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British 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...
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Our 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...
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Will 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...
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UK 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...
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Attack 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 ArticleThe right to strike is a fundamental human right
UK government is wrong to argue health workers cannot go on strike There are many rights in employment and industrial relations law that are not fundamental human rights, but the right to strike has...
View ArticleBritish interior min Braverman says Rwanda is safe for migrants
Britain’s interior minister Suella Braverman said she was convinced Rwanda was a safe country to resettle migrants who had arrived in Britain illegally but she declined to set any deadline for the...
View ArticleUK law is doing little to prevent British children being kidnapped from their...
In November 2022, Ibrahim Faraj, a seven-year-old boy from Cheshire, was reportedly taken from England to Saudi Arabia by his father. His mother, Ranem Elkhalidi, had not consented to the trip. She had...
View ArticleUK PM Sunak breached parliament’s code of conduct inadvertently – watchdog
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak did not properly declare his wife’s shareholding in a childcare company which stood to benefit from new government policy but the failure was inadvertent,...
View ArticleUK minister apologises for swearing about crumbling school closures
Britain’s education minister Gillian Keegan apologised for an expletive-ridden outburst on Monday after complaining she wasn’t being thanked enough for doing a “fucking good job” in dealing with...
View ArticleUK man, accused of spying for China in parliament, says he’s innocent
A man British media have reported was arrested on suspicion of spying for China while working as a parliamentary researcher said via his lawyers on Monday he was “completely innocent” and that he had...
View ArticleHands off the Refugee Convention
In a speech in the US last week, UK interior minister Suella Braverman floated the idea that the definition of refugee under 1951 Refugee Convention needed to be tightened to stop the irregular arrival...
View ArticleThe law is above the UK’s immature government
And why would East African Asian refugees support dumping other refugees in a part of the world they themselves were forced to leave? A lot can happen in British politics in a week, but last week was...
View ArticleGreece 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....
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