A 65-year-old British man, Howard Phillips, was convicted on Tuesday for attempting to pass sensitive information to individuals he believed were Russian intelligence agents. In reality, the two men were undercover British intelligence officers. Phillips, who reportedly fantasized about being like fictional spy James Bond, had aimed to assist what he thought was a foreign intelligence agency.
A major British government cover‑up has emerged after revelations that nearly 24,000 Afghans were quietly brought to the UK under a secretive resettlement scheme funded by a £7 billion budget.
A British court has convicted three men in connection with a Russian-directed arson attack on a London warehouse used to supply Ukraine. The March 2024 fire, which endangered civilians and destroyed key military aid equipment, is part of a broader campaign of sabotage across Europe reportedly coordinated by Russian intelligence services.
A British-flagged superyacht that sank off Sicily last year, killing U.K. tech mogul Mike Lynch and six others, has partially resurfaced in a major salvage effort. The 184-foot Bayesian was lifted from the seabed Saturday by TMC Maritime, nearly 10 months after it capsized during a violent storm near Palermo.
The British government’s Prevent program, created to combat terrorism, has come under fire for labeling “cultural nationalism” and concerns over mass migration as signs of right-wing extremist ideology. The latest guidelines warn that viewing Western culture as “under threat” from immigration may indicate potential terrorism—a move critics say targets lawful conservative thought.
British prosecutors were forced into a rapid reversal this week after charging a man under a law critics say amounted to enforcing blasphemy — despite such laws being abolished in the UK nearly two decades ago. The case against 50-year-old Hamit Coskun has drawn sharp criticism from free speech advocates and prominent political voices.
Emily Damari, one of three Israeli hostages freed from captivity in Gaza, endured a harrowing ordeal during her 471 days in Hamas custody. Israeli media reports, citing her family, revealed that Damari lost two fingers during her abduction by Hamas.
Since Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party came to power last year, British millionaires have been leaving the country at an unprecedented rate, fleeing the punitive tax policies that have come to define Labour’s left-wing agenda.
The United Kingdom has announced the delivery of a newly developed air defense system to Ukraine, designed to bolster the country’s ability to protect its cities from aerial attacks. Dubbed the "Gravehawk," the system adapts existing air-to-air missiles for ground-launch use and will be operational this year, according to UK officials.
