Tag: Britain
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Britain to decarbonise domestic transport by 2050
Cleaner transport will create and support highly skilled jobs, with the production of zero emission road vehicles alone having the potential to support tens of thousands of jobs worth up to 9.7 billion pound GVA in 2050.
July 14, 2021 -
Covid 3rd wave in UK ‘definitely underway’: Scientist
Epidemiologist Mike Tildesley said he is "cautiously hopeful" that hospital admissions in Britain will not be on the same scale as in January
June 20, 2021 -
British lawmakers to use legislative power to prevent Super League
Six of Britain's Premier League clubs have joined forces with six other big clubs from Italy and Spain to plan the new league.
April 21, 2021 -
Britain to increase nuclear stockpile in foreign policy reverse
A total of 191 states, including Britain, have joined the treaty.
March 17, 2021 -
India to take up racism issues with Britain when required: Jaishankar
External Affairs Minister was responding to concerns raised by a BJP MP over racism that forced Indian-origin Rashmi Samant to resign as president of the Oxford University Students Union
March 16, 2021 -
United States expected to approve low-cost AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine in April: Report
Moncef Slaoui, the chief advisor to Operation Warp Speed, the military-led US effort for vaccines, told reporters that US trials and assessments would be complete for approval "sometime in early April."
December 31, 2020 -
‘The deal is done’: Boris Johnson after Britain, European Union struck post-Brexit trade deal
'We have finally found an agreement,' the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said.
December 25, 2020 -
New coronavirus variant discovered in Britain is not yet out of control: WHO
British Health Secretary Matt Hancock had earlier claimed the new variant was "out of control", with British officials saying it was 70 per cent more transmissible than the main strain.
December 22, 2020 -
Saudi Arabia halts international flights, suspends entry through land, sea ports amid fast-spreading strain of Covid
The suspension does not apply to international aircraft currently in the kingdom, which will be allowed to leave, SPA said.
December 21, 2020 -
Merkel helms EU
The Brexit trade talks are likely to be treated as but one dimension of a bigger problem ~ shoring up the single market during a period of economic turmoil.
July 1, 2020 -
Good to Poor Economics
That’s no coincidence: a form of nationalism, particularly the corrosive idea of a munificent Britain being taken for a ride by foreigners, fuelled both campaigns.
June 22, 2020 -
Blunderbuss in UK
During February and March, opportunities to suppress the spread of the infection by introducing travel restrictions and quarantine requirements were missed, allowing the infection to be brought into the UK on at least 1,300 occasions.
June 17, 2020 -
Amid anti-racism protests Boris Johnson to set up commission to probe ‘inequality’
There have been Black Lives Matter demonstrations in cities across the United Kingdom and Europe since the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, in the United States on May 25.
June 15, 2020 -
UK’s airlines oppose government’s two-week self-quarantine move for arrivals
The UK had reported 287,621 cases of infections and has the second-highest death toll in the world at 40,625 according to Johns Hopkins University tracker.
June 8, 2020 -
Anti-racism protesters topple slave trader Edward Colston’s statue in UK
Colston grew up in a wealthy merchant family and joined a company in 1680 that had a monopoly on the west African slave trade.
June 8, 2020 -
UN Security Council to meet today to discuss Hong Kong issue
On Wednesday, Beijing had refused to allow a formal Security Council meeting called by Washington on the same subject to proceed.
May 29, 2020 -
Cry (HK) Freedom!
Last Thursday, the National People’s Congress made the announcement that it would force a law banning subversion, separatism, and acts of foreign interference on Hong Kong ~ in what critics and legal observers say is one the most blatant violations of the “one, country, two systems” framework since the handover of Hong Kong from UK to Chinese control in 1997.
May 27, 2020