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UK PM urges China to move faster on climate goals

The Prime Minister emphasised the importance of all countries stepping up their ambition on climate change at COP26 and taking concrete action to cut emissions and expedite the transition to renewable energy,

October 30, 2021

-Top News·China·UK News

Boris Warns World Ahead of COP26

With the climate change conference due to start on Sunday, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued his plea while saying “too many countries are still doing too little”, reports Asian Lite

October 30, 2021

-Top News·UK News

UK threatens checks on EU fishing boats

The United Kingdom threatened on Friday to launch dispute settlement proceedings, and checks on EU fishing activity in its territorial waters, if France implements sanctions against Britain on November 2. A British

October 30, 2021

-Top News·EU News·UK News

UK calls in French envoy as fishing dispute deepens

The two sides are at loggerheads over licensing rules for EU boats wanting to operate in waters around Britain and the Channel Islands, reports Asian Lite News Britain on Thursday summoned the

October 29, 2021

-Top News·Europe·UK News

UK takes all countries off virus ‘red list’

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the red category would remain “as a precautionary measure” in case it was needed later…reports Asian Lite News. Britain on Thursday said it was removing the last

October 29, 2021

-Top News·COVID-19·UK News

Sunak delivers Budget for stronger economy

A new temporary business rates relief for the hospitality industry, a freeze on fuel and alcohol duties and increasing the country’s National Living Wage to GBP 9.50 from April 2022, were among

October 28, 2021

-Top News·Economy·UK News

Budget maps out return to higher foreign aid spending

That more upbeat assessment also allowed the government to predict it would be able to restore aid spending in 2024/2025 because the fiscal tests it had set for doing so would be

October 28, 2021

-Top News·UK News

Whistleblower Haugen tears apart FB’s transparency claim

Haugen simplified the math pointing to how “what they (Facebook) can find” is the trick phrase…reports Nikhila Natarajan Whistleblower Frances Haugen began her 158-minute testimony before British parliamentarians on Monday stating that

October 27, 2021

-Top News·UK News

MPs demand answers over spy agencies’ deal with Amazon

“The government must – urgently – update parliament on the nature of the contract and what security protections are in place…reports Asian Lite News. MPs have raised security concerns over a deal

October 26, 2021

-Top News·USA

UK working to clear up dangerous space debris

While two space debris clearing firms Astroscale and ClearSpace have been injected with funding to spearhead a UK mission to clear the junk from orbit…reports Asian Lite News. The UK has turned

October 26, 2021

-Top News·UK News

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