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A military parade at Windsor to mark the Queen’s official birthday is underway, the second year in a row events have been scaled back due to the pandemic. The Queen arrived on Saturday morning with the Duke of Kent joining her on a dais in the castle’s quadrangle in his role as Colonel of the Scots Guards. Soldiers and musicians ...

Boris Johnson has said the government must “be cautious” as it decides whether to end all Covid restrictions in England on 21 June. Cases are rising as the Delta variant spreads, with details of the next step on the “roadmap” due on Monday. The prime minister told the BBC it was important any easing of restrictions was “irreversible” and warned ...

G7 leaders meet on Friday for their first in-person talks in nearly two years, with an expected pledge to donate one billion Covid vaccine doses to the world’s poorest countries, as part of a show of Western democratic unity against the planet’s most pressing issues. The club of leading economies — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and United ...

The Group of Seven nations are set to commit to sharing at least 1 billion coronavirus shots with the world, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Thursday, with half coming from the US and 100 million from the UK as President Joe Biden urged allies to join in speeding the pandemic’s end and bolstering the strategic position of the world’s ...

Joe Biden and Boris Johnson have meet for the first time – with the US President cracking a joke about their wives. The leaders are holding face-to-face talks at the G7 summit in Cornwall, marking the US President’s first overseas trip since taking office. Ahead of the meeting, Mr Biden and his wife Jill joined the PM and Carrie Johnson ...

There will be roundtable meetings, one-on-one chats and a group photo against a picturesque backdrop. When leaders of some of the world’s richest nations meet Friday at the English seaside for a three-day Group of Seven summit, much of the choreography will be familiar. But the world has changed dramatically. Since the G-7 last met two years ago, the coronavirus ...

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have announced the birth of a daughter they have named Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. Harry and Meghan’s daughter, who was born in hospital in California on Friday, weighed 7lb 11oz and has been named after the family nickname for the Queen, the baby’s great-grandmother. Her middle name was chosen to honour her late grandmother, ...

Boris Johnson’s ex-wife said that life with the PM had become “impossible” as she revealed that she called time on their 25-year marriage. Marina Wheeler offered a rare insight into the breakdown of her marriage to Mr Johnson, which occurred as she battled with cervical cancer. The couple, who have four children, announced their separation in 2018 and their divorce ...

The government has launched its first ever Virtual IT Desk and B2B Connectivity Portal, the `Bangladesh IT Connect-UK’, at the Bangladesh High Commission in London to attract more FDI and create greater business connectivity between entrepreneurs and vendors from IT Industry in Bangladesh and the UK. Developed by the LICT Project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under the ICT Division ...

Bangladesh-UK Joint Statement following the meeting between Foreign Minister of Bangladesh H.E. Dr A.K. Abdul Momen and COP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma Foreign Minister of Bangladesh H.E. Dr A.K. Abdul Momen and COP26 President-Designate the Rt Hon Alok Sharma met on 02 June 2021 in Dhaka during the visit of COP26 President-designate to Bangladesh on 02-04 June 2021. They jointly reaffirmed ...