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London, United Kingdom—Britain has voted to break away from the European Union, toppling Prime Minister David Cameron and dealing a thunderous blow to the 60-year-old bloc which sent world markets plummeting on Friday. Cameron said he would resign to make way for a new leader by early October after voters opted to exit the 28-nation alliance in defiance of his predictions of economic disaster and isolation. Britons, many worried by high levels of […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – by David Williams Financier George Soros warned of a Black Friday plunge in sterling if Britain votes to quit the EU as new polls showed a razor-tight race 48 hours ahead of the referendum. The man who made a fortune by betting against the pound in the so-called Black Wednesday of September 1992 said that a rejection of the European Union would deliver a major financial shock. Britain, the world’s […]
(REUTERS ) British support for leaving the European Union has surged, according to two telephone opinion surveys published a week before the June 23 referendum, with one pollster putting support for “Leave” at a more than three-year high. The Ipsos MORI poll of 1,257 adults across Britain from June 11-14 showed 51 percent of all voters wanted to leave the bloc and 49 percent wanted to stay. But, when filtered for those likely and registered […]
EGX Rezzed 2016 is the UK’s biggest games event Rachel Quilantang reports from EBC’s UK bureau
London, United Kingdom (AFP)—Britain will team up with the United States and European partners to exchange its nuclear waste for material to be used in the fight against cancer, Prime Minister David Cameron will announce Thursday. The British leader is expected to unveil the plan at a two-day international summit in Washington aimed at ensuring that nuclear material in the world’s roughly 1,000 atomic facilities is secured. The deal will see Britain send waste from […]
London, United Kingdom (AFP)—One of Britain’s largest newspaper publishers announced Monday it was launching a new national daily, the first of its kind for 30 years, that will hit the newsstands just as another goes out of print. Trinity Mirror, which publishes the left-leaning Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror tabloids, said The New Day will go on sale on February 29 and offer an “upbeat, optimistic approach and will be politically neutral.” The announcement […]
U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter won agreement from defense ministers from France and five other nations on Wednesday to intensify the campaign against IS militants in Iraq and Syria. A bilateral meeting was held firstly between Ashton Carter and Jean-Yves Le Drian, France’s Defense Minister, to discuss the issue before the closed-door meeting among the defense ministers from the other five countries, including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, Italy and Germany. This is the […]
An online petition to be barred Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump from the United Kingdom has garnered more support. (Eagle News Service)
MAY 5 (Reuters) — Britain’s new princess has been named as Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, Kensington Palace said on its Twitter account on Monday (May 4), a choice of names that honors the baby’s late grandmother Princess Diana and her great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth. The daughter of Prince William and his wife Kate will be known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, the palace said. Princess Charlotte, born at St. Mary’s Hospital in west London […]
The world’s most expensive doghouse was invented in the United Kingdom and is worth 20, 000 euros.
According to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), the United Kingdom (UK) needs an additional 270 nurses from the Philippines.
The world’s leading dedicated social science institution, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), will be in Manila this March to meet prospective students who are interested in pursuing a Master’s, a one year study abroad programme, or an Undergraduate degree in London. Founded in 1895, LSE is a truly international institution with around 67% of LSE’s students, and more than 40% of its academic staff, originate from outside the UK. As a […]
