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The UK has taken fresh action against the Myanmar Armed Forces on 5th anniversary of the military’s campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya. Announcing a further round of sanctions to target military-linked businesses in Myanmar, the British government said the new sanctions to target the military’s access to arms and revenue. Those being sanctioned include Star Sapphire Group of ...

A woman has died after a collision left a Range Rover on a train track in west London. The Metropolitan Police said the collision, involving a Range Rover and a Tesla, happened on the A40 westbound near Park Royal Tube station in west London at 3.48am on Monday. A London Underground line has been part suspended following the incident. Emergency ...

A man appeared in court Wednesday after allegedly entering Windsor Castle grounds armed with a crossbow, declaring he planned to kill Queen Elizabeth II. The 20-year-old man, Jaswant Singh Chail, from Southampton in southern England, appeared at a London court, having been charged with treason earlier this month. He appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court via video-link from Broadmoor high-security psychiatric ...

British inflation surged to a new 40-year high in July on rising food prices, official data showed Wednesday, adding to a cost-of-living crisis as the country faces the prospect of recession. The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) accelerated to 10.1 percent last month from 9.4 percent in June — a 40-year record at the time — the Office of National Statistics ...

Liz Truss led Rishi Sunak by 32 points in the latest survey of UK Tory members by the ConservativeHome website, suggesting she remains on track to win the race to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister, Bloomberg reported. Some 60% of the 961 Tory members polled by the influential website said they favored Truss to become the Conservative Party’s new ...

A ‘danger to life’ amber warning has been issued for parts of south-west England as thunder, lightning and flooding are set to wash out the UK’s scorching heatwave. A yellow weather warning has come into force across the country, with the additional amber warning in place for Cornwall, Devon and Somerset until 8pm on Monday. The Met Office has implemented ...

Rishi Sunak, one of two candidates seeking to become Britain’s next prime minister, said Friday’s attack on author Salman Rushdie should serve as a wake-up call to the West over Iran, the Sunday Telegraph reported. Indian-born author Rushdie, who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him over his novel “The Satanic Verses”, was stabbed in the ...

Stepping out in support of Liz Truss, Welsh Secretary Sir Robert Buckland has become the first Cabinet minister to publicly switch sides in the Tory leadership contest. Sir Robert had initially backed Rishi Sunak in the race to succeed Boris Johnson, citing his ability to lead the country through “challenging economic times.” But in an article for The Daily Telegraph, ...

Britain’s economy shrank in the second quarter, official data showed Friday, as the country heads towards recession under a new prime minister. UK gross domestic product dropped 0.1 percent in the April-June period after a rise of 0.8 percent in the first quarter, the Office for National Statistics said in a statement. The Bank of England (BoE) expects the economy ...

A woman has died in front of her two children and husband after becoming unresponsive on a flight from Hong Kong to the UK. Helen Rhodes, who was flying back to the UK with her family after more than 15 years abroad, was found unresponsive hours into the flight on 5 August, her friend Jayne Jeje wrote in a Go ...