UK Health Minister Wes Streeting proposes weight loss jabs to unemployed individuals. Streeting cites obesity-related issues as a significant burden on the NHS, costing around £11 billion annually. Streeting emphasizes the long-term benefits of these drugs in addressing obesity. In a bold effort to tackle rising obesity rates and ease the strain on the National … Read more
Guardian faces ransomware, urging improved cybersecurity. Geoffrey Hinton warns of superintelligent AI risks. Binance founder resigns, pleads guilty to money laundering, prompting cryptocurrency regulation questions. As we bid farewell to another eventful year, marked by technological advancements, cybersecurity challenges, and the ever-looming specter of artificial intelligence, it’s crucial to reflect on the stories that shaped … Read more
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will fly to Scotland on Thursday. He will meet with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon for a private working dinner. The two are set to talk about Scotland’s gender changes. In an effort to repair the bad relations between the two countries, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will fly to Scotland … Read more
A people smuggler claims that his clients are unaffected by the UK government’s proposal to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. It is the conclusion of a BBC Panorama investigation investigating the process by which thousands of migrants wind up requesting refuge on the beaches of southern England. In the UK, the people smuggler transfers hundreds … Read more
WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury asked . UK government to make a harder move against knife crime. After his cousin was cut to death in the early long periods of Sunday. Tyson Fury posts incorporated a picture which read “Stop knife crime” and a hashtag saying “just defeatists convey weapons”. English media announced that Fury’s … Read more
Staff at Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group will no longer work from home on Fridays. A memo said some were “not treating Friday as a working day”. Flexible and hybrid working patterns more common since coronavirus pandemic restrictions lifted. Chartered Institute of Management found that more than 80% of firms have adopted hybrid working. UK government … Read more
Scotland’s First Minister has said that the UK Government is moving Scotland in the “wrong direction” following the 2014 independence referendum. She has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ask for formal approval for such a vote. Scottish democracy cannot be a prisoner to Boris Johnson or any UK Prime Minister. Remarks by Nicola … Read more
UK government introduces legislation to repeal Northern Ireland trading rules. The protocol requires customs checks on goods arriving from England. the bill proposes overriding the EU withdrawal treaty signed by the UK. The UK government introduced legislation on Monday to repeal post-Brexit trading rules for Northern Ireland, Despite the risk of sparking a trade war … Read more
Qari Asim, 44, was removed from his role as an Islamophobia consultant. He backed calls for a film about the Prophet Mohammed’s daughter to be banned. The Lady of Heaven was shown in cinemas across the UK after protests against its content. After supporting requests to ban a film about the Prophet Mohammed’s daughter, an … Read more
Legislation to override parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol is within international law, Brandon Lewis has said. The protocol keeps Northern Ireland inside the EU’s single market for goods. It prevents a hard border with the Republic of Ireland but means checks on some goods arriving from elsewhere. The Northern Ireland secretary has stated that … Read more
Boris Johnson’s new food strategy denounced as ‘preposterous’; after leaked draft suggests it will reject key recommendations from an independent review. Calls to expand free school meals; and for a sugar and salt tax appear to have been ignored, the draft suggests. Instead there will be a consultation on how to help cows produce less … Read more
Menstrual leave requested from the UK government Spain would be the primary country in Europe to offer feminine leave UK noble cause have approached the public authority to get leave for the people who experience the ill effects of period pain. It comes as Spanish lawmakers support another draft charge that would permit those with … Read more
Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated in a newspaper piece Monday that the UK government has abandoned ambitions to stop all prosecutions related to the Northern Ireland conflict, instead giving immunity to those who cooperate. The government in July last year announced a plan to end prosecutions related to the conflict, which left 3,500 people dead over three … Read more
The UK government has been asked to pay “due attention” to the food crisis gripping the Horn of Africa, as new polling shows that just two out of ten Britons are aware that the worst drought in 40 years is even occurring, much alone causing catastrophe. The cumulative effect of three failed rainy seasons has … Read more
British Government says Russia is manipulating people online by hacking influential accounts Russian web trolls situated in an old arms industrial facility in St Petersburg are focusing on world pioneers on the web and spreading support for Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine, the British government has said, referring to an investigation. Online agents were viewed … Read more
Protesters have forced the closure of a number of facilities as they call on the UK government to halt new oil and gas projects, with one activist telling a news agency that “civil disobedience will only escalate until we see change.” For the third day in a row, some 100 protestors have shut down vital … Read more
The UK government has planned to privatize Channel 4. CEO of Channel 4, Alex Mahon sent email to their by saying that the channel has been informed by government that it will proceed with the proposal made last year, ‘quoted by some sources’. Some reports says, This Channel has a proposed vision of privatization and … Read more
LONDON: British airline EasyJet slashed losses by half in the first quarter, despite the emergence of the Omicron coronavirus variant which disrupted the travel industry, it said on Thursday. Pre-tax losses stood at £213 million ($288 million, €255 million) in the three months to the end of December, after a £423 million loss in the … Read more
LONDON: England on Thursday lifted coronavirus restrictions imposed to tackle the Omicron variant, with masks no longer required in enclosed places and vaccine passports shelved. The number of positive Covid-19 cases has fallen sharply over the past two weeks, and although still at high levels, have plateaued in recent days. The UK government introduced the so-called “Plan … Read more
LONDON: The UK government said Monday it will scrap compulsory Covid tests for fully jabbed arrivals and quarantine for unvaccinated travelers, in what it called “a new phase” in its pandemic strategy. Currently, fully vaccinated arrivals are required to take a lateral flow test within two days, while those not jabbed must self-isolate for 10 … Read more
LONDON: Owners of flats built with combustible cladding have welcomed a UK government move to make developers contribute more to the cost of its removal following the deadly 2017 Grenfell Tower fire but say much more is needed. “I would say it’s a step in the right direction, but it’s certainly not a solution,” said … Read more
LONDON: Britain’s economic growth recovery slowed in October, official data showed on Friday, even before the appearance of the Omicron coronavirus variant that has pushed the UK government to restore restrictions. Gross domestic product increased 0.1 per cent in October compared with output of 0.6 per cent the previous month, the Office for National Statistics said … Read more
RIYADH: A design of a liquid hydrogen-powered airliner theoretically capable of matching the performance of current midsize aircraft with zero emissions was unveiled by a UK research group. The FlyZero concept envisions a commercial plane carrying 279 passengers’ non-stop from London to San Francisco matching today’s comfort and speed, Bloomberg reported citing a statement by the Aerospace … Read more
LONDON: Energy giant Royal Dutch Shell has announced its exit from the proposed development of Cambo oilfield off the Shetland Islands, a project which has been blighted by climate protests. Shell, which has a 30 per cent interest in the development off the western coast of Scotland, said on late Thursday that the investment case … Read more
According to the World Travel & Tourism Council, the UK government should abandon its current travel strategy in order to aid economic recovery (WTTC). The organization claims that a lack of international cooperation, significant travel restrictions, and lower vaccination rates in some parts of the world have impeded the sector’s recovery, which is still in … Read more
The UK government’s Thursday travel review revealed no changes for Pakistan, which remains on the red list, despite weeks of lobbying by the Pakistan High Commission and British Pakistani MPs. Travelers from Pakistan will be disappointed by the UK government’s decision, as they will be subjected to an obligatory 10-day hotel quarantine, which would cost … Read more
LONDON: The UK government has decided to move United Arab Emirate (UAE) from the red to the amber list with effect from Sunday, August 8, 2021 after reviewing progress in the international travel system amid Covid-19 outbreak, WAM reported. Under the move announced on Thursday, all those who visit these countries will no longer have to … Read more
United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday had a telephonic conversation with PM Imran Khan and stated his condolences over the “tragic loss of life” in the train crash that killed over 45 and injured 100 in Sindh’s Ghotki. Boris Johnson telephone Imran, he stated that”Prime Minister [Boris Johnson] began by expressing his condolences … Read more
