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U.K.

Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 3, 2019
U.K. crime agency arrests two over arranging illegal migrant crossings of English Channel
The U.K.'s National Crime Agency has made two arrests on suspicion of arranging illegal movement of migrants across the English Channel into Britain.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 26, 2018
For Nigel Farage and a Brexit pollster, a world of gamblers and gambling
Behind the luxury hotels lining London's Park Lane, just across from a service entrance, Nigel Farage stood outside a squat office building streaked with soot. Britain's famous anti-European Union campaigner was flanked by a couple of minor sports celebrities and two young women in matching dresses who...
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 25, 2018
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe mulls visiting Twickenham Stadium, home of England rugby team
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering visiting Twickenham Stadium, home of the England rugby team, during his trip to the U.K. in January, it has been learned.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 24, 2018
Huawei gear pulled from $3 billion U.K. police phone network
Huawei Technologies Co. gear will be ripped out of the core part of a U.K. communications network for police and other emergency responders by the company delivering the £2.3 billion ($3 billion) project, BT Group PLC.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 22, 2018
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn says he would seek to renegotiate Brexit terms if he won snap election
British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn will push ahead with Brexit and seek to renegotiate the terms if he wins a snap election next year, he said Saturday, in a blow to party supporters who want a second referendum.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 20, 2018
Russian whistle-blower probably died in 2012 of natural causes, U.K. inquest finds
A Russian mafia whistle-blower who was found dead after going out for a run near his home in southern England six years ago probably died of natural causes rather than from an elaborate poison plot, a British coroner found on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 19, 2018
'Very pregnant' U.K. duchess Meghan Markle makes Christmas trip to care home
Meghan Markle, Britain's Duchess of Sussex, joked she was feeling "very pregnant" as she carried out a solo official engagement on Tuesday, a day after her father had made headlines by pleading with her to get in touch with him.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 17, 2018
The children take over at Westminster
If MPs vote against the one compromise proposal that is on the table, they will, with absolute certainty, be voting for chaotic impasse, with an outcome very likely to be the very opposite of what they intended.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 17, 2018
Uber welcomes while unions criticize U.K. plan to maintain flexible gig economy
Uber Technologies Inc. welcomed on Monday the British government's response to a review into workplace rights, which looks set to preserve the business models of gig economy companies, but unions criticized the business ministry's plans.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 13, 2018
Theresa May's victory in party no-confidence ballot is a vote against a no-deal Brexit
Conservative lawmakers in the U.K. voted on one question, but decided another. Their choice may not make the path for an orderly Brexit any easier, but it may make a disorderly Brexit a little less likely.
EDITORIALS
Dec 12, 2018
Britain gets time, but Brexit options not improving
British Prime Minister Theresa May has gained time, but she still has no good options. Parliament is not going to pass the deal on the table; the EU is not going to reopen it.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 11, 2018
An exasperated British lawmaker just broke one of Parliament's oldest rules
It was all so calm, so British.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 10, 2018
Theresa May calls off key vote on Brexit deal to avoid huge defeat, source says
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is calling off a crucial vote in Parliament on whether to approve her Brexit deal, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 6, 2018
Theresa May really has reaped what she sowed
The British prime minister's effort to sideline parliament has failed and now it's hard to tell who's at the wheel of Brexit.
EDITORIALS
Dec 5, 2018
The Brexit debate takes shape
Failure to reach a deal with the EU, for whatever reason, would be a disaster for the U.K.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 4, 2018
Britain can end Brexit unilaterally, EU court adviser says
The European Court of Justice's advocate general said on Tuesday Britain has the right to withdraw its Brexit notice from the European Union unilaterally.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 4, 2018
Spy boss says U.K. must decide if Huawei is suitable for 5G network
Alex Younger, head of the U.K.'s foreign intelligence agency MI6, said Theresa May's government must decide if Chinese-owned Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. should be barred from running fifth-generation telecom networks in Britain.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 1, 2018
Another minister quits over May's Brexit deal
British science and universities minister, Sam Gyimah, quit Prime Minister Theresa May's government on Friday, the sixth minister to resign in protest of her proposed Brexit deal with the European Union.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 29, 2018
Bank of England chief goes further than U.K. government in gloomy Brexit analysis
Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney has never shied away from doomsday Brexit warnings, but in his latest analysis he has gone further than ever.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2018
EU, Britain agree on draft deal on future relations but Gibraltar issue clouds final OK
Britain and the European Union have agreed a draft text setting out a close post-Brexit relationship, though wrangling with Spain over control of Gibraltar must still be settled before EU leaders meet Sunday in order to rubber-stamp the pact.

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