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A spokesperson for UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says United Kingdom Home Secretary Suella Braverman made unauthorized comments, after she doubles down on referring to pro-Palestinian demonstrations as “mobs” and “hate marches”.
2023-11-9

The United Kingdom reports a record 78,610 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.
2021-12-15

The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the United Kingdom reaches 60 million.
2021-05-23

The United Kingdom reports 3,539 cases of COVID-19, up from 2,919 a day earlier. Six deaths are also reported.
2020-09-11

The government of the United Kingdom announces its intent to sell a 7.7% stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland, expected to raise £2.6 billion. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell says there is "no economic justification" for selling the shares.
2018-06-4

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

Hurricane Gonzalo hits Bermuda becoming the strongest storm to hit the island in a decade.
2014-10-17

British television soap "Coronation Street" becomes the first prime time television show in the UK to use product placement after signing a deal with the Nationwide Building Society. A Nationwide cash machine is seen on screen in an episode.
2011-11-14

UK royal state visit to Ireland: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom visits Croke Park in Dublin, where British troops killed 20 people in the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1920.
2011-05-18

Following an attack on the British embassy in Tripoli, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague says that Britain will expel the Libyan ambassador to the UK; smoke is also seen rising from the Italian embassy in Libya.
2011-05-1