Britain’s government on Monday promised to tighten migration rules and make it harder for newcomers to permanently stay in the country, in a sign of the increasing political pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to cut immigration numbers. Under the plans, visas for some lower skilled workers would be reduced, language requirements for immigrants raised…
An Indian defense company says that it did not resell sensitive technology to Russia that was supplied by one of the biggest corporate donors to the populist Reform UK party. The New York Times reported in March that, according to 2023 and 2024 shipping records, the British aerospace manufacturer H.R. Smith Group exported equipment to…
Tesla sales in Germany and Britain fell to their lowest point in more than two years in April, cementing a wider trend of Europeans shunning the U.S. automaker, despite growing demand for battery-powered vehicles in Europe. Registrations of new Tesla vehicles dropped nearly 46 percent in Germany and 62 percent in Britain from a year…
The comedian and actor Russell Brand appeared before a London court on Friday on multiple charges of sexual assault, including two counts of rape. His 14-minute appearance at the court, Westminster Magistrates’, was the first, largely procedural step in what are likely to be lengthy criminal proceedings. It came a month after British prosecutors charged…
Nigel Farage’s insurgent anti-immigration party, Reform U.K., scored a significant, if narrow, victory Friday in a parliamentary special election in the northwest of England, serving notice that Mr. Farage, a populist fixture and close ally of President Trump, is again a rising force in British politics. Reform’s candidate, Sarah Pochin, won by a razor-thin margin…
Britain’s military said it had carried out a joint operation with U.S. forces against the Houthi militia in Yemen for the first time since President Trump re-entered the White House and stepped up attacks on the Iran-backed group. There was no immediate comment from the American military about the operation, which the British Defense Ministry…
A man accused of wounding two women with a crossbow in the British city of Leeds on Saturday has died of a self-inflicted injury, the police said on Tuesday. The suspect, Owen Lawrence, 38, died in the hospital where he was taken after his arrest at the scene of the attack, the counterterrorism police said…
Counterterrorism police in Britain are investigating an attack on Saturday that “seriously injured” two women in the northern English city of Leeds. The police said that they had recovered a crossbow and a firearm. The police arrested a 38-year-old man, who was taken to the hospital with what they called a “self-inflicted injury.” They said…
The legal assault on trans rights is being waged on both sides of the Atlantic. On Monday, Hungary’s Parliament approved a constitutional amendment banning public events by members of L.G.B.T.Q. communities. Two days later, President Trump sued Maine for allowing trans athletes in schools. On Wednesday, Britain’s highest court added its voice to the debate,…
Andrew Tate, the online influencer known for his misogynistic views, has been accused of raping two women and threatening one of them with a gun, in a claim filed in Britain’s High Court. The accusations are part of a civil suit filed by the two women, and two others, last June against Mr. Tate. The…