3 min read Last Updated : May 20 2024 | 6:04 PM IST Overseas embassies based in London owe a staggering GBP (British pounds) 143,527,113 in outstanding congestion charge payments. Nearly 6 per cent of this is owed by the Office of the High Commissioner for India, at GBP 8,551,835. The total congestion...
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UK court permits WikiLeaks founder to appeal extradition to US | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
A court in Britain has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal an extradition order to the United States on espionage charges. This means that he will not be sent to the US any time soon. US authorities have charged Assange, who founded the whistle-blowing website, over the release of a huge trove of...
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrest would not end Gaza war, says Britain
“As we have said from the outset, we do not think the ICC has jurisdiction in this case. The UK has not yet recognised Palestine as a state, and Israel is not a State Party to the Rome Statute.” The ICC relies on its member countries to carry out arrests on their territory. Labour called...
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South Korea, Britain host AI summit with safety top of agenda – World News
SEOUL South Korea and Britain kick off a major international summit on artificial intelligence in Seoul this week, where governments plan to press tech firms on AI safety. The meeting is a follow-up to the inaugural global AI safety summit at Bletchley Park in Britain last year, where dozens of countries voiced their fears to...
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UK’s post-Brexit border arrangements to cost $6 bn after repeated delays
2 min read Last Updated : May 20 2024 | 9:05 AM IST The British government estimates it will spend at least 4.7 billion pounds ($6 billion) on implementing post Brexit border arrangements, after repeated delays in setting new rules, parliament’s spending watchdog said on Monday. Britain voted to leave the European...
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UK owes Caribbean nations £205bn in reparations, says Cambridge academic
Britain owes Caribbean nations more than £200 billion in slavery reparations, a leading academic has claimed. Rev Dr Michael Banner, the Dean of Trinity College Cambridge, said the UK was once “the leading slaving nation in the world”, and that the modern-day descendants of slaves deserved compensation. In a new book, Britain’s Slavery Debt, the...
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Search for Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter complicated by rain
Russian President Vladimir Putin is said to have been closely monitoring the situation in northwestern Iran. “Mr. Putin, the President of Russia, has been closely monitoring the developments since the start of this accident,” Igor Levitin, an adviser to Putin, told the Iranian vice president. “Tonight, I convey his message of solidarity, concern, and sympathy...
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Home Office in threat to deport disabled man to Nigeria after 38 years in UK
A disabled man who has lived in the UK for 38 years has been threatened with removal from the UK by the Home Office. Anthony Olubunmi George, 61, came to the UK at the age of 24 in 1986 from Nigeria. He has not left the UK since and has no criminal convictions. In 2019,...
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Fears that fire ants with painful sting will arrive in UK due to climate change
Fire ants and skin-burning plants are expected to invade Britain’s shores as climate change brings more extreme weather to the UK. Nature groups, including The Rivers Trust, Plantlife and Buglife, are calling on the Government to do more to stop a “flood of new nature invaders arriving and spreading” across the country. Over the past...
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Meghan Markle ‘unbothered’ after being named ‘most hated celebrity’ in UK but Prince Harry is not…
Meghan Markle may not be Britain’s favourite, but her recent dip in popularity rankings in a survey has raised eyebrows globally. A poll slammed her and Harry with the title of “most disliked celebrities” on British soil, but Meghan’s not letting it rain on her parade. According to a PR Guru, she’s taking it with...
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We’ve got the talent and the tech. So why can’t Britain grow its own world-beaters? | Will Hutton
Britain had it in its power to be a genuine hi-tech superpower. Instead, the opportunity slipped through our fingers, as we have been “tech-stripped” on a monumental scale. On one estimate, up to half the FTSE 100 could now be populated by vigorous British tech companies but those are all now foreign owned with one exception,...
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WORLD: BRITAIN’S FALSE DAWN
In April, Susan Hall, the Conservative Party’s candidate to replace London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan, posted a photograph on X (formerly Twitter) that Khan was planning to charge motorists for every mile that they would drive in the capital — already one of the most expensive places in the world to drive a car in....