#United Kingdom (UK)

The UK Minister for Europe, Wendy Morton, has reiterated that on the Cyprus settlement issue the UK “continues to advocate a solution in line with UN parameters, based on the ...

People travelling to the UK are advised to check roaming charges before their trip to avoid any unpleasant surprises, the communications commissioner’s office said on Monday. The commissioner’s ...

Dominic Cummings, the architect of Brexit, claimed on Twitter last week that cheating foreigners was the core part of his job as special adviser to the British prime minister during ...

Britain’s most energy intensive manufacturers, including producers of steel, glass, ceramics and paper, have warned the government that unless something is done about soaring wholesale gas prices they could ...

Britain will scrap tough COVID-19 quarantine requirements for 47 destinations including South Africa on Monday and make it easier for people to arrive from countries including India, Brazil and Turkey in ...

And so it begins: Taxes in the world’s wealthiest countries are rising. Inevitable perhaps given the unprecedented COVID-era debt surge and, according to some investors, even a good thing ...

Relatives of British woman whose body lies in Paphos morgue have been found The relatives of a British woman whose body has lain unclaimed in the morgue of Paphos hospital ...

Cyprus will remain for another three weeks on the UK’s amber list for the coronavirus, under the latest travel review decided by the British government on Thursday. The changes ...

Britain and the United States imposed sanctions on Friday on men they said were Russian intelligence operatives responsible for the poisoning one year ago of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. The ...

The arrivals of tourists reached 297,308 in July 2021, recording an increase of 358 per cent compared with July 2020, during which 64,914 arrivals were recorded. However, this July marked a decrease of 46 per cent ...

All 16- and 17-year-olds in England will be offered their first COVID-19 vaccine dose by Aug. 23, according to a target set by British Health Secretary Sajid Javid. Javid said on ...

The British High Commission has stressed the need for UK nationals to continue to vote and be eligible to stand as candidates in local elections and was awaiting clarification on ...

Britain’s Gatwick Airport urged the government to make international travel easier after lockdown restrictions drove it to a first-half loss of 245 million pounds ($338 million) and forced it to ask ...

London’s Heathrow Airport urged Britain to open up travel to vaccinated passengers after its recovery fell behind hubs elsewhere in Europe, pushing its cumulative pandemic losses to $4 billion. Heathrow, ...

Shopper numbers across Britain rose 0.9 per cent in the week to July 17 compared with the previous week, boosted by the return of sunny weather, researcher Springboard said on Monday. It ...

The UK has lifted travel advice to British nationals to avoid all but essential travel to Cyprus, based on the current assessment of Covid-19 risks, but tourism stakeholders warned that ...

Financial firms should use their experience in the COVID-19 crisis to consider how flexible working could help create a more diverse workforce but the government will not impose a model, ...

British house prices saw their most widespread rises since 1988 last month, but fewer homes were put up for sale and buyer demand grew less fast ahead of the end of ...

Senior managers at financial firms could see pay linked to their progress in making their workforces more diverse and inclusive, Britain’s financial regulators said in a discussion paper on ...

Britain’s financial watchdog on Monday proposed making it easier for tech companies to list in London to strengthen the capital’s ability to compete with New York and the ...

Morrisons has agreed a takeover offer from Fortress Investment Group, which values Britain’s fourth-largest supermarket operator at 6.3 billion pounds ($8.7 billion). The offer from Fortress, which is backed by Canada ...

Premier Foods (PFD.L), one of Britain’s biggest food companies, has called on the government to consider using the army to distribute goods to help relieve a severe shortage ...

More British workers were furloughed in late May than first estimated, according to new government data that pointed to a less optimistic outlook for unemployment than previously thought. The finance ...

Britain has published a list of the number of free UK carbon permits each aircraft operator will receive from 2021-2025 under the country’s domestic emissions trading system (ETS), the ...