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Euroviews. Syria and Salisbury: The battle to maintain trust in evidence of illegal chemical weapons | View

Chemical weapons' usage in Syria clearly required an immediate and forceful response, but the handling of the aftermath of the targeted chemical assassination attempt on Sergei and Yulia Skripal continues to pose a long-term challenge for the British government.

17/04/2018

United Kingdom

UK pub chain deletes Facebook... and Twitter and Instagram

"People spend too much time on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and struggle to control the compulsion." Tim Martin, JD Wetherspoon chairman

16/04/2018

United Kingdom

Meet the everyday people invited to the royal wedding

A Manchester attack survivor, a former soldier who lost his leg during an IED incident in Afghanistan and a couple looking to open a community arts venue in north-west England are among the members of the public invited to the royal wedding.

15/04/2018

United Kingdom

May prepares to face parliament over Syria airstrikes

Britain's prime minister is facing criticism that she did not seek parliamentary approval before launching air strikes on Syria's chemical weapon sites

15/04/2018

United Kingdom

More than half of the UK wants public vote on Brexit deal: survey

The survey by pollster Opinium Research found that 52% of people were in favour of a "people's vote" on the Brexit deal.

15/04/2018

No Comment

No Comments of the week

A Thai water-throwing festival, a show of Russian military skills and the UK's bizarre wife-carrying competition were all on the cards this week in Euronews' No Comment programme.

13/04/2018

United Kingdom

OPCW backs UK's identification of nerve agent used against ex-Russian spy

The chemical weapons watchdog has released its findings on the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy and his daughter in Salisbury, UK.

12/04/2018

United Kingdom

Twice as many Britons acquired another EU citizenship in Brexit vote year

In total, some 6,555 people from the UK acquired citizenship in another EU state, compared to 2,478 in 2015, marking an increase of 165%, according to the EU statistics office.

09/04/2018

USA

UK 'playing with fire' in Skripal affair, Russia warns

Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia says the substance used in spy poisoning is 'not copyrighted by Russia'

06/04/2018

USA

Your WW1 mission: 'Get the Americans onside to help end the conflict!'

Euronews' Alasdair Sandford tells the story of his grandfather, a British army officer sent to the US in April 1918 to recount his experiences from WWI and raise funds for the war effort.

05/04/2018

Iran

Husband of imprisoned British-Iranian describes 2 years without wife a

Two years on: 'not enough has been done' Richard Ratcliffe tells euronews about his wife Nazanin's detention.

02/04/2018

United Kingdom

Easter Monday travel hit by heavy rain, snow

People heading back home after the four-day Easter weekend are battling it out with snow, rain and sleet.

02/04/2018

No Comment

Butterflies flutter at the Natural History Museum in London

London's Natural History museum has come alive with an estimated 60 species of butterflies from the Americas, Asia and Africa as "Sensational Butterflies" returns for 2018.

28/03/2018

United Kingdom

Cambridge Analytica scandal: Whistleblower questions Brexit result

A whistleblower at the heart of a Facebook data scandal has questioned the result of Britain's 2016 Brexit referendum.

27/03/2018

USA

Trump ‘to expel Russian diplomats in solidarity with UK’

President Donald Trump has been advised to expel dozens of Russian diplomats from US soil and an announcement will likely be made on Monday, according to Bloomberg.

25/03/2018

My Europe Series

State of the Union: UK-Russia war of words hits fever pitch

23/03/2018

Russia

Euroviews. Is the West too soft on Putin? | View

A gloves-off approach to the Russian leader might be what Europe and its allies need to defend Western values and interests, writes the Centre for European Reform's Ian Bond.

21/03/2018

Russia

Russia defiant as its diplomats arrive home

Russia is defiant as the 23 of its diplomats expelled by the UK arrive back in Moscow. The Ambassador even suggests the UK may be in breach of its international obligations.

21/03/2018

United Kingdom

'I am not a fish thrower', Jacob Rees-Mogg protests

'Am I going to change my name to Captain Haddock?', Eurosceptic Jacob Rees-Mogg asked, denying reports he'd throw dead fish into the Thames to protest against the delay in leaving the Common Fisheries Policy.

20/03/2018

USA

Facebook shares tumble in Cambridge Analytica data breach

Facebook shares lost tens of billions of dollars in the row over the compromise of over 50 million of its accounts. Cambridge Analytica has also come under pressure over its use of a playbook of dirty political tricks.

20/03/2018