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Bedfordshire Police arrest an 18-year-old man on suspicion of murder after three people are found dead in flat in a tower block in Luton, England, United Kingdom.
2024-09-13

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination recommends that the United Kingdom implement bans and auditing of hate speech, xenophobia, and far-right rhetoric by politicians, in addition to prohibiting the strip-searching of children and addressing the over-policing of schools, following widespread destructive anti-immigration protests exacerbated by remarks made by public figures and politicians.
2024-08-23

British troops return to the United Kingdom from Afghanistan, ending the evacuation process at the airport and the country's involvement in the war.
2021-08-28

Japan's Health Ministry detects a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 partially similar to those from South Africa and the United Kingdom in four people that travelled from Amazonas in Brazil.
2021-01-10

The Public Health England reports the United Kingdom's first ever case of monkeypox in a Nigerian national staying at a naval base in Cornwall. The patient is being treated at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
2018-09-8

UK Prime Minister Theresa May announces that citizens of the European Union living in the United Kingdom will be able to acquire a "UK settled status" after the UK leaves the EU.
2017-06-22

Thousands, including families, children, and miners from around the country, march from Knottingley to North Yorkshire to mark the end of deep coal mining in the United Kingdom. The last facility, Kellingley Colliery in Beal, North Yorkshire, closed down, Friday, 18 December 2015. The march was organized by two miners' wives to pay tribute to this industry.
2015-12-20

The fourth named windstorm of the season makes landfall across the United Kingdom and Ireland, bringing high winds and serious flooding.
2015-12-5

British–Italian fraudster Giovanni Di Stefano is sentenced to 14 years in jail for fraud.
2013-03-28

The United Kingdom expels two more Libyan diplomats, a week after expelling the ambassador, in order to increase diplomatic pressure on the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.
2011-05-5