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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves a cabinet meeting at Downing Street in London, January 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
January 15, 2019, 10:02 pm
UK Parliament rejects May’s Brexit deal, in biggest defeat in modern history
Lawmakers shoot down PM’s proposal in devastating 432-202 vote, plunging the bid to leave the European Union into chaos
By Jill Lawless, DANICA KIRKA and Gregory Katz
Russian President Vladimir Putin, background center, speaks during a meeting with top military officers in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia on November 19, 2018. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
November 21, 2018, 12:51 am
Possible Russian president of Interpol raises alarm in West
Kremlin critics fear they could soon face arrest anywhere around the world as Putin ally Alexander Prokopchuk front-runner to lead international police organization
By DANICA KIRKA and Angela Charlton
In this file photo taken on July 04, 2017 Interpol vice president Alexander Prokopchuk (L) and and Meng Hongwei, president of Interpol, attend the opening of the Interpol World Congress in Singapore on July 4, 2017. (ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP)
November 20, 2018, 8:56 pm
Russian police official may be tapped as Interpol president
Kremlin critics warn against move, say Vladimir Putin has already used international agency to hunt down dissidents
By DANICA KIRKA and Angela Charlton
In this April 12, 2016, photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about the company's 10-year roadmap during the keynote address at the F8 Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
October 25, 2018, 5:34 pm
UK watchdog fines Facebook over data breach in Cambridge Analytica scandal
$644,000 penalty comes after British regulators find that between 2007 and 2014, social media giant processed personal info of users without informed consent
By DANICA KIRKA
British billionaire Richard Branson visits a Zumba Step dance class at Virgin installations in Madrid, Spain, December 10, 2003. (AP Photo/Abraham Caro Marin, file)
October 12, 2018, 3:29 pm
Global business leaders suspend ties with Saudi Arabia
Pressure grows on Riyadh to explain fate of missing regime critic Jamal Khashoggi
By DANICA KIRKA
In this photo dated March 10, 2018, former White House strategist Steve Bannon addresses members of the far right National Front party at the party congress in the northern French city of Lille. (AP Photo)
August 12, 2018, 6:32 pm
Steve Bannon weighs in on UK burqa debate, Boris Johnson
US Republican strategist says ex-foreign secretary will make ‘a great prime minister,’ says far-right activist Tommy Robinson is ‘a force of nature’
By DANICA KIRKA
Protestors hold up banners as a six-meter high cartoon baby blimp of US President Donald Trump is flown as a protest against his visit, in Parliament Square in London, England, Friday, July 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)
July 14, 2018, 5:04 am
Demonstrators mock Donald Trump; protest his visit to the UK
Tens of thousands protest across the country as US President meets with Queen and Theresa May before heading off to one of his golf courses in Scotland
By DANICA KIRKA
Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex leave from the West Door of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Windsor, on May 19, 2018 after their wedding ceremony. (AFP/ Ben Birchall)
May 19, 2018, 3:38 pm
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle wed in Windsor as millions watch
The American actress arrived in a dress designed by British designer Clare Waight Keller; ceremony complete with Anglican prayers, a gospel choir, and a horse-drawn carriage
By Gregory Katz, DANICA KIRKA and Jill Lawless
The offices of Cambridge Analytica (CA) in central London, March 20, 2018. (Kirsty O'Connor/PA via AP)
April 17, 2018, 7:45 am
UK academic says data firm helped Trump campaign spread fear
Researcher tells British parliament committee that presidential hopeful used info from Cambridge Analytica to effectively deploy ‘false racist and Islamophobic comments’
By DANICA KIRKA
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May gives a press conference with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven following their talks at Rosenbad, Stockholm, Sweden, April 9, 2018. (Jonas Ekstromer/TT News Agency via AP)
April 12, 2018, 5:43 am
UK’s May reported to have deployed submarines to Syria coast
British prime minister says Bashar Assad’s apparent chemical weapons use in Douma cannot go unchallenged
By Jill Lawless and DANICA KIRKA
Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia holds up a copy of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' as he speaks during a Security Council meeting on the situation between Britain and Russia on April 5, 2018 at United Nations headquarters in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
April 6, 2018, 12:48 pm
Russia says Britain is ‘playing with fire’ in spy case
Moscow tells UN that it is victim of hasty, sloppy, ill-intentioned defamation campaign by London and its allies
By Edith M. Lederer and DANICA KIRKA
Illustrative: Logos of US online social media and social networking service Facebook. (AFP Photo/Loic Venance)
March 27, 2018, 8:51 am
Watch it, Facebook: New EU data rules may have broad impact
In wake of Cambridge Analytica scandal, major US tech firms face billions in potential fines if they violate Europe’s privacy standards
By DANICA KIRKA
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (r) speaks to Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov as they attend a security council meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, March 15, 2018. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
March 16, 2018, 4:13 pm
Moscow will expel British diplomats in poisoning standoff
Nerve agent that left Sergei Skripal in critical condition was reportedly put in his daughter’s suitcase before she left Russia
By Angela Charlton and DANICA KIRKA
Military personnel in College Street Car Park in Salisbury, Sunday March 11, 2018, as police and members of the armed forces probe the suspected nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, which took place on March 4. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)
March 15, 2018, 4:47 pm
US, France, Germany blame Russia for UK nerve agent attack
In joint statement, Western leaders say ‘no plausible alternative explanation’ to Moscow’s involvement in poisoning of Sergei Skripal
By DANICA KIRKA, Jill Lawless and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends a meeting with his counterpart from Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
March 15, 2018, 1:50 pm
Russian foreign minister says it will ‘certainly’ expel UK diplomats
As spat continues over poisoning of former spy and bilateral ties sink to Cold War-level low, Sergey Lavrov vows to retaliate ‘soon’
By DANICA KIRKA, Jill Lawless and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
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