Pentagon spokesman John Kirby listens to a question about Afghanistan at a briefing on Aug. 13, 2021. (Susan Walsh/AP) LONDON — The Taliban’s stunningly swift advances across Afghanistan have sparked global alarm, reviving doubts about the credibility of U.S. foreign policy promises and drawing harsh criticisms even from some of the United States’ closest allies….
Aug 24 (Reuters) – Britain wants to see a functioning airport in Afghanistan after the departure of troops, Sky News reported on Tuesday, citing comments by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s briefing to UK lawmakers. “If we want to do this in a more managed way and really take the steep angle off the cliff edge,…
Scotland’s hospitals are under more pressure than ever, doctors have told BBC Scotland. While the number of COVID patients has fallen, the NHS is trying to catch up with surgeries and treatments put on hold during the first wave of the pandemic. But more people are also being admitted with other complex, more advanced disease,…
The Prime Minister spoke out at the start of his two-day visit to Scotland on Wednesday. Boris Johnson visits Scotland. – STV News Boris Johnson has denied snubbing Nicola Sturgeon during his visit to Scotland. The First Minister had written to the Prime Minister inviting him to her Bute House residence in Edinburgh. However, Johnson…
The bill has passed its second reading in the Commons and gives authorities new powers to make seeking asylum more difficult. Thousands of migrants have crossed the Channel from Europe this year The government’s Nationality and Borders Bill will only bring more “chaos and delay” to the UK’s “dysfunctional” immigration system, Amnesty International has said….
MOSCOW, July 14 (Reuters) – A senior Russian security official warned Britain on Wednesday not to sail its warships near Russian-annexed Crimea again unless it wanted its sailors to get hurt. The warning, issued by Mikhail Popov, deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council, follows an incident last month when British warship HMS Defender exercised what…
Bloc’s assessment, published in a budget document, is aimed at reflecting the UK’s ongoing commitments to EU programmes. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen – Photo credit: AFP The European Union has concluded that the UK owes it €47.5 billion as part of the Brexit settlement, a higher…
Trucks queue on the road leading to the Waterbrook Inland Border Facility, a temporary customs clearance centre set up in a truck stop in Ashford, Kent, Britain January 15, 2021. REUTERS/John Sibley Vehicles enter the Port of Dover, following the end of the Brexit transition period, in Dover, Britain, January 4, 2021. REUTERS/Toby Melville/Files LONDON,…
A new poll finds just one in nine voters regrets how they cast their ballot in 2016. Boris Johnson signing the UK/EU free-trade agreement in December (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images) The UK remains deeply divided over the vote to leave the European Union, five years since the Brexit referendum which upended British politics and created whole…