Greece PM laments lack of progress with UK on Parthenon Sculptures
Talks over a possible return of the British Museum’s Parthenon Sculptures to Athens are not advancing quickly enough, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday as he prepared to meet...
View ArticleUK’s Sunak wins parliament vote on Rwanda migrant plan despite rebellion
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s emergency bill to revive his plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda avoided defeat in parliament on Tuesday, surviving a rebellion by dozens of his lawmakers that...
View ArticleBritish diplomat Peter Wilson meets Tatar at official residence
British diplomat Peter Wilson, the Director General for Europe at the United Kingdom’s Foreign Office, met Ersin Tatar at the latter’s official residence on Wednesday evening. In a social media post...
View ArticleCyprus and UK establish ‘strategic cooperation’
The foreign ministries of Cyprus and the United Kingdom have signed a memorandum of understanding, “establishing a strategic cooperation” between the two countries. The memorandum, signed on Thursday,...
View ArticleVenezuela’s Maduro slams deployment of British warship to Guyana
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday said the deployment of a British warship to waters off the coast of Guyana breaches the “spirit” of an agreement reached between Venezuelan and Guyanese...
View ArticleUK’s Cameron worried Israel may have breached international law in Gaza
Britain’s foreign minister David Cameron said on Tuesday he was worried that Israel might have breached international law in Gaza, and that the advice he had received so far was that Israel was...
View ArticleCyprus ‘not involved’ as UK uses Akrotiri base to bomb Yemen (Video, Update 2)
The United Kingdom is on Friday using its Akrotiri base on the island to conduct bombing raids in Yemen, forcing the government to clarify that Cyprus was not involved in any such military activity....
View ArticleBritish citizens overseas to get right to vote
British citizens living outside their country, among whom over 40,000 are believed to live in Cyprus, are to be handed the vote in their country’s elections, following an announcement by the country’s...
View ArticleOur View: No legal way for Cyprus to decide on use of bases
The so-called Cyprus Peace Council staged a demonstration outside Akrotiri base on Sunday to protest against its use by the UK government for flying military supplies to Israel and helping its war on...
View ArticleWill Britons work until they’re 71?
By Chris Parry The retirement age will need to rise to 71 for UK workers in future, according to a recent report looking at the effect of increasing life expectancy and falling birthrates on the state...
View ArticleUK PM Rishi Sunak rules out holding an election in early May
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Thursday that he would not hold a general election in early May, in the strongest indication yet that the national vote would take place later this year. The...
View ArticleAttack on Diane Abbott was definitely racist
British politics was dominated by racism and anti-semitism last week around the person and politics of Diane Abbott, the first black woman to be elected to the British parliament in 1987 as Labour MP...
View ArticleBoth Labour and Tories lack ‘the vision thing’
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak walked a few steps to a lectern outside his official residence at 10 Downing Street in London last Wednesday to announce that he was calling an early general...
View ArticleCyprus increasingly going to UK for litigation
Cypriot litigants moved up to seventh place among the nationalities most frequently using London courts for commercial disputes in the 12 months to April 2024, it emerged on Wednesday. Specifically, 33...
View ArticleBritain is a nation of gamblers
Napoleon Bonaparte famously called Britain a nation of shopkeepers. Britain seemed more like a nation of gamblers after the betting scandal last week. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gambled on an early...
View ArticleFinal call for UK Cypriots to vote in British election
The National Federation of Cypriots in the United Kingdom on Wednesday issued a last-minute call for British Cypriots to vote in the country’s election, which is to take place on Thursday. “Make your...
View ArticleElon Musk’s ‘two-tier Keir’ jibe against British PM wrong
It is summer riot season in England and Northern Ireland and if you believe what Elon Musk posts on X, the UK is in civil war mode. Just because there was a civil war in the reign of King Charles I,...
View ArticleWar not in anyone’s interest, UK PM tells Iran’s Pezeshkian
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer held a call with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday, asking him to refrain from attacking Israel and saying that war was not in anyone’s interest, the...
View ArticleUK suspends 30 of its 350 arms export licences to Israel
Britain will immediately suspend 30 of its 350 arms export licences with Israel because there was a risk such equipment might be used to commit serious violations of international humanitarian law,...
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Grenfell Tower: greed, dishonesty and incompetence at every level
But families still waiting for justice seven years later Judge-led inquiries that investigate events that cause serious loss of life are part of the procedural aspect of the right to life. States are...
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