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• Dalai Lama sends condolences for passing of Prince Philip 10 April 2021 | Tibet Sun Newsroom This post has one comment

  Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama expressed his sympathies and condolences to the Queen of Britain and the royal family for the passing of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. ...

• Prince Philip, husband of British Queen Elizabeth, dies at 99 9 April 2021 | Michael Holden, William James and Andy Bruce This post has 2 comments

  Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth’s husband who helped modernise the monarchy and steer the British royal family through repeated crises during seven decades of service, died on Friday at Windsor Castle. He was 99. ...

• Coronavirus: UK bans travel from 4 more nations over virus; 39 in all 2 April 2021 | Pan Pylas This post has no comments yet

  The British government is gearing up to ban international arrivals from four more countries — Bangladesh, Kenya, Pakistan and the Philippines — amid concerns over new virus variants but opted against including European nations. ...

• India summons British envoy over ‘unwarranted’ criticism of farm protests 9 March 2021 | Alasdair Pal This post has no comments yet

  India’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had summoned the United Kingdom’s high commissioner over what it called “unwarranted and tendentious discussion” of Indian agricultural reforms in the British parliament. ...

• China bans BBC news broadcasts in apparent retaliation 12 February 2021 This post has 3 comments

  China has banned the BBC World News television channel from the few outlets where it could be seen in the country in possible retaliation after British regulators revoked the license of state-owned Chinese broadcaster CGTN. ...

• UK offers Hong Kong residents a route to citizenship, angering China 29 January 2021 | Yew Lun Tian and William James This post has no comments yet

  Britain on Friday hailed a new visa offering Hong Kong citizens a route to citizenship after China’s crackdown but Beijing said it would no longer recognise special British passports offered to residents of the former colony. ...

• UK judge refuses US extradition of WikiLeaks founder Assange 4 January 2021 | Jill Lawless This post has no comments yet

  A British judge on Monday rejected the United States’ request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges over the publication of secret US documents a decade ago, saying he was likely to kill himself. ...

• More infectious Coronavirus variant from South Africa found in UK 23 December 2020 | Kate Holton and Michael Holden This post has no comments yet

  A new, potentially more infectious variant of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has been found in Britain in cases linked to South Africa, British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Wednesday. ...

• India temporarily suspends flights from UK over mutant coronavirus strain 21 December 2020 This post has no comments yet

  India on Monday temporarily suspended flight services from the UK in the wake of the deadly strain of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) emerging there. The suspension will come into effect on 22 December and will remain in place till 31 Dec. ...

• In world first, UK approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine 2 December 2020 | Guy Faulconbridge and Paul Sandle This post has no comments yet

  Britain approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, jumping ahead of the rest of the world in the race to begin the most crucial mass inoculation programme in history with a shot tested in wide-scale clinical trials. ...