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Theresa May officially steps down as party leader

Theresa May officially steps down as party leader

BBC 2019-06-07 13:16:48

Theresa May will officially step down as the leader of the Conservative Party on Friday, but will remain as prime minister until her successor is chosen. Mrs May announced her resignation two weeks a...

D-Day: May and Macron in France to mark 75th anniversary

D-Day: May and Macron in France to mark 75th anniversary

-- 2019-06-06 12:55:53

Theresa May joins D-Day veterans in northern France for a second day of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, BBC. A lone piper played to mark the moment when the first UK sol...

Militants kill eight security personnel in Sinai

Militants kill eight security personnel in Sinai

-- 2019-06-05 21:50:50

CAIRO, June 05 (Reuters): Militants attacked a checkpoint and killed eight security personnel on Wednesday in north Sinai where Egyptian forces have long been battling Islamists, state media said. Fi...

Trump to join Queen for 75th D-Day anniversary

Trump to join Queen for 75th D-Day anniversary

-- 2019-06-05 13:36:41

US President Donald Trump will join the Queen in Portsmouth to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, on the final day of his UK state visit, according to BBC. Theresa May will host...

Trump praises ‘extraordinary’ US-UK alliance on state visit

Trump praises ‘extraordinary’ US-UK alliance on state visit

-- 2019-06-04 19:58:56

US President Donald Trump said the US and UK have the “greatest alliance the world has ever known” in a news conference with Theresa May, according to BBC. The prime minister said they ha...

London Mayor calls Trump a 'poster boy for the far-right'

London Mayor calls Trump a 'poster boy for the far-right'

-- 2019-06-04 18:14:11

London Mayor Sadiq Khan said on Tuesday Donald Trump was a poster boy for far-right activists all over the world, continuing a long-running spat with the US President. "Surely we should be saying 'li...

Thousands protest against Trump in London but fewer than last year

Thousands protest against Trump in London but fewer than last year

-- 2019-06-04 17:46:51

Thousands of people protested in central London on Tuesday against US President Donald Trump’s pomp-laden state visit to Britain, but numbers were far down from the tens of thousands who gathere...

Trump's UK visit turns to Brexit and Huawei

Trump's UK visit turns to Brexit and Huawei

-- 2019-06-04 09:39:37

Donald Trump will plunge into Britain's Brexit crisis on Tuesday and is likely to demand that Prime Minister Theresa May's successor ban China's Huawei from 5G networks as thousands of protesters mock...

Donald Trump is like a 20th-century fascist, says London mayor

Donald Trump is like a 20th-century fascist, says London mayor

-- 2019-06-03 18:30:55

London Mayor Sadiq Khan compared US President Donald Trump to the fascists who roiled Europe in the 20th century in an article published ahead of the US president’s state visit to the United Kin...

Trump starts UK visit with tweet against London mayor

Trump starts UK visit with tweet against London mayor

-- 2019-06-03 17:36:42

US President Donald Trump reached Britain on Monday for a largely ceremonial visit meant to strengthen ties between the two nations, but the trip was immediately at risk of being overshadowed by Brexi...

Huawei expands 5G footprint in Europe despite US crackdown

Huawei expands 5G footprint in Europe despite US crackdown

Global Times 2019-06-01 17:21:58

Huawei has not played down its 5G ambitions as it continues pushing forward its deployment of 5G technologies not only in the Chinese market but overseas as well, as it launched the first 5G service i...

Boris Johnson would be ‘excellent’ Tory leader: Trump

Boris Johnson would be ‘excellent’ Tory leader: Trump

-- 2019-06-01 11:52:30

Donald Trump has said Boris Johnson would be an "excellent" choice for the Conservative Party leadership. In an interview with the Sun ahead of his visit to the UK, Mr Trump said: "I think Boris woul...

Seven tourists die as boat sinks in Hungary

Seven tourists die as boat sinks in Hungary

-- 2019-05-30 18:11:31

Seven South Korean tourists have died and another 21 people are missing after a boat sank on the Danube river in Hungary's capital, Budapest. Thirty South Korean tourists and three tour guides, as we...

Ukrainian military chopper crash kills four

Ukrainian military chopper crash kills four

-- 2019-05-30 11:39:45

A Ukrainian Soviet-designed military helicopter Mi-8 crashed late on Wednesday in western Ukraine, killing all four crew members, Ukrainian land forces said on Thursday. It gave no reason for the inc...

Boris Johnson to face court over Brexit comments

Boris Johnson to face court over Brexit comments

-- 2019-05-29 16:47:35

Boris Johnson, the favourite to replace Theresa May as British prime minister, must appear in court over allegations he lied to the public about Brexit, a judge ruled on Wednesday. The judge at Londo...

Merkel, Macron at odds over top EU job

Merkel, Macron at odds over top EU job

-- 2019-05-29 11:05:36

France and Germany have disagreed on who should take one of the EU's key roles as leaders from the bloc met following parliamentary elections. The vote saw the big centrist blocs lose their majoritie...

Austrian parliament ousts Chancellor Kurz after video scandal

Austrian parliament ousts Chancellor Kurz after video scandal

-- 2019-05-28 13:43:37

Austria's parliament has removed Chancellor Sebastian Kurz from office in a special parliamentary session. His previous coalition ally, the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), and the opposition Soci...

Pro-Europe vote fragments in EU election

Pro-Europe vote fragments in EU election

-- 2019-05-27 10:28:38

Parties committed to strengthening the European Union held on to two-thirds of seats in the EU parliament, official projections from the bloc’s elections showed on Sunday, though far-right and n...

Ireland votes to liberalise divorce laws

Ireland votes to liberalise divorce laws

-- 2019-05-26 10:46:23

People in the Republic of Ireland have voted overwhelmingly in favour of liberalising divorce laws, in a referendum held on Saturday. The constitution currently states that spouses must be separated...

Seven up: Contest to replace May as UK PM gets crowded

Seven up: Contest to replace May as UK PM gets crowded

-- 2019-05-26 09:59:19

The contest to replace Theresa May as British prime minister hotted up on Saturday with seven candidates now throwing their hat into the ring, saying they would succeed where she failed by taking a de...

Race to be new UK prime minister begins

Race to be new UK prime minister begins

-- 2019-05-25 10:14:21

The race to become the next Conservative Party leader has begun, following Theresa May's announcement that she will step down next month. The contest will not only result in a new party leader, but a...

British PM Theresa May will step down on June 7

British PM Theresa May will step down on June 7

-- 2019-05-24 15:53:57

British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Friday she would step down on June 7, succumbing to calls in her governing Conservative Party to make way for a new leader to try to break an impasse over Br...

May under fire over new Brexit plan

May under fire over new Brexit plan

-- 2019-05-22 10:46:04

British prime minister Theresa May will make the case for her new Brexit plan in Parliament later, amid signs that Conservative opposition to her leadership is hardening. The premier will give a stat...

Turkey to arrest 249 foreign ministry personnel over Gulen links

Turkey to arrest 249 foreign ministry personnel over Gulen links

-- 2019-05-20 13:22:22

Turkish authorities ordered the arrest of 249 foreign ministry personnel over suspected links to the network of a US-based cleric accused of orchestrating an attempted coup in 2016, broadcaster NTV sa...

Manchester Airport grounds flights due to power issue

Manchester Airport grounds flights due to power issue

-- 2019-05-20 11:35:05

A "power issue" that affected fuel supply caused dozens of flights to be cancelled at Britain's Manchester Airport. Flights to Tenerife, Belfast, and Milan were among 87 cancelled, while others were...

Brexit bill to have improved package of measures: May

Brexit bill to have improved package of measures: May

-- 2019-05-19 13:06:06

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May said she will present a "new bold offer" to lawmakers with "an improved package of measures" in a final attempt to get the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement Bill through...

Austrian leader calls for snap elections after video scandal

Austrian leader calls for snap elections after video scandal

-- 2019-05-19 12:13:58

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has asked for a snap election after his Vice-Chancellor, Heinz-Christian Strache, resigned over a corruption scandal. Mr Kurz's centre-right People's Party is in go...

Britain's Brexit talks collapse as May's premiership crumbles

Britain's Brexit talks collapse as May's premiership crumbles

-- 2019-05-18 13:19:19

Britain’s tumultuous divorce from the European Union was again in disarray on Friday after the opposition Labour Party declared last-ditch talks dead due to Prime Minister Theresa May’s cr...

Russian police detain dozens during cathedral protest

Russian police detain dozens during cathedral protest

-- 2019-05-16 15:24:40

Several dozen people have been detained at a rally to protest the construction of a cathedral in a popular park in Russia's fourth-largest city. Russian news agencies on Thursday quoted local court o...

UK lawmakers to vote again on Brexit bill

UK lawmakers to vote again on Brexit bill

-- 2019-05-15 11:14:11

UK MPs will be asked to vote on Brexit again in early June whether or not the government and Labour have reached a deal, Downing Street has said. A spokesman said a vote on the bill that would pave t...