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LONDON (Reuters) – Julian Assange appeared before a British court on Monday to fight an extradition request from the United States which wants to put the 48-year-old on trial for hacking government computers and violating an espionage law. FILE PHOTO: WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange leaves Westminster Magistrates Court in London, Britain January 13, 2020. REUTERS/Simon

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has full confidence in his interior minister, Priti Patel, and she has a “strong” working relationship with the main domestic intelligence agency MI5, a spokesman for Johnson said on Monday. “The PM has full confidence in the Home Secretary (interior minister) and the vital work she is

LONDON (Reuters) – British intelligence took the unusual step on Monday of denying a newspaper report that the main domestic spy agency, MI5, had withheld information from the interior minister because some spies did not trust her. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Home Secretary Priti Patel leaves Downing Street in London, Britain February 13, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will comply with the obligations set out in the so-called Northern Ireland protocol with the European Union but does not see that entailing new checks on goods, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday. The Sunday Times newspaper reported that Johnson’s Brexit team had been ordered to come

WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange leaves Westminster Magistrates Court in London, Britain January 13, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – A lawyer for the United States told a British court on Monday that Julian Assange is wanted for crimes that put at risk the lives of people who had helped the West and that journalism is

LONDON (Reuters) – A London court begins hearings on Monday to decide whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to the United States where he is wanted over charges that he conspired to hack U.S. government computers and violated an espionage law. WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange leaves Westminster Magistrates Court in London, Britain January

FILE PHOTO: A boy wearing an Ariana Grande hoodie looks at flowers and tributes left for the victims of the attack on Manchester Arena in St Ann’s Square in Manchester, May 29, 2017. REUTERS/Phil Noble LONDON (Reuters) – British venue owners will have to come up with plans to try to prevent militant attacks and

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new finance minister Rishi Sunak will have to raise taxes rather than rely on tweaks to budget rules if he wants to really ramp up spending in a first post-Brexit budget next month, the Resolution Foundation, a think-tank, said. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is seen outside

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain must not exclude its huge services industry from a planned trade deal with the European Union as the price for reclaiming control over its economy, a group representing British employers said on Monday. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street in London, Britain February 12, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street in London, Britain February 12, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit team has been ordered to come up with plans to “get around” the Northern Ireland protocol in the Brexit withdrawal agreement, the Sunday Times newspaper reported. Officials in Taskforce

FILE PHOTO: France’s President Emmanuel Macron arrives for the second day of a special European Council summit in Brussels, Belgium February 21, 2020, held to discuss the next long-term budget of the European Union. Ludovic Marin/Pool via REUTERS PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday cast doubt over the likelihood of the European

(Reuters) – London police said on Friday that they had charged a 29-year-old man in the stabbing of a prayer leader at a mosque in Park Road. Police officers are seen outside the London Central Mosque in London, Britain February 21, 2020. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls Daniel Horton, charged with section 18 GBH and possession of a

(Reuters) – Britain will start re-introducing traditional blue passports next month, the interior ministry said on Saturday, replacing the burgundy European Union documents that have been in use since 1988. A classic blue United Kingdom passport is seen in this photo illustration received via Britain’s Home Office, in London Britain December 22, 2017. Home Office/Crown

(Reuters) – London police said on Friday that they had charged a 29-year-old man in the stabbing of a prayer leader at a mosque in Park Road. Police officers are seen outside the London Central Mosque in London, Britain February 21, 2020. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls Daniel Horton, charged with section 18 GBH and possession of a

(Reuters) – Britain’s Foreign Office on Friday said the evacuation flight for its nationals on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship has taken off from Japan, following the coronavirus outbreak. The flight, carrying 32 British and other European passengers along with British government and medical staff, is due to land in Britain on Saturday morning,

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have decided not to use the word “royal” in their branding after they start a new life in Canada following their decision to step back from royal duties. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex pose for a picture