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British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks in Parliament in London, Britain (©UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/Handout via Reuters)
ALISTAIR BURT

UK parliament plots Brexit Plan B after sidelining May

Parliament is now effectively re-considering how to go about Brexit all over again

  • Dmitry Zaks
4 min read
The declaration on a framework for future relations, meanwhile, sets out how the UK and EU will work together after Brexit on areas as trade and security. (Reuters)
BRITISH PARLIAMENT

Windrushers gain justice from British Parliament

​Britons born in Commonwealth countries without proper documentation have been granted some relief on the status of their citizenship

  • Arielle Schwartz
2 min read
Most ominously for May, the Northern Irish party which props up her government threatened to break their alliance over reports of a special arrangement for the British province. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters)
BREXIT

Brexit rebel MPs compromise with UK goverment over key bill

​British Prime Minister Theresa May is under pressure from MPs to avoid a "cliff-edge" divorce from Europe that would throw the economy into chaos.

  • Agence France Presse
3 min read
Most ominously for May, the Northern Irish party which props up her government threatened to break their alliance over reports of a special arrangement for the British province. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters)
AMBER RUDD

UK parliament sleaze row ‘clearing out’ bad behaviour

British MP Amber Rudd said that a scandal over sexual harassment was a "watershed moment" that was "clearing out" inappropriate behaviour.

  • Agence France Presse
2 min read
The May 23 vote looms with Britain in a deep political crisis over its stalled departure from the European Union after nearly half a century of membership. (Toiga Ackerman/Reuters)
BREXIT

Brexit bill passes first vote in British parliament

After a year of deliberation, Brexit has begun,

  • Wires
4 min read
Tshifhiwa Matodzi (left) Andile Ramavhunga. (Mduduzi Ndzingi/Sowetan/Gallo Images)
BRITISH PARLIAMENT

One shot, several injured in UK parliament “terrorist incident”

Prime Minister Theresa May was safe after the incident, a spokesperson for her office said.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
Research at Stellenbosch University looks at the link between viral infections and cardiovascular disease.
BRITISH PARLIAMENT

​British MP dies after shooting

Local media reported on Thursday that a member of the British parliament, Labour party member Jo Cox, 41, was shot and died in hospital.

  • Agency
2 min read
BBC

China ramps up security, cautions UK on Dalai Lama

China ramped up security on Thursday to quell a Tibetan uprising as it expressed concern over British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s planned meeting with the Dalai Lama. Huge…

  • Peter Harmsen
3 min read
BRITISH PARLIAMENT

Airport protesters scale British Parliament roof

Protesters scaled the roof of Britain’s Parliament in a major security breach on Wednesday and threatened further direct action against government plans to expand London’s…

  • Peter Apps
  • Jeremy Lovell
3 min read
BRITISH PARLIAMENT

Die in Parliament and you’re under arrest

Queen Elizabeth II’s speech in the British Parliament on Tuesday may have been routine, but at least nobody was bored to death. That would have been against the law. Dying in…

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
BAE SYSTEMS

Spending row claims British Auditor General

Britain’s Auditor General, the man charged with stopping government waste, announced he is stepping down on Thursday after criticism of his own lavish spending on foreign travel…

  • Luke Baker
2 min read
AFRICA CORPS

Castro caps all the rage in Cuba

Cuban leader Fidel Castro may have dropped out of sight, but his trademark green military cap is everywhere. Nearly 49 years after Castro’s socialist revolution, the Fidel cap is…

  • Esteban Israel
3 min read