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Britain wants to shape a world where democracies can thrive, but needs to be prepared for a world marked by heightened conflicts and divisions, reported today in an integrated review of British security policy. It added that the United Kingdom would therefore not reduce the number of nuclear warheads it had, and even increase the maximum number.more

British media reports that Meghan Markle is in talks with senior Democrat politicians about her possible run in the US presidential election.more

The UK has maintained changes it made to Northern Ireland's trading arrangements are "lawful" and "well precedented" after the European Union launched legal action against it.more

Brussels has launched legal action against the UK over alleged breaches of the two sides’ Brexit deal on Northern Ireland, escalating a dispute that has soured relations and which could lead to British goods being hit with tariffs.more

European Union officials are considering launching negotiations to purchase Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, Reuters reported Monday, citing EU diplomatic and official sources.more

The Netherlands begins three days of voting Monday in a primary test of a European government's coronavirus policies, with Prime Minister Mark Rutte set to win another term in office.more

NATO countries should impose sanctions on Germany in connection with the construction of Nord Stream 2, and the best way to stop the gas pipeline under construction is to raise environmental issues, assessed the British MP of Polish origin, Daniel Kawczynski.more

Boris Johnson has accused the SNP of pressing for another independence referendum regardless of the cost to Scotland and the whole of the UK.more

The head of the Met Police is under pressure to explain her officers' actions during a vigil in south London on Saturday in memory of Sarah Everard. Police were seen grabbing and leading women away from the event in handcuffs.more

The use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been suspended in the Republic of Ireland. The National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) recommended the move following reports of serious blood clotting events in adults in Norway.more

A majority of people in Scotland would vote to remain in the union in an independence referendum, according to two new polls.more

An equality adviser has quit accusing the government of creating a “hostile environment” for LGBT people by failing to ban conversion therapy.more

The United Kingdom has not blocked the export of a single vaccine against Covid-19, said Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday denying the claims of the President of the European Council Charles Michel.more

The United Kingdom considers Nord Stream 2 a threat to Europe's energy security and will raise its objections to this project, assured Deputy Foreign Minister Wendy Morton during the debate in the House of Commons on the gas pipeline.more

The Białowieża Forest will be further cut. The Ministry of Climate and Environment has signed documents enabling this. The defenders of the forest do not give up - the Polish daily "Gazeta Wyborcza" reports.more

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab writes to Charles Michel to say UK has 'not blocked the export of a single COVID-19 vaccine.'more

Although Jarosław Kaczyński is the undisputed leader of the United Right, it is not material for the best prime minister, according to the latest United Surveys survey for Dziennik Gazeta Prawna and RMF FM.more

Law and Justice, Poland's ruling conservative party, would stand little chance of forming an independent government if the elections were held right now, according to a survey.more

The first two months of Great Britain's full independence from the European Union, as well as the previous 11 months of the transition period, indicate that both the concerns raised before the referendum by the opponents of Brexit and the promises made by supporters were greatly exaggerated.more

The United Kingdom ‘is over’ and a new union should be formed to reflect a ‘voluntary association of four nations’, the Welsh First Minister has said. more

The US and the UK are considering introducing new sanctions against Russia - for using banned chemical weapons against the oppositionist Alexei Navalny. The possible options include: hitting the oligarchs or restrictions on Russian public debt.more

Nicola Sturgeon has insisted she had no reason to want to "get" Alex Salmond as she dismissed claims of a plot against him as "absurd".more

The President of the Supreme Audit Office, Marian Banaś, awarded prizes of PLN 23 million. "There are bosses who, even during a pandemic, do not have to worry about where to get their employees' wages from. There are employees who do not have to tremble about wages every month, because wages and even generous bonuses are guaranteed even in a crisis", writes "Fakt" daily.more

Boris Johnson is battling to save his plans for Britons to enjoy foreign summer holidays, after the arrival of a Brazilian strain of Covid-19.more

Strasbourg councilors from the ecological coalition want to define rats and bedbugs not as pests, but as "companions", which is to change the social attitude towards rodents and worms that appear in houses and apartments.more