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British Islamic preacher Anjem Choudary is sentenced to life in prison with a minimum sentence of 28 years for directing the al-Muhajiroun militant network.
2024-07-30

The Woolwich Crown Court finds British Pakistani Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary guilty of directing the proscribed terrorist network Al-Muhajiroun.
2024-07-23

The United Kingdom's Defence Ministry confirms that it has supplied Ukraine with Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
2023-05-11

The Department of Health and Social Care reports 4,342 new confirmed cases and 717 more deaths from COVID-19, bringing the UK's death toll to 11,329 and 88,621 total cases.
2020-04-13

Abu Qatada, a Palestinian Muslim cleric allegedly affiliated with al-Qaeda, is deported from the United Kingdom to Jordan to face charges of terrorism.
2013-07-7

British–Italian fraudster Giovanni Di Stefano is sentenced to 14 years in jail for fraud.
2013-03-28

Secretary of State for Transport Justine Greening gives the go-ahead for HS2, a £33bn high-speed rail line that will eventually link several major cities in the United Kingdom to London and enabling quicker journey times.
2012-01-10

The al-Shabaab Islamist militant group in Somalia says a ban on aid groups working in parts of the country remains.
2011-07-22

Britain is to tighten the rules on immigrants entering the country on a student visa in a clampdown on a system which some security experts say has been exploited by Islamist militants.
2010-02-7

Britain is set to ban a Muslim group, Al-Muhajiroun, also known as Islam4UK, that recently caused outrage by proposing a demonstration in the town that receives the bodies of British war dead killed abroad, the Home Office says.
2010-01-10