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Britain's Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak meets with nighttime economy representatives in central London, Saturday June 22, 2024 as part of a campaign event in the build-up to the July 4 general election. (Benjamin Cremel/Pool Photo via AP)

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UK election betting scandal widens as a fourth Conservative Party official reportedly investigated
By SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press
Sun,06/23/24-6:44AM , 113 Reads
LONDON (AP) — The chief data officer of Britain's Conservative Party has taken a leave of absence, British media reported Sunday, following growing allegations that the governing party's members used inside information to bet on the date of
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Dominic Watters, a single dad and founder of the Food is Care campaign, speaks at his home in Canterbury, England, Monday, June 10, 2024. Since calling a general election, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been at pains to repeat a key message on the campaign trail: The economy is turning a corner, inflation is down, and things are looking up. That’s not the reality for millions across the U.K. still feeling the squeeze from high food, energy and housing prices. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

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The high cost of living is still biting the UK. Many don't think the election will change anything
By SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press
Sun,06/16/24-11:09PM , 76 Reads
LONDON (AP) — Dominic Watters watches his gas and electricity meter like a hawk. He topped it up a few days ago, but now there’s just 1.85 pounds ($2.40) of credit left. That may determine what kind of dinner he and his teen daughter get tonight, he says.
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Infected blood campaigners react as they gather in Parliament Square, ahead of the publication of the final report into the scandal, in London, Sunday, May 19, 2024. The final report of the U.K.’s infected blood inquiry will be published Monday, six years after it started its work. The inquiry heard evidence as to how thousands of people contracted HIV or hepatitis from transfusions of tainted blood and blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)

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Inquiry slams UK authorities for failures that killed thousands in infected blood scandal
By SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press
Mon,05/20/24-5:45AM , 109 Reads
LONDON (AP) — British authorities and the country's public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products, and hid the truth about the disaster for decades, an inquiry into the
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures as he talks during a news conference in central London, on Dec. 1, 2011. Assange faces a key hearing Monday May 20, 2024 in his decade-and-a-half-long attempt to avoid extradition to the United States on espionage charges. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

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Timeline of the Assange legal saga over extradition to the US on espionage charges
By SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press
Mon,05/20/24-4:36AM , 94 Reads
LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange won a key battle on Monday in his decade-and-a-half-long attempt to avoid extradition to the United States on espionage charges.
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