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UK To Remove Andrew From Role As Royal Navy Vice Admiral
Royal Navy Type 23 Duke class frigate HMS Northumberland is pictured during a port visit into Dar Es Salam, Tanzania, December 28, 2012. UK Ministry of Defence Photo LONDON, Nov 2 (Reuters) – Britain’s former prince Andrew is due to be stripped of...
UK Labour government announces two former military sites will become asylum seeker detention camps
Asylum seekers in Britain are to be housed within weeks at two former military sites in Inverness, Scotland and East Sussex in England, as the Starmer government enforces a policy to remove them from hotels. There are no humane facilities to house...
UK police probe mass train stabbing, 10 wounded
HUNTINGDON: British police were on Sunday investigating a mass stabbing on a London-bound train that left at least 10 people wounded, including nine critically, with two people arrested. Police were alerted to an emergency on board a train between...
UK train stabbings: 2 British nationals held, no terror link found
London: Two British nationals remain in police custody after a horrifying stabbing attack on a high-speed train in the United Kingdom left ten people injured, two of them in life-threatening condition. Authorities have ruled out terrorism as a...
UK Police Arrest Suspect After Mass Stabbing On Train
British authorities arrested two men following a knife attack on a passenger train that left 10 people injured, with two fighting for their lives. The attack unfolded Saturday evening on a London North Eastern Railway train traveling from...
Two UK nationals held for train stabbing; police rules out terrorism
UK police said Sunday two British nationals were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a mass stabbing on a train in eastern England, adding the attack was not a "terrorist incident". The men in custody were a "a 32-year-old male, a...
One man in custody after UK train stabbing leaves two with 'life-threatening' injuries
British police said Sunday they now considered only one of two men arrested as a suspect in the mass stabbing on a London-bound train. Police initially arrested two suspects after a mass stabbing on a train that left 10 people in hospital, with...
Belgium Defense Minister Warns of Spy Drones Over Military Bases
An F-16 fighter jet is landing at RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom, on April 11, 2025. Getty Images/Dan Kitwood In Belgium, Defense Minister Theo Francken stated that suspicious drones spotted over Belgian military bases over the weekend were...
Sinn Féin to back motion of no confidence in Education Minister Paul Givan after Israel visit
SINN FÉIN has said it will back a motion of no confidence in Education Minister Paul Givan after he visited Israel this week. The DUP member was among a group of unionist politicians invited by the Israeli Government, with the Department of...
Stabbing victims fighting for lives after 11 hurt in UK train attack
Police and British Transport Police officers walk on the platform alongside an LNER Azuma train at Huntingdon Station in Huntingdon, eastern England, on 1 November, 2025, following a stabbing on a train. Photo: JUSTIN TALLIS /AFP Britain was...
Does UK's recognition of Palestine atone for Balfour's sins?
On the Balfour anniversary, Al Mayadeen English traces how Britain’s 1917 pledge set the institutional foundations for dispossession, Gaza’s 2025 genocide and ongoing settlement expansion. The Balfour Declaration and its legacy In November 1917,...
America's top secret plan to invade Britain: How our closest allies plotted Cold War coup in fear of the Soviets seizing London
In June 1946, with millions dead and much of Europe still in ruin, top secret meetings were being held in Washington and London to prepare for the unthinkable. For American intelligence chiefs, the British Isles represented a strategic threat....
Why does the UK feel ‘poorer than previous decades’?
Readers discuss wealth distribution, private healthcare and driving access restrictions (Picture: Getty Images) Do you agree with our readers? Have your say on these MetroTalk topics and more in the comments 'Wealth, class, connections and...
Adult websites see complete collapse in UK visitors after introduction of strict age checks
The total number of Britons visiting Pornhub has plummeted following the introduction of the Online Safety Act. According to statistics shared by Pornhub, British visitors have fallen 77% since July, when strict age verification checks were...
Tandy’s Wales rebuild starts with daunting Autumn series
Wales head coach Steve Tandy during a training session at the Principality Stadium. Photo Ben Birchall/PA Wire. Simon Thomas Having someone take on the job of Wales head coach at a hugely turbulent time for the game in this country is, of course,...
‘Wog’ humour, tense US politics and real-world monsters: what to watch in November
As the year begins to wind down, and the days grow longer, our critics have a fresh slate of films and series to keep you glued to your screen. This month’s streaming picks include a 90s “filmic time capsule”, some tense US political drama...
Schoolchildren told Reform UK is 'extremist' and St George’s flag is 'far-right exclusionary symbol'
Schoolchildren have been told that Reform UK's policies are similar to fascism, leaked lesson material has revealed. Teaching material shown to pupils at academies operated by Orion Education, which runs eight schools across London and Kent,...
Flashpoint in Assam’s political landscape as Congress leader recites Bangladesh’s national anthem
Flashpoint in Assam’s political landscape as Congress leader recites Bangladesh’s national anthem The Congress party has been embroiled in a deep controversy after a local leader and several others in India’s northeastern state of Assam are facing...
Reform’s Nigel Farage will promise to deliver Brexit Britain voted for insisting economic freedoms have been squandered
NIGEL Farage will today vow to deliver the Brexit that Britain voted for — warning its economic freedoms have been squandered. The Reform boss will use a speech to set out a tougher line on spending and the economy. Sign up for The US Sun...
10 injured in train stabbing in UK, two held
Two people remain in life-threatening condition on Sunday after mass stabbings which injured 10 people on a high-speed London-bound train, as British Transport Police ruled out a terrorism link to the “major incident” as counter-terror police...