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British authorities begin detaining migrants ahead of deportation flights to Rwanda.
2024-05-1

Seventeen Houthi fighters are killed during airstrikes launched by the United States and the United Kingdom in Yemen.
2024-02-10

Bulb Energy, which supplies 1.7 million customers in the United Kingdom, collapses into administration, becoming the largest energy supplier to have ever collapsed. The company will also be the first energy supplier to be placed under "special administration", which means that the company will be run by the government regulator Ofgem.
2021-11-22

The United Kingdom outlaws Hamas, the Palestinian militant group which serves as the ruling party of the Gaza Strip, and declares the party as a terrorist group. Previously, only the party's armed wing was outlawed.
2021-11-19

Alberta reports its first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a person who travelled from the United Kingdom.
2020-12-28

After talks between the company, its lenders, and the United Kingdom's government fail to reach a deal, British multinational facilities management and construction services company Carillion fails and is liquidated, threatening thousands of jobs. Carillion is currently involved in projects such as the high-speed rail in the United Kingdom, including the High Speed 2 rail line.
2018-01-15

The United Kingdom rejects its involvement in combat drone attacks by the United States in Pakistan.
2014-01-20

United Kingdom assumes presidency of G8 group. Next G8 summit is to be held on the shores of Lough Erne in Northern Ireland in June 2013.
2013-01-1

Voters in the United Kingdom go to the polls for local elections with the opposition Labour Party expected to do well.
2012-05-3

An eight member United Kingdom Special Air Service team and a junior diplomat are captured by Libyan rebels as a secret effort to contact the rebels backfires.
2011-03-5