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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

A wildfire which had been burning for four days in the Scottish Highlands is brought under control after affecting about 30 sqmi of land, making it the largest ever recorded in the United Kingdom. ([https:--www.bbc.co.uk-news-uk-scotland-highlands-islands-65765053 BBC News])
2023-05-31

Grocery inflation in the United Kingdom reaches a record high of 17.1%, according to market research group Kantar Worldpanel, amid high levels of inflation, supply chain issues and high energy costs impacting the economy.
2023-02-28

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency grants conditional authorisation to Merck's molnupiravir, which can be used to treat symptomatic COVID-19 patients, making the United Kingdom the first country to approve the world's first COVID-19 antiviral oral drug.
2021-11-4

The United Nations Security Council has resoundingly rejected a United States bid to extend a global arms embargo on Iran. In a Security Council vote, United States only got support from the Dominican Republic for its resolution to indefinitely extend the arms embargo on Iran, leaving it far short of the minimum nine "yes" votes required for adoption. Eleven members on the 15-member body, including France, Germany and the United Kingdom, abstained while Russia and China opposed extending the ban but did not need to use their vetoes.
2020-08-14

Royal Marines seize control of an oil tanker off the coast of Gibraltar that was en route to Baniyas in Syria, suspected of breaching EU sanctions against Syria, carrying Iranian crude oil. The United Kingdom's Ambassador to Iran, Robert Macaire, is summoned in Tehran over the incident, which Iran describes as an "illegal seizure".
2019-07-4

British cosmologist Stephen Hawking and Russian venture capitalist and physicist Yuri Milner announce "Breakthrough Starshot", a $100 million effort to plan a trip to the sun's closest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, via developing nanotechnology that would put the craft within the star system roughly 20 years after leaving Earth.
2016-04-12

Former President Pervez Musharraf travels to Dubai for medical treatment of his back and leg, before moving on to either the U.S. or U.K. for additional treatment, spokesperson Aasia Ishaque said. Musharraf, 72, will return to Pakistan to face all pending legal cases. Earlier this week, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government implemented the Supreme Court ruling, and lifted the 2013 ban that barred Musharraf from international trips.
2016-03-18

Dr. Rowan Williams announces his intention to retire as Archbishop of Canterbury at the end of the year. Having headed the Anglican Church since 2003, he will subsequently take up the role as Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
2012-03-16

Florence Green, the last known veteran from World War I, dies at the age of 110 in the United Kingdom.
2012-02-4