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Britain to exit Energy Charter Treaty over failure to align with net zero

22 Feb 2024

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Thursday it will follow other European countries in leaving an international treaty which has been criticised for blocking efforts to fight climate change because its protection of energy investments extends to fossil fuels. The 1998 Energy Charter Treaty allows energy companies to sue governments over policies that damage their …

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UK sanctions heads of Arctic penal colony where Navalny died

21 Feb 2024

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain on Wednesday imposed sanctions on six individuals in charge of the Arctic penal colony where Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died last week. Western leaders have expressed outrage at the news from Russian authorities that Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent domestic critic, had fallen unconscious and died in prison on Friday. …

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King Charles ‘reduced to tears’ by support after cancer diagnosis

21 Feb 2024

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s King Charles said during a meeting with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday he had been reduced to tears by messages of good will following his cancer diagnosis. The palace announced earlier this month that Charles, 75, had been diagnosed with a form of cancer, less than 18 months into his …

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Assange wanted for ‘indiscriminately’ publishing sources’ names, U.S. lawyers say

21 Feb 2024

By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -Julian Assange is being prosecuted for publishing sources’ names and not his political opinions, lawyers representing the United States said on Wednesday as the WikiLeaks founder’s latest fight to stop his extradition from Britain concluded. U.S. prosecutors are seeking to put Assange, 52, on trial over WikiLeaks’ high-profile release of …

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UK’s Heathrow Airport posts first profit in four years

21 Feb 2024

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Heathrow Airport swung back to a profit last year for the first time since the pandemic after passenger numbers returned to close to pre-COVID levels, and it forecast a rise to a record 81.4 million travellers this year. Heathrow, Britain and Europe’s busiest hub, on Wednesday reported annual adjusted pretax profit of …

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Former London police officer convicted of multiple rapes

21 Feb 2024

LONDON (Reuters) – A former member of the Metropolitan Police has been convicted of multiple rapes, including of a child, London’s police force said on Wednesday, with some of the offences carried out while he was a serving officer. In the latest case involving Britain’s largest police force, 24-year-old Cliff Mitchell was found guilty at …

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UK’s Trident nuclear-deterrent missile system misfires during test

21 Feb 2024

By William James and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Trident nuclear-deterrent system misfired during a test last month, sending a missile crashing into the ocean off the Florida coast near the submarine that launched it, The Sun newspaper reported on Wednesday. The Ministry of Defence confirmed that an “anomaly” had occurred during the test but …

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UK nuclear deterrent remains effective, says defence minister, after test ‘anomaly’

21 Feb 2024

LONDON (Reuters) – British defence minister Grant Shapps said on Wednesday there were no implications for Britain’s ability to fire nuclear weapons from an “anomaly” during the test of its nuclear missile system last month. “An anomaly did occur, but it was event specific and there are no implications for the reliability of the wider Trident …

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UK’s Prince William: ‘Too many’ have been killed in Gaza war

20 Feb 2024

By Michael Holden and Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince William called on Tuesday for an end to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, saying the “sheer scale of human suffering” had brought home the need for peace in an enclave “where too many have been killed”. In an unusually direct intervention for a member …

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