The War on Terror is put on trial in London through the Belmarsh Tribunal. Just after the bombshell revelations about the CIA plot to kidnap and assassinate WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange while he sought political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, the Progressive International comes to London with the first physical Belmarsh Tribunal. The intervention comes ahead of Assange’s extradition proceedings, which are set to continue in London’s High Court from 27 to 28 October 2021. Inspired by the famous Russell-Sartre people’s tribunal, the Belmarsh Tribunal places the War on Terror on trial and holds the US government accountable for its war […]
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Above Photo: Henry Nicholls/Reuters London (Sputnik) – Insulate Britain campaigners, an environmental group calling on the UK government to implement a better national home insulation program, blocked on Monday the M25 highway encircling London for the sixth time, despite a court order warning them of jail terms if they carried on disrupting traffic on UK’s busiest road. “You can throw as many injunctions at us as you like, but we are going nowhere. You can raid our savings and confiscate our property. You can deny us our liberty and put us behind bars. But that is only shooting the messenger. The […]
Leaders in Greater Manchester have accused the British government of trying to force them to agree to the strongest possible Covid-19 restrictions using “selective” hospital data, after London set a deal deadline for noon Tuesday. UK Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has said that if the deal between the British government and the local leaders in Greater Manchester, including Mayor Andy Burnham, isn’t inked by 12 p.m. Tuesday, then it would be up to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to decide whether to impose a tier-three lockdown on the area. “I’ve written this evening to the mayor of Greater Manchester and to local […]
British MPs will not be exempt from the pub-shuttering lockdown after all. The Speaker of the House has ordered a temporary ban on alcohol sales in the House of Commons in a gesture of solidarity with the common folk. Days before London is to come under a Tier 2 Covid-19 lockdown, MPs were told they will have to lose some of their drinking privileges too. The bars and restaurants operating in the House of Commons had been exempted from the new social distancing rules imposed on the British hospitality industry because they counted as “workplace canteens.” But now they will have […]
Arguably the most difficult facet of prosecuting a serial killer case concerns the issue of insanity, since anyone who commits unspeakable atrocities must, in some respect, be out of his or her mind—and thus potentially innocent of premeditation, or able to know right from wrong. That question was essential in the trial of Dennis Nilsen, a Scottish-born resident of London who, in early 1983, was arrested after human remains were discovered in the drains of the house at 23 Cranley Gardens where he was renting a flat. A subsequent investigation uncovered more human body parts, and once a positive ID of […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0b/1080735128_0:0:3073:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_41bd9d10a25b712917fb2d53ff65cb79.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Daria Bedenko. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202010111080735158-us-to-reportedly-open-safe-travel-corridors-between-nyc-and-london-reduce-quarantine-periods/ As of now, Americans must quarantine when traveling to the United Kingdom or the European Union, while European travelers are generally barred from visiting the US, unless they are American citizens or residents. Due to the “growing availability of COVID-19 tests”, US authorities are considering the creation of a safe travel corridor between New York City and London, with a shortened period of quarantine, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the situation. If such a corridor is implemented, people who use it for traveling between the countries will […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107860/32/1078603276_0:0:2730:1537_1200x675_80_0_0_a58ba2bd2f2b109af068401a765d72e9.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/uk/202010101080733783-leeds-woman-charged-after-attempting-to-board-flight-carrying-19m-in-cash-at-london-airport/ A woman was detained by airport security at Terminal 2 of London’s Heathrow airport on 3 October as she attempted to board a flight to Dubai carrying the equivalent of nearly 2 million dollars in cash hidden in her luggage. A woman has been charged with money laundering on Saturday after she was arrested at a London airport after she was discover carrying millions in cash rolled up in her luggage – the largest money haul crackdown of this year, according to authorities. British citizen Tara Hanlon, 30, was seized on 3 October while carrying […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/07/1080690039_0:64:1281:784_1200x675_80_0_0_a9a3408969a00d6b2bc7ff09552be2ce.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Muhammad Osman. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/uk/202010071080689975-video-east-london-residents-rush-to-buy-bottled-water-following-large-pipe-burst-in-main-supply/ The tap water shortage was said to have taken place on Tuesday afternoon at around 4.30 p.m., but the company responsible for public water in that part of London, Thames Water, was not able to discover the cause of the issue until nearly midnight. Thousands of residences in East London were left without water beginning Tuesday afternoon, prompting residents to clear local supermarket shelves of drinking water. Local residents reported on social media an ongoing water shortage beginning Tuesday at around 4.30 p.m. BST, but Thames Water was only able “to identify exactly […]
St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral in London has been evacuated due to a gas leak. Emergency responders from the fire brigade and the police are at the scene. The area surrounding the iconic cathedral in the heart of the UK capital has also been evacuated, with around 250 people ordered to leave surrounding buildings. St Paul’s said in a statement that the cathedral is closed for sightseeing and services for the remainder of today. “City of London Police and the London Fire Brigade are at the scene,” it added. Two fire engines, two fire rescue units and support vehicles attended the scene […]
According to a recent report by a London-based think tank, the Russian Armed Forces are at their strongest and most capable since the dissolution of the Soviet Union nearly 30 years ago, despite being considerably smaller. When the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union dissolved itself in the final days of 1991, the Russian Federation emerged as just one of 15 new republics that inherited many of the Red Army’s weapons of war. As the economic crisis in Russia deepened through the decade, the armed forces waned in power as well. Today, however, one UK think tank warns that more […]
WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange was spied on via bugs planted at London’s Ecuadorian embassy at the request of the security firm’s US contacts – who even considered poisoning or kidnapping the journalist, a UK court has heard. Testimonies from the two anonymous witnesses were presented at the Old Bailey on Wednesday during Assange’s ongoing extradition hearing. Both witnesses have previously worked for UC Global, a Spain-based private contractor that provided security to Ecuador’s London Embassy, where the journalist took refuge for seven years. The security company had a contract with Ecuador from 2015, and has been repeatedly accused of being the […]
A phone shows the Uber app in front of a taxi stand at Waterloo station in London on Monday. The ride-sharing service won its appeal after Transport for London denied a renewal of its operating license late last year. Chris J. Ratcliffe/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chris J. Ratcliffe/Getty Images A phone shows the Uber app in front of a taxi stand at Waterloo station in London on Monday. The ride-sharing service won its appeal after Transport for London denied a renewal of its operating license late last year. Chris J. Ratcliffe/Getty Images After nearly a year of uncertainty, a […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/19/1080568439_0:67:3111:1817_1200x675_80_0_0_3ac24e95da22c6b9f792c3911f45e874.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202009261080581618-protesters-officers-injured-in-london-as-police-responds-to-mass-anti-lockdown-protest/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The mass public demonstration on the landmark Trafalgar Square in central London against the recent tightening of the coronavirus-related restrictions in the United Kingdom has grown into clashes with police, the Metropolitan Police said on Saturday. “We want to be clear, this protest is no longer exempt from the regulations. Sadly, some officers have been injured while engaging with people,” the police said in a press release. Reports by the UK media cite at least three protesters injured by police officers and treated by medical teams. According to Sky News, as […]
The news comes on the heels of a doom-laden report by civil servants which makes the prediction that approximately 31,900 people could die over the next five years alone due to missed cancer diagnoses, scrapped operations and the broader health impacts that could result from a lockdown-induced recession. London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called upon Prime Minister Boris Johnson to make mixed house visits illegal for nine million people in London as part of a renewed push to see stricter lockdown measures imposed to tackle rising Covid-19 infections. The British capital had been put on the national lockdown watchlist due to […]
An officer has been shot dead inside a police station in Croydon after their colleagues failed to find a gun hidden on a recently-arrested suspect who then attempted to take their own life. The incident happened at approximately 02:15 AM local time at the Croydon Custody Centre in Windmill Lane. The 23-year-old suspect had been arrested moments prior to the shooting. The stricken officer was treated by colleagues and paramedics at the scene before he was transferred via air ambulance hospital where he died a short time later. The suspect turned the gun on himself and remains in critical condition in […]
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come under fire for his initial response to COVID-19 as reports emerged in spring that he failed to attend five emergency meetings in January and February of the Civil Contingencies Committee, also known as Cobra, which deals with major crises London mayor Sadiq Khan revealed in a Q&A on LBC Radio on Friday that he has not spoken to the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson since 10 May, which is also the last time the national emergencies committee Cobra met, despite the country facing “the biggest health, economic and social crisis since the Second World […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202009151080467158-eu-cant-deal-with-uk-if-london-passes-internal-market-bill/ Earlier today, the UK House of Commons passed the controversial Internal Market Bill during the second reading in a 340-263 vote. The proposed legislation would override part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement with the EU. Source link
Over a million dollars worth of paintings, sculptures and artistic ephemera vanished from The Colony Room, an elite counter-culture private drinking club, according to a writer and artist whose new book chronicles the history of the legendary London venue. Darren Coffield, who has a new exhibition about The Colony Room opening at the Dellasposa gallery in London this week, tells the amazing story of the missing art works in his new oral history of the club, Tales from The Colony Room. He told The Daily Beast that, while interviewing dozens of England’s most celebrated artists to gather their recollections of the […]
Already targeted in the recent past, the Winston Churchill statue has been defaced and dubbed ‘racist’ again, with the man suspected of doing this being literally removed from the scene in front of TV cameras. A young man was spotted spray-painting the words ‘is a racist’ on the base of the bronze Churchill statue just as the Extinction Rebellion rally gained pace on Thursday. The graffiti-savvy suspect – apparently caught red-handed – was arrested by Met Police on suspicion of vandalizing the statue. Footage by Ruptly video agency shows a cohort of London police officers making way for their colleagues carrying […]
Any violation the Good Friday Agreement by London will make a trade deal between the UK and the US totally impossible, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has warned. Pelosi issued a strongly-worded statement on Wednesday after British authorities admitted that their new ‘Internal Market Bill’ could violate international law in a “limited way.” The bill would allow the UK to circumvent its Brexit withdrawal agreement with Brussels, particularly in relation to the protocol on Northern Ireland. “The Good Friday Agreement is the bedrock of peace in Northern Ireland and an inspiration for the whole world,” Pelosi said. […]
LONDON—The court hearing that could end in WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being sent to the United States to face charges over the publication of hundreds of thousands of classified documents finally got underway Monday after a months-long pandemic delay. Crowds crammed together outside the Old Bailey court building in central London where, inside, Assange told the district judge that he he does not consent to being extradited to the U.S. Over the next four weeks, the court will consider whether Assange can be forced to face justice in the U.S., where an 18-count indictment accuses him of recruiting hackers to steal […]
Crowds of lockdown-weary Brits gathered in London at a ‘Unite for Freedom’ rally to protest the Covid-19 measures, an event quickly dubbed a gathering of “conspiracy loons” for its strong message against restrictions and mandates. People began gathering in London’s Trafalgar Square around noon and then marched to the Houses of Parliament to show opposition to the ongoing shutdowns, introduced as part of the UK’s response to the pandemic. The rally, called under the slogans of “No More Lockdowns – No Social Distancing – No Masks,” among others, attracted more than 10,000 people aghast at the looming prospect of another lockdown […]
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp told CoinDesk it will migrate its customer accounts from its London-based Bitstamp Limited to its entity in Luxembourg. But operations at Bitstamp Limited will not be affected by this decision, according to the company. “[This is] a move that has been planned for months,” Vasja Zupan, chief operating officer of Bitstamp, confirmed with CoinDesk in an email response. “This does not involve any relocation or change in operations, staff or offices.” The exchange currently has three physical locations around the globe, according to its website. The exchange, Bitstamp Ltd., is in London, while its payment institution, Bitstamp Europe […]
LONDON – Britain has moved a step closer to completing a deal for purchasing Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV) following the award of a contract allowing platform builder Oshkosh Defense to trial proposed UK sub-systems on the vehicle. The British Ministry of Defence signed a demonstration phase deal with the US government in June to investigate the integration of UK equipment on the JLTV as part of a proposed foreign military sales agreement. Program officials here said the work being undertaken by Oshkosh is to help them better understand the choices to be made and reduce risk during manufacturing. The US vehicle has been selected by the British Army as the preferred option for the first phase of its Multi-Role Vehicle-Protected program aimed at replacing command, liaison and light logistics vehicles. A second MRV-P […]
Labour MP Dawn Butler, who is a strong critic of police stop-and-search tactics, said that she was “angry and annoyed” after being stopped by Metropolitan Police officers in the London borough of Hackney. Butler said that since being elected as a member of Parliament she has been stopped by police numerous times. Labour MP Dawn Butler believes that she was a victim of racial profiling after being stopped by Metropolitan police officers while driving with a friend through east London on Sunday afternoon. Police officers told the former shadow equalities minister, who filmed the encounter, that they had been stopped because […]
On Monday, Johnny Depp’s libel trial against The Sun publisher News Group Newspapers entered its penultimate day, with NGN attorney Sasha Wass arguing that Depp’s drug use fueled “irrational mood swings and abnormal behavioral patterns, which would not have been present when Mr Depp was clean and sober”—and that the actor was too high to remember allegedly abusing his ex-wife, Amber Heard. Depp is suing NGN for libel over a 2018 article that ran in The Sun, which called him a “wife-beater” in its headline. The publisher’s defense rests on 14 allegations of domestic abuse from Heard, which allegedly occurred between […]
LONDON – The U.K. and U.S. governments have turned to startups and inventors in a competition to adapt commercial technology solutions to answer pressing challenges in the military space sector. The two countries have jointly put up £1 million, or $1.3 million, to tap into potential new ideas in six technology areas from small companies, innovators and others around the world. The finalists will face a beauty parade in front of senior British, American and NATO military officials at a space conference scheduled to take place in London in November. Up to 15 proposals will be selected to go forward with […]
Former World Cup winner Mesut Ozil reportedly nixed a move to the Turkish side Fenerbahce despite his wife, former Miss Turkey Amine Gulse, campaigning for a move to the country in which she is a well-known public figure. Ozil has yet to play a minute of football since the Premier League’s resumption from its coronavirus hiatus, leading to speculation that the former German international’s time in North London could be coming to an end. Also on rt.com After Erdogan scandals & racism rows, Mesut Ozil is facing yet another crossroads. Can the £350K-a-week star ever recapture form? The midfield playmaker, who […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/15/1079944327_0:288:2652:1780_1200x675_80_0_0_c920b1561714f21437c94ee67304fc5d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Oleg Burunov. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/uk/202007211079944718-johnny-depp-seen-with-mysterious-woman-near-fancy-london-pub-by-uk-media/ On Monday, Johnny Depp’s ex-wife Amber Heard testified against the Hollywood star in court, claiming that he “explicitly threatened to kill me many times”. Hollywood star Johnny Depp has been spotted leaving a fancy London pub followed by an unknown female companion, The Mirror reports. The newspaper referred to The Daily Mail pictures taken outside the Alfred Tennyson pub in West London’s Belgravia neighbourhood, in which The Mirror said Depp is seen clad in “a baggy Rastafarian-style beanie hat and a striped hoodie as well as a loose fitting Von Dutch parka”. […]
LONDON—Britain’s Conservative government never bothered to find out whether the Brexit referendum was influenced by the Kremlin, according to a scathing report by parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee. The extraordinary finding was at the heart of a bombshell report that Boris Johnson has repeatedly sought to delay—despite it being ready for publication nine months ago. Kevan Jones, a Labour member of the committee, said it was a “scandal” that No. 10 had never ordered Britain’s extensive intelligence agencies to look into the safety of British elections despite seeing evidence of interference in the 2014 Scottish election and the leak of Democratic […]
LONDON – A raft of top systems suppliers have been recruited to join the team leading Britain’s development of the Tempest next-generation fighter aircraft. Bombardier in Northern Ireland, GKN, Martin Baker and Qinetiq, alongside the UK arms of Collins Aerospace, GE Aviation and Thales, have signed up to collaborate with the BAE Systems-led team working on the future air combat system, it was announced July 20 on what should have been the opening day of the Farnborough air show before Covid-19 caused the event’s cancellation. At the same time as the announcement, Sweden’s Saab revealed it was setting up a UK hub to potentially participate in future combat air systems work between the two nations. It’s been almost two years to the day when the […]
LONDON – The first element of a likely $7.5 billion upgrade of the British armed forces’ satellite-telecommunications capabilities has finally been signed by the Ministry of Defence and Airbus Defence and Space. The deal, worth more than $630 million, will see Airbus build a new telecommunications satellite as a stop gap to bolster military capabilities ahead of the introduction of a new generation of space craft scheduled to start entering service towards the end of the decade. Airbus and the MoD have been locked in negotiation over the deal to construct the satellite, known as Skynet 6A, since the company was nominated in 2017, without a competition, as the preferred supplier. Under the terms of the deal the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107934/77/1079347793_0:156:1500:1000_1200x675_80_0_0_b1e2326b03495f03515fad8a72fe571e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/business/202007191079927606-tiktok-owner-halts-negotiations-to-open-headquarters-in-london-amid-tensions—reports/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – ByteDance, the parent company of social media giant TikTok has broken off negotiations to open a global headquarters in the United Kingdom over worsening relations between Beijing and London, The Sunday Times reported. The decision to halt negotiations was made against the backdrop of a “wider geopolitical context”, a source told the newspaper. Chinese media and tech firms have been subject to increasing attacks and restrictions led by the United States. ByteDance had been in talks for several months to launch operations in the UK which could create 3,000 jobs, according […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/12/1079921057_0:73:1921:1153_1200x675_80_0_0_957a37428d3060d41d4bb58a73605475.jpg.webp Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202007181079921031-its-not-raining-flying-ants-take-the-sky-in-south-coast-of-london-video/ Sputnik (New Delhi): While locusts invaded in several countries of Africa and South Asia, it was flying ants that took the skies over south London. The meteorological office picked up the huge swam of ants that appeared like rain over Kent, London, and East Sussex on Friday (17 July). The meteorological office said it was an annual feature known as “nuptial day” when swarms of the flying insects descend on towns and cities across the UK as males and queens leave their nests in search of mates. “During the summer ants can take to […]
One Metropolitan Police officer has been suspended and another one removed from operational duties over an incident, captured on camera, in which a cop knelt on a suspect’s neck during his arrest in Islington, London. Filmed by a concerned bystander, the footage shows two police officers holding a handcuffed black man on the ground. The suspect is heard to scream, “Get off my neck,” as one of the policemen appears to put his knee on him. A crowd can be seen gathering, and the officer takes his knee off the suspect to stand up and confront the onlookers, including some who […]
Johnny Depp apparently missed a part of his own libel trial against News Group Newspapers on Friday. As Depp’s concierge provided testimony in High Court regarding Amber Heard’s allegedly frequent late-night visits from Elon Musk, the actor himself was in a meeting to discuss a new film project, according to the Daily Mail. Depp is suing NGN over a 2018 story that ran in The Sun and labelled him a “wife-beater” after allegations of domestic abuse from Heard. The publisher’s defense rests on 14 separate abuse allegations from Heard, which allegedly occurred between 2013 and 2016. Depp has denied all allegations […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107927/25/1079272579_0:-1:3640:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_f75025a179a1e0a7f79e73484e526e20.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202007171079916897-bigger-than-london-eye-massive-asteroid-heads-towards-earth/ The asteroid in question was reportedly designated by NASA as potentially hazardous, as it is expected to approach our planet at a distance closer than 0.05 astronomical units. A large space rock traveling at a speed of over 46,000 kilometers per hour is expected to swoop by our planet on 24 July, according to data provided by NASA. The asteroid, 2020ND, whose 170-meter diameter would dwarf landmarks such as the London Eye, is expected to approach Earth at a distance of around 0.037 astronomical units (around 5.5 million kilometers). The US space agency has […]
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LONDON – Britain’s Ministry of Defence has signed a deal with General Atomics for the first three Protector remotely piloted air vehicles destined to equip the Royal Air Force with a replacement for its Reaper drone force. A £65 million ($80 million) contract for three Protectors, the British version of the MQ-9B SkyGuardian was announced by Defence Secretary Ben Wallace during a virtual air power conference held by the RAF July 15. Protector will fly further, hit harder and, crucially, be able to fly in unsegregated civilian airspace compared with the Reaper vehicles widely used by the British in Afghanistan and the Middle East over the last several years. Three ground stations and other associated support equipment are also included in an initial […]
LONDON – Nearly 750 armored vehicles purchased by the British Ministry of Defence to combat the threat of roadside bombs in Afghanistan are being axed from the Army’s force structure. Mastiff, Ridgeback and Wolfhound armored fleets are to be pensioned off in the latest drawdown of vehicles under the Land Environment Fleet Optimisation Plan (LEFOP) by the British Army, MoD procurement minister Jeremy lawmakers this month. The plan includes the complete deletion of some fleets and the reduction in size of others, as vehicle numbers are right-sized to reflect the needs of the British Army. Some 733 of the vehicles built […]
In the private intelligence report, Steele claimed without verification the pair transferred “large amounts of illicit cash” to Vladimir Putin in the 1990s, while Mayor of St. Petersburg, and went on to give him foreign policy advice, including to meddle in US elections. On 8th July, the English and Welsh High Court ruled in favour of two Alfa Bank principals in a legal action they brought against Christopher Steele’s Orbis Business Intelligence, as falsehoods in the infamous former MI6 operative’s utterly discredited ‘Trump-Russia’ dossier breached the UK Data Protection Act. In a 53-page ruling, the court awarded the duo damages totalling […]
The property was reportedly sold by Maxwell back in 1997, only to be resold for £1.7 million last August. Ghislaine Maxwell, British socialite and former partner of notorious convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was living in a luxury residence in London during the 1990s when she allegedly groomed an underage British girl before allowing Epstein to abuse her, the Daily Mail reports. According to the newspaper, a recently released indictment states that “Maxwell groomed and befriended Minor Victim 3 in London, England, between approximately 1994 and 1995”. “Maxwell introduced Minor Victim 3 to Epstein and during those interactions, Maxwell encouraged Minor […]
Britain’s talks on separation with the European Union resume on Monday with few signs of compromise on a new trade agreement and time running out to avoid a messy split. London will host EU negotiator Michel Barnier after a round of face-to-face talks ended a day early last week in Brussels because of deep divides in the sides’ approach, AFP said. “Serious divergences remain,” Barnier said after ending the negotiations last Thursday. His UK counterpart David Frost cited “significant differences” that meant the sides were still searching for basic “principles underlying an agreement.” Chancellor Angela Merkel said upon taking over help […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107979/26/1079792631_0:98:3073:1826_1200x675_80_0_0_3293c95fe36b2ef82cf5293a79558cee.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/uk/202007041079792588-uk-public-places-reopen-as-covid-19-restrictions-lifted/ The UK government has published guidlines for businesses on measures that should be implemented to reduce COVID-19 transmission, including reducing the number of people in enclosed spaces, providing sanitisers, and improving ventilation. A broadcast shows people on the streets of London as restaurants, pubs, cafes, restaurants, museums, and hotels are provisionally allowed to reopen in England on 4 July. Meanwhile, nightclubs, beauty salons, and gyms will remain closed. The UK government has employed a four-nation approach, which gives the devolved governments in each constituent country the power to oversee lockdown measures. Follow Sputnik’s Live Feed to […]
Riot police were showered with bottles, bricks and other projectiles while trying to break up an illegal rave in west London on Friday night. At least seven officers were injured during the hostilities. The police were called to the scene in White City following reports of a number of people gathered at an unlicensed music event in Havelock Close. Eyewitness footage shared on social media shows a group of young men pelting cops with a range of objects including glass bottles, bricks and beer cans. The onslaught was so intense that the cops were seen being chased down the street. The […]
On Wednesday, the UK Foreign Office summoned Chinese Ambassador to Britain Liu Xiaoming to express “deep concerns” over the new national security law for Hong Kong passed by China’s top legislative body and signed by President Xi Jinping on Tuesday. China’s Ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming has slammed Britain’s “accusations” against a newly-adopted national security law for Hong Kong and during a Wednesday meeting with UK Foreign Office permanent undersecretary, Sir Simon McDonald, expressed Beijing’s “grave concern and strong opposition” to the UK interfering in its internal affairs, the embassy said in a press release on Thursday. “On July 1st, Ambassador […]
For the second time in as many nights, police officers have been attacked in London while attempting to break up an illegal party, Reuters reports. In the previous night’s incident, at least 22 officers were hurt. The latest incident happened near Colville Gardens in western London, where an unlicensed music event was held overnight, the police said. The unruly crowd pelted law enforcement with various objects, when they took steps to clear the illegal party from the streets of Notting Hill. The party was fully dispersed by about 2am and no serious injuries were reported from the altercation. This came in […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/104952/65/1049526569_0:183:3500:2151_1200x675_80_0_0_9b8affa2fd84abb1db4c16760380ebfd.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/uk/202006251079717509-brixton-party-clashes-police/ Home Secretary Priti Patel took to Twitter to lambast the “utterly vile scenes”, which amounted to a total breach of lockdown regulations, despite their recent partial rollback. In an attempt break up an illegal street party in Brixton, London, 22 Metropolitan Police officers were injured and their vehicles damaged on the evening of 24th June. Authorities were called following complaints from residents about noise and violence, and a dispersal order had been put in place earlier in the day, with officers trying to encourage the crowd to leave – footage widely circulated on social […]
LONDON — Producing a promised new defense and security review was never going to be straightforward for the British government, but the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and the fast-evolving geostrategic position has muddied the waters even further, leaving open the question of future investment priorities. The integrated defense, security and foreign policy review ordered by Prime Minister Boris Johnson soon after he entered office last December was meant to provide answers to how Britain would make its way in the world post-Brexit. That exercise is partly, but not entirely, on ice as the government focuses its attention on trying to […]
“RIP Rayshard” is spray-painted on a sign as flames engulf a Wendy’s restaurant during protests in Atlanta on Saturday over the death of Rayshard Brooks. Brynn Anderson/AP hide caption toggle caption Brynn Anderson/AP “RIP Rayshard” is spray-painted on a sign as flames engulf a Wendy’s restaurant during protests in Atlanta on Saturday over the death of Rayshard Brooks. Brynn Anderson/AP For the third weekend in a row, protesters took to the streets in the United States — and at least two foreign capitals — to demand racial justice in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by police. In Atlanta, demonstraters were […]
Hundreds of protesters gathered for a demonstration in London that claimed to protect statues from Black Lives Matter protests. An appeal has been launched to identify a man who urinated next to a memorial for PC Palmer, an officer who was stabbed to death during the Westminster terror attack. The man who was pictured urinating next to a memorial for murdered police officer PC Keith Palmer has provoked outrage on social media. Mr Palmer was stabbed to death while protecting others during the Westminster Bridge terrorist attack on 22 March 2017. The man was one of the hundreds who gathered in […]
The gap between New York gold futures and London spot gold price has soared more than 40 times this spring, forcing traders to move some positions from US contracts to the UK over-the-counter market. London has temporarily overtaken New York as the global centre for gold trading because of unprecedented disruptions in the gold market, Bloomberg reports. Ruth Crowell, CEO of the London Bullion Market Association which represents the global over-the-counter (OTC) bullion market, said that the amount of gold traded in London surpassed the US futures in recent months. It is understood that volumes of swaps and forwards, which are […]
UK 13:18 GMT 08.06.2020Get short URL While incumbent US President Donald Trump appears to have good personal relations with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, relations between the two nations have not always fared as well, often mired in disagreements, specifically on London’s decision to allow Huawei in the country’s 5G networks. Several former British diplomats have commented on the possible implications of the presidential election in the US on the UK, revealing that the victory of either of the two candidates will bear bad news for London. In comments made for Cambridge University’s Centre for Geopolitics, several diplomats highlighted the destructive role […]
After a peaceful demonstration at the US embassy, some ‘Black Lives Matter’ protesters in London showed up at Downing Street where the scene grew more chaotic. Police clashed with the crowd in an attempt to restore order. The gathering at London’s US embassy on Sunday drew thousands of people, and was the city’s fourth ‘Black Lives Matter’ demonstration in a week. However, once the crowd dispersed, not everyone went home. Droves of people marched on Whitehall, rattling barriers outside Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s residence on Downing Street. A smoke bomb was lit and officers were pelted with bottles, with one Sky […]
This is not about race.This is about revolution. Advertisement – story continues below Churchill is the hero of World War II credited with saving England from Nazi Germany. The left is so radical that even Winston Churchill is a villain in their eyes. They’ve defaced Churchill! pic.twitter.com/rkINK4oac6 — Jack Dawkins (@DawkinsReturns) June 7, 2020 TRENDING: Black Lives Matter End Protest by Vandalizing Streets in DC: Paint “Defund the Police” in Yellow Paint on 16th Street Do you still believe this is about some guy called George Floyd? pic.twitter.com/FkZFEGo7cN — Jack Dawkins (@DawkinsReturns) June 7, 2020 Advertisement – story continues below This […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107954/18/1079541826_0:0:2925:1645_1200x675_80_0_0_14892b1fc64d6d19bc028e06d03d20c1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/uk/202006061079541818-winston-churchill-statue-defaced-on-d-day-anniversary-amid-george-floyd-protests-in-london/ Ongoing and widespread protests provoked by the death of African-American George Floyd at the hands of white police officers are taking place in almost every major city across the United States, as well as in other many capitals around the world, and London is no exception. A statue of the iconic British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was vandalized on Saturday, on the 76th anniversary of D-Day. The day marks beach landings in Normandy by Allied forces, led in part by the British army commander, as hundreds of thousands of soldiers en masse invaded northern France […]
UK 18:55 GMT 06.06.2020(updated 18:56 GMT 06.06.2020) Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107954/11/1079541133_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_5434c16dd4235e715654a456a34d1266.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/uk/202006061079541112-protester-reportedly-injured-policeman-knocked-off-horse-at-blm-protests-in-london—videos/ Some of the videos that were apparently recorded at the rally show police officers being pelted with a variety of projectiles, with even a bicycle being launched at them. A Black Lives Matter demonstration held in central London today was marred by an unfortunate incident when one of the mounted policemen present at the scene got knocked off his horse after “the crowd started throwing bottles and other objects at the police” and the animal bolted, Sky News reports. According to the Daily Mirror, […]
LONDON – Britain’s first dedicated cyber regiment has been officially established as part of the Army’s drive to modernize its response to the growing digital threat posed by potential adversaries. Creation of the unit, the 13th Signals Regiment, is part of an ongoing restructuring of the British Army, known as Army 2020 Refine, which includes the creation of a division conducting cyber, electronic warfare, intelligence, information operations and unconventional warfare. The cyber regiment is built around a core of about 250 specialists and is tasked with combating threats to Army operations overseas and domestically. The new unit will also provide technical […]
John Boyega delivered a powerful message to protesters in London on Wednesday. The Star Wars actor’s passionate speech left him in tears at times as he called for countries nationwide to fight for black people’s lives and dignity. “Black lives have always mattered,” he said. “We have always been important. We have always meant something. We have always succeeded regardless. And now is the time. I ain’t waiting.” “Look, I don’t know if I’m going to have a career after this,” Boyega added. “But fuck that.” Boyega’s emotion is palpable throughout his speech, which comes as many celebrities have joined protests […]
Protests over George Floyd’s death have gone international, with hundreds of people taking to the streets of London and Berlin to decry the rampant police brutality in the US. The chants of “No justice, no peace” rang out in the British capital on Sunday as protesters marched towards the US embassy in London. Some stopped at the Trafalgar Square and knelt, imitating the gesture of NFL star Colin Kaepernick. “It is really powerful that people come out and not just sit down. It is not just a black issue, it is a human issue,” a protester named Scott told RT’s Ruptly video […]
A new report predicts that Brexit will be “more harmful and long-lasting” for the British army and U.K.’s defense sector than for the European Union. Source link
Europe 15:30 GMT 16.05.2020Get short URL Fire crews from Barking, East Ham, Dagenham, Plaistow, Ilford, and other nearby stations in East London were sent to tackle the incident in Barking, reports say. 20 fire engines and more than 120 firefighters responded to a fire at an industrial estate on Alfreds Way in Barking, the London Fire Brigade (LFB) has said in a statement. According to the LFB, a single-storey warehouse and part of an adjoining warehouse were on fire when the firefighters arrived at the scene. The firefighters received the call at 18:33 local time (17:33 GMT) and the blaze was under […]
Europe 06:55 GMT 16.05.2020Get short URL LONDON (Sputnik) – By threatening to proceed with legal action against London over an alleged violation of the EU’s freedom of movement rules, Brussels is trying to penalise it for Brexit, Freddy Vachha, the general secretary of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), told Sputnik. “I am sure they have got lots of things to argue with and the European Court of Justice will be involved and they will try to impose financial penalties on us. The main political point though is that they have got used to us giving in and crumbling. We have had […]
The UK and EU have exchanged jibes after the third round of Brexit trade talks ended with “little progress.” London accused Brussels of taking an “ideological approach,” but Michel Barnier claimed the UK was stuck in the 1970s. The UK’s chief negotiator, David Frost, released a statement after the two sides had conducted a video conference on Friday. He insisted that the “main obstacle” and reason “little progress” had been made was due to the EU’s insistence on “a set of novel and unbalanced proposals on the so-called ‘level playing field.’” Frost suggested such plans were hampering London’s goal of achieving […]
The queen gave a 75th anniversary VE Day speech Friday night that doubled as a rallying cry against coronavirus. “Never give up, never despair, that was the message of VE Day,” she told the British people. Second World War heroes would “recognize and admire,” the sacrifices the British were making today in the fight against coronavirus, the queen added. It was her second major coronavirus-themed speech to the nation. “It may seem hard that we cannot mark this special anniversary as we would wish. Instead we remember from our homes and our doorsteps. But our streets are not empty,” the queen […]