Jeremy Hunt has proposed a European-led naval task force to protect against Iranian threats in the Persian Gulf, as he called Tehran's hijacking of a UK-flagged tanker an act of "state piracy".more
The administration of US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that it will vastly extend the authority of immigration officers to deport migrants without allowing them to appear before judges, its second major policy shift on immigration in eight days.more
Only a quarter of British voters believe the UK will have left the European Union by the current Halloween divorce deadline, a new poll has revealed. more
Alan Duncan, a senior Conservative critic of Boris Johnson, resigned from the government in order to test whether the new prime minister commands the confidence of the House of Commons.more
Iran today warned Great Britain to stop its "national political forces" intending to escalate tension between the two countries after Iran took over the oil tanker Stena Impero under the British flag.more
The home secretary, Sajid Javid, will say in a speech that public figures must moderate their language as part of the fight against extremism, noting that he "knows what it's like to be told to go back to where I came from".more
A recent social attitudes survey found 67% of the region's residents to be dead against independence, with only 23% still wanting the Basque Country to be a separate, sovereign land.more
The UK government has said it is "deeply concerned" about Iran's "unacceptable" seizure of a British-flagged tanker in the Gulf. The Stena Impero's owners say they have been unable to contact the ship, which was seized in the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway in the region. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has warned of "serious consequences" if the situation is not resolved quickly.more
Boris Johnson could become the latest politician to take to the skies of London just days before he is expected to be named as the next Prime Minister.more
British parliamentarians dealt a blow on Thursday both to the dying embers of Prime Minister Theresa May's administration and to the likely next leader, Boris Johnson, even before he's been confirmed.more
The British weekly "The Economist" praised the new EC president Ursula von der Leyen for "a competent and full of proposals" speech in the EP, stressing, however, that she will have to prove her leadership skills in the following months.more
Last year, government officials in the United Kingdom lost 508 mobile phones and laptops - according to research by MobileIron, which points out that only a small number of lost devices have ever been found.more
The British media criticized Ursula von der Leyen's election as the head of the European Commission, stressing that she would have to face allegations of a lack of a character that would allow her political independence from the leaders of France and Germany.more
Julian Assange turned the Ecuadorean embassy into a control centre for a Russian-backed campaign of interference in the 2016 US presidential election, according to documents prepared for the government that was sheltering him.more
German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen had faced an uphill battle as a compromise candidate. She won by a slim majority, with 383 out of 747 votes.more
Ursula von der Leyen, who was tapped by member states for the top job in Brussels, said she would "support a further extension if good reasons are provided" beyond the current deadline. more
Candidates for the replacement of Prime Minister Theresa May criticized the words of American President Donald Trump in yesterday's debate about US congressmen, and accused the leader of the opposition Labor Party Jeremy Corbun of anti-Semitism.more
Theresa May denounced Donald Trump over the U.S. president's online attacks on Democratic congresswomen of color. Trump tweeted Sunday that the four women, who "originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe," should "go back" and fix issues in those countries before telling him how to run the U.S. government.more
