Category: Foreign

Queen Elizabeth II of England has died at the age of 96 today. The queen was said to have died peacefully. Crowd had gathered at the Buckingham Palace residence in London today as concern was growing over the Queen’s health. Around 100 people braved torrential rain to stand at the palace gates, as senior royals rushed to Balmoral in Scotland, where the queen was being treated. The Royal Family, announcing the death in a statement, said, “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. “The King and The Queen Consort…

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Following the resignation of Boris Johnson, new Prime Minister (PM), Liz Truss has taken over office. Truss met with the head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, yesterday. The former foreign secretary, 47, was seen in an official photograph shaking hands with the monarch to accept her offer to form a new government and become the 15th PM of her 70-year reign. The symbolic ceremony held at the sovereign’s remote Balmoral retreat in the Scottish Highlands, as the Queen, 96, was deemed ‘unfit’ to return to London due to ill health.…

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Official data on Wednesday showed that British inflation surged to a new 40-year high in July on rising food prices, adding to a cost-of-living crisis as the country faces the prospect of recession. The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) accelerated to 10.1 percent last month from 9.4 percent in June, the Office of National Statistics said. The Bank of England warned earlier this month that inflation will climb to just over 13 percent this year, the highest level since 1980. It also projected that the country would enter a recession that…

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Russia on Monday said it was blacklisting 39 British citizens, including Labour Party leader Keir Starmer and former prime minister David Cameron. London has been one of Kyiv’s most vocal supporters after President Vladimir Putin sent troops to Ukraine on February 24. Russia’s foreign ministry said the citizens listed, including journalists, “contribute to the hostile course of London aimed at the demonisation of our country and its international isolation”. “The choice in favour of confrontation is the conscious decision of the British political establishment, which bears all responsibility for the…

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Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom Prime Minister, has resigned from his position. His resignation will pave the way for a successor to replace him as British prime minister after dozens of his ministers quit his scandal-hit government. Following his resignation, British Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, called for “calmness and unity” Thursday after Johnson quit as Conservative Party leader following a series of scandals and an exodus of cabinet ministers. “The PM has made the right decision. The Government under Boris’s leadership had many achievements — delivering Brexit, vaccines and backing…

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Due to increase in food prices, the consumer price inflation in the United Kingdom has increased to a 40-year high of 9.1% in May, which is the highest rate out of the Group of Seven countries (G7) and one which underlines the severity of the country’s cost-of-living crisis. The analysis escalated from 9.0% in April to the present digits according to records from the Office for National Statistics, ONS, showing that May’s inflation was the highest since March 1982, and there is likelihood of worse scenario in the nearest future.…

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Local authorities in Florida on Monday said a two-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his father in Florida after his parents left a loaded gun unattended. When police officers, alerted by a 911 call, arrived at the victim’s home near Orlando on May 26, they found the child’s mother Marie Ayala providing CPR to her husband, Reggie Mabry. Law enforcement initially believed the 26-year-old, who died shortly afterward in hospital, had shot himself, but the eldest of the couple’s three children later told investigators that the trigger was pulled by…

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A vehicle belonging to one Ahmad Abdallah, stolen from Ontario street, Canada has been tracked to Nigeria. The 2017 Toyota Highlander was said to have disappeared from his street last September, according to reports. It was gathered that the owner had given up on finding the car after surveillance video of the thieves unlocking his 2017 Toyota Highlander provided no clue. More than six months later, Investigation revealed that the vehicle was discovered in a lot in a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria. After seeing the video of his own car…

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