Paul Knaggs

China accused the United States on Monday of whipping up panic over a fast-spreading coronavirus with travel restrictions and evacuations as Chinese stocks plunged on the first day back from the extended Lunar New Year holiday. The death toll in China from the newly identified virus, which emerged in Wuhan, capital of the central province of Hubei, rose to 361...

Boris Johnson insisted the U.K. will not engage in a "race to the bottom" on competition standards after Brexit. On the first working day of his administration in the post-Brexit world, he laid out his negotiating terms for where trade talks with the European Union go from here. His stance was clear saying: "Well folks, I hope you've got the...

Suspect in London attack was recently released from prison - police In a statement, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Lucy D'Orsi said: "At approximately 2:00 pm today, Sunday the 2nd of February, two people were stopped in Streatham High Road, Lambeth. Armed officers who were part of a proactive counter-terrorism surveillance operation and were following the suspect on foot were in immediate attendance...

The first coronavirus death outside China's borders A man has died of the coronavirus in the Philippines, the first confirmed fatality outside China. The patient was a 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan, in Hubei province, where the virus was first detected. He appeared to have been infected before arriving in the Philippines, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. More than 300 people have died in...

Police shoot man dead after London stabbing incident described as terrorism Police shot dead a man in south London on Sunday after two people were stabbed in what police described as a terrorism-related incident. Armed officers shot the man in Streatham, a busy residential district south of the River Thames. "The circumstances are being assessed; the incident has been declared as terrorist-related,"...

Poorer countries are angered at proposals by the Commission to cut their aid money A day after the European Union waved goodbye to Britain, some of Europe's poorest nations urged the bloc's leaders not to implement a "sharp and disproportional" cut to their aid money in the next long-term budget. The European Union provides aid known as cohesion funds to member states in the south and east...

Today marks a new age for the United Kingdom, after 3 and half years we have our democracy back At 11 p.m. on Friday — midnight in Brussels, Britain will officially depart from the European Union, 1,317 days after voting in favour of leaving the bloc in a referendum that plunged the country into a three-year-long debate over its future. The...

Jeremy Corbyn declared Brexit day should be a day of reflection. But gives a stark warning to other EU countries about the rise of the Far-right "It's a very important day for everybody, whether they voted Leave or Remain because it is deciding the future direction of our country. And we need to ensure that we do maintain good trade...

8000 Healthcare workers protest through the streets of Seattle On Tuesday morning, nearly 8,000 nurses, nursing assistants, lab workers, environmental service technicians, dietary workers, clerks, and other hospital staff launched their first-ever strike — in a healthcare labor stoppage their union is hailing as the largest of its kind in the nation in at least five years. The workers, members...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday it was declaring the China coronavirus outbreak that has killed 170 people in China a global emergency, as cases spread to 18 countries. The United States reported its first case of person-to-person transmission. Experts say cases of person-to-person transmission - which have also been detected outside China in Germany, Vietnam, and Japan...