BRITAIN

Millions face new UK virus restrictions; border chaos eases

UK regions under pressure to submit to virus restrictions

6:35 pm October 16, 2020

London: England’s northwestern county of Lancashire, home to 1.5 million people, has agreed to accept the most severe level of COVID-19 restrictions as the British government warned Friday that it has the authority to impose such measures on high-risk areas that continue to resist. Geoff Driver, leader of the Lancashire County Council, said the county had struck a […]

British PM forced to defend India travel ban timing over Delta variant in Parliament

UK PM under pressure for ‘circuit breaker’ full COVID-19 lockdown

8:26 pm October 14, 2020

London: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday stood his ground in the face of mounting pressure for a temporary complete national lockdown to act as a “circuit breaker” for the continued rise in coronavirus infections, even as the new three-tier system Covid-19 restrictions came into force across England. While the new medium, high and very high […]

Gmail, other Google services face outage

Global watchdog proposes tax overhaul for Big Tech

9:43 pm October 12, 2020

London: A global economic watchdog on Monday proposed an overhaul of international tax rules to make sure big tech companies pay their dues, and warned that failure to adopt it would make the economic recovery from COVID-19 harder. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, which advises the world’s top economies, said its global […]

English villages wake up to find they’re Brexit’s new border

9:24 pm October 12, 2020

Sevington: Four years after Britain voted to leave the European Union, Brexit can still seem abstract. But in the county known as the Garden of England, it is literally taking concrete form. Just beyond the ancient oaks and yews that surround medieval St. Mary’s Church in the village of Sevington, bulldozers, dump trucks and cement mixers swarm […]

UK at ‘tipping point:’ England braces for more restrictions

11:16 pm October 11, 2020

London: Millions of people in northern England are anxiously waiting to hear how much further virus restrictions will be tightened as one of the British government’s leading medical advisers warned Sunday that the country is at a crucial juncture in the second wave of the coronavirus. England’s deputy chief medical officer, Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, said […]