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The United Kingdom imposes sanctions on the judges and officials involved in the prosecution of activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who lost the appeal of his 25-year sentence for treason.
2023-07-31

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces that the United Kingdom will host the world's first summit on artificial intelligence later this year.
2023-06-7

UK Public Health Minister Jo Churchill announces that junk food advertisements during daytime television and on the internet will be banned in the United Kingdom by the end of the year, saying it will help fight the growing rates of childhood obesity in the country.
2021-06-24

Cineworld announces it is temporarily shutting down all its cinemas in the United Kingdom and United States, putting more than 5,500 jobs at risk, after reporting £1.3bn in losses since the COVID-19 lockdown.
2020-10-4

British-American cruise operator Carnival Corporation & PLC is fined $20 million for environmental violations.
2019-06-4

Bronagh, the second named storm of the 2018–19 European windstorm season, begins moving across Ireland and the United Kingdom.
2018-09-20

Sajid Javid becomes the United Kingdom's Home Secretary following the resignation of Amber Rudd over the Windrush scandal. He is the first Home Secretary from an ethnic minority background.
2018-04-30

A British man reported last month to be suffering what doctors called the "worst-ever" super-gonorrhoea is said by Public Health England to have been cured.
2018-04-20

Voters in Grenada choose whether they should be more independent from the British legal system, among other amendments.
2016-11-24

Russia lifts a 16-year ban on the import of British beef and lamb. British farmers had been stopped from exporting to Russia following the 1996 BSE outbreak in the UK, despite the lifting of a worldwide ban in 2006.
2012-11-22