Nationalist leaders from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are set to hold talks in Cardiff on Monday over possible moves towards independence or separation from the United Kingdom. The meeting is the
The BJP, India’s ruling party, has reignited interest in the decades-old relationship between Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, and Edwina Mountbatten, the wife of the last viceroy of India, Louis Mountbatten.
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by Xinhua writer Zheng Bofei The British government has announced a 2-billion-pound (about 2.59-billion-U.S. dollar) reduction in its Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget, reducing foreign aid spending from 0.58 percent of Gross
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Every new government, whether in Sri Lanka or the United Kingdom, arrives with certain ambitions: to prove its independence and cut through red tape and bureaucracy within a short period. In the
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Not a month has passed since the new Labour government came to power in the UK on 5 July 2024, in a landslide victory, heralding a change after 14 years of Conservative
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by Xinhua writers Larry Neild, Zheng Bofei Although Britain’s new Labour government tries to exude optimism in their economic policies, their policy may still result in unwanted effects, British experts said here
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In an unprecedented situation in Europe during the last several years, mob violence and riots have now taken place in Leeds, UK, with mobs burning buses and damaging public property. Particularly shocking
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“A week is a long time in politics,” said former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the 1950s. Labour’s recent election victory in the UK, along with the elections in France and
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It is a mark of the significance of this general election that a result predicted for months still brings with it a sense of uncertainty about what will follow. On paper, there
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While waiting for a train on my station platform, I posed a question to a burly, British woman fellow passenger about her thoughts on the electioneering so far. I asked whether she
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No one expected an early election, a “GennyLex,” not even the Tory MPs. The announcement of a snap election, delivered in the pouring rain outside No.10 Downing Street without even a spare
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced on Wednesday that the country will hold its general election on July 4.
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Rishi Sunak has received a stark warning of a potential landslide election victory for the Labour Party as both sides gear up for the next by-election in Wellingborough. This safe seat was
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On November 9, in a joint statement, the dock workers and transport workers affiliated with the Unione Sindicale di Base (USB) in Italy, Nakliyat Is union in Turkey, ENEDEP-COSCO Dockers Union of
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The British government announced a “historic” health workforce plan on June 30, aiming to address the chronic shortage of health workers over the next 15 years. The plan foresees an investment of £2.4 billion
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The United States of America (US) must be one of the most incompetent, brutal and arrogant imperial powers in history. For Its hubris and gradual decline, the only counterpart is the Spanish
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