Tag: UK

Why improving Vietnam–UK relations matters for the Indo-Pacific (Bill Hayton, The Strategist)

Vietnam’s prime minister, Pham Minh Chinh, made a very successful trip to the United Kingdom in early November, putting the rapidly improving relations between...

UK to Make Electric Car Charging Ports Compulsory in New Buildings (Agence France-Press, IndustryWeek)

Britain will make electric car chargers compulsory for new buildings in England from 2022, as it switches away from high-polluting vehicles, Prime Minister Boris...

UK’s following US to hype ‘boycott’ of Beijing Winter Olympic Games will not stop event from shining (Global Times)

Closely following the US, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly "considering a diplomatic boycott" of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing in...

British Air Force hails first-ever test flight using only synthetic fuel (Andrew Chuter, Defense News)

Britain’s Royal Air Force has taken a landmark step towards slashing carbon emissions from its aircraft, announcing Nov. 17 that the service had completed...

Quantum Community Weighs In on New U.S.-U.K. Collaboration Agreement (Brandi Vincent, Nextgov)

The United States and United Kingdom formally elevated their cooperative engagement to drive quantum information science and technology breakthroughs, via a recently issued joint statement that...

UK’s take on meeting between Iranian, British diplomats (IRNA)

Britain’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has issued a statement on a meeting between this ministry’s officials and Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political...

UK-Iran talks a step forward to approach viewpoints: Deputy FM (IRNA)

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Ali Bagheri Kani evaluated negotiations with British officials of the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office as positive,...

UK-U.S. Alliance Will Boost Both Countries’ Quantum Industries (Hodan Omaar, Center for Data Innovation)

In response to the United States and United Kingdom’s declaration to cooperate on quantum information science and technology, Hodan Omaar, policy analyst at the Center for...

UK Intelligence Agencies and the Commercial Cloud: What Does It All Mean? (Ardi Janjeva and James Sullivan, RUSI)

A recent Financial Times report confirmed the procurement of a high-security cloud system by the UK’s intelligence community. The hosting of sensitive intelligence data on non-government systems...

How to Unlock the National Security Strategy (Sir David Omand GCB and Suzanne Raine, RUSI)

On 19 September, Parliament’s Joint Committee on National Security Strategy reported on the UK’s national security machinery. It identified serious weaknesses in the government...

Qatar: UK asks Gulf state to become ‘supplier of last resort’ for gas (Middle East Eye)

The UK has asked Qatar to be its "supplier of last resort" for gas as the European  country continues to struggle with an energy crisis. British government...

UK settled 417 Iraq war compensation claims in 2021 (Middle East Eye)

The British Minister of Defence (MoD) settled 417 compensation claims by Iraqis in 2021 and paid out millions of pounds to resolve allegations made...

Shaken and stirred: British Army’s Ajax troubles cast a long shadow (Andrew Chuter, Defense News)

General Dynamics’ land systems operation in Spain has already built half of the hulls for the British Army’s Ajax armored cavalry program, even as...

INSF Country Update: United Kingdom Nuclear Security (Christopher Hobbs, Stimsoon Center)

Ensuring strong and sustainable nuclear security is a never-ending process. In the face of new threats and an evolving security landscape, the United Kingdom...

France-UK fishing row: Paris delays sanctions as talks continue (Al Jazeera)

France will postpone planned sanctions on the United Kingdom over a post-Brexit fishing rights row while negotiations continue, President Emmanuel Macron has said. France had earlier threatened...

Energy crisis: UK consumers face rising fuel poverty this winter (James Brownsell, Al Jazeera)

David Peacock is a 70-year-old with disabilities, living on his own in a flat in Llandudno, a Victorian resort town in North Wales, the...