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The world is on high alert as new cases of the potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus continue to get reported in Britain and across the globe. Amid fears that the recently identified new variant has the potential to be more resistant to the protection offered by vaccines, there are growing concerns that the pandemic and associated restrictions…

Travelers around the world are taking note of a new US travel restriction which applies to South Africa and seven other countries.

France’s president is urging European neighbors to do more to stop illegal migration into France after 27 people died in a sinking in the English Channel

The husband of a British-Iranian woman who has been detained for more than five years in Iran says he is ending his hunger strike outside Britain’s Foreign Office after 21 days.

Britain’s royals joined Daniel Craig, Lea Seydoux and the cast of “No Time to Die” on the red carpet for the new Bond film’s world premiere Tuesday.

Lines of cars formed at British gas stations for a fourth day, as the government mulled bringing in the army to help ease supply disruption triggered by a shortage of truck drivers

Low-income countries were supposed to get COVID-19 vaccines through a shared international system instead of waiting at the back of the line for unreliable donations from rich countries

Several events have commemorated the 77th anniversary of D-Day that led to the liberation of France and Europe from the German occupation

In a small Normandy town where paratroopers landed in the early hours of D-Day, applause broke the silence to honor Charles Shay

Britain’s Prince Philip left a London hospital on Tuesday after being treated for an infection and undergoing a heart procedure.

Street artist Banksy has confirmed that he was behind an artwork that appeared on the red brick wall of a former prison in the English town of Reading.

The crisis facing Britain this winter is depressingly familiar: stay-at-home orders and empty streets

With just days until the deadline, the United Kingdom and European Union agreed to a post-Brexit trade deal Thursday, signaling the end of a four-year saga that engulfed British politics and exposed a deep cultural divide that shows no signs of healing. “I’m very pleased to tell you this afternoon that we have completed our biggest trade deal yet,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson...

Researchers are concerned about reports from Britain and South Africa of new coronavirus strains that seem to spread more easily.

British singer Rita Ora has apologized for breaking lockdown rules by holding a birthday party, saying it was “a serious and inexcusable error of judgment.”

Britain says it has secured 2 million more doses of a promising coronavirus vaccine as the country aims to launch an inoculation program within days

French authorities say at least four migrants, including two children, have died when a boat carrying at least 19 migrants capsized off France while trying to cross the English Channel to Britain.

A long-awaited report on Russian meddling in British politics criticized the U.K. government for failing to investigate whether Moscow interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum, with the document’s authors describing the lack of curiosity about this threat to democracy as a major failure at the heart of power

The English town of Reading mourned Monday for three people stabbed to death in what is being treated as a terror attack, gathering for a moment of silence as police questioned the suspected lone attacker.

Police say a stabbing rampage in Britain that killed three people as they sat in a park on a summer evening is being considered a terrorist attack but officials said the motive was unclear. A 25-year-old man believed to be the lone attacker is in custody.