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Assange hauled from embassy, faces US charge
Associated Press, Published on 12/04/2019
» LONDON: British police on Thursday hauled a bearded and shouting Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy where he was holed up for nearly seven years, and the US charged the WikiLeaks founder with conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to get their hands on government secrets.
West accuses Russia of global cyber-plots
Associated Press, Published on 05/10/2018
» BRUSSELS: The United States and other Western nations levelled a torrent of new allegations against Moscow's secretive GRU military spy agency on Thursday, accusing its agents of hacking anti-doping agencies, plane crash investigations and a chemical weapons probe as well as launching cyberattacks that rocked America's 2016 election and crippled Ukraine in 2017.
UK expels 23 Russian diplomats over spy poisoning
Associated Press, Published on 14/03/2018
» LONDON: Britain announced Wednesday it will expel almost two dozen Russian diplomats, sever high-level bilateral contacts with Moscow and take both open and covert action against Kremlin meddling after the poisoning of a former spy, plunging UK-Russian relations into their deepest freeze since the Cold War.
'Total joy': Granddaughter of UK Queen engaged
Associated Press, Published on 23/01/2018
» LONDON: It will be a busy year for royal weddings: Princess Eugenie is engaged to be married later this year, several months after her cousin Prince Harry's nuptials.
British PM May, Trump fuss over anti-Muslim retweets
Associated Press, Published on 01/12/2017
» LONDON: A few days after his inauguration, US President Donald Trump stood beside British Prime Minister Theresa May in the White House and proclaimed the strength of the "most special relationship" between their two countries.
Men describe rape, torture by Sri Lanka government
Associated Press, Published on 09/11/2017
» LONDON: One of the men tortured in Sri Lanka said he was held for 21 days in a small dank room where he was raped 12 times, burned with cigarettes, beaten with iron rods and hung upside-down.
US, UK, China lead boycott of UN talks on nuclear weapons ban
Associated Press, Published on 28/03/2017
» UNITED NATIONS - The United States, Russia, China and more than a score of other countries are sitting out new talks at the United Nations toward a treaty that would ban nuclear weapons.
Britain to formally trigger process to leave EU on March 29
Associated Press, Published on 20/03/2017
» LONDON - Britain's government will begin the process of leaving the European Union on March 29, starting the clock on the two years in which to complete the most important negotiation for a generation.
Thatcher laid to rest amid pomp and ceremony
Associated Press, Published on 17/04/2013
» LONDON - Margaret Thatcher, Britain's Iron Lady, was laid to rest Wednesday with a level of pomp and protest reflecting her status as a commanding, polarising political figure.