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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has no choice but to use unconventional, decisive tactics to restore the rule of law in the country, but he must be careful to avoid inflaming divisions in a polarised society, writes the UK's Financial Times in an editorial commentary.more

For the UK's opposition Labour Party to gain an absolute majority in the House of Commons, there must be a record shift of up to 12.7 percentage points in the electorate's voting preferences in its favour at the expense of the Conservative Party, according to an analysis published yesterday.more

The joint US and UK attacks on Huti rebel targets in Yemen were intended to be a "limited, single action" - explained British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday, reporting in the House of Commons on last week's operation.more

The UK House of Commons today began a two-day debate on a highly controversial and hugely divisive bill within the ruling Conservative Party to allow the deportation of illegal immigrants to Rwanda.more

One of the most controversial Islamist groups in the UK, Hizb ut-Tahrir, is to be banned as a terrorist organisation, accused of praising the Hamas attacks. Home Secretary James Cleverly said the group was "antisemitic" and "actively promotes and encourages terrorism".more

Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced yesterday that emergency contraception - the so-called the morning-after pill - to be available without a prescription. From July 2017, emergency contraception, i.e. the so-called "Morning after pills" are only available by prescription.more

The UK will send 20,000 troops to one of NATO's biggest military drills since the Cold War as the alliance practices repelling an invasion by Russian forces, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps announced today.more

An accidental premature detonation of a mine alerted the Germans and led to the massacre of 20,000 British soldiers during the Battle of the Somme. This was the discovery made by scientists who first studied German fortifications on Hawthorn Ridge near Beaumont Hamel in northern France. The explosion in question, which occurred on 1 July 1916, was a colossal mistake by the British.more

Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki admitted in an interview published yesterday that, looking at the increasing centralization of the European Union and Brussels' interference in the affairs of member states, he understands why the British decided to leave it.more

The UK is ready to strike at Huti rebel positions in Yemen again if they continue to attack merchant ships crossing the Red Sea, foreign secretary David Cameron announced today.more

Although Donald Tusk has adopted tactics that the European Union has previously condemned, pro-EU fanatics are silent on Poland's new illiberal turn, writes Alan Sked, emeritus professor of international history at the London School of Economics, in the Daily Telegraph.more

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is likely to delay ruling on orders halting deportation flights from the UK to Rwanda and may be "tempted" to drag this out until after the House of Commons elections, the Daily Telegraph wrote yesterday.more

Not a single boat with illegal immigrants has entered the UK across the Channel for the past 25 days, the longest such period since February/March 2020, according to Home Office figures released yesterday.more

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak travelled to Kiev today with assurances of increased military aid to the Ukrainian military, the British government has reported. London will allocate £2.5 billion in the new fiscal year 2024/25, 200 million more than in previous years, it added.more

When it comes to children's health, we want to be a 'nanny state' - announced yesterday the leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, Keir Starmer, as he announced a series of measures his incoming government would take to improve the health of the youngest.more

The head of the federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Thomas Haldenwang, believes that democracy in Germany is at greater risk than society thinks. He also emphasized that one of the threats is the growing right-wing extremism, reports the Tagesschau portal.more

The hybrid threat from Russia still exists, which is why all crossings on the eastern border will continue to be closed, said the head of the Finnish Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mari Rantanen.more

The London to Birmingham stretch of the HS2 railway could cost more than £65bn in current prices, the boss of the company building it has said. Sir Jonathan Thompson said a rise in the cost of materials such as concrete and steel over the past few years have added £8bn to £10bn. In October the government cancelled the sections between the West Midlands, Manchester, and the East Midlands.more

Most key NHS targets have been missed for at least seven years across the UK, BBC News research shows. The review of records going back 20 years also reveals Northern Ireland and Wales have never met the four-hour accident-and-emergency (A&E) target. The analysis focused on the three key hospital targets, covering A&E, cancer and waiting times for planned care.more

Grant Shapps suggested yesterday that a retaliatory attack against Yemen's Houthi rebels for their shelling of merchant ships and warships was imminent, British media report.more

More than 700 British postal workers wrongly accused of theft years ago and convicted will be cleared of the charges through an act of parliament and will receive financial compensation, announced Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.more

The British media describe the recent events in Poland related to the arrest of Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik as a "dramatic escalation" and "unprecedented", although their reports are rather informative, without indicating who is right in the dispute.more

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron yesterday expressed concern that Israel may have broken international law in its intervention in Gaza. He also warned that the war in the Middle East was a distraction from the one taking place in Ukraine.more

Households from Luxembourg, Malta and Ireland are among the richest in the euro area, according to a report by the Central Bank of Belgium (NBB). At the bottom of the table are the Croats, Lithuanians and Latvians.more

More than 1 million people in England died prematurely in the decade after 2011 owing to a combination of poverty, austerity and Covid, according to “shocking” research by one of the UK’s leading public health experts.more