Scotlands devolved government has shelved its immediate plans to hold a second independence referendum until after the terms of Britains exit from the EU are clear, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday (27 June).The Scottish parliament previously backed Sturgeons bid to hold a new referendum in 2018 or early 2019, but British Prime Minister Theresa May had refused to enter discussions on the proposal.
The United States has warned Syrian President Bashar Assad will pay a heavy price if his forces follow through with suspected planning for another chemical attack. Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon said Britain will support any future retaliation strikes by the U.S.
President Trump has formally announced that billionaire and owner of the NY Jets, Woody Johnson, will be his ambassador to the UK.
Hundreds of members of shack dwellers movement Abahlali Basemjondolo marched to Durban City Hall in South Africa on Monday (26 June).
The DUP has agreed a deal to support the minority Conservative government following two weeks of negotiations.As part of the deal, Prime Theresa May has agreed to drop triple lock pension reforms and to keep the universal winter fuel allowance. May also agreed to deliver 2% of GDP to Northern Irelands armed forces.
To the surprise and shock of onlookers at a cricket match in Cheshire, a cow decided to charge through the middle of the game. The match the animal horned in on was between Mossley Cricket Club and Kerridge.
A leader of the DRC protesters at Sefako Makgatho presidential guesthouse in Pretoria Esaie-Prince Mpinda says by hosting President Joseph Kabila President Jacob Zuma becomes an accomplice to the atrocities taking places in that country.
Here are five things to take away from the Senate Republican Health Care Bill. The official bills name is called the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said on 23 June that the offer she had made on the rights of EU citizens to live in Britain after Brexit was very fair and very serious and that her government would set out more detailed proposals later. EU leaders greeted the offer made during a summit in Brussels late on 22 June with a degree of scepticism and said many questions remained.
Capitol Police removed protesters, many of whom are disabled and wheelchair-bound, from outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnells office after text of the GOP Senate health care bill was released Thursday. Protesters were organized by a group called ADAPT, which identifies itself as a non-profit for people with disabilities.
Australian Greens Senator Larissa Waters breastfed her baby daughter, Alia, while moving a motion in the Senate on Thursday, 22 June. Waters made headlines just weeks earlier for being the first federal lawmaker to breastfeed during Senate proceedings, being the first MP to benefit from a new family friendly rule change made in February 2016.
Australian Greens Senator Larissa Waters breastfed her baby daughter, Alia, while moving a motion in the Senate on Thursday, 22 June. Waters made headlines just weeks earlier for being the first federal lawmaker to breastfeed during Senate proceedings, being the first MP to benefit from a new family friendly rule change made in February 2016.
European Council President Donald Tusk quoted British singer John Lennon on June 22, as he was telling reporters he still imagined a possibility that Britain remains in the European Union. Discussing the different possible outcomes of Brexit negotiations at a news conference, Tusk said the EU itself had been built on dreams that seemed impossible to achieve.
Cladding on a number of British tower blocks has been confirmed as combustible in tests conducted after a deadly fire in west London, Prime Minister Theresa May said on 22 June. May was making a statement in the House of Commons about the Grenfell Tower fire, in which 79 people have been confirmed dead, or are missing presumed dead.
Around one hundred people gathered on Parliament Square as part of what organisers had billed as the Day of Rage demonstration on June 21. The anti-government demonstration deliberately coincided with the Queens Speech, with the aim of demanding justice for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.