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Hong Kong’s leader on Tuesday urged foreign governments to respect its overseas-based trade offices after a staff member in its London branch was charged in Britain for allegedly working for the Chinese city’s intelligence service. Chief Executive John Lee said his administration had demanded the British government provide an explanation about the prosecution of Bill Yuen, the office manager of …

Helen Ryvar goes through the same routine every night. She checks the weather forecast, lays out her running clothes, puts her running shoes by the front door, charges her cell phone and flashlight, and sets the alarm for 4 a.m. By 4.15 a.m., she’s out the door — rain or shine. 18 MARATHON TRAINING ESSENTIALS TO KEEP YOU RUNNING “I’m …

UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron called on the BBC to its face to label Hamas a terrorist group during an interview Sunday, wondering what the organization had to do to be branded that way by the British public broadcaster. “When you see what Hamas are prepared to do, you just realize the terrible, dreadful, inhuman people, frankly, that we are …

The United Kingdom’s law to deport asylum-seekers shouldn’t apply in Northern Ireland, because parts of it violate human rights protections, a Belfast judge ruled Monday. The Illegal Migration Act was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights and undermines rights provided in the Good Friday peace agreement of 1998, High Court Justice Michael Humphreys said. US CAN LEARN FROM …

British police have charged three men with assisting the Hong Kong intelligence service amid growing concern that hostile states are trying to interfere with democracy and economic activity in the U.K. The three men were among 11 people arrested earlier this month in Yorkshire and London by counterterrorism police using provisions of a new law that allows suspects in national …

A British climber and a Nepali guide have broken their own records for most climbs of Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain, hiking officials said on Sunday. Rakesh Gurung, director of Nepal’s Department of Tourism, said Britain’s Kenton Cool, 50, and Nepali guide Kami Rita Sherpa, 54, climbed the 29,032-foot peak for the 18th and 29th time, respectively. They were …

The Irish government’s unwavering commitment to housing and feeding an unprecedented influx of migrants in the wake of a severe housing and cost of living crisis has brought the Irish electorate to boiling point. It has many similarities to the migrant crisis in the U.S. Hundreds of protests in towns have sprung up around the country with people calling on …

Sutton United, a women’s football club in England that plays in the London and South East Women’s Regional Football League, made history earlier this year when it named Lucy Clark as manager. Clark is the first transgender manager in women’s soccer history. Clark was initially the first transgender woman to be a referee. Clark was a referee in the third …

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was rebuked as an “elite” during a recent Oxford Union debate, where she argued that populism in the United States is a threat to democracy. Pelosi — a self-described “devout” Catholic — said during the April 25 debate that certain Americans, whom she considered to be “poor souls who are looking for some answers,” …

A 75-year-old man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being sentenced Friday for the murder of a British police officer who was shot dead during an armed robbery in northern England nearly two decades ago. Piran Ditta Khan was convicted in April, as he had fled the country to Pakistan soon after the murder of Sharon …