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Several civil rights groups denounce proposals made by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to grant British police nationalized live facial recognition technology and surveillance to charge people police consider significantly likely to participate in far-right riots, condemning the opportunism of the proposals, their potential racial and gender inaccuracy, and their possible use to target future legal protests.
2024-08-2

British police arrest 27 Just Stop Oil activists accused of planning to disrupt airports during the upcoming summer holidays.
2024-06-28

The United Kingdom and France sign a revised border control agreement to stop migrant boats from crossing the English Channel amid record numbers of migrants making the crossing. The agreement will increase the number of officers patrolling the French coast to 300 and have British police officers work with their French counterparts in control rooms and on beaches.
2022-11-14

The Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, United Kingdom, the ancient ruins of Babylon in Babil Governorate, Iraq, among other sites are designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
2019-07-7

Two British police officers were assaulted with a sword while trying to arrest a man outside Buckingham Palace.
2017-08-25

British police suspend sharing intelligence with the United States in connection with Monday's Manchester bombing attack for most of the day, after U.S. officials allegedly leak "sensitive information" to "The New York Times". British Prime Minister Theresa May emphasized the sensitive nature of said information when she met with U.S. President Donald Trump during their meeting at the NATO summit in Brussels. Trump calls for an investigation into the leaks.
2017-05-25

United Kingdom police arrest a 21-year-old man in Berkshire in the hacking of Hong Kong-based electronic toy maker VTech. Details of more than six million people from servers used to support VTech's learning products app store were compromised.
2015-12-15

British police charge Aravindan Balakrishnan or "Comrade Bala" with 25 offences including rape in relation to the Lambeth slavery case.
2014-12-11

British police mass near the Ecuadorean embassy where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange resides, after Britain threatens to use force to extract him.
2012-08-16

British police arrest five people in the English town of Luton on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
2012-04-24