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  UK to offer 10,500 post-Brexit visas to counter growing worker crisis

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 10:41pm on September 26, 2021

  Britain will issue up to 10,500 temporary work visas to lorry drivers and poultry workers to ease chronic staff shortages, the government announced on Saturday,...

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  UK minister blames industry rep for petrol buying frenzy

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 10:32pm on September 26, 2021

  Britain’s transport secretary on Sunday accused lorry industry representatives of helping to spark petrol panic-buying, as he defended a U-turn on post-Brexit immigration policy to...

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  UNHCR blasts UK’s planned immigration law

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 10:38pm on September 23, 2021

  Britain’s proposed law to implement what it calls the biggest overhaul of asylum rules in decades ‘undermines established international refugee protection rules’, the UN Refugee...

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  Britain to start vaccinating children over 12 against Covid-19

  Agence France-Presse . London, United Kingdom | Updated at 10:32am on September 14, 2021

  All children aged 12-15 will be offered Covid-19 vaccinations, the United Kingdom announced Monday, following the advice of four top medical officers...

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  French maritime rescue 126 migrants attempting to cross Channel

  Agence France-Presse . Lille | Updated at 04:14pm on September 11, 2021

  French maritime officials rescued 126 migrants attempting to cross the Channel to Britain as tensions escalated over record arrivals on England’s southern coast...

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  Greenpeace accuse UK ditching climate pledge for Australia trade deal

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 11:50am on September 09, 2021

  Greenpeace has accused the British government of lying to the public after leaked emails seen by the environmental group appeared to show backtracking on climate...

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  London City risks losing financial hub status

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 10:40pm on September 07, 2021

  Britain must cut taxes on banks and make it easier to hire foreign finance staff to prevent London’s Brexit-battered City financial district from losing its...

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  Jihadist threat ‘getting worse’, says Blair

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 10:50pm on September 06, 2021

  Britain’s former prime minister Tony Blair warned on Monday that ‘radical Islam’ remained a ‘first-order security threat’ to the world despite two decades confronting the...

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  UK hits Myanmar tycoon with sanctions

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 11:39pm on September 02, 2021

  Britain on Thursday announced sanctions against Myanmar businessman U Tay Za and his Htoo Group in the latest action to target those funding the ruling...

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  UK to urge extension of Kabul evacuations at G7 talks

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 10:20pm on August 23, 2021

  Britain said on Monday it would urge the United States to extend an end-of-the-month deadline for evacuations from Afghanistan, while the Taliban warned any delay...