Hong Kong activists find U.K.'s offer of sanctuary comes at a price
Some have arrived through a route that grants immigration officers discretion to allow entry for six months, but are now trapped with no job and no cash, reliant on hand-outs.
Northern Ireland is the first test of the post-Brexit order
Trade deals, like peace agreements, aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on without good faith vested in their implementation. Just weeks after the Brexit trade agreement entered into force, intentions over the part of the deal that applies to Northern Ireland have been called into ...
Quarantines crushing air travel are getting longer and lonelier
Even as vaccines embolden countries to plot paths to reopening, authorities around the world are tightening the screws to stop COVID-19 mutations from slipping through quarantine.
First vaccine dose cuts transmission and hospitalization, U.K. studies find
Data from two separate studies published in the U.K. on Monday, one in England and another in Scotland, have shown that vaccines against COVID-19 are effective in cutting disease transmission and hospitalizations from the first dose. Analysis from Public Health England has shown the vaccine ...
Britain’s next answer to COVID-19 is to prepare to live with it
The U.K. plan is a pilot for whether nations can do enough to end damaging lockdowns and essentially learn to live with the disease.
Half London boroughs using Chinese surveillance tech linked to Uyghur abuses
At least half of London's boroughs have bought and deployed China-made surveillance systems linked to the abuse of Uyghurs, according to data exclusively given to the Thomson Reuters Foundation, raising alarm among privacy advocates and lawmakers. Freedom of information requests filed in late 2020 with ...
Spin doctors target Hong Kongers seeking U.K. visas
The U.K. is being portrayed in China-friendly Hong Kong newspaper editorials and online chat rooms as an undesirable place to live.
Nearly 5,000 Hong Kong citizens sign up for new U.K. visa, report says
Nearly 5,000 Hong Kong citizens have applied for visas to live, work and study in the United Kingdom since changes that make it easier for people in the Asian financial hub to be granted entry, The Times newspaper reported. Britain changed its visa application program ...
Thousands of people rallied in Yangon, with protesters blockading roads with vehicles to stop security forces from moving around the commercial capital.
It's time to replace the outmoded G7
There is talk of permanently expanding the old inner group into a larger team of like-minded countries, reflecting the new realities of world power, as well as the new dangers.
U.K. firms find Brexit reality involves more red tape and less control
With the country now out of the European Union, companies that trade with the continent are contending with expensive disruptions to their businesses.
The news follows Markle's disclosure in The New York Times in November that she had suffered a miscarriage in July.
