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LONDON—U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he looked forward to finalizing a post-Brexit trade deal with Britain, saying that Prime Minister Theresa May was doing a “fantastic job.” “Once the Brexit process is concluded and perhaps the UK has left the EU, I don’t know what they’re going to do but whatever you do […]

LONDON—The UK’s National Health Service is the world’s largest purchaser of fax machines, with a “farcical” reliance on outdated technology, medical experts have said. The report from the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) says that the NHS has about 9,000 fax machines that doctors use to send patient information. One hospital trust area in north […]

LONDON—President Donald Trump arrived in the United Kingdom on July 12 for his first visit since being elected to office. Trump flew in from Brussels where he had just wrapped up two days of talks at a NATO summit. After four days in the UK—including two days at his properties in Scotland—he will head to […]

LONDON—A French former trader with Barclays, tried in his absence by a London court, has been convicted of helping to mastermind a five-year plot to rig global interest rates after an 11-week trial. Philippe Moryoussef, a 50-year-old former senior derivatives trader, was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud by dishonestly manipulating Euribor—or Euro interbank offered […]

A British diver who led efforts to rescue a trapped boys soccer team in Thailand returned to the United Kingdom on Thursday. John Volanthen returned to his home country after helping rescue the 12 boys. Volanthen and fellow Brit Rick Stanton were the first rescuers to find the boys deep in the Tham Luang cave […]

LONDON—Charlie Rowley, who is believed to have touched an item contaminated with the nerve agent Novichok, is in serious but stable condition in the hospital and has spoken to police for the first time since regaining consciousness. Rowley, 45, woke up on July 10, two days after his partner, Dawn Sturgess, 44, died in the […]

Facebook will be hit by a ₤500,000 ($660,323) fine by British regulators over the Cambridge Analytica scandal that saw the personal data of 87 million Facebook users accessed by the company. The UK’s Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said on July 11 that she would fine the company over breaches of data protection law. Denham said […]

LONDON—The British government is planning to almost double the number of its troops in Afghanistan after a request from U.S. President Donald Trump for reinforcements to help tackle the fragile security situation there. Prime Minister Theresa May announced the government will send an extra 440 troops, which would bring Britain’s total to about 1,100, to […]

LONDON—A British man poisoned with the novichok nerve agent 10 days ago has regained consciousness and is now in a critical but stable condition, Salisbury District Hospital said on Tuesday. Charlie Rowley, 45, was poisoned along with Dawn Sturgess, who died on Sunday, by the same nerve agent used in the attack on former Russian […]

The U.S. Embassy in London warned Americans in the United Kingdom to “keep a low profile” during President Donald Trump’s visit to the country, in case the protests turn violent. According to a notice posted on the embassy’s website on July 10, “Numerous demonstrations are being planned for July 12 to 14, 2018,” surrounding Trump’s […]

LONDON—British Prime Minister Theresa May moved to reassert her authority on July 10 after two top cabinet members quit and launched broadsides against her Brexit plans, winning support from many of her ministers including a leading eurosceptic. May said she had chaired a “productive” meeting of her government, unswayed by the resignations of Foreign Secretary […]

LONDON—Nothing says English sport like the ripple of polite applause at Wimbledon.  Except perhaps the anguished cries and hearty bellows of English football fans.  Those two worlds are set to collide this year, as England is gripped with emotional fervor after reaching the semi-finals of the World Cup for the first time in 28 years—just as […]

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May imposed her vision of a soft Brexit on her divided Cabinet, pleasing business with a plan to keep close trade ties to the European Union and telling insolent ministers to get behind her or resign. Her plan, which would set up a free-trade area with the EU and mirror EU […]

After two years of speculation, on July 6, UK Prime Minister Theresa May finally put her cards on the table: “soft Brexit.” But the gambit came at a huge political cost. Two days later, and her man at the EU negotiating table, Brexit Minister David Davis, had resigned. By July 9 afternoon, so had her foreign […]

LONDON—Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson quit on Monday over Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to leave the European Union, the second resignation in a day, leaving the British leader’s Brexit plans in crisis. After a day when the eurosceptic foreign secretary canceled meetings for crisis talks at his official residence in central London, Johnson decided to […]

The Kremlin said on July 9 it was sorry that Dawn Sturgess died in hospital after being exposed to Novichok and added that it was “quite absurd” to link Russia to the poisoning. British police have launched a murder investigation into the death of Sturgess, who passed away at Salisbury District Hospital on July 8 […]

LONDON—A British woman died on Sunday after she was poisoned by the same nerve agent that struck a former Russian spy in March and triggered a crisis in relations between Western capitals and Moscow. Dawn Sturgess, 44, died after she was exposed to Novichok on June 30 in western England, just a few miles from […]

EU lawmakers have voted to reject changes to controversial copyright legislation, which would have cost tech giants billions and could have meant the end of internet memes. Changes to the legislation was backed by big names in the music industry such as Paul McCartney and Annie Lennox who feel they are cheated by websites using […]

Police are expected to take months to complete an investigation into the poisoning of a British couple who remain in critical condition in Wiltshire, England, officers said. Dawn Sturgess, 44, and Charlie Rowley, 45, fell ill on June 30 after being exposed to a military-grade nerve agent, Novichok, the same nerve agent that nearly killed ex-Russian […]

LONDON—British Prime Minister Theresa May secured a cabinet agreement on Friday for her plans to leave the European Union, overcoming rifts among her ministers to win support for “a business-friendly” proposal aimed at spurring stalled Brexit talks. After an hours-long meeting at her Chequers country residence, May seemed to have persuaded the most vocal Brexit […]