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UK holidaymakers could face 5,000 pound fine under new Covid law

As Britain marked the one-year mark of its first stay-at-home lockdown on Tuesday, details emerged of new laws to control the spread of infections to be voted on Thursday

European Union sues UK over tax breaks as post-Brexit skirmishes mount

The EU is still smarting from the U.K.'s threat -- later withdrawn -- to break international law last year and rewrite the Brexit agreement

UK reports five cases of rare blood clots in 11 million AstraZeneca shots

Caccine is 'safe and effective' and benefits outweigh any risks, says EMA

Delay in Serum Institute vaccines contributing to supply squeeze: Britain

Britain is using vaccines made by Pfizer and AstraZeneca, with 10 million doses of the 100 million ordered from AstraZeneca coming from the Serum Institute.

Britain targets influence in Indo-Pacific as counterweight to China

China should be brought into efforts to reduce the global stock of nuclear weapons, Johnson said.

China fires back at UK govt charges of Hong Kong treaty violation

The statement came after UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Saturday said China is in a "state of ongoing non-compliance"

Covid-19: Schools, colleges reopen in first step of UK's lockdown easing

Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed the national effort that has gone into fighting against coronavirus as schools and colleges opened on Monday

Farmers' protest internal issue of India, for it to resolve: British govt

UK's MPs are set to debate next week the safety of farmer protesters

UK regulator to fast-track vaccine updates to combat new Covid variants

Modified vaccines to protect against new variants of coronavirus can be fast-tracked through the approval system, the UK's independent medicines regulator said on Thursday.

Britain increases business tax to pay off nation's vast Covid-19 debt

"Even after this change, the United Kingdom will still have the lowest corporation tax rate in the G7," Sunak said

UK to hike corporation tax to 25% from 19% from 2023, says FM Sunak

Sunak said small businesses with profits of less than 50,000 pounds a year would be charged only 19%

UK MPs to debate press freedom, safety of protesters in India next week

British lawmakers will debate the issue of press freedom and safety of protesters in India next Monday in response to an e-petition which had crossed the 100,000-signature threshold required for such a debate, the House of Commons Petitions Committee confirmed on Wednesday. The 90-minute debate will be held at Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament complex in London and will be opened by Scottish National Party (SNP) MP and member of the Petitions Committee Martyn Day, and a minister will be deputed to respond on behalf of the UK government. The debate relates to the petition entitled Urge the Indian Government to ensure safety of protesters & press freedom', which called on the British government to make a public statement on the #kissanprotests & press freedoms. Next week, the issue will come up for debate and is expected to involve backbench MPs who have been vocal on the issue of farmers' protests in India, including Opposition Labour MP Tan Dhesi. India has ...

Rishi Sunak plots tax raid to plug UK deficit, risking Tory rage

Sunak's answers will shape his own fortunes, the Conservative government's political identity, and the UK economy's chances of making a full recovery from its deepest recession for 300 years

Britain to offer all adults a Covid-19 vaccine by end of July: Report

The British government announced Sunday that it aims to give every adult in the country a first dose of coronavirus vaccine by July 31, a month earlier than its previous target. The new target also aims for everyone over 50 or with an underlying health condition to get a vaccine shot by April 15, rather than the previous target of May 1. The makers of the two vaccines that Britain is using, Pfizer and AstraZeneca, have both experienced supply problems in Europe. But UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who announced the new targets, said we now think that we have the supplies to speed up the vaccination campaign. The early success of Britain's vaccination campaign is welcome good news for a country that has had more than 120,000 coronavirus deaths, the highest toll in Europe. More than 17.2 million people, almost a third of the country's adults, have been given the first of two doses of vaccine since inoculations began on December 8. Britain is delaying giving second vaccine doses un

UK's Rishi Sunak to raise business tax to pay for Covid-19 support

Allies of Sunak clarified he would not increase corporation tax higher than 23 per cent

Britain plans to unveil new visa scheme for financial technology workers

London tops European rankings for such companies, according to an index compiled by real estate broker Savills

Covid lockdown decimates UK retail as volumes dip 8%, borrowing surge slows

Department stores and clothing stores saw the sharpest fall last month while online shopping rose to its highest ever share of total spending at 35.2%

Tougher travel rules to contain spread of Covid-19 come into force in UK

The UK's tougher new travel rules to contain the spread of COVID-19 variants came into effect from Monday

UK hits 15 mn Covid vaccination milestone, expands drive to cover over-65s

The UK on Sunday achieved what Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed as a "significant milestone" as 15 million people received at least their first of two jabs to protect against COVID-19. The news came as the National Health Service (NHS) confirmed that its vaccination programme will officially expand further from Monday, inviting all over-65s and clinically vulnerable groups to receive their jabs. "It has been a truly national, UK-wide effort. We have done it together, Johnson said in a video message from Downing Street. "And in England, I can tell you we have now offered jabs to everyone in the first four priority groups, the people most likely to be severely ill from coronavirus, hitting the first target we set ourselves," he said, declaring that the government's target to cover all the designated top four priority groups of over-70s and frontline health and care workers with at least one of the two-dose Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines by the middle of February ha

'Unacceptable': UK attacks China after ban on BBC news services

China has criticised BBC for its reporting on the coronavirus pandemic and the persecution of ethnic minority Uighurs and lodged a protest with the British broadcaster.