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Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s wife Carrie has announced she is pregnant with her third child. Sharing the news on Instagram, Mrs Johnson said she had felt “pretty exhausted” for the past eight months but “we can’t wait to meet this little one” in a few weeks’ time. The couple, who married in May 2021, already have two children – ...

British MPs and Peers participated in a high-level roundtable on Freedom of Religion or Belief in Bangladesh in the UK Parliament on Wednesday. The event in the Thatcher Room at Portcullis House took place under the auspices of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief and the Bangladesh Study Circle London. Speakers include Dr Gowher Rizvi, ...

The Prime Minister will warn European leaders during a gathering in Iceland that the international system for policing human trafficking is “not working”. Rishi Sunak will tell the Council of Europe meeting in Reykjavik that both European communities and the world’s most vulnerable are “paying the price” for the failure to prevent unlawful migration. It comes as Mr Sunak’s Conservative ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in Britain Monday on his whirlwind European tour, as the staunch ally of Kyiv promised to give Ukraine hundreds more missiles and attack drones in an effort to change the course of the war. Zelenskyy landed by helicopter at Chequers, the British leader’s official country retreat, where he was greeted by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ...

The King has marked his coronation with a new family portrait of himself with his two heirs to the throne, Prince William and Prince George. The photograph of the monarch alongside his son and grandson was taken in Buckingham Palace’s throne room on the day he was crowned in Westminster Abbey. It shows the King sitting in the centre on ...

The UK will roll out its first driverless bus network in Scotland next week with drivers on standby behind the steering wheel, ready to take control should an emergency arise, reports AFP. The service, which aims to carry 10,000 passengers a week over a 22.5-kilometre route on five single-deck buses, will be the world’s first automated local bus service, its ...

The rate of price rises will remain higher for longer, the Bank of England has warned, as it raised interest rates to their highest in almost 15 years. Interest rates were increased to 4.5% from 4.25% – the 12th rise in a row on Thursday. Bank boss Andrew Bailey said high food costs meant it was taking longer for inflation ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the Awami League (AL) government, like the UK, also wants free and fair elections in Bangladesh. She said this when the UK Foreign Minister James Cleverly along with his wife Susannah Sparks called on her on Saturday. “We also want fair elections. My party always maintains democracy in the country. We have given the country’s ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury crowned King Charles in a lavish coronation ceremony in London on Saturday, placing the 360-year-old St Edward’s Crown on the monarch’s head as he sat upon a 14th century throne in Westminster Abbey, report Reuters, AP, AFP. Charles, who succeeded his mother when she died last September, was earlier presented with an array of historical regalia ...

UK police drew condemnation after arresting leading members of the anti-monarchy group Republic as they prepared to protest along the route of a procession for the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday. Officers from London’s Metropolitan Police force detained six organisers from the pressure group and seized hundreds of their placards, Republic said, just hours before Charles’s crowning. Republic ...