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LONDON: US and British air strikes were carried out in Yemen against Huthi targets in response to recent attacks on Red Sea shipping, according to UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.In a statement, Sunak referred to the Huthis using alternative spelling and stated that despite repeated warnings from the international community, they have continued to carry
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LONDON: A motion to add India to the UK’s “safe states list” was cleared by a parliamentary committee on Wednesday despite objections from some opposition MPs who said India was “not safe”.The fifth delegated legislation committee voted 9 to 2 that it had considered the statutory instrument to add India and Georgia to the UK’s
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LONDON: Britain said on Wednesday it would send warships to the Indian Ocean later this year and an aircraft carrier to the region in 2025 for joint training and operations with Indian forces as the two countries strengthen their security ties. British Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said the Royal Navy’s Littoral Response Group would visit
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LONDON: UK government on Wednesday unveiled plans to deploy Royal Navy warships to the Indian Ocean region later this year to operate and train with Indian forces, signalling what it described as the growing importance of the strategic relationship between the two countries.UK defence secretary Grant Shapps, who co-chaired an India-UK Defence Industry CEOs Roundtable
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LONDON: A man has been arrested after barging into a Shiva temple in Wembley, refusing to remove his boots and trying to throw a sacred murti and smash a diya.The black male intruder entered the Eelapatheeswarar Alayam Temple on Union Road, which is next door to a mosque, on Saturday. He was dressed in a
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LONDON: One of Britain’s biggest miscarriages of justice, the wrongful conviction of hundreds of Post Office workersdue to faulty software, has exploded into the public domain following a TV drama, triggering demands for justice. In a more than 20-year scandal, some postal workers were sent to prison and others lost their livelihoods and homes. An
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LONDON: The number of women in Britain dying during pregnancy or soon afterwards has ended has reached its highest level in almost two decades, a new study reported Thursday.The figures from MBRRACE-UK, which monitors maternal deaths, stillbirths and infant deaths, and their causes, showed black women and those from deprived areas remained the most severely
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LONDON: London’s mayor called Thursday for closer ties with Europe and a better debate about immigration as he branded Brexit a “key contributor” to Britain’s cost-of-living crisis.Sadiq Khan, of the main opposition Labour party, said the UK should forge a “new settlement” with the European Union because Britain’s 2020 departure from the bloc “isn’t working”.
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LONDON: Britain’s first female Sikh MP, Preet Kaur Gill, has lost her position on the Labour front bench in a shadow cabinet reshuffle and been demoted to backbench MP.Gill (50), whose family hail from Jamsher Khera in Jalandhar, Punjab, made history when she won Birmingham Edgbaston in the 2017 general election.She quickly climbed the ranks
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LONDON: London’s Metropolitan Police force says it has stepped up security after a company that holds details of its officers and staff was hacked. The force said late Saturday that there had been “unauthorised access to the IT system” of one of its suppliers. It said the company, which it did not name, had access
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