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LONDON: Britain's former finance minister Rishi Sunak confirmed on Sunday he was standing to replace Liz Trussas prime minister. "The United Kingdom is a great country but we face a profound economic crisis," he said on Twitter.…

UNITED KINGDOM: Testing rules for Covid-19 in the UK will be relaxed in a bid to shorten isolation periods and counter staffing shortages, the Telegraph reported. British health officials have made plans to limit PCR tests to symptomatic…

A disabled equestrian showjumper in the United Kingdom won the right to millions of pounds in damages on Wednesday after claiming she should not have been born. Evie Toombes, 20, a spina bifida victim since birth — a condition where a…

LONDON: Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged the UN COP26 climate summit in Glasgow to take the necessary steps to cut carbon emissions and adapt to the changing climate, saying the conference has been "failing the…

THE HAGUE: Police around the world arrested 150 suspects involved in buying or selling illegal goods online in one of the largest-ever stings targeting the dark web, Europol said Tuesday. Operation DarkHunTOR also recovered millions of…

HONG KONG: Hong Kong's government said it would upgrade 15 overseas places including the United States, Spain and France to "high risk" from "medium risk" by August 20, meaning international arrivals from those countries will face…

UNITED NATIONS: The Delta variant, the significantly more transmissible strain of Covid-19, is expected to become a “dominant lineage” if current trends continue, the WHO has warned after it was reported in 85 countries and continues to…

LONDON: The United Kingdom recorded 10,633 new cases of Covid-19 on Monday, up from the 9,284 the day before, the government said in its daily statistical update. A further five people died within 28 days of testing positive for the…

BRUSSELS: President Joe Biden makes his entrance at a Nato summit aiming to consult European allies on efforts to counter provocative actions by China and Russia while highlighting the US commitment to the 30-country alliance that was…

A swarm of cicadas on Wednesday delayed a White House press plane carrying dozens of journalists to the United Kingdom for US president Joe Biden's first foreign trip. The flight was delayed by seven hours after Brood X cicadas disrupted…