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Air of menace as Britain's election gets nasty
AFP, Published on 08/12/2019
» BRAINTREE (UNITED KINGDOM) - Candidates hoping to be elected to parliament in Britain have faced all manner of threats and abuse in a particularly hostile campaign, with some worried for their safety when out canvassing.
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Britain's Johnson vows to fight on despite Brexit blows
AFP, Published on 08/09/2019
» LONDON: The British government insisted Sunday that Boris Johnson would fight on as prime minister despite seeing a top cabinet ally quit and his do-or-die Brexit strategy blocked by parliament.
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The last prime minister of the United Kingdom
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/07/2019
» It has been suggested that Boris Johnson (who becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom this week) is what you would get if Donald Trump had been educated at Eton and Oxford. Maybe, although there is a great gulf between Mr Trump's bombastic self-promotion and Mr Johnson's self-deprecating, rather shambolic persona.
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UK Tory hopefuls vow to succeed where May failed
AFP, Published on 25/05/2019
» LONDON: The race to become Britain's next premier opened Saturday with an array of hopefuls promising to succeed where Theresa May failed and finally pull the divided country out of the EU.
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Anger as UK's May asks yet more time for Brexit
AFP, Published on 25/02/2019
» LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday called for still more time to renegotiate her Brexit deal, and drew outrage by suggesting parliament may not be able to vote on the text until just 17 days before Britain leaves the EU.
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No respect for trees
Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/05/2018
» Re: "New Mahakan Fort saga beckons", (Editorial, April 29). What in the world is in the heads of authorities at the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, who appear hell-bent on destroying natural treasures in the form of big trees that would be the envy of park planners and managers everywhere?
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British PM faces reshuffle after top minister quits
AFP, Published on 30/04/2018
» LONDON: Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May faced the headache of another cabinet reshuffle on Monday after interior minister Amber Rudd quit having "inadvertently misled" lawmakers about deportation targets for illegal immigrants.
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UK interior minister Amber Rudd resigns in blow to PM May
AFP, Published on 30/04/2018
» LONDON - Britain's interior minister Amber Rudd resigned Sunday, admitting she "inadvertently misled" lawmakers about deportation targets, in a body blow to the government as it faces public outrage over the targeting of the so-called Windrush generation of migrants.
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UK Govt to offer Windrush generation free citizenship
AFP, Published on 24/04/2018
» LONDON - The UK government said Monday that emigrants to Britain decades ago who have been wrongly targeted over their immigration statuses will be eligible for free citizenship, as it tries to contain the continuing crisis.
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UK govt to launch crime blitz as violence spikes
AFP, Published on 09/04/2018
» LONDON - British Home Secretary Amber Rudd will vow on Monday to do "whatever it takes" to curb crime as she unveils a new multi-million pound response to a surge in violence in London and elsewhere.
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