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January 22, 2021 at 5:00 pm

New coronavirus variant may be somewhat deadlier, Britain warns

LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson had been expected to trumpet a rare success in the campaign against the coronavirus Friday: news that Britain had...

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U.S. President Donald Trump plays a round of golf at Trump Turnberry Luxury Collection Resort during the president’s first official visit to the United Kingdom on July 15, 2018 in Turnberry, Scotland. (Leon Neal/Getty Images/TNS) 5187935W 5187935W

January 5, 2021 at 12:05 pm

Rumored Trump trip to Scottish golf course a no-go, officials say

Scotland’s first minister said that under newly imposed virus restrictions, which prohibit all but essential travel, a visit by President Donald Trump to one of...

December 24, 2020 at 1:59 pm

Britain and the EU reach landmark deal on Brexit

LONDON — Britain and the European Union struck a hard-fought trade agreement Thursday, settling a bitter divorce that stretched over more than four years and...

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December 21, 2020 at 1:52 pm

Concerns About Coronavirus Variant Cut Off U.K. From Europe VIEW

LONDON — Britain was all but cut off from the rest of Europe on Monday, with flights and trains banned by some 40 countries and...

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December 3, 2020 at 4:13 pm

‘Field of broken dreams’: London’s growing taxi graveyards

EPPING, England — Drive through a leaf-strewn forest and past a charming street market in this town about 20 miles northeast of London, and a...

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November 26, 2020 at 9:38 am

‘The Crown’ Stokes an Uproar Over Fact vs. Entertainment

LONDON — On a Saturday night in July 1986, a band of bureaucrats in raincoats — one contingent from Buckingham Palace, the other from 10...

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November 13, 2020 at 2:17 pm

Powerful aide to Boris Johnson quits, BBC reports

LONDON — Dominic Cummings, the influential strategist who masterminded the Brexit campaign in 2016 and helped vault Boris Johnson to No. 10 Downing St., abruptly...

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October 14, 2020 at 2:04 pm

Europe, which thought it had tamed the coronavirus, faces a resurgence

The resurgence of the coronavirus has prompted officials to close bars and clubs in Prague and Liverpool, England, and to make face masks mandatory in...

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October 12, 2020 at 12:09 pm

Britain’s New Measures to Control Virus Inflame North-South Tensions

LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday ordered pubs, bars and gyms in the high-risk city of Liverpool to be closed, a move that...

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FILE — Woody Johnson, the U.S. ambassador to Britain, who owns the New York Jets, at what at the time was known as New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey, Aug. 17, 2010. Johnson told multiple colleagues in February 2018 that President Donald Trump had asked him to see if the British government could help steer the world-famous and lucrative British Open golf tournament to the Trump Turnberry resort in Scotland, according to three people with knowledge of the episode. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times) XNYT197 XNYT197

July 21, 2020 at 4:05 pm

Trump’s request of an ambassador: Steer the British Open to my golf resort

The ambassador’s deputy advised him not to do it, warning that it would be an unethical use of the presidency for private gain, said three...

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