LONDON (AA) – British MP Jeremy Corbyn was harassed by a group of pro-Israeli protesters outside the venue of an anti-racism conference. The incident took place when Corbyn, a prominent former Labour Party leader, was about to enter the building. Some members of the group approached him, shouting and accusing him of antisemitism ahead of...
LONDON (AA) – Britain has condemned the recent statement by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich proposing annexation of the occupied West Bank. “I condemn (Israeli Finance) Minister (Bezalel) Smotrich’s comments proposing annexation of land in the West Bank,” Hamish Falconer, the UK’s minister for the Middle East ...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) — UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told the parliament that Israel is not committing a genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. During the Prime Minister’s Questions at the House of Commons, Independent lawmaker Ayoub Khan raised comments from Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who recently claimed that the term genoci...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UK launched its first government-backed four-day workweek trial on Monday, allowing over 1,000 employees to work fewer days without a pay cut. Seventeen businesses, including the British Society for Immunology and Crate Brewery, will test shorter schedules, with some opting for a nine-day fortnight model, according to...
ISTANBUL (AA) – King Charles III has acknowledged “painful aspects” of British colonial rule amid calls for slavery reparations. This came during an address to leaders and representatives of 56 Commonwealth nations at a summit in Samoa Pacific nation. In a veiled reference to past slavery across Asia, Africa and the Caribbean during the Britis...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Official statistics on anti-Muslim hate crimes in the UK fail to reflect the true scale of the problem, as many incidents go unreported due to lack of trust in authorities, says a British academic. Peter Hopkins, a professor of social geography at Newcastle University, says that anti-Muslim hate crimes in the UK […...
LONDON (AA) – The British government has assured parliament that there are no active UK export permits for items Israel could use in ways that violate international law. “There are currently no extant UK export licences,” UK Development Minister Anneliese Dodds said during a House of Commons session. In response to questions from l...
ISTANBUL (AA) – British King Charles III faced protest by an Indigenous lawmaker in Australia, telling the monarch the southern Pacific nation was not his land. Clad in a fur cloak, Senator Lidia Thorpe raised her voice to make Charles listen to her statement after the monarch delivered his speech in the Australian parliament. Secret [&h...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The US and UK air forces carried out 15 airstrikes, targeting the capital Sanaa, and Saada province in northern Yemen, Al-Masirah TV reported on Thursday. The Houthi group-run media outlet reported that “US-UK aggressors conducted six raids” across northern and southern Sanaa. The broadcaster added that th...
LONDON (AA) – The UK government is considering imposing sanctions on two Israeli ministers in response to inflammatory comments supporting Israeli settlers in the West Bank who have carried out attacks on Palestinians. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed the government is “looking at that”, during Prime Minister’s Questio...
