John R. PlattHundreds of activists and campaigners gather in London's Parliament Square for 'Extinction Rebellion' protest against the inaction of the British government in the face of climate change and ecological collapse. Protesters declared a...
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A new report indicates that Russia used the same social media trolling techniques that it used in the 2016 Presidential election to attempt to influence the recently concluded E.U. legislative elections:
LONDON — European authorities blamed...
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London (AFP) – Rafael Benitez will leave Newcastle United after three years as manager when his contract expires next week, the Premier League club confirmed on Monday.
“It is with disappointment that we announce manager Rafael Benitez...
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Facebook’s head of global spin and policy, former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, will give a speech later today providing more detail of the company’s plan to set up an ‘independent’ external oversight board to which...
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Sometimes you need an outside opinion. Whether it's on the fit of a shirt, a concerning medical diagnosis, or a sinking suspicion that the rest of the world is laughing at you, we all need that person who will tell it to us straight.
The United...
“I don’t think they want to hear
about that kind of thing.” That’s how Boris Johnson, the man about to become
the United Kingdom’s prime minister whether the public likes it or not, responded
when a journalist obliquely invited him to...
Fasthosts registers all its customers' .uk domain names – just for safekeeping, you understand Analysis For a £100m windfall that apparently doesn't exist, the release of millions of valuable .uk domain names is stirring a lot of activity in...
While the British government has consistently accused Russia of interfering in the 2016 national referendum on the UK's withdrawal from the EU by using fake accounts on social media, Facebook, which has conducted multiple investigations into the...
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LONDON—The hulk of Grenfell Tower, its charred sides covered by sheets of white plastic, stands as a mute and ominous testament to the disposability of the poor and the primacy of corporate profit. On June 14, 2017, a fire leaped up the sides of...
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The former foreign secretary, meanwhile, is leading in the polls after being backed by 126 conservative MPs and winning the first and second rounds of voting for the leadership. Current UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt garnered second place.
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London (Informed Comment) – Donald Trump’s increasingly aggressive stance towards the Islamic Republic of Iran to supposedly curtail its nuclear capabilities is doomed to fail, as the regime is becoming more hard-line and will become more...
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Discount offer expires tonight so hurry, hurry, hurry Event If you want to learn how organisations like Lego, Well pharmacy and Bayer are putting AWS Lambda, Function as a Service (FaaS), and Azure Functions to work, you should join us at...
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On 8 May, a year after the US exited the Iran nuclear deal, Tehran partially suspended its obligations under the JCPOA. On the same day, Iran gave the other treaty signatories - China, the EU, France, Germany, Russia and the UK - an ultimatum, that...
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"The unidentified woman, who lives in London, is in her 20s and has the mental capacity of a 6- to 9-year-old child.... 'I am acutely conscious of the fact that for the state to order a woman to have a termination where it appears that she doesn’t...
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It hasn’t been a great couple of years for Neil Woodford — and it has been just as miserable for the people who have entrusted money to his investment funds. Mr Woodford was probably the most celebrated stockpicker in the UK, but recently his...
Authored by Chris Hedges via Truthdig,
On Friday morning I was in a small courtroom at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. Julian Assange, held in Belmarsh Prison and dressed in a pale-blue prison shirt, appeared on a video screen directly...
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The US president and the mayor of the British capital have long been exchanging jabs, but tensions peaked recently amid Donald Trump’s state visit. In addition to accusing Sadiq Khan of doing a "terrible job" in the city and calling him “a stone...
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Concerns are growing in the Trump administration over Turkey and India's adamant decision to buy the Russian-made S-400. Indian military observer Rakesh Krishnan Simha and UK-based geopolitical analyst Adam Garrie have shared their views on whether...
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The reports about the UK deployment come against the backdrop of British Minister for the Middle East Andrew Murrison’s visit to Iran to de-escalate tensions.
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Military police have launched an investigation upon becoming aware of a video allegedly showing a Marine sitting on a toilet with a swastika scrawled on his chest.
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