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Britain’s King Charles III was received with military honours at Romania’s presidential palace in Bucharest on Friday, as he kicked off his solo visit in the eastern European country. The anthems of Great Britain and Romania sounded out as the country’s President Klaus Iohannis, who attended Charles’ coronation in London last month, welcomed the newly crowned king. The meet-and-greet on ...

Boris Johnson has handed over all his WhatsApp messages to the Covid-19 inquiry, bypassing the government which was seeking legal action to keep them private. The former PM says he is also willing to share information from an old mobile phone which he stopped using in May 2021 due to a security breach, but he requires assistance in accessing it ...

Passengers flying into the UK are facing long delays at passport controls as e-gates across the country have gone down. The issue is affecting people arriving at UK airports – including Heathrow, Manchester and Gatwick – after the system went down on Friday night. The Home Office said it was working with airlines and port operators to “minimise disruption for ...

Net migration to Britain reached a record high of 606,000 last year, data showed on Thursday, drawing fresh promises from prime minister Rishi Sunak to reduce arrivals, but underscoring the difficulty of doing so at a time of acute labour shortages. The increase was driven by people from outside the European Union coming to Britain to work or study and ...

Foreign postgraduate students on non-research courses will no longer be able to bring family members to the UK, under new immigration curbs. The announcement has been made two days before official statistics are expected to show legal migration has hit a record 700,000 this year. Last year, 135,788 visas were granted to dependants of foreign students, nearly nine times the ...

The UK government on Tuesday announced a package of measures aimed at international students, including a ban on some family members, as ministers come under growing pressure to cut immigration, AFP reports. After a drop during the pandemic, net migration has been steadily on the rise and is reportedly expected to hit a record high this year. Official figures published ...

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 – ...

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 ...