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Seven volunteers from the World Central Kitchen, including six British, Polish, Australian and Palestinian nationals and a dual American-Canadian citizen, are killed in an Israeli airstrike south of Deir el-Balah.
2024-04-1

The United Kingdom and France sign a revised border control agreement to stop migrant boats from crossing the English Channel amid record numbers of migrants making the crossing. The agreement will increase the number of officers patrolling the French coast to 300 and have British police officers work with their French counterparts in control rooms and on beaches.
2022-11-14

Indiana reports its first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 from the United Kingdom.
2021-01-11

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo orders hospitals in the state to begin testing for the new SARS-CoV-2 variant from the United Kingdom.
2020-12-22

The COVID-19 death toll in the United Kingdom surpasses 100.
2020-03-18

Wonga, the largest payday lender in the United Kingdom, collapses into administration.
2018-08-30

Britain's Information Commissioner's Office orders Google, Inc. to remove, from its search engines, links to news stories about Google's implementation of a "right to be forgotten" request, that include identifying information about a decade-old shoplifting conviction, which the Information Commission's Office considers as being no longer relevant. The order applies only in the United Kingdom.
2015-08-21

British police arrest five people in the English town of Luton on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
2012-04-24

In the United Kingdom, Chancellor George Osborne outlines a Comprehensive Spending Review which will see the biggest spending cuts in decades, totalling £81bn, with welfare, local government and police particularly affected.
2010-10-20

The United Kingdom Professional Footballers' Association votes Wayne Rooney as "player of the year".
2010-04-25