John Smithies
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LONDON—Chinese telecom company Huawei has been strongly criticized in the United Kingdom for its security failings. The board overseeing Huawei equipment in the UK, which is ...
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LONDON—British Prime Minister Theresa May has said she is willing to resign if lawmakers in her party back her Brexit deal. “I am prepared to leave ...
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An Italian communist terrorist has admitted murdering four people following his extradition from Bolivia to Italy. Cesare Battisti, 64, had been on the run since the ...
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The outcome of Thailand’s first election since a military junta took power has been thrown into doubt following accusations of voting irregularities and cheating. Initially, the ...
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A Dutch political party that opposes immigration and promotes “Dutch first” policies will become the joint largest party in the country’s Senate, shocking the political establishment. ...
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Three people have been killed in the Dutch city of Utrecht in a shooting aboard a tram, in what authorities say could be a terrorist attack. ...
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LONDON—A former British soldier is to be charged with murder over the killing of two people more than four decades ago in Northern Ireland on what ...
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LONDON—The British government has frustrated business leaders after revealing its plans for temporary tariffs should the UK leave the EU without a deal. The new tariffs ...
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LONDON—The highest levels of the British political establishment are being examined due to allegations that they failed to protect children from sexual abuse. From March 4 ...
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LONDON—The United Kingdom may be targeted by the Chinese communist regime following Brexit as part of a “divide and rule” strategy, a leading think tank has ...
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LONDON—British anti-Islamic campaigner Tommy Robinson has been permanently banned from Facebook and Instagram for posts violating the platforms’ policies on “hate speech.” Facebook said that Robinson ...
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LONDON—Chinese state television channel CCTV is under fire for broadcasting what campaigners call “clear lies” in the UK, and it could face similar charges in the ...
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LONDON—An ancient British treason law could be used to bring members of ISIS who return to the country to justice, the UK’s interior minister has suggested. ...
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LONDON—Confucius Institutes threaten academic freedom and spread Chinese communist propaganda around the world, a British political group has warned. It’s the first time such a prominent ...
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LONDON—More than 40 former British ambassadors have written to British prime minister Theresa May urging her to delay Brexit. They warned on Feb. 14 that Britain’s ...
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LONDON—British scientists are building a database of hand images in order to track down criminals like child abusers. Experts from Lancaster University are asking the British ...
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Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has announced that women who have four or more babies will not have to pay income tax for the rest of ...
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LONDON—Authorities in the UK have canceled all horse racing after an outbreak of highly contagious equine influenza. Three horses belonging to one British trainer were affected, ...
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An elderly man who lives “off-grid” in the remote Scottish Highlands has been rescued after his emergency signal was detected thousands of miles away in Houston, ...
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Thieves in Belgium crawled through narrow sewage pipes to carry out a bank heist, stealing the contents of a bank vault. The heist took place in ...
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LONDON—A search team has found the wreckage of the plane that carried missing soccer player Emiliano Sala and his pilot, and a body could be seen ...
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Emily Spanton, 39, told the court she had met a group of police officers in a bar where they offered to give her a tour of ...
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France is considering banning police from using weapons like rubber bullet launchers and “sting-ball” grenades, following serious injuries during “yellow vest” protests. Several protesters are alleged ...
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A prisoner was freed from a police van by an armed gang in southern France. The gang shot at the van and knocked a female guard ...
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LONDON—A British man who went on the run last year after killing a woman in a speedboat crash on the River Thames has been detained in ...
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Chris Brown is planning to sue the woman who has accused him of rape, the singer’s lawyer said. Brown was released without charge in Paris on ...
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The European Union has sanctioned the heads of Russia’s military intelligence and two of its agents in response to the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his ...
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A Syrian activist who has been critical of President Bashar al-Assad has been brutally killed in Hamburg. Mohamed Joune, 48, was discovered lying on a busy ...
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Turkish prosecutors are seeking to extradite New York Knicks player Enes Kanter. They said he has links to an American cleric who was accused of organizing ...
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A 2-year-old boy has fallen down a borehole more than 300 feet deep in Spain, with rescuers searching desperately for him. The boy fell down the ...