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British Labor leader Keir Starmer (61) is set to become the UK’s new prime minister after Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party suffered a historic election defeat. Who is Starmer and what does he stand for? A portrait of the new Prime Minister. Sir Keir Rodney Starmer was born on September 2,…

How does the British electoral system work? Britons elect 650 new MPs to the House of Commons, comparable to our House of Representatives. The country is divided into 650 constituencies, where each party nominates a candidate for one seat. Independents can also contest that seat. The candidate with the most…

Deport asylum seekers to a safe country? This was made possible by the British Parliament’s controversial ‘Rwanda Agreement’. We asked what you want to know about these and other asylum deals. Your questions will be answered by Annik Bijnenburg, Assistant Professor of International and European Law at Radboud University, and…

British authorities this week began detaining asylum seekers they send to the African country, shortly after the controversial ‘Rwanda deal’ was ratified. British ministers confirmed this on Wednesday British media. Authorities will continue to make arrests over the next eleven weeks; The first flight with asylum seekers to Rwanda is…

The European Union has today requested consultations with the United Kingdom under the dispute settlement mechanism of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement on the United Kingdom’s decision to ban sand eel fishing, with a view to reaching a mutually acceptable solution. From 26 March 2024, the closure of sand…

March 15, 2024 – 08:00 – Morocco © Rumors of a change of partner began to circulate thereafter Bloomberg Xlinks has announced that it is considering moving the UK to Germany. Xlinks strongly denies this. “Morocco and the United Kingdom are at the ‘core’ of the project and a priority…

In Great Britain, all channels programmed on local DAB+ now work. Two transmitters were deployed this week, Edinburgh (Scotland) and Fishguard (Wales). The rollout of local DAB+ covering 50 local multiplexes was given the green light by the British government in 2015. The cost of the local network is split…

Passengers in first class, business class and some premium economy classes now pay £200 tax on long-haul flights to destinations over 5,500 miles from London. That amount will increase to £202 on April 1 this year, but the real increase will take place on April 1, 2025: to £224. In…

[video: https://www.cbs.nlnl-nl/video/8c8c42ff98bc4baa95d189f166150e66]In 2018, slightly more 3 thousand Dutch people (born in the Netherlands) to the United Kingdom. This is the lowest number since 2009. Between 2012 and 2015, the number of Dutch people immigrating to their foreign neighbors increased. After 2015, the number of Dutch immigrants shrank 29 percent (compared…

A species of frog classified as ‘Near Threatened’ by an infectious disease has been successfully bred at a wildlife park in Oxfordshire, England, according to reports. Guardian. The tree frog is known by many names. Because of its brownish-red color, the amphibian is often called the cinnamon frog. The frog…