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The British government accidentally published online the addresses of the New Year’s Honours 2020 recipients, including people such as Sam Mendes and Olivia Newton-John, it said on Saturday. CBC | World News
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After report prison labour used for Christmas cards, U.K. retailer suspends Chinese supplier
British supermarket giant Tesco suspended a Chinese supplier of Christmas cards on Sunday after a press report said a customer found a message written inside a card saying it had been packed by foreign prisoners who were victims of forced labour. CBC | World News
Read More »Corbyn apologizes for U.K. election loss
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn apologized Sunday for this party’s crushing defeat in the British general election but defended his campaign, which failed to resonate with the party’s working-class base, as “one of hope rather than fear.” CBC | World News
Read More »Election result will help U.K. economy, at least in the short term
The United Kingdom election result is a boost to the economy and financial markets in the short term as it will ease some of the uncertainty over Brexit that has hobbled business confidence during the past three years. CBC | World News
Read More »U.K. election: Why a Labour stronghold of half a century could fall to a pro-Brexit party
Labour Party strongholds in the U.K. are being targeted by both the Brexit Party and the Conservative Party, both of which hope to capitalize on voters’ disaffection over Brexit. CBC | World News
Read More »Jury finds Elon Musk did not defame U.K. diver with ‘pedo guy’ tweet
Elon Musk did not defame a British cave explorer when he called him “pedo guy” in an angry tweet, a Los Angeles jury found Friday. CBC | World News
Read More »As U.K. election poll predicts Conservative majority, Labour can’t shake its most vexing problem: its leader
With a new poll predicting the biggest Conservative majority in the Dec. 12 U.K. election since the Thatcher era, Labour’s chances of unseating Prime Minister Boris Johnson are growing bleaker by the day and are not helped by the one factor that has dogged the party throughout the entire Brexit crisis: the unpopularity of its leader. CBC | World News
Read More »Bodies of victims found in U.K. truck repatriated to Vietnam
The bodies of 16 of the 39 Vietnamese who died when human traffickers carried them by truck to the U.K. last month were repatriated to their homeland on Wednesday and have been taken to their families. CBC | World News
Read More »U.K. police arrest man in connection with Vietnamese truck deaths
British police arrested a 23-year-old man from Northern Ireland on Friday as part of their inquiry into the deaths of 39 Vietnamese people found in the back of a truck near London last month. CBC | World News
Read More »Johnson, Corbyn square off in 1st debate ahead of early U.K. election
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn squared off Tuesday in the first live televised debate of the U.K.’s election, each trying to spark a lackluster campaign to life. CBC | World News
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