LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Deep inside the Rock of Gibraltar is a room known as The Vault. Dug by the British army in World War Two, the room now houses servers that power the websites of dozens of international online gambling companies. Those companies were lured to this speck of …
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poles, who have settled in large numbers in Britain in recent years, expressed confusion and apprehension as Britain formally triggered the process to leave the European Union. They rue being cut off from Europe’s most attractive job market, while some even fear that weakened European unity …
LONDON (AP) — Britain sought Saturday to reassure Gibraltar that it will protect the territory’s interests in upcoming talks on exiting the European Union amid a dispute with Spain that underscores the complications of Britain’s EU divorce. Spain has long sought to regain control of Gibraltar, an enclave of 32,000 …
LONDON (AP) — Britain says the consumer price inflation rate rose to 2.3 percent in February, from 1.8 percent the month before, as the pound’s drop since Britain’s vote to leave the European Union caused the cost of living to rise. The Office of National Statistics said Tuesday the annual …
GIBRALTAR (AP) — All Antonio Molina has to do to cross the border into Gibraltar for work is wave an identity card, barely slowing his motorbike’s pace. The Spanish delivery man’s job depends on the border being open, a fact that’s under threat as Britain leaves the European Union, dragging …
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s governing Conservative Party Friday dealt a humiliating blow to the opposition Labour Party and its struggling leader Jeremy Corbyn by seizing a parliamentary seat in a special election. Conservative Trudy Harrison won the seat in Copeland, a rural district in the far north of England that …
LONDON (AP) — Oxford dictionary editors have chosen their word of the year: “post-truth,” a term sometimes used to describe the current political climate. Oxford Dictionaries said Wednesday that use of the term rose 2,000 percent between 2015 and 2016, often in discussions of Britain’s decision to leave the European …
LONDON (AP) — As if it wasn’t shaky enough, the British pound endured one of its biggest falls ever on Friday — with some in the markets blaming trading robots or a fat-fingered typo for sending the currency down a precipitous 6 percent in just a couple of minutes. …
The Brexit vote expressed white Britain’s nostalgia for a lost sense of greatness. LONDON — From Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II, England was an empire. No more. Brexit has turned the twilight years of the reign of Elizabeth II into the final chapter in the history of Great Britain. What …
BENIDORM, Spain (AP) — Tad Dawson’s pub in this Spanish vacation town was doing a brisk business in the summer sun. The only dark clouds he saw were coming from the bar’s TV, tuned to a British news channel. Inside the Yorkshire Pride were many British tourists watching the screen …
LONDON (AP) — An Eastern European family in Rugby finds dog excrement shoved through its mailbox. A Londoner nearly gets into a fight over drunken slurs shouted on a crowded subway car. A Polish teenager in Gloucestershire is taunted with threats of deportation at her high school. In the wake …