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Jill Lawless
US President Donald Trump (right) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prior to Trump's departure to Rome at the Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on May 23, 2017. (Kobi Gideon / GPO via Flash90)
January 14, 2021, 4:59 pm
Leaders like Netanyahu and UK’s Johnson who wooed Trump face tricky reset
Israeli PM chose not to criticize his good friend following the deadly Capitol riots; like the US president, he attacks the media and lashes out at democratic institutions
By Jill Lawless
In this May 19, 2017 file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange greets supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been in self imposed exile since 2012. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
January 4, 2021, 4:02 pm
UK won’t extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to US
Citing suicide risk, British judge rules that whistleblower won’t face American espionage charges carrying a maximum sentence of 175 years
By Jill Lawless
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures as he holds a remote press conference to update the nation on the post-Brexit trade agreement, inside 10 Downing Street in central London on December 24, 2020. (Paul GROVER / POOL / AFP)
December 24, 2020, 6:11 pm
UK, EU reach breakthrough post-Brexit trade agreement; Johnson: The deal is done
Averting chaos, sides agree on deal that ensures they can continue to trade in goods without tariffs or quotas, even after Britain leaves single market, customs union
By Raf Casert and Jill Lawless
Author John Le Carre, real name David Cornwell at his home in London, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
December 14, 2020, 1:19 am
Spy novel master John le Carre, who defined the Cold War thriller, dies at 89
Known for creating iconic spymaster George Smiley and works like ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,’ le Carre used world of espionage to explore morality, betrayal and deceit
By Jill Lawless
Lorries queue at check-in at the port in Dover, December 11, 2020 (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
December 13, 2020, 1:23 pm
UK, EU agree to push off deadline for post-Brexit trade deal
European Commission chief says the sides want to ‘go the extra mile’ to avert chaotic and costly no-deal split
By Raf Casert and Jill Lawless
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a virtual press conference inside 10 Downing Street in central London on October 31, 2020 to announce new lockdown restrictions in an effort to curb rising infections of the novel coronavirus. (Alberto Pezzali / POOL / AFP)
November 1, 2020, 1:56 am
England to enter new lockdown as UK virus cases surpass 1 million
Month-long closure must still be approved by parliament; PM Johnson: ‘Unless we act, we could see deaths in this country running at several thousand a day’
By Jill Lawless
Sean Connery arrives at the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award event honoring Al Pacino in Los Angeles on June 7, 2007. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
October 31, 2020, 3:31 pm
Sean Connery, the ‘original’ James Bond, dies at 90
He walked away from iconic role at 41 but continued to flourish, disproving Hollywood snipers who predicted nobody would hire a balding, middle-aged actor with a funny accent
By Jill Lawless and Bob Thomas
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in London, to attend the weekly Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, in London, Sept. 23, 2020 (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
September 26, 2020, 8:20 am
As virus surges, critics say UK hasn’t learned from mistakes
Experts say government’s insistence on going its own way, epitomized by Britain’s exit from the EU, has hobbled its COVID response, with testing system a key failure
By Jill Lawless
Film director Alan Parker arrives at the opening ceremony of 26th Moscow International Film Festival in Moscow on June 18, 2004. Parker, whose movies included 'Bugsy Malone,' 'Midnight Express' and 'Evita,' has died at the age of 76. A statement from the director’s family says Parker died Friday in London after a long illness. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)
July 31, 2020, 9:36 pm
Alan Parker, director of ‘Midnight Express’ and ‘Bugsy Malone,’ dies at 76
A Briton who became a Hollywood heavyweight, Parker also directed ‘Fame,’ ‘The Commitments’ and ‘Mississippi Burning.’ Together his movies won 10 Academy Awards
By Jill Lawless
A Muslim man uses hand sanitizer at the Bradford Grand Mosque as Muslims gathered for Eid al-Adha prayers, in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, July 31, 2020. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP)
July 31, 2020, 4:42 pm
UK puts lockdown-easing on hold as virus spread accelerates
Hours before planned rollback of restrictions set to take effect, Johnson says country needs to ‘squeeze [the] brake pedal’ as infections start to climb for first time since May
By DANICA KIRKA and Jill Lawless
Colleagues and pupils of teacher James Furlong stand together to take part in a period of silence at the Holt School, in Wokingham, England, in memory of teacher James Furlong, a victim of a terror attack in nearby Reading, June 22, 2020. (Steve Parsons/PA via AP)
June 22, 2020, 5:47 pm
English town Reading mourns victims of suspected terror attack
Students light candles, lay flowers for history teacher James Furlong; family of another victim, Joe Ritchie-Bennett from Philadelphia, stranded in US due to virus lockdown
By DANICA KIRKA and Jill Lawless
Armed police officers work at a block of flats off Basingstoke Road in Reading after a stabbing attack at Forbury Gardens park in the town center of Reading, England, June 20, 2020. (Steve Parsons/PA via AP)
June 21, 2020, 3:54 am
3 slain in stabbing at UK park; police say motive unclear
Despite initial reports suggesting the opposite, local force says attack ‘not currently being treated as a terrorist incident’
By Jill Lawless
Black Lives Matter supporters during a protest at Trafalgar Square in central London, June 13, 2020. (AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
June 20, 2020, 6:02 am
Bank of England apologizes for past links to slavery, as UK reckons with past
UK’s central bank disavows former governors who had ties to slave trade; global anti-racism movement forcing British institutions to grapple with uncomfortable histories
By Jill Lawless and DANICA KIRKA
Police officers form a line to block protesters in central London on Wednesday, June 3, 2020 after a demonstration over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25. Protests have taken place across America and internationally, after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck while the handcuffed black man called out that he couldn’t breathe. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)
June 4, 2020, 5:25 am
Thousands in Europe decry racial injustice, police violence
Protests in UK, sparked by George Floyd killing, shift focus to racial disparities closer to home; police fire teargas at 4,000 demonstrators outside US embassy in Athens
By Pan Pylas and Jill Lawless
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L)with Douglas Ross, parliamentary under-secretary of state for Scotland, in Moray, Scotland, November 7, 2019. (Stefan Rousseau / PA via AP)
May 26, 2020, 3:09 pm
Minister quits UK government over aide’s lockdown breach
Dominic Cummings traveled over 250 miles to his parents’ house during nationwide lockdown while suffering virus symptoms
By Jill Lawless
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