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Starmer begins UK 'rebuild' after landslide election win
Newly elected Labour prime minister Keir Starmer will kickstart his plan to "rebuild Britain" on his first full day in charge Saturday, after his party's landslide election win ended 14 years of Conservative rule.
For UK artist, the key to good art is a typewriter
James Cook sits calmly at his desk, with the only sound the clickety clack of his typewriter. As he works, a portrait of a boy takes shape.
From Hollywood star Tom Hanks to the London Eye observation wheel, the artist can turn symbols and letters into art, earning him increasing attention.
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Ankara hails UK move to add PKK aliases in terror list
Turkey on Feb. 29 welcomed the U.K. move to include the two aliases of the PKK terror group in the list of terrorist organizations.
Parliament support to Brexit delay a sigh of relief
The U.K. parliament's vote to ask the European Union to delay Brexit until at least June and head off a chaotic end to their 46-year partnership in two weeks, has given both parties and markets a sigh of relief.
EU Calls an Extraordinary Meeting on Brexit
European Union leaders will meet in Brussels on Nov. 25 to formally sign off on a Brexit agreement, even as European Council President Donald Tusk cautioned that "extraordinary" developments could derail the timeline, according to Bloomberg.
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Violence against Rohingya, nearly a 'genocide': UK parliament
The violence targeting Myanmar’s Muslim minority “amounts to ethnic cleansing,” a U.K. parliament report has stated.
UK ambassador to Turkey criticizes AKP deputy, Star editor over London terror attack remarks
U.K. Ambassador to Ankara Richard Moore has criticized ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Istanbul deputy Burhan Kuzu and daily Star editor-in-chief of Nuh Albayrak over their remarks on the March 22 U.K. parliament attack which killed four people and wounded 40.
Scotland demands new independence vote before Brexit: Sturgeon
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on March 13 demanded a new independence referendum to be held in late 2018 or early 2019, once the terms of Britain's exit from the European Union have become clearer.
From Thatcher to Merkel, ladies are not for turning
?You turn if you want to. The lady?s not for turning.?
I do not know in which context she said it, but this iconic sentence used in a speech delivered at the U.K. parliament belongs to late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Turkey-UK police need hotline, MP says
The United Kingdom police must urgently set up round-the-clock communications with their counterparts in Turkey to stop Britons crossing into territory controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), The Guardian quoted a member of the U.K. parliament as saying.
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