LONDON: A rapid national audit of grooming gangs ordered by UK PM Keir Starmer in February 2025, following pressure from Elon Musk and published late Monday, has found that UK police and councils deliberately concealed the Asian ethnicity of the perpetrators to avoid “appearing racist” and to avoid “raising community tensions”.In two-thirds of cases of […]
Donald Trump will leave theG7 summit a day early, White House confirms US President Donald Trump will cut short his visit to the Group of Seven summit in Canada and leave on Monday night due to the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, the White House announced.“Because of what’s going on in the Middle East, […]
File photo: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer Britain is deploying fighter jets and other “assets” to the Middle East amid an escalating conflict between Iran and Israel, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Saturday. “We are moving assets to the region, including jets, and that is for contingency support,” Starmer told reporters travelling with him […]
UK prime minister Keir Starmer (Image credit: AP) LONDON: Britain announced it will build 12 new attack submarines as it was set to unveil Monday a major defence review to deal with “growing” Russian aggression and the changing nature of warfare.Prime Minister Keir Starmer told BBC radio that “there is greater instability on defence and […]
Representative Image (AI-generated) Nearly 200 migrants trying to cross the Channel from France to Britain in small boats were rescued between late Friday and late Saturday, French coastal authorities said.A total 184 people were picked up in four different rescue operations, the maritime prefecture for France’s Channel and northern region said in a statement on […]
Representative Image (AI-generated) A private train operator servicing parts of southern England, including London, on Sunday became the first to be returned to public ownership under a government plan to renationalise Britain’s much-maligned railways.All UK rail operators are due to be renationalised within the next two years in a key policy launched by Prime Minister […]
Johann Wadephul (Deutscher Bundestag) US President Donald Trump can feel vindicated: Germany‘s new foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, said this week that the government had accepted the president’s demand to invest 5% of GDP in defense. Speaking at a meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Antalya, Turkey, on Thursday, Wadephul also said Germany would support Nato’s […]
UK PM Keir Starmer (File photo) A 21-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life following a fire at a property linked to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, local media reported. The fire occurred early on Monday at Starmer’s former family home in Kentish Town, north London, which he […]
US president Donald Trump on Thursday confirmed a trade framework with the United Kingdom that reduces tariffs on autos and metals while keeping the baseline 10% tariff as it is. The announcement followed a phone call with UK prime minister Keir Starmer. Under the plan, US tariffs on British cars will drop from 27.5% to […]
File photo: Nigel Farage, Leader of Reform UK RUNCORN: Britain’s hard-right anti-immigrant Reform UK party is seeking to prove it is a credible political force in local elections this week that will test the popularity of Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer.Nigel Farage‘s upstart party is pushing to pick up scores of council and mayoral seats, […]
