#United Kingdom

The British embassy in Tehran has been temporarily closed, the government said on Wednesday. “We have temporarily closed the British Embassy in Tehran, this will now operate remotely. Foreign Office ...

LONDON, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Britain is set to drop plans to make it mandatory for workers to hold a digital identity document, The Times newspaper, the BBC and other media reported ...

Britain’s media regulator launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s X on Monday over concerns its Grok AI chatbot was creating sexually intimate deepfake images in violation of its ...

Cyprus was the likely launchpad for strikes conducted by the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force against Islamic State targets in Syria on Saturday night. The British government announced late ...

Two British-Lebanese men appeared in a London court on Tuesday, charged with belonging to the banned Iran-backed group Hezbollah and attending terrorism training camps, with one of the two accused ...

The United Kingdom’s government has been told by a veteran of its Royal Air Force to “release the footage” of the flights launched from its Akrotiri air base in ...

Britain said on Friday it would temporarily stop imports of pork meat from parts of Spain after the country confirmed its first cases of African swine fever in just over ...

The author of a report that plunged the BBC into crisis said on Monday that the British public broadcaster was not “institutionally biased” but did have editorial failings, and that ...

The UK government’s new interior minister Shabana Mahmood was asked rhetorically whether she would be applying to join the anti-immigration populist party Reform UK as a backhanded compliment after ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a deal on Monday in which Turkey bought 20 Eurofighter Typhoon jets for 8 billion pounds ($10.7 billion), his office said, deepening the NATO allies’ defence ties ...

One of the four terminals at London’s Heathrow Airport that was evacuated earlier on Monday over what authorities called a “possible hazardous materials incident” has now reopened after it ...

Despite joining the European Union in 2004, Cypriots still have few opportunities to actively participate in parliamentary processes compared with other European citizens. While the House of Representatives publishes agendas, draft ...

Switzerland is considering joining a British-led international task force targeting kleptocrats and recovering stolen assets, it said on Tuesday, as it seeks to shake off its reputation as a haven ...

The Cyprus foreign ministry on Saturday welcomed the resignation of the UK trade envoy to Turkey Afzal Khan after his recent visit to unrecognised northern Cyprus, saying it sent a ...

The National Federation of Cypriots in the United Kingdom on Friday called for the immediate removal of the UK’s trade envoy to Turkey Afzal Khan after he travelled to ...

The United Kingdom’s top court on Friday overturned a landmark ruling on car finance commissions in a decision that is likely to ease fears among banks about a redress ...

On Wednesday night, I watched Gaza: Doctors Under Attack on UK television, Channel 4. It was a harrowing experience.  The Guardian describes the documentary succinctly “We are shown doctors doing their ...

Sea, soil and oil have been brought together to produce a healthy, green and sustainable dietary supplement. A collaboration between Cyprus-based olive oil company Oleaphen and UK-based seaweed packaging company ...

The British government was informed ahead of time of the United States’ strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran, but did not receive any request for its bases in Cyprus or ...

Britain’s parliament voted on Friday in favour of a bill to legalise assisted dying, paving the way for the country’s biggest social change in a generation. Three-hundred-and-fourteen lawmakers ...

British police arrested six men on suspicion of grievous bodily harm on Friday following reports of an altercation at a location close to the Iranian embassy in London. “Six men ...

British lawmakers will vote on Friday on whether to proceed with a bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill people, in what would be the biggest social reform in ...

More British fighter jets and other aircraft “will follow in [the] coming days” to the region, the United Kingdom’s Defence Secretary John Healey said on Tuesday night. Addressing a ...

Britain and the United States should finalize “very soon” the implementation of a trade deal agreed last month, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday ahead of a meeting with ...