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Josephine Faleye receives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from a senior nurse Dilhani Somaweera, on the first day of the largest immunisation programme in the British history, in London, Britain December 8, 2020. Jack Hill/Pool via REUTERS

UK Health Unions Offer to Pause NHS Strikes If Government Joins Pay Talks

British health unions have offered to suspend a wave of planned strikes in health services over Christmas and the New Year if the government agrees to open serious discussions over pay. The Royal…

10 December 2022
People shop at market stalls, with skyscrapers of the CIty of London financial district seen behind, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in London, Britain, January 15, 2021. REUTERS/Toby Melville

Three Quarters of UK Long COVID Sufferers Working Less -Survey

More than three quarters of British people who have suffered persistent ill health following a COVID-19 infection have had to cut back or change the work they do, according to a survey on the impact…

09 November 2022
Gavin Williamson walks outside Number 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, October 25, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

UK's Sunak Stands by Minister Accused of Sending Bullying Texts

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is standing by a government minister who has been accused of bullying a colleague, cabinet office minister Oliver Dowden said on Sunday, saying the phone messages…

06 November 2022
A man throws an object out of a car window next to the Border Force centre after a firebomb attack in Dover, Britain, October 30, 2022. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

British Police Say Immigration Centre Attack Was Terrorist Incident

British police said on Saturday evidence showed an extreme right-wing terrorist ideology had motivated a petrol bomb attack on an immigration centre in the southern English port town of Dover on Oct…

05 November 2022
Britain's new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak waves as he enters Number 10 Downing Street, in London, Britain, October 25, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

IMF Chief Expects UK PM Sunak's Government to Stick to Fiscal Discipline

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said on Wednesday she expects new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to steer Britain towards fiscal sustainability and said he was right to warn the public of difficult…

26 October 2022
Britain's Conservative MP Rishi Sunak leaves his home address in London, Britain October 24, 2022. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

Sunak Looks Set to Become Next UK PM after Johnson Quits Race

Rishi Sunak looked set to become Britain's next prime minister after his rival Boris Johnson quit the race, admitting that he could no longer unite their party following one of the most turbulent…

24 October 2022
Shoppers walk next to the clubcard price branding inside a branch of a Tesco Extra Supermarket in London, Britain, February 10, 2022. Picture taken February 10, 2022. REUTERS/Paul Childs

Political Chaos Tips British Firms into Deeper Slide-PMI

British businesses are suffering their worst month since January 2021, when they were under a COVID-19 lockdown, as the country's political upheavals compound concerns about inflation and rising…

24 October 2022
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks at the Commonwealth Business Forum at the International Convention Centre (ICC), in Birmingham, Britain, July 28, 2022. Peter Byrne/Pool via REUTERS

Boris Johnson Battling to Win Support for UK PM Comeback Bid, Sunak Enters Race

Boris Johnson was fighting on Sunday to get enough support to make a shock return as Britain's prime minister after prominent figures on the right wing of the Conservative Party coalesced around the…

23 October 2022
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak walk out of Downing Street, in London, Britain, December 1, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

Race to Be Next UK PM Begins as Momentum Grows Behind Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson has been gaining momentum in his audacious bid to return as British prime minister, with his colleagues deeply divided over the potential comeback and some warning he would plunge the…

22 October 2022
British Prime Minister Liz Truss leaves Number 10 Downing Street for the Houses of Parliament, in London, Britain, October 19, 2022. REUTERS/Toby Melville

UK PM Truss Has No Plans to Resign, Political Spokesman Says

British Prime Minister Liz Truss will be in power when a fiscal plan is delivered on Oct. 31 and has no plans to resign, her political spokesman said on Wednesday, before a vote in parliament on…

19 October 2022
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Why a cornered Iran is also a problem for China

02 May 2026

Even when appeals to open the Hormuz Strait come from a close ally like Beijing, they fall on deaf ears in Tehran. But hope is not yet lost.

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Global airfares soar amid ongoing US-Iran turmoil

04 May 2026

Airspace closures, rising fuel costs, shifting flight maps and delayed aircraft deliveries have repriced flights around the world, with some travel routes hit worse than others

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A man holds a flag featuring the late leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei and the new leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, at a rally in Tehran on 29 April 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
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Real Iran splits and the myth of division

04 May 2026

The argument is over the price and presentation, not the basic instinct to preserve the system

Alex Vatanka
A Lebanese guard stands in front of  Magen Abraham, the last Jewish synagogue in Lebanon at Wadi Abou Jmil, Beirut's former Jewish neighbourhood, in the war-devastated city centre. JOSEPH BARRAK / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

New book recalls Beirut’s once-vibrant Jewish quarter

01 May 2026

Veteran Lebanese journalist Nada Abdelsamad transports readers back to the time when Beirut's Jewish quarter, known at the time as Wadi al-Yahud, was thriving

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush
Turkish fighter jets fly over a warship in Kyrenia, in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. AFP
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How the Iran war changed Türkiye’s security calculus

05 May 2026

Ankara's national security priority is no longer Kurds or Gülenists, but Israel. Likewise, in Tel Aviv, Türkiye is increasingly seen as a future Israeli adversary. Both are preparing accordingly

Rustum Mahmud

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