Sources: The Telegraph
The Iranian foreign ministry summons the British chargé d'affaires to protest the arrest of seven Iranian nationals in London earlier this month. 2025-05-19
Four people are killed during a mass stabbing at a house in Bermondsey, London, United Kingdom. 2022-04-25
Myanmar's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Kyaw Zwar Minn, is dismissed by a military attaché and locked out of the embassy in London. British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab condemns the "bullying actions" but says the UK has accepted the change. 2021-04-7
Former Prime Minister of Somalia Nur Hassan Hussein dies from COVID-19 in London. 2020-04-1
A judge in Ecuador rules against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, who had contested new rules imposed on him in the country's embassy in London. Assange had argued that the conditions violated his "fundamental rights and freedoms", and were intended to force him to leave. His lawyers have appealed against the ruling. Assange took refuge in the embassy six years ago to avoid extradition to Sweden in a sexual assault case that has since been dropped. 2018-10-30
After the United Kingdom withdrawal from the European Union referendum, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) will relocate to Amsterdam and the European Banking Authority (EBA) to Paris from London. 2017-11-20
London's Metropolitan Police are investigating an attempted break-in at the British Houses of Parliament on Friday evening. 2012-03-17
Thousands of people in south-eastern Nigeria attend the funeral of former Biafran secessionist leader Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu who died in London last year. 2012-03-2
Hundreds of thousands of people march in London, England against government budget cuts with the protests later turning violent. 2011-03-26
Sixteen countries attend a two-day conference organised by the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Cairo to discuss the retrieval of old items which were pillaged by other nations, such as the Rosetta Stone (held by the British Museum, London) and Queen Nefertitti's bust (held by the Neues Museum, Berlin). 2010-04-7