Peter Griffiths

Britain’s Cameron in coalition clash over EU referendum

August 24, 2021 at 5:54 p.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron clashed with his coalition partners over the European Union on Monday after they accused him of endangering an economic recovery by promising a...

Britain’s Osborne reaches deal on spending cuts

August 24, 2021 at 5:16 p.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister George Osborne completed talks on Sunday with government departments aimed at securing spending cuts worth 11.5 billion pounds ($17.70 billion)in 2015-16 to help reduce...

WikiLeaks defies U.S. to help leaker Snowden

August 24, 2021 at 5:16 p.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks' decision to help U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden escape Washington's extradition attempts in Hong Kong has cemented the anti-secrecy group's reputation as a thorn in the...

Adele honored in Queen Elizabeth’s birthday list

August 24, 2021 at 4:47 p.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - Grammy Award-winning singer Adele and Mr Bean actor Rowan Atkinson were among more than 1,000 people recognized by Britain's Queen Elizabeth in her Birthday Honors List on...

Suspect in British soldier murder blows kisses in dock

August 24, 2021 at 4:21 p.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - One of two men charged with murdering a British soldier on a busy London street appeared in court for the first time on Monday, blowing kisses to...

Suspect in British soldier murder blows kisses in dock

August 24, 2021 at 4:14 p.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - One of two men charged with murdering a British soldier on a busy London street appeared in court for the first time on Monday, blowing kisses to...

Suspected killer of British soldier was held in Kenya

August 24, 2021 at 3:34 p.m.

LONDON/NAIROBI (Reuters) - One of two men arrested over the murder of a British soldier in a London street was detained in Kenya in 2010 on suspicion of seeking to...

British police arrest three over soldier’s killing

August 24, 2021 at 3:31 p.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - British counter-terrorism police on Saturday arrested three people suspected of involvement in the killing of a soldier hacked to death in a London street by two men...

UK inquest into ex-Russian spy’s death may be scrapped

August 24, 2021 at 2:55 p.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's long-delayed inquest into the death by radioactive poisoning of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko could be abandoned after the coroner partly upheld a British government request to...

UK’s Cameron survives humbling parliamentary revolt over EU

August 24, 2021 at 2:42 p.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron suffered an embarrassing blow in parliament on Wednesday when a third of his Conservative lawmakers voted against him in protest at his stance...

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