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Three Bulgarian nationals based in Britain were convicted on Friday by a London jury of spying for Russia on what prosecutors said was “an industrial scale.” The trio was accused of putting lives in danger as they acted on orders on behalf of Russian intelligence to carry out surveillance across Europe between 2020 and 2023. Katrin Ivanova, 33, Vanya Gaberova, …

Nigel Farage’s insurgent Reform U.K. party has attracted more than a dozen donors from Britain’s once-dominant Conservative Party, new data reveals, underlining the threat the Tories face from a right-wing populist party that models itself on President Trump’s MAGA movement. In total, Reform U.K. raised 4.75 million pounds ($6.1 million) last year, a third of which came from former donors …

During a news conference with President Trump, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Thursday that his country is ready to put “boots on the ground” in Ukraine as Starmer said they had a “very good and productive visit.”  Achieving peace in Ukraine after Russia’s full-scale invasion was top at the agenda for Starmer and Mr. Trump in Starmer’s first visit …

The United Kingdom’s (U.K.) inflation rate rose to an annualized rate of 3% in January, coming in above the expectation of economists. Britain’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) said inflation rose in January from a lower-than-expected 2.5% in December. Economists polled by the Reuters news agency had expected inflation to come in at an annualized rate …

In 2016, the FBI requested Apple to grant it an iOS backdoor access, but the company rejected it, with the “No” coming straight from CEO Tim Cook. In 2021, Apple even sued an Australian company that unlocked an iPhone for the same federal law enforcement agency. Apple is once again at a security crossroads that could pose an existential threat …

Britain’s populist party, Reform U.K., was expected to bring in more than $1.25 million dollars at a glitzy fund-raiser on Tuesday, a party official said, an extraordinary amount for a party that six months ago was on the fringe of national politics. The big-ticket, American-style event was the first major fund-raiser since Nigel Farage took over as party leader and …

London — Record winds battered Ireland, Northern Ireland and parts of the mainland U.K. on Friday, with the severe gales expected to spread across the region, including the full width of Scotland, as the isles bore the brunt of Storm Éowyn.  Met Éireann, the Republic of Ireland’s national meteorological service, said the country was being buffeted by wind gusts of …

Britain on Wednesday warned that it faced a growing threat of aggression from Russia, asserting that a Russian spy ship had passed by the English coast for the second time in three months, in the latest incident that seemed designed to test British military capabilities. John Healey, the British defense secretary, told Parliament that two Royal Navy ships were deployed …

British Defense Secretary John Healey told Parliament on Wednesday the Royal Navy was tracking a “Russian spy ship” that passed through U.K. waters, warning Russia’s President Vladimir Putin: “We know what you’re doing.” Healey said the Yantar vessel was being “used for gathering intelligence and mapping the U.K.’s critical underwater infrastructure.” “I also wanted President Putin to hear this message: …

Prince Harry’s lawyer announced on Wednesday that he had reached a settlement with Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers over accusations of unlawful information gathering — an abrupt end to a case that Harry had cast as a last chance to hold the tabloids to account for years of predatory behavior. News Group Newspapers offered Harry a “full and unequivocal” apology …