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A police officer walks past 10 Downing Street in London, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. London police say they are now investigating Downing Street parties during lockdown. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick revealed an investigation was underway in a statement before the London Assembly on Tuesday. Dick said Scotland Yard is now investigating "a number of events" at Downing Street. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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London police investigate Downing Street lockdown parties
By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press
Tue,01/25/22-4:21AM , 354 Reads
LONDON (AP) — The “partygate” scandal that threatens to derail U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s administration deepened Tuesday as police opened an investigation into gatherings at government offices that allegedly violated COVID-19 lockdown rules.
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Research assistant Emily checks a flow cell before putting it into the sequencer at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, England, Friday, on Jan. 7, 2022. By sequencing as many positive cases as possible, researchers hope to identify variants of concern as quickly as possible, then track their spread to provide early warnings for health officials. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

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UK virus hunting labs seek to bolster global variant network
By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press
Thu,01/13/22-1:17AM , 230 Reads
LONDON (AP) — The air conditioners hum constantly in the lab at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, countering the heat thrown off by rows of high-tech sequencing machines that work seven days a week analyzing the genetic material of COVID-19 cases from throughout the U.K.
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In this undated photo issued on Dec. 23, 2021, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II records her annual Christmas broadcast in Windsor Castle, Windsor, England. The United Kingdom will celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne with a military parade, neighborhood parties and a competition to create a new dessert for the Platinum Jubilee, Buckingham Palace said Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. (Victoria Jones/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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UK plans holiday weekend to honor queen's 70 years on throne
By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press
Sun,01/09/22-6:03PM , 207 Reads
LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom will celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne with a military parade, neighborhood parties and a competition to create a new dessert for the Platinum Jubilee, Buckingham Palace said Monday.
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Britain's Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge visits the Urban Nature Project at the Natural History Museum, in London, June 22, 2021. The Duchess of Cambridge, who turns 40 on Sunday Jan. 9, 2022, has emerged as Britain’s reliable royal. After Prince Harry and Meghan’s stormy departure to California in 2020, the death of Prince Philip last year, and now sex abuse allegations against Prince Andrew, the former Kate Middleton remains in the public eye as the smiling mother of three who can comfort grieving parents at a children's hospice or wow the nation by playing piano during a televised Christmas concert. (Geoff Pugh/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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Duchess of Cambridge, the reliable royal, turns 40
By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press
Sat,01/08/22-10:42AM , 350 Reads
LONDON (AP) — At least there’s Kate.

The Duchess of Cambridge, who turns 40 on Sunday, has emerged as Britain’s reliable royal.
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