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The Conservative Party lost Thursday's North Shropshire House of Commons by-election. According to commentators, the vote was influenced by the recent scandals related to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, reports the Reuters agency.more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was not "silently introducing a lockdown in England" and explained that he was not calling for the cancellation of Christmas meetings but for caution.more

Today's House of Commons by-election in the North Shropshire constituency is a rare opportunity to test in real terms - not just at the polls - how serious British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's current problems are in the eyes of the electorate.more

The Biden administration yesterday declassified nearly 1,500 documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Nevertheless, about 10,000 documents remain classified and secret. Among the files released are information on assassination attempts against Fidel Castro and a report on a puzzling "Polish chauffeur" report from the USSR embassy.more

The British navy is in danger of being unable to cope in an "increasingly hostile and unpredictable international environment" - MPs on the defence committee warned in a report published yesterday.more

The House of Commons last night approved the covid 'Plan B' for England in full - despite a record number of Conservative MPs voting against their own government in the covid certification vote.more

Ministers Hugo de Jonge (health) and Ferd Grapperhaus (justice) on Monday won the Big Brother Awards, which are presented annually for the "biggest breach of privacy in the Netherlands".more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday that any destabilising action against Ukraine would be a strategic mistake that would have significant consequences, the British head of government's office reported.more

Although Joe Biden has been President since 20 January, he has only now decided to appear on a television talk show. His predecessors did not avoid such programmes because they could show their human side and win the sympathy of their compatriots.more

Another group of British soldiers landed in Poland on Monday; they will assist Polish Army soldiers, among others, in repairing and building a temporary fence on the border, the head of the Ministry of Defence Mariusz Blaszczak said.more

Boris Johnson has said he "certainly broke no rules" as questions continue to plague the government over parties during lockdown last Christmas. A picture published in the Sunday Mirror showed the PM at a virtual quiz in Downing Street, appearing on screen alongside two colleagues.more

The problems of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, related to allegations of breaking covid restrictions last year, are deepening. The Sunday Mirror has posted a photo showing that he personally participated in the Downing Street Christmas quiz.more

Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro said in an interview published today for the Financial Times that Poland should suspend payments to the EU budget and veto EU policies if Brussels intensifies the dispute and cuts funds for Warsaw.more

The landslide in Norfolk happened overnight on Wednesday, causing a section of cliff the width of a football pitch to collapse on to the beach.more

This year's Downing Street Christmas party has been cancelled, a spokesman for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced yesterday. While the official reason is the spreading Omikron variant, the scandal surrounding last year's parties is in the background.more

President Andrzej Duda is trusted by 43 percent of respondents, while Poland 2050 leader Szymon Holownia and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki are trusted by 39 percent each, the CBM Indicator poll shows. In the distrust ranking, PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński came first (57 percent).more

President Joe Biden asserted his support for the principle of "nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine" in talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and assured NATO's eastern flank states that he was aware that the problem of the Russian threat affected the entire region, a senior US administration official reported yesterday. She added that in his conversation with Putin, Biden did not ofmore

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has topped a list of Europe's 28 most influential politicians compiled by the Politico portal. The names were divided into three categories: "activists", "dreamers" and "disruptors". Donald Tusk was placed at the head of the latter group.more

Three alleged Christmas parties last year while the UK was under covid restrictions will be investigated by civil service chief Simon Case, it was reported today.more

Just 9 per cent of Britons believe assurances that there was no Christmas party in Downing Street during last year's lockdown and only 12 per cent believe Prime Minister Boris Johnson is telling the truth on the matter, according to a poll published yesterday.more

A former flight controller at Minsk airport has told Polish officials about the backstory of the forced landing in Minsk on 23 May 2021 of a Ryanair airliner with oppositionist Roman Protasiewicz on board, the New York Times reported yesterday.more

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss yesterday assured her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytr Kuleba of London's support for Kiev in the face of the threat from Moscow. During the meeting they discussed strengthening British-Ukrainian cooperation.more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie today announced the birth of their second child, a girl. The newborn daughter is the seventh child of the British head of government.more

The security outlook for the UK and its allies is now far more complicated and difficult than at any time in the past 30 years, the new head of the British armed forces, Admiral Tony Radakin, warned in his first speech.more

The management of evacuations from Afghanistan after the Taliban took power was dysfunctional and chaotic in the British Foreign Office, and decisions about who would be evacuated were arbitrary, a former British Foreign Office official says.more