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Army Recognition
March 31, 2018
According a statement from the British Ministry of Defense published on March 31, 2018, the British Army has taken a step towards exploring a deal for a fleet of new armoured vehicles, potentially supporting at least 1,000 British jobs, by announcing it is rejoining the Boxer 8x8 armoured vehicle program.
PRI
March 31, 2018
In the new study, Tilot and her team of researchers looked at three families of people with synesthesia in the United Kingdom. Tilot says the families were first identified 10 years ago in a previous study that attempted to identify certain parts of genomes using the best technology available at the time.
Domain Name Wire
March 30, 2018
European Commission says United Kingdom registrants will not be able to renew their domains after Brexit is completed. Last year a DNW Podcast listener asked me what Brexit would mean for people in the UK. At the time, it was unclear. It's looking more and more likely that they will lose their domainÃÂ ...
Daily Energy Insider
March 30, 2018
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced recently that it will lead a new international multi-laboratory and university collaboration for nonproliferation research using subatomic particles called antineutrinos. é Shutterstock. The Advanced Instrumentation Testbed (AIT) will support theà...
Siliconera
March 30, 2018
While we are excitedly counting down the hours until we can share this amazing title with the United Kingdom digitally, we have a solemn update to present regarding the physical release on Nintendo Switch. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Standard Edition physical release of Penny-PunchingÃÂ ...
Prensa Latina
March 30, 2018
29 de marzo de 2018, 15:37London, Mar 29 (Prensa Latina) British officials continue investigations into threats against hundreds of schools in recent days, which resulted in various schools closed. According to the National Crime Agency (NCA), an 18-year-old young man was arrested in the county ofÃÂ ...
esctoday.com
March 30, 2018
2018 sees some slight changes to that line-up, with Giedroyc being given a brand new role for this year's competition: Mel Giedroyc is set to officially present the jury results of the United Kingdom at the grand final of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest on the 12 May. Giedroyc has become popular within theÃÂ ...
Independent Online
March 29, 2018
JOHANNESURG - Netcare Limited, South Africa's largest private hospital and emergency medical services operator, has announced a strategic decision to exit the United Kingdom (UK) market. Netcare will be initiating a process to dispose of its interests in General Healthcare Group (GHG). NetcareÃÂ ...
Business Standard
March 29, 2018
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and United Kingdom and Northern Ireland regarding cooperation and Exchange of Information for the Purposes of Combating International Criminality andÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
March 28, 2018
EU diplomats pointed to their ability to assemble a coalition of the willing – which even includes the USA, Canada and Australia – just days after pronouncing solidarity with the United Kingdom at its recent EU summit. Italy and Hungary, too, generally known for opposition to stronger measures againstÃÂ ...
HeadlinePlanet.com
March 10, 2018
A streaming monster and strong seller, “God's Plan” remains the biggest song in the UK. Its closest competition again comes from Rudimental's “These Days (featuring Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen).” Dua Lipa's “IDGAF” holds at #3, while Portugal. The Man's “Feel It Still” rises two places andÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
March 10, 2018
During the visit to the United Kingdom of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia at the invitation of the Government of Queen Elizabeth ll, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom confirmed and reinforced the relations between the two countries, and committed toÃÂ ...
Propertyshowrooms.com News
March 9, 2018
Tax is an issue of personal circumstances and it is important to discuss your particular case with a tax expert. Below is a general account of the tax you can expect to pay when purchasing property in the UK. Tax on Rental Income. Many people are choosing property investment over pensions to provide forÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy Research Institute
March 9, 2018
The British thinker who was responsible for formulating this approach and whose ideas have much relevance to the geopolitical reality of a post-Brexit United Kingdom was Sir Halford Mackinder.[1] In 1902, he published a seminal book, Britain and the British Seas. In this book, Mackinder articulated theÃÂ ...
NACLA
March 8, 2018
Tens of thousands of academics in the United Kingdom have been on strike over pension cuts since late February. (Photo courtesy of Angus McNelly and Jeffery R. Webber). Myriad trans-Atlantic labor connections spring to mind for us as Latin Americanists participating in the largest strike in the history ofÃÂ ...
The Independent
March 8, 2018
Britain's decision to leave the EU is already unsettling and altering the nature of the United Kingdom itself. Theresa May's recent Mansion House speech put the dilemmas this creates front and centre. The Prime Minister argued that any Brexit deal must strengthen the union of nations. It must also, sheÃÂ ...
RUSI Analysis
March 7, 2018
The language of deterrence was once more at the centre of policy discussion at the recent 2018 Munich Security Conference in February. Whether US Secretary of Defense James Mattis's talk on tailored deterrence, or British Prime Minister Theresa May's references to modern deterrence, there appears toÃÂ ...
Belfast Newsletter
March 3, 2018
European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier holds the draft document which included controversial proposals for Northern Ireland at EU headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018. Mr Reees-Mogg says: "The European Commission, under its lead Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier,ÃÂ ...
Sun.Star
March 3, 2018
THE EMBASSY of the United Kingdom in the Philippines will formally accept Filipino students coming from Saint Louis University to undergo a degree study program on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management. In his visit to the city during the starting leg of the British Festival, UK Ambassador to theÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
March 2, 2018
A recent RAND study indicates that no matter how the current Brexit negotiations end, the United Kingdom will emerge economically worse off. A clean break, which some Brexit proponents advocate, yields the worst result, reducing future British gross domestic product by almost 5 percent after 10 years.
CNBC
March 2, 2018
After a blast of Siberian weather dubbed "the beast from the east", southern Britain and Ireland were battered by Storm Emma which blocked roads, grounded planes and stopped trains. In Britain, a seven-year-old girl was killed in Cornwall after a car crashed into a house in icy conditions, the BBC reported.
Newcastle Star
March 2, 2018
What started as a school sport to play with friends has become something much more for 13-year-old Montana Quick, as she prepares for the long journey to the United Kingdom with the Australian futsal squad. The Callaghan College student revealed her career in soccer didn't start in the five-a-side formatÃÂ ...
Manchester Evening News
March 2, 2018
The 1,200 members of the public will be drawn "from every corner of the United Kingdom" said Kensington Palace, and will be nominated to attend by nine regional Lord Lieutenant offices. Harry and Ms Markle have asked that the people chosen are from a broad range of backgrounds and ages, includingÃÂ ...
Express.co.uk
March 2, 2018
... Kingdom – EXPRESS COMMENT. SO with every day that passes the attempts by the EU to cause problems for the UK over Brexit become increasingly blatantly designed to punish us rather than coming up with anything that is actually workable. PUBLISHED: 13:58, Thu, Mar 1, 2018 | UPDATED: 16:23, Thu, Mar 1, 2018ÃÂ ...
High Times
March 2, 2018
Is The United Kingdom Being Flooded With High Potency Cannabis? A study published Wednesday in the journal Drug Testing and Analysis is once again raising concerns about cannabis use and mental health in the UK, where the drug is prohibited. In it, researchers aimed to update the findings of aÃÂ ...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 1, 2018
European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, right, shakes hands with Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Coveney during a meeting General Affairs, Article 50, ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018 Credit: Geert Vanden Wijngaert /AP.
EU News
February 28, 2018
The European Commission has today published the draft Withdrawal Agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom. This is a draft of the agreement on the UK's orderly withdrawal from the EU and including introductory provisions, citizens' rights, other separation issues such as goodsÃÂ ...
High Times
February 28, 2018
It's only been a year since the United Kingdom reclassified cannabidiol (CBD) oil as a medicine. But the country already notices tremendous demand for the product. Unlike the United States which is moving slow to change CBD's classification on a federal level, the UK is reaping all the rewards. Since itsÃÂ ...
Snopes.com
February 16, 2018
Although legislative action following the Dunblane massacre coincided with the last school shooting in the United Kingdom, it did not spell a complete end to mass shootings in that country. On 2 June 2010, 52-year-old Derrick Bird shot and killed twelve people and injured eleven more during an hours-longÃÂ ...
Greensboro News & Record
December 31, 1999
At top, Keagan Brown wears full racing leathers with padding, helmet, gloves and boots when racing. He races 50cc motorcycles up to 150cc cycles. “It's super fun,” he said. Keagan has amassed a championship win, as well as numerous top three finishes in races across North Carolina, Georgia, New YorkÃÂ ...
New Statesman
December 31, 1999
The other problem is that it is not necessarily the case that it is in the interests of the United Kingdom to buy more or as much of its garlic from the global south as it does from western Europe. If British trade policy is solely an extension of its international development policy, maybe. If British trade policy hasÃÂ ...
CNN International
December 31, 1999
At the DUP's core is a desire to keep Northern Ireland an inseparable part of the United Kingdom. Right now it has the power to do that: Its 10 members of the British Parliament prop up May's government since she lost her majority in last year's general election. Since its inception, the party has remainedÃÂ ...
SBS
February 19, 2018
"Australia is very keen to pursue negotiations for a free trade agreement with the United Kingdom," Ms Bishop told media after her speech. "I think that would be precluded if the United Kingdom were to join the (EU) customs union, so our national interest, our priority, would be served by negotiating a freeÃÂ ...
CNBCAfrica.com
February 19, 2018
On 6 February, the British High Commissioner to Uganda, HE Peter West announced a new partnership between the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) in Uganda. The partnership aims to support universal energy access inÃÂ ...
CNNMoney
February 19, 2018
The fast food chain has been forced to temporarily close hundreds of restaurants in the United Kingdom after a logistics snafu stopped chicken deliveries. About 800 of the company's roughly 900 locations in Britain were closed as of midday on Monday. Some had opened for business by the afternoon,ÃÂ ...
Journalism.co.uk
February 19, 2018
Tadworth, Surrey, United Kingdom, 16 February 2018 - Scientific Europeanî, the new popular science magazine published from the United Kingdom whose premiere issue was launched last month announced subscription rates for the print and online versions. Further details can be found on www.scieu.
Daily Post Nigeria
February 18, 2018
The United Kingdom, UK, has reacted to the killing of over 40 persons by unknown gunmen in Zamfara State last week. The UK is calling on the Nigerian Government to carry out thorough investigation into the massacre and prosecution of the suspects involved. The call was made by the UK HighÃÂ ...
JOE
February 18, 2018
An earthquake hit the west of the United Kingdom this afternoon, felt all the way from Cornwall to Liverpool and across Wales. Early reports indicate it reached 4.4 on the richter scale. The tremor causes houses to shake, and terrified people all over the country. Young blogger Bambino Becky happened toÃÂ ...
PaZimbabwe
February 17, 2018
GWERU – A desperate Midlands State University Student who wanted to pay her tuition arrears duped a lecturer and sold him a non-existent stand for $10 000. Chinyoka with late Morgan Tsvangirai. Odene Tendai Chiwara (41) of number 50 Steadman road Athlone, Gweru has been dragged to court onÃÂ ...
World Casino Directory
February 17, 2018
In the United Kingdom, the Committees of Advertising Practice is reportedly soon set to institute new regulations that will change the way online casino and sportsbetting operators are permitted to promote special offers on their sites. According to a Wednesday report from the British BroadcastingÃÂ ...
Exchange News Direct
February 17, 2018
On Wednesday 7 February, the Treasury Committee set the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) the deadline of today (16 February) to publish the skilled persons' report (Section 166) into RBS' treatment of small business customers in its Global Restructuring Group (GRG). Letter from Andrew Bailey to theÃÂ ...
Kensington Chelsea & Westminster Today
February 17, 2018
The UK is increasing its support for a global education fund for developing countries by 50% to ã75m per year. International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt made the announcement at a global conference in Senegal, as part of a new emphasis on targeting aid at education projects. Ms Mordaunt said supportingà...
Snopes.com
February 17, 2018
Although legislative action following the Dunblane massacre coincided with the last school shooting in the United Kingdom, it did not spell a complete end to mass shootings in that country. On 2 June 2010, 52-year-old Derrick Bird shot and killed twelve people and injured eleven more during an hours-longÃÂ ...
Financial Express
February 16, 2018
British Prime Minister Theresa May travels to Berlin on Friday to meet German leader Angela Merkel, hoping to overcome near-deadlock in her attempts to negotiate a Brexit deal with the European Union. By: Reuters | Published: February 16, 2018 6:09 AM. 0. Shares. Share. UK PM Theresa May to visit Germany.
The National Law Review
February 14, 2018
The UK Trade Bill continued to be debated in the House of Commons with a second reading taking place on 9 January 2018. One of the main contributions of the bill is the establishment of the UK Trade Remedies Authority, an institution responsible for investigations into trade remedies, a responsibilityÃÂ ...
The National Law Review
February 14, 2018
On 29 January 2018, the ECJU published a guidance on the MOD Form 680 allowing firms to apply for permission to release information about classified goods and services to foreign nations. According to this guidance, the outcome of a MOD Form 680 request depends on various factors, including theÃÂ ...
Legal Business (blog)
February 14, 2018
Those of you in the UK with fond memories of the hefty The Legal 500 books dropping onto your desks are in for a change. The publication later this year of the latest research will be environmentally-friendly and move to a wholly digital platform via legal500.com. Our ambition is to create the best possibleÃÂ ...
International Monetary Fund
February 14, 2018
On February 12, 2018, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with the United Kingdom. Economic growth has moderated since the beginning of 2017, reflecting weakening domestic demand. The sharp depreciation of sterling following theÃÂ ...
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
February 13, 2018
The UK government has unveiled a tool it says can accurately detect jihadist content and block it from being viewed. Home Secretary Amber Rudd told the BBC she would not rule out forcing technology companies to use it by law. Ms Rudd is visiting the US to meet tech companies to discuss the idea,ÃÂ ...
NYC Food Policy Center (blog)
February 13, 2018
The United Kingdom has developed a plan to direct national development within an environmental framework over the coming 25 years. The plan is presented as part of a “Green Brexit,” in which “clean growth” and national accountability are prioritized in the process of reforming agriculture, fisheriesÃÂ ...
