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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

UK

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech to announce the date of the UK's next general election, to be held on July 4, at 10 Downing Street in central London, on May 22, 2024. (BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP)
May 22, 2024, 9:28 pm
British PM Sunak calls general elections for July 4; polls predict defeat
Governing Conservatives widely expected to lose to Keir Starmer’s Labour, though Sunak vows to ‘fight for every vote’
By Agencies
US soldiers assemble the Roll-On, Roll-Off Distribution Facility (RRDF), or floating pier, off the shore of Gaza in the Mediterranean Sea on April 26, 2024. (US Army via AP)
May 15, 2024, 10:39 pm
UK’s first aid shipment leaves Cyprus headed for temporary Gaza pier
Hailing cargo of 8,400 shelter kits, Sunak says UK ‘leading international efforts with US and Cyprus to establish maritime aid corridor’
By Lazar Berman and Reuters
Illustrative: Cineworld movie theater in London, October 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
June 8, 2022, 6:02 pm
Israeli-owned chain halts UK screenings of film about Prophet Muhammad’s daughter
Protesters rally outside Bolton and Birmingham locations of Cineworld after its June 3 showing prompts safety concerns, harsh criticism from Islamic organizations
By ToI Staff
Prince Harry and Meghan, duke and duchess of Sussex, in conversation with Oprah Winfrey in an interview broadcast March 7, 2021. (Joe Pugliese/Harpo Productions via AP, File)
January 1, 2022, 5:39 am
Annus horribilis part deux? Why 2021 was a royal pain for the British monarchy
As the year comes to an end, The Times of Israel dishes with royal commentator Jonathan Sacerdoti about the biggest stories out of Buckingham Palace – and Montecito, California
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative image of a cancer patient (KatarzynaBialasiewicz; iStock by Getty Images)
June 17, 2021, 12:02 pm
Israel’s OncoHost, UK’s NHS to study cancer patient responses to immunotherapies
Startup’s blood test aims to predict which cancer patients will react better to treatment; 8 clinical trials will be set up in the UK
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative: A row of ambulances parked outside the Royal London Hospital in London, December 29, 2020. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)
January 2, 2021, 3:23 am
‘Eye of the storm’: UK in crisis as cases surge, likely due to new virus variant
British health authorities scramble amid wave of cases that is expected to spike even higher following Christmas, New Year’s gatherings
By Pan Pylas
Illustrative: Demonstrators hold placards and EU and Union flags as they take part in a march by the People's Vote organisation in central London on October 19, 2019, calling for a final say in a second referendum on Brexit (Niklas HALLE'N / AFP)
September 22, 2020, 3:31 pm
EU tells UK to ‘stop playing games’ on Brexit
European, British officials meet in an effort to address latest threat to orderly exit from Union — a dispute over signed exit deal being altered by internal British legislation
By Dave Clark
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures during his visit to the Tollgate Medical Centre in Becton, east London on July 24, 2020. (Jeremy Selwyn/POOL/AFP)
July 24, 2020, 4:18 pm
‘Anti-vaxxers are nuts,’ Boris Johnson says as UK prepares for flu season
British health officials say vaccination program amid coronavirus pandemic is ‘biggest in history,’ amid fears seasonal illness will compound damage caused by COVID-19
By AFP
People walk in near darkness at Clapham Junction station during a power cut, in London, Friday, Aug. 9, 2019. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)
August 9, 2019, 10:13 pm
Massive power cut hits London, wide swathes of UK, snarling traffic
Power supplier says issue resolved but widespread transport complications persist as hundreds of trains canceled
By AP
People sunbath in front of the Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre) during a heatwave in Paris on June 26, 2019. (Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)
July 25, 2019, 2:22 pm
Paris sizzles, London boils as record heat strikes Europe again
With summer’s second heatwave tormenting continent, climate scientists warn this could become the new normal
By Agencies
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves after a press conference following a special meeting of the European Council to endorse the draft Brexit withdrawal agreement and to approve the draft political declaration on future EU-UK relations on November 25, 2018 in Brussels. (Photo by Philippe LOPEZ / AFP)
November 27, 2018, 12:20 am
UK’s May under assault in Parliament over EU exit deal
PM must now navigate withdrawal agreement through a divided chamber in which she holds slimmest working majority and with opposition on all sides
By Dmitry Zaks
Anna Shapiro and Alex King, in a photo posted on Instagram in 2015 (Anna Shapiro / Instagram)
September 23, 2018, 12:44 am
Russian-Israeli model denies hoax in English spy poisoning saga
Anna Shapiro prompted security alert when she claimed she and husband targeted by Moscow in same city where Russia allegedly used nerve agent Novichok
By ToI Staff and AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech at a session of the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum on May 25, 2018, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
June 10, 2018, 3:20 pm
Putin dismisses G7 criticism as ‘babbling,’ calls for cooperation
Russian president says statement blaming Moscow for poisoning of ex-agent in UK based on ‘flimsy ground’
By AFP
British Prime Minister Theresa May, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaking to the media following talks at the Chancellery in Berlin, July 20, 2016. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images/via JTA)
May 10, 2018, 3:00 pm
Britain, Germany knock Iran after its exchange of fire with Israel
Merkel says rocket attack on north a ‘serious provocation’; May says Israel has ‘every right to defend itself’; Russia calls for dialogue
By ToI Staff and AFP
Hummus (Shutterstock)
February 9, 2018, 12:18 pm
Britain suffers hummus price hike as India’s chickpea harvest fails
Popular Middle Eastern dish now a staple in UK homes, where a $140 million a year industry has grown by 50 percent in four years
By Sue Surkes
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