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Hipster Attempts To Citizen’s Arrest Tony Blair for War Crimes
Part-time DJ Twiggy Garcia approached former British prime minister in East London restaurant
Police Shooting That Sparked British Riots Was Lawful, Says Jury
Mark Duggan’s shooting by armed police provoked violence across the U.K. in 2011
Inside London’s Priciest Apartment Block: How the Superrich Are Changing World Cities
TIME visits One Hyde Park, a new apartment complex for London’s superrich. Developments like this, some argue, are making it harder for those less wealthy to live in the world’s most important cities
Ceiling Collapse at London’s Apollo Theatre Injures Dozens
The West End theater, which originally opened in 1901, was packed for an evening performance
London’s Tale of Two Cities: Inequality Worsens in Europe’s Booming Metropolis
Brixton Village these days is an unusual mix of multiethnic vendors selling groceries and homewares next to fashionable restaurants serving rosemary salt fries and a soon-to-open champagne and cheese shop and bistro. It’s a …
The New Princess Diana Revelations: How Conspiracy Theories Still Haunt Her Death
Sixteen years after her car crash in Paris, there’s another round of speculation that the Princess’s death was no accident. Don’t believe it
Terror in London Sparks Tensions, Upsurge in Islamophobic Attacks
Violence and fear travel swiftly, and faster still in the era of tweets and status updates and 24-hour rolling news. Just after 2 p.m. on May 22, police answered a call to an incident in Woolwich, southeast London. A 25-year-old …
Britain’s Prime Minister Denounces Violent Responses to Wednesday’s Brutal Knife Attack
British Prime Minister David Cameron this morning denounced right-wing riots and attacks on mosques as “knee-jerk responses” to the brutal knife attack apparently committed by two men on a London street yesterday as the attack …
Margaret Thatcher’s Funeral: Who Will Be Attending
More than 2,000 people, including all surviving U.S. Presidents as well as representatives of foreign states and figures from the world of entertainment, will fill St. Paul’s cathedral next Wednesday for the funeral of Margaret Thatcher.
France May Aid Syrian Rebels Unilaterally If EU Doesn’t Lift Arms Embargo
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said March 14 Paris may begin supplying arms to anti-Assad rebels if partners don’t respond to a Franco-British appeal to lift the embargo.
Assange’s Special Asylum: Why Ecuador Isn’t Nice to Anyone Else
The government of Rafael Correa extends its hospitality to the WikiLeaks founder but is accused of harassing unfriendly journalists and may extradite a whistle-blower from Belarus to face grave charges in the country described as …