed in April 

 The Duchess of Cambridge took the photographs of her daughter at their Norfolk home

New photographs of Princess Charlotte, taken by her mother the Duchess of Cambridge, have been released to mark her first birthday.

Duchess of Cambridge to feature on British Vogue cover

 Duchess of Cambridge


The Duchess of Cambridge will feature on the cover of British Vogue to mark the magazine's centenary.

Sunday, April 24, 2016

UK 'anti-IS fighters' freed in Iraq


Mr Holmes was detained in an area controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government

Islamic State
Recapture of Palmyra tightens noose on IS
Islamic State group: The full story
Who is Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi?
Islamic State: What is the attraction for young Europeans?

Two Britons and an Irishman have been freed in Iraq after being held on their way home from fighting against so-called Islamic State (IS), the Foreign Office has said.

Friday, April 1, 2016

US airmen terror attack: Junead Khan found guilty



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Media captionDaniel Sandford explains how Junead Khan's plot was exposed
A delivery driver from Luton has been convicted of plotting to kill a US airman outside a base in East Anglia.
Junead Khan, 25, a supporter of so-called Islamic State (IS), was found guilty of preparing terrorist acts.