Tag: United Kingdom

FILE - In this July 30, 2019, file photo a woman walks by a Huawei retail store in Beijing. The Trump administration has extended for 90 more days a limited reprieve on U.S. technology sales to the Chinese technology giant Huawei. The U.S. government blacklisted Huawei in May, deeming it a national security risk so U.S. firms aren't allow to sell the company technology without government approval. But numerous loopholes have been exploited, including by U.S. semiconductor suppliers. And the administration says itâs preparing to grand some exemptions.

‘Global espionage operation’: US wages all-out campaign to convince UK to reject Huawei

Jerry Dunleavy · March 6, 2020 8:10 pm

Beltway Confidential

Tom Hanks’s new movie, Greyhound, speaks to American glory

Tom Rogan · March 6, 2020 11:44 am

European internet ‘digital services’ tax supporters looking to give US a buy-in

Sean Higgins · March 6, 2020 4:00 am

The Duke of Cambridge speaks during a reception hosted by Tanaiste, Simon Coveney, in central Dublin, as part of their three day visit to the Republic of Ireland.

Prince William wonders if media coverage of coronavirus is ‘quite dramatic’

Tim Pearce · March 4, 2020 9:55 pm

Climate change activist Greta Thunberg addresses the media during a press conference in Plymouth, England, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019. The 16-year-old climate change activist who has inspired student protests around the world will leave Plymouth, England, bound for New York in a high-tech but low-comfort sailboat.

Children suffering from sleep loss and lack of appetite as a result of ‘climate anxiety’: Study

Dominick Mastrangelo · March 4, 2020 5:18 pm

Britainâs prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks as he holds a press conference at Downing Street on the governmentâs coronavirus action plan in London, Tuesday, March 3, 2020.

Boris Johnson ‘shook hands with everybody’ at hospital housing coronavirus patients

Spencer Neale · March 3, 2020 9:42 pm

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson meets with Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe who is detained in Iran, at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in London.

British citizen imprisoned in Iran may have coronavirus

Tim Pearce · March 2, 2020 10:26 pm

Lighthizer says climate change language would undermine trade deals

Sean Higgins · March 2, 2020 8:37 pm

Boris Johnson promises Stetsons for salmon, but tough US trade talks loom

Rob Crilly · March 2, 2020 4:30 pm

UK puts digital services tax on the table in trade talks following US pressure

Sean Higgins · March 2, 2020 10:46 am

Climate activist Greta Thunberg, from Sweden, center, stands with other protestors as she participates in a school strike climate protest in Bristol, south west England, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020.

Energy and Environment

‘I have some very bad news’: Greta Thunberg warns ‘change is coming whether you like it or not’

Spencer Neale · February 28, 2020 4:49 pm

Beltway Confidential

Would-be British Labour leaders fare poorly on anti-Semitism question

Tom Rogan · February 28, 2020 11:02 am