Boris Johnson

United Kingdom 01/13/22, 21:35

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said sorry for attending the Downing Street "bring your own booze" event in 2020 when Britons were prohibited from gathering due to COVID-19 restrictions. His apology came on Wednesday, Jan. 12, after days of outrage over a "bring your own booze" party held during the UK's first lockdown, CNN ...

United Kingdom 11/29/21, 17:16

Taxpayer-funded advertisements will be banned from using the word, Christmas. The UK government has blocked naming celebrations of Christ's birth in its latest Chinese Communist Party virus vaccine (COVID-19) ad campaign. The original slogan "Do not take COVID home for Christmas" will be replaced with "Do not take COVID home for ...

United Kingdom 11/19/21, 20:27

Conservative politician Nadine Dorries, who recently took up her position as UK Culture Secretary, accused the left of 'hijacking' social media and says people dare not speak out for fear of being "cancelled". On Tuesday, Nov. 16, during her first television interview since taking over as Secretary of State for Digital, ...

China 11/15/21, 15:48

A climate change leader condemned Communist China's weak environmental commitment on Nov. 13. COP26 summit president Alok Sharma criticized the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for taking a softer stance on reducing coal consumption. However, Beijing has pushed back. Once United Nations climate talks ended with a deal targeting fossil fuels for the ...

Europe 11/02/21, 16:20

A surge in illegal border crossings prompted Bulgaria to deploy hundreds of troops to secure the country's borders on Nov. 1. The Department of Defense has sent 350 soldiers to support migration police at the borders between Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece. "350 people with some 40 units of equipment have been sent," ...

United Kingdom 10/15/21, 22:12

Sir David Amess, a Conservative MP from Essex, died after being stabbed multiple times while meeting with his constituents at a church on Friday.According to police, the stabbing of a long-serving member of Parliament was a terrorist attack, and the attacker acted alone.The deadly attack on Amess, 69, occurred at ...

Middle East 10/05/21, 16:44

The British government sent a diplomatic mission to Afghanistan on Tuesday, Oct. 5, to meet with leaders of the extremist Taliban group that controls the country to prevent the country from becoming an 'incubator of terrorism' and extending humanitarian aid, the Daily Mail reported. According to the British government press release, the Prime Minister's ...

Australia & Oceania 09/21/21, 02:42

A submarine deal between the United States, Britain, and Australia offended a French official so deeply he called off a high-level military meeting. Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly canceled his bilateral meeting with British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace. The pair was supposed to discuss the two-day Franco-British Council with defence chiefs ...

News 09/12/21, 22:10

Coronavirus restrictions will be further relaxed, and proof of vaccination will no longer be required to attend specific venues. British Health Minister Sajid Javid (Conservative) confirmed vaccine passports and testing for returning travelers will not be mandatory in the near future. "We have looked at it properly and, while we should keep ...

Middle East 08/24/21, 16:56

Group of Seven (G7) nations were urged to consider introducing further sanctions against a militant group on Aug. 24. The United Kingdom believes the world's seven largest developed nations should economically isolate the Taliban. The plan involves the United States, Italy, France, Germany, Japan, and Canada each introducing economic sanctions and withholding ...

Middle East 08/23/21, 16:44

A militant group rejected Joe Biden's claim he could extend the deadline to evacuate U.S. forces from Afghanistan. The Taliban declared the president was wrong to suggest U.S. troops, citizens, and asylum seekers might be permitted to leave after Aug. 31. "If the United States or United Kingdom were to seek additional ...

News 08/05/21, 21:34

On Monday, August 2, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he wanted to get the travel industry moving again by establishing a simple, user–friendly set of standards that would allow for international travel. "We need to get people, get the travel industry moving again," Johnson told reporters. "We want an approach that ...

United Kingdom 07/18/21, 04:39

Due to the rapidly rising incidence of COVID-19 infections, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has canceled preparations for a Churchillian victory speech tomorrow. ‘The plan had been for Boris to effectively declare victory over the virus by summoning the spirit of Churchill, with appropriately stirring rhetoric. That no longer feels appropriate.’ reported ...

United Kingdom 07/08/21, 16:13

Despite the fact that the COVID-19 outbreak 'definitely won't be finished' by July 19 and that people should not be 'demob happy,' Boris Johnson is halting all 'top down' directives and greeting the end of social distancing regulations, mask laws, and the work from home order as Britain's 'big bang' ...

Opinion 06/12/21, 17:40

After almost two years without meeting, on June 12, the heads of state of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States, and the United Kingdom, members of the G7 bloc, met on a beach in Carbis Bay, in the southwest of England, hosted by British Prime Minister Boris ...

Politics 06/11/21, 15:46

President Joe Biden has drawn ire from Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and other critics after he seemed to joke that he did not want to return to the United States from his tour to Europe. After experiencing the Cornwall scenery from a deck overlooking St. Ives Bay in England with Prime ...

Central America 06/08/21, 00:01

A Democrat from California received a frosty reception on her first official visit to Central American countries. Kamala Harris's visit to Guatemala quickly drew protesters who demanded that she leave the Land of Eternal Spring. Images went viral on social media, showing Trump supporters standing outside La Aurora International Airport. The peaceful group ...

United Kingdom 03/16/21, 17:24

A 109-page report published on Tuesday, March 16, by the UK government titled "Global Britain in a Competitive Age," comes as the announcement of the UK's biggest foreign policy adjustment since the Cold War. The report acknowledges the danger of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) but sees it as necessary ...

China 02/23/21, 07:48

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson blocked two attempts by the House of Commons to include in the country's trade treaties a genocide amendment whereby a high court could annul a trade treaty when a counterparty is found to be committing crimes against humanity. The amendment was specifically designed by lawmakers seeking ...

China 07/14/20, 19:27

Former UK ambassador to the United States Christopher Meyer warned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that, as if it were a boomerang effect, all its efforts to generate conflict with free countries will end up turning against it. In an interview with Times Radio, Meyer encouraged the Boris Johnson government to ...