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The United Kingdom begins evacuating British citizens from Israel.
2023-10-13

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

The United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority blocks Microsoft's $68.7bn (£55bn) acquisition of Activision Blizzard, saying that the deal will leave video gamers with less choice and will reduce innovation.
2023-04-26

United Kingdom Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove announces that the UK government will withdraw all controversial clauses from the Internal Market Bill. Gove and Vice-President of the European Commission Maroš Šefčovič announce "an agreement in principle" on all issues of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, including the protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland, border checks, food and medicine supplies and "clarification" on state subsidy rules.
2020-12-8

An Iranian woman is sentenced to 10 years in prison for suspected spying for the United Kingdom. A judiciary spokesman alleged that she was recruited by the British Council's Iran desk.
2019-05-13

In order to make sea room for expanding berthing facilities in Trincomalee Harbour, the Sri Lankan navy raises the SS "Sagaing", a British passenger ship sunk when it was bombed in an April 1942 Japanese air strike during World War II.
2018-03-31

Polls open in the United Kingdom, with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and incumbent Theresa May of the Conservatives battling in a tight race, according to final opinion polling, to become prime minister.
2017-06-8

HSBC announces plans to cut 8,000 jobs in the United Kingdom, one-sixth of its U.K. workforce, via "natural attrition" as it restructures its banking business. A total of 25,000 jobs could be axed globally.
2015-06-9

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

British-based bank HSBC will pay U.S. authorities $1.9 billion in a settlement over money laundering for drug cartels and countries under sanctions, the largest ever such penalty.
2012-12-11