Tag: British
British PM delivers statement following Queen’s death
British Prime Minister Liz Truss has delivered a statement from Downing Street following the announcement from Buckingham Palace that the Queen died earlier this afternoon. “It is a day of great loss, but Queen Elizabeth II leaves a great legacy,” she said, and went on to pay tribute to Britain’s longest serving monarch. “Britain is the great country it is today thanks to her… She…
Search continues for Indigenous expert, British writer in Brazil
A British journalist and an Indigenous affairs official are still missing in a remote part of Brazil’s Amazon, as authorities said they were expanding search efforts in the area, which has seen violent conflicts between fishermen, poachers, and government agents. Dom Phillips, a regular contributor to British newspaper The Guardian, and Indigenous expert Bruno Araujo Pereira were last seen early on Sunday in the Sao…
Can Boris Johnson regain the trust of British people? | Inside Story
After surviving a vote of confidence, the UK prime minister says it’s time to move on from questions about his leadership. But the scale of the rebellion means some government ministers and aides voted against Boris Johnson in the secret ballot, while supporting him in public. Not since Margaret Thatcher’s leadership challenge in 1990 has there been such a narrow margin. 211 Conservative MPs voted…
Grandmother 'horrified' by Russian capture of British fighter in Ukraine – BBC News
A British man who has served in the Ukrainian marines for a number of years has been captured by Russian soldiers. Aiden Aslin was fighting in the besieged city of Mariupol when his unit ran low on ammunition. He phoned his family back in the UK to explain his surrender and the next time they saw him he was being paraded on Russian television in…
British boxer turned Manila ‘drug baron’ faces life in prison for running red-light district gang
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube A boxer and ex-convict from East London faces life in prison in the Philippines on accusations that he was the head of a gang that waged a “reign of terror” that included kidnapping, extortion and drug trafficking, over a Makati red-light district. Darren Wall was arrested on March 23, 2022, alongside his wife, 23-year-old Kharney Jane…
Sanctions on oligarchs: British gov't plans to speed up process
Britain’s government says it is moving quickly to lock up the UK-based fortunes of billionaires with links to the Kremlin. But critics say it is not happening fast enough, allowing oligarchs to shift assets before sanctions bite. Al Jazeera’s @Neave Barker reports from London, United Kingdom. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera –…