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UK Humanitarian Aid to Help Pakistan Recover From Conflict
The United Kingdom (UK) will provide new emergency humanitarian aid and rebuild businesses and agriculture for millions of people affected by the recent conflict in Pakistan. The Department for International Development will help hundreds of thousands...
UK Fishing Fleet Moves a Step Closer to a Sustainable Future
Agreement on a new fisheries control regulation in Luxembourg means that the UK fishing sector is a step closer to a sustainable future without adverse impacts or unnecessary burdens on fishermen. At the Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting in Luxembourg,...
Ukraine And the United Kingdom Agree to Build Secure Store for Radioactive Sources
£2.1 Million (29 Million UAH) has been allocated by the United Kingdom (UK) for a secure storage facility to house used radioactive sources from across Ukraine, removing the potential danger they could pose to public health or from illicit trafficking.
Two Men Plead Guilty in the U.K. to Sale of Ex-military Vehicles to Sudan
A businessman and his former employee have pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court, to the unlawful sale of ex-military vehicles to Sudan, following a successful prosecution by Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office (RCPO). Andrew Jackson, the owner...
U.K. Government Agrees to Support Airbus with the Development of the A350 XWB
Lord Mandelson has announced that the British Government has agreed to support Airbus with up to £340 million repayable launch investment for the development of the A350 XWB. The support, drawn partially from the Government’s £750m Strategic Investment...
U.K. Government Introduces Legislation to Remove VAT From Onshore Carbon Credits
The UK Government has introduced legislation to remove VAT from supplies of emissions allowances (also known as carbon credits) traded within the UK, in order to prevent the risk of VAT fraud, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Stephen Timms has announced. The...
Conditions Tightened on U.K. Aid to Zimbabwe
A top UK government official said in Maputo, on Tuesday, that Britain wants Zimbabwe to accelerate the implementation of sound economic, political and social reforms before providing additional aid to Harare. British Minister for Africa Mark Malloch Brown...
Zimbabwean Refugees in UK Stage ’right to Work’ March
Hundreds of Zimbabweans who fled to Britain, escaping what they described as “Robert Mugabe’s brutal regime”, have relaunched their appeal for the right to work in the European country.
