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Coronavirus: Raab admits UK must 'strive harder' over PPE supplies

UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, standing in for Boris Johnson, rejects opposition claims that the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic has been too slow.

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Coronavirus: Boris Johnson's plight echoes Lloyd George's Spanish flu

How Boris Johnson's forefather David Lloyd George was taken seriously ill amid the 1918 pandemic, but recovered.

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Coronavirus: Boris Johnson announces tighter UK lockdown

The British prime minister speaks to the nation amid reports the UK is to tighten rules on social distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Watch back: Boris Johnson quizzed on UK coronavirus strategy

Boris Johnson will take questions in parliament.

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PMQs: Critics accuse Boris Johnson of imitating Donald Trump

Boris Johnson hit back at opposition accusations that he was imitating Trump with trade policy and his relationship with the press at his first post-Brexit Prime Minister's Questions.

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Brexit: What happened in Boris Johnson's first six months as UK PM?

Since July, Boris Johnson has transformed his party, won an election and ensured the UK will leave the EU. But his critics say Brexit is far from done.

Kosovo

Kosovo's election winners given 48-hour deadline to form coalition

It's been three months since the election and a government has still not been formed.

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Week in Pictures: volcano, Conservative landslide win, French strikes

This week a volcano erupted in New Zealand taking lives, Boris Johnson's Conservatives won the election in UK, the climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Time magazine's Person of the Year. Here's a look on this week in pictures carefully selected for you.

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Finland's Prime Minister resigns after postal strike

The Centre Party said it had lost confidence in the Social Democrat leader over the handling of the strike.

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Iraq's PM says he will quit as deadly protests escalate

Iraq's PM says he will quit as deadly protests escalate

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Ludovic Orban: Who is the man nominated to be Romania's new PM?

A profile of the man who could soon lead a new government in Romania.

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Danish PM gets the giggles during statement on circus elephants

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen roared with laughter in the parliament session on October 3.

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Watch: How did Boris Johnson fare in his first PMQs as leader?

Swearing, chlorinated chicken, and Brexit: How did Boris Johnson fare in his first PMQs as leader?

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Iceland unveils memorial to glacier in climate change warning

Iceland’s prime minister Katrin Jakobsdottir was among those who attended the ceremony at the site where the Okjokull glacier once was.

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‘Boris had a taste for manipulation’ says Johnson’s former journalist colleague

He is now Britain’s new Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party but his love of politics begun decades ago. Many think his controversial Brussels-bashing stories contributed to the shape of British politics today.

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'I'm convinced we can do a Brexit deal,' says new UK PM Johnson

Vowing to quit the EU by October 31, he attacked the "doubters, doomsters, gloomsters" who warn over the economic impact of a no-deal Brexit.

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Euroviews. Will Boris Johnson be a unifying leader? Time will tell ǀ View

The UK sorely needs a unifying leader who can be a prime minister for all Brits. No stranger to controversy or even accusations of racism, Johnson will have his work cut out if he is going to create inclusion for all his citizens.

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Boris Johnson: Diplomatic disaster, EU basher or reincarnated olive?

Boris Johnson has won the Conservative leadership contest and will become UK prime minister. What will he do with Britain and Brexit and where did he come from?

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Boris Johnson is likely Britain's next leader. Is he a 'great brain' or an opportunist?

The colorful Conservative lawmaker is the clear favorite to become prime minister after a party leadership contest this week.

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Kosovo's PM says he quits after being called to Hague war crimes court

Kosovo's Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj said on Friday he was resigning after being called to The Hague war crimes court linked to Kosovo's independence struggle.