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Several suspected cases of mpox clade 1b are reported in Somerset, England, United Kingdom.
2024-08-21

One person is killed and three others are injured by an apparent gas explosion in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom.
2023-03-13

U.S. fashion retailer Gap announces that it will be closing all of its 81 stores in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company will continue to provide an online store for British and Irish customers.
2021-06-30

California reports its first case of a more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2 from the United Kingdom in a patient from Southern California.
2020-12-30

The United Kingdom's Department of Health and Social Care reports 232 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 14 more deaths. The UK government says a "wartime-style" mobilisation will be enforced in the coming weeks to tackle the virus.
2020-03-15

China warns the United Kingdom that "no country has the right to intervene on the issue of mass protests in Hong Kong", as it considers the problems of this self-governed city an "internal problem". For China, the agreement by which the United Kingdom returned Hong Kong is nothing more than "a historical document of no practical importance" and "that European country no longer has any responsibility over Hong Kong". The British chancellery, for its part, dismissed the Chinese opinion, and has said that "it is the right and obligation of the United Kingdom to work to enforce the agreement", which, in theory, guarantees a high degree of autonomy for Hong Kong for 50 years until 2047 without Chinese interference.
2019-07-2

Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French Minister of Defence, calls on the United Kingdom to join France in bombing ISIL.
2015-11-26

Independent Print Limited launches "i", the UK's first national daily newspaper in a quarter of a century.
2010-10-26

The United Kingdom and United States decide last year's release from a Scottish prison of Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was "a mistake".
2010-07-16

The United Kingdom announces its refusal to issue visas to a lacrosse team representing the Iroquois Confederacy, whose departure has been delayed since Friday, after the United States Department of State earlier in the day cleared the team's departure with tribal passports. The UK stated that it will only recognise passports from the United States or Canada.
2010-07-14