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LONDON (AP) — The U.S. has been Ukraine’s biggest military backer since https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine began three years ago. The https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-trump-zelenskyy-military-aid-2ce8b167f0ba948b2b606381192de71d by the https://apnews.com/article/trump-zelenskyy-russia-ukraine-a15a459c9a3a393d040478ebbe250a9e doesn’t mean Ukraine’s defenses will quickly collapse. But [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy had written to him to say he appreciates U.S. support for his country in its https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine and [...]

LONDON (AP) — The leaders of Britain and France are https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-britain-zelenskyy-europe-starmer-trump-russia-b980170ead74a1a7914c565f14ee6cc9 to shore up Europe’s security, bolster Ukraine’s defenses and ensure the Trump administration doesn’t seek a ceasefire on terms [...]

LONDON (AP) — https://apnews.com/article/starmer-macron-uk-france-washington-trump-ukraine-5255fa5fb225145065cacdd437d6723f pledged Tuesday to raise U.K. defense spending to 2.5% of gross domestic product by 2027, saying Europe is in a new era of insecurity that requires [...]

LONDON (AP) — A new album called “Is This What We Want?” features a stellar list of more than 1,000 musicians — and the sound of silence. With contributions from [...]

LONDON (AP) — The leaders of France and Britain are making tag-team visits to Washington this week as Europe attempts to persuade https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump not to https://apnews.com/article/ten-days-that-upended-us-support-for-ukraine-8930c01a15910a7ad8a7f7c7fac9ba3a in pursuit of a [...]

LONDON (AP) — As the U.S. and Russia push ahead — so far without Ukraine at the table – on talks to end https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine, political and military leaders in Europe [...]

LONDON (AP) — A painting by street artist https://apnews.com/hub/banksy with an environmental message and an estimate of up to 5 million pounds ($6.3 million) is going up for auction, with [...]

LONDON (AP) — When Malcolm Weale saw the tiny, dirt-covered object he’d unearthed in an English field, he knew it was something special. In his hand was a silver penny [...]

LONDON (AP) — The British government on Monday touted its success in raiding businesses that employ unauthorized workers and deporting thousands of migrants with no right to stay in the [...]

LONDON (AP) — Ever since Winston Churchill coined the phrase in the wake of World War II, politicians have extolled the “special relationship” between the United States and Britain. Under [...]

LONDON (AP) — Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago. Hundreds of papyrus scrolls [...]

LONDON (AP) — https://apnews.com/article/uk-election-keir-starmer-profile-labour-e98d16e0810273f6041b61747e084aae travels to Brussels on Monday, becoming the first British prime minster to attend a https://apnews.com/c3e454c8f0959d273c2b6dd5941395e3 since the U.K. https://apnews.com/article/brexit-five-year-anniversary-uk-eu-economy-8a8b87fb3ddd9e9ac278469c291f97c1 Starmer will head to dinner with EU [...]

LONDON (AP) — https://apnews.com/article/brexit-ap-top-news-london-boris-johnson-international-news-e48bf51838ced94e2d92adba189b4944 Friday, two crowds of people gathered near Britain’s Parliament — some with Union Jacks and cheers, others https://apnews.com/hub/european-union flags and tears. On Jan. 31, 2020 at [...]

LONDON (AP) — Sixteen https://apnews.com/article/britain-democracy-protest-arrests-unwritten-constitution-616078b918e27d5098890be6f9967b14 for actions including stopping traffic, blocking an oil facility and https://apnews.com/article/london-painting-climate-and-environment-b15e0092560b290c04920620b2d7c061 went to a London court Wednesday to challenge their sentences. The Just Stop Oil [...]

LONDON (AP) — Ireland called in help from England and France as repair crews worked to restore power to hundreds of thousands of people after https://apnews.com/article/ireland-scotland-storm-eowyn-danger-wind-f0731238352bef6fe675e4cbf4d860a2. Even as the cleanup [...]

LONDON (AP) — The https://apnews.com/article/british-museum-new-director-nicholas-cullinan-57cdc7484dc131b3bdf10417b44a0bf9, the country's most popular tourist attraction, was partially closed to the public on Saturday after an employee who had been fired broke in and shut [...]

LONDON (AP) — Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. were urged to stay at home Friday as hurricane-force winds disabled power networks and brought widespread [...]

LONDON (AP) — A teenager who https://apnews.com/article/uk-stabbing-attack-southport-far-right-violence-a2e43d0d49776c138790d083713873f7 at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England was sentenced Thursday to more than 50 years in prison for what a judge called [...]

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry claimed a “monumental” victory Wednesday as Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. tabloids made an https://apnews.com/article/prince-harry-news-group-sun-apology-d95878bb3517205ce2e4c567550fb9a4 for intruding in his life for years, and agreed to pay substantial [...]

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Tuesday that https://apnews.com/article/uk-stabbing-attack-southport-far-right-violence-a2e43d0d49776c138790d083713873f7 at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class must lead to “fundamental change” in how the British state protects citizens and [...]

LONDON (AP) — https://apnews.com/hub/prince-harry lawsuit against the publisher of The Sun took another twist Tuesday when https://apnews.com/article/prince-harry-phone-hacking-lawsuit-british-tabloids-murdoch-19d9416306b49ea23c329b5c0ca1f083 by last-minute settlement negotiations. It follows https://apnews.com/article/britain-tabloid-phone-hacking-prince-harry-77f1d9b97f02e72d6a6bbc0a15129c4c over the cutthroat practices of the [...]

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s anti-corruption minister resigned on Tuesday, bowing to mounting pressure over her links to her aunt, ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister https://apnews.com/article/bangladesh-protests-who-is-sheikh-hasina-4981236268a7b4c091395ffe96cbf1a1. https://apnews.com/article/uk-bangladesh-tulip-siddiq-sheikh-hasina-bc6afcbe3c71021a3727091152d8330a said that she had been [...]

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials didn’t want to add to her worries, [...]

LONDON (AP) — Fresh from pouring his money and energies into https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-america-pac-trump-d248547966bf9c6daf6f5d332bc4be66 win re-election, https://apnews.com/hub/elon-musk has https://apnews.com/article/germany-election-musk-far-right-afd-welt-915cc6821cd48c3168a7895b1d1c1a35, setting off alarm bells among politicians across the continent. The Tesla and SpaceX [...]

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday condemned “lies and misinformation” that he said are undermining U.K. democracy, in response to a barrage of https://apnews.com/article/britain-musk-politics-child-grooming-c71ed5526145c6330bb6f67b50981787. The https://apnews.com/hub/elon-musk [...]

Byline: JILL LAWLESS; ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON -- Fixing Britain's troubled economy will be a long haul in a 'harsh' fiscal environment, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday, setting the stage [...]

Byline: JILL LAWLESS; ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON -- Adam Staples knew he'd found something when his metal detector let out a beep. And then another. And another. Soon 'it was just [...]

LONDON (AP) — When https://apnews.com/hub/global-elections/ had their say in 2024, their message was often: “You’re fired.” Some 70 countries that are home to half the world’s population held elections this [...]

LONDON (AP) — A https://apnews.com/article/germany-christmas-market-attack-magdeburg-32ec923f21cccb2a34e287da42ced921 which police are treating as an attack, is the latest in a grim series of events in which vehicles have been used as deadly weapons. [...]

LONDON (AP) — Veteran U.K. Labour Party politician Peter Mandelson will be Britain's next ambassador to Washington, people familiar with the decision said Thursday. Mandelson, who served in senior posts [...]

LONDON (AP) — British https://apnews.com/article/uk-election-keir-starmer-profile-labour-e98d16e0810273f6041b61747e084aae vowed Thursday to take on the “alliance of naysayers” and the bureaucratic “nonsense” that have hampered construction projects in the U.K., as he outlined a [...]

LONDON (AP) — An artist whose work exploring her Scottish Sikh identity includes a vintage Ford car draped in a crocheted doily won the U.K.’s prestigious https://apnews.com/article/uk-turner-prize-2024-shortlist-art-ef29d56fc2bd26241aa33b1712542f4f on Tuesday, during [...]

LONDON (AP) — Greece’s prime minister visited London on Tuesday for his first top-level U.K. meeting since a spat last year over the contested https://apnews.com/article/parthenon-vatican-return-marble-sculptures-61904ad33c9c8edf182f65c352a52829, as the British Museum said [...]

LONDON (AP) — Ireland faces weeks of coalition talks before it gets a new government, as the country’s two major center-right parties work to form a stable administration. With all [...]

DUBLIN (AP) — A marathon vote-counting exercise was underway Saturday in Ireland’s https://apnews.com/article/ireland-election-housing-immigration-gerry-hutch-harris-3952d0d0e9d71ca2049f253d90d1a99d after an exit poll suggested that the contest is a close-fought race among the country’s three largest [...]

PARIS (AP) — The head of Britain’s foreign intelligence service said Friday that Russia is conducting a “staggeringly reckless” sabotage campaign against Ukraine's Western allies, and that his spies are [...]

LONDON (AP) — British politician John Prescott, a pugnacious and personable former merchant seaman who rose to the post of deputy prime minister in Tony Blair's Labour government, has died [...]

LONDON (AP) — Australian writer Richard Flanagan completed an unprecedented literary double on Tuesday, winning Britain’s leading https://apnews.com/article/baillie-gifford-nonfiction-book-prize-6c46586098720292f17b8c55d13453e2 a decade after being awarded the https://apnews.com/article/britain-booker-prize-winner-7d2de84490e136f62295dd89f2344240 for fiction. Flanagan was awarded [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — Whether on the left or the right, regardless of how long they’ve been in power, sitting governments around the world have been drubbed this year by disgruntled [...]

LONDON (AP) — Musicians, collectors and fans have a chance to own a guitar god’s tools of the trade — instruments owned by the late https://apnews.com/article/jeff-beck-dies-6fafc82a3f8fe8e27d6f6e39a215e28d are going up for [...]

LONDON (AP) — Archbishop of Canterbury https://apnews.com/article/justin-welby-resigns-archbishop-of-canterbury-abuse-2ab9cab63572f5062b5a5588698fe492, the head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, resigned Tuesday amid the fallout from a long-running [...]

LONDON (AP) — Frank Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany for Britain as a child and became one of the major artists of the 20th century, has died at 93. Auerbach’s [...]

LONDON (AP) — An opponent of vaccines who wrote social media posts urging violence against scientists, politicians and public health officials during the https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic was sentenced Monday to five years [...]

LONDON (AP) — The https://apnews.com/article/election-day-trump-harris-white-house-83c8e246ab97f5b97be45cdc156af4e2 was more decisive than most pollsters and pundits had predicted. Now the world waits to see whether the election of Donald Trump as president https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-wins-second-term-policies-de3dcf0f173b42602b258042fd7aaafb [...]

LONDON (AP) — People-smuggling gangs sending migrants across the https://apnews.com/article/britain-rwanda-migration-refugee-law-1218d54d8f3fdf5a37d4367dbe625adf are a serious threat to global security and should be treated like terror networks, British https://apnews.com/hub/keir-starmer told an international law-enforcement [...]

LONDON (AP) — The first Black woman to lead a major U.K. political party, Kemi Badenoch is an upbeat and outspoken libertarian who thinks the British state is broken — [...]

LONDON (AP) — https://apnews.com/article/uk-conservative-leader-kemi-badenoch-profile-bd73343d5508fc7aa936471629f5730b was named leader of Britain's opposition https://apnews.com/article/uk-conservatives-leadership-badenoch-jenrick-5429e43362dc0898903fb129d934758a on Saturday, as the party tries to rebound from a https://apnews.com/article/uk-election-starmer-sunak-takeaways-cd06c020ad1d3db6d937b0e51981ae81 that ended its 14 years in power. The [...]

LONDON (AP) — A British ban on protesting outside https://apnews.com/hub/abortion clinics went into effect on Thursday, though it left a question mark over whether anti-abortion demonstrators who pray silently will [...]

LONDON (AP) — British Treasury chief Rachel Reeves raised taxes Wednesday by around 40 billion pounds ($52 billion) to plug a https://apnews.com/article/public-finances-2f91d97b06392e00941d3b61ae253366 and fund the U.K.'s cash-starved public services, in [...]