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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) — 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 [...]

DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland is voting Friday in https://apnews.com/article/ireland-election-housing-immigration-gerry-hutch-harris-3952d0d0e9d71ca2049f253d90d1a99d that will decide the next government — and will show whether Ireland bucks the global trend of https://apnews.com/article/global-elections-2024-incumbents-defeated-c80fbd4e667de86fe08aac025b333f95 by disgruntled voters [...]

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) — British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station that ponders the [...]

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 [...]

LONDON (AP) — https://apnews.com/general-news-0bbbb18a01f144649225569f1fb81f49, the subtle fictional spymaster navigating treacherous Cold War currents, is back. And so, somewhat surprisingly, is his creator, John le Carré. Four years after the spy [...]

LONDON (AP) — The imagination of https://apnews.com/hub/tim-burton has produced ghosts and ghouls, Martians, monsters and misfits — all on display at an exhibition that is opening in London just in [...]

LONDON (AP) — Like his ancestors for centuries, the Earl of Devon serves in Parliament, helping to make the laws of the land. But not for much longer. British lawmakers [...]

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s new Labour Party government is announcing billions of pounds in investment in U.K. artificial intelligence, life sciences and infrastructure on Monday at a business summit attended [...]

LONDON (AP) — British https://apnews.com/article/uk-election-keir-starmer-profile-labour-e98d16e0810273f6041b61747e084aae marks 100 days in office Saturday with little cause for celebration. Starmer’s center-left Labour Party https://apnews.com/article/uk-elections-2024-result-labour-starmer-exit-sunak-e94f379ea893ec17711fd82cec03b603 on July 4, sweeping back to power after 14 [...]

LONDON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived at 10 Downing St. in London on Thursday for talks with the leaders of Britain and NATO on his https://apnews.com/article/zelenskyy-peace-plan-biden-russia-ukraine-d5e0d1aa9bf7d17e13609c2564d26489 for the [...]

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s opposition Conservative Party will choose either Robert Jenrick or Kemi Badenoch to be its next leader, after a third contender was dramatically knocked out of the [...]

LONDON (AP) — Britain is facing a “staggering rise” in attempts at assassination, sabotage and other crimes on U.K. soil by Russia and Iran, as the two states recruit criminals [...]

LONDON (AP) — Islanders who were forced to leave their https://apnews.com/article/europe-africa-oceans-indian-ocean-mauritius-dc988539dae370eb35635358718bbc02 to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago protested outside the U.K. Parliament on Monday [...]

BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — The four https://apnews.com/article/uk-conservatives-leadership-contest-0afda9700815f769fec545761878710c Britain’s Conservative Party took turns in the spotlight on Wednesday, each claiming to be the one who can lead the right-of-center party back [...]

LONDON (AP) — A cruise ship taking passengers on a 3 ½-year around-the-world voyage finally sailed from Belfast's dockside, after spending https://apnews.com/article/odyssey-cruise-ship-stuck-belfast-af1c1665445d53f653bb1a9c78b5cf57 in the Northern Ireland capital. Passengers cheered, applauded [...]

Byline: JILL LAWLESS, PETER MORRISON; ASSOCIATED PRESS BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND -- Lanette Canen and Johan Bodin gave up life on land to become seaborne nomads on a years-long cruise. Months [...]

Byline: JILL LAWLESS, BRIAN MELLEY; ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON -- British Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the 'tiny mindless minority' behind unrest that has plagued several cities after a horrific stabbing [...]

Byline: JILL LAWLESS; ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON -- Six American writers including Rachel Kushner, Percival Everett and Tommy Orange are among 13 semi-finalists announced Tuesday for the prestigious Booker Prize for [...]

Byline: BRIAN MELLEY, JILL LAWLESS; ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON -- Bloodied children ran screaming from a dance and yoga class 'like a scene from a horror movie' to escape a teenager's [...]

Byline: BRIAN MELLEY, JILL LAWLESS; ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON -- Britain's new Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, vowed Friday to reverse the hopelessness that grew over 14 years of Conservative rule and [...]

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s last coal-fired power plant is closing on Monday, https://apnews.com/article/high-court-rejects-uk-coal-mine-whitehaven-83b9b7ceedebee1b70927667987b4dd7 that sparked the Industrial Revolution. The Ratcliffe-on-Soar station in central England is finishing its final shift at [...]

LONDON (AP) — Members of Britain’s defeated and divided Conservative Party gathered Sunday for an annual conference dominated by the https://apnews.com/article/uk-conservatives-leadership-contest-0afda9700815f769fec545761878710c capable of bringing the right-of-center party back from a [...]

LONDON (AP) — https://apnews.com/hub/maggie-smith, the https://apnews.com/article/maggie-smith-films-list-d2b8b151aa674193a0e8feb8ebfc697e who won an Oscar for the 1969 film “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and gained new fans in the 21st century as the [...]

LONDON (AP) — The managing director of Harrods said Thursday that the London department store is “deeply sorry” for failing employees who say they were sexually assaulted by late owner [...]

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — British https://apnews.com/article/uk-election-keir-starmer-profile-labour-e98d16e0810273f6041b61747e084aae tried to shake off his image as a gloom-monger on Tuesday, telling voters exhausted by years of political and economic turmoil that better times [...]

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — British https://apnews.com/article/uk-britain-chancellor-reeves-labour-economy-ea66e2864b4506a465be99d2211b9e4e promised on Monday not to return to an era of public spending cuts despite the dire state of the U.K.’s national finances, as she [...]

LONDON (AP) — This should be a time of celebration for Britain’s Labour Party, which opens its annual conference Sunday less than three months after https://apnews.com/article/uk-elections-2024-result-labour-starmer-exit-sunak-e94f379ea893ec17711fd82cec03b603 after 14 years in [...]

LONDON (AP) — Less than three months after he was elected on a promise to restore trust in politics, British https://apnews.com/article/uk-election-keir-starmer-profile-labour-e98d16e0810273f6041b61747e084aae is trying to shake off criticism over donations from [...]

ROME (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister https://apnews.com/article/uk-election-keir-starmer-profile-labour-e98d16e0810273f6041b61747e084aae met Italian https://apnews.com/hub/giorgia-meloni in Rome on Monday, as the center-left British leader aimed to learn how her right-wing government has achieved “dramatic declines” [...]

LONDON (AP) — The United States and Britain formally accused Iran on Tuesday of https://apnews.com/article/russia-iran-ukraine-ballistic-missiles-us-intelligence-1e637abe11396989c641fa5bf3f57b24 to Russia to use against Ukraine, announcing new sanctions on Moscow and Tehran before a [...]

LONDON (AP) — British https://apnews.com/article/uk-election-keir-starmer-profile-labour-e98d16e0810273f6041b61747e084aae faced a battle of nerves with his Labour Party on Tuesday, winning a parliamentary vote on a contentious decision to cut a payment that helps [...]