LONDON (AP) — Britain’s long and sometimes acrimonious divorce from the European Union ended Thursday with an economic split that leaves the EU smaller and the U.K. freer but more isolated in a turbulent world. Britain left the European bloc’s vast single market for people, goods and services at 11 …
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson wearing a face mask jeremy selwyn/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Britain’s Prime Minister is being forced to self-isolate after coming into contact with a politician who has tested positive for coronavirus, in a vital week that could determine whether the key Brexit trade deal will be agreed …
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Pedestrian walking past graffiti declaring that ‘The north is not a petri dish,’ as Greater Manchester holds out against further coronavirus restrictions. AFP via Getty Images Leaders of Greater Manchester, Britain’s third-largest urban area, are resisting the U.K. government’s decision to put their region in the “very high alert” COVID-19 …
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Boris Johnson declared on Thursday that Britain was “past the peak” of the coronavirus outbreak and was now on a downward slope. The Tory prime minister used his first appearance at the government’s daily pandemic briefing since leaving hospital to give more details about the five conditions he says must …
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Messages of support and well wishes for a speedy recovery have been pouring in from across the political divide as well as from political leaders around the world after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to intensive care late Monday as his coronavirus symptoms “worsened.” Johnson, 55, had been …
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