FILE PHOTO: The logo of Chevron Corp is seen in its booth at Gastech, the world’s biggest expo for the gas industry, in Chiba, Japan April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo (Reuters) – Chevron Corp on Tuesday asked about 300 British employees to work temporarily from home after an employee in its Canary Wharf office

People wear protective face masks in St. Mark’s Square after the last days of Venice Carnival were cancelled due to coronavirus, in Venice, Italy February 24, 2020. REUTERS/Manuel Silvestri LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Tuesday that people who had visited northern Italy should self isolate if they had any flu-like symptoms after Europe’s worst

Britain’s Secretary of State of Defence Ben Wallace leaves Downing Street 10 in London, Britain February 13, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah Mckay LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s defence minister Ben Wallace announced on Tuesday the start of a programme to replace the country’s nuclear deterrent. “To ensure the government maintains an effective deterrent throughout the commission of the

LONDON (Reuters) – The Scottish parliament approved plans on Tuesday to make sanitary products freely available to all women, the first nation in the world to do so. Feminine hygiene products are seen in a pharmacy in London, Britain March 18, 2016. Prime Minister David Cameron won backing at a European Union summit on Thursday

LONDON (Reuters) – Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg met Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai at Britain’s University of Oxford on Tuesday and posed for a photo together. Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg meets Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai at University of Oxford in Oxford, Britain, February 25, 2020 in this picture obtained from

LONDON (Reuters) – Tesco, Britain’s biggest supermarket group, is to restructure the bakery operations of its larger stores, with fewer products to be baked in-store, putting 1,816 workers at risk of redundancy, it said on Tuesday. A bakery employee pushes a cart with loaves of bread past a towel display at a Tesco Extra supermarket

A view of the front door of 10 Downing Street in London, Britain October 29, 2019. REUTERS/Toby Melville LONDON (Reuters) – Britain wants the European Union to show the same respect for legal autonomy it afforded countries such as Canada and Japan when signing trade deals with them, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said on

LONDON (Reuters) – British politicians turned a blind eye to the sexual abuse of children and actively covered up allegations over decades, an independent inquiry into historical sex offences in Westminster found on Tuesday. People walk on Westminster Bridge near Houses of Parliament in London, Britain, February 1, 2020. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic The inquiry did not

LONDON (Reuters) – The Scottish parliament on Tuesday is due to approve plans to make sanitary products freely available to all women – the first nation in the world to do so. FILE PHOTO: Feminine hygiene products are seen in a pharmacy The legislation would make products such as tampons and sanitary pads free for

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Tuesday that people who had visited northern Italy should self isolate if they had any flu-like symptoms after Europe’s worst outbreak of coronavirus so far flared up in the regions of Lombardy and Veneto. “Those who have been to northern Italy – that is essentially anybody who has been

LONDON (Reuters) – Julian Assange appeared before a British court on Monday to fight an extradition request from the United States which wants to put the 48-year-old on trial for hacking government computers and violating an espionage law. FILE PHOTO: WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange leaves Westminster Magistrates Court in London, Britain January 13, 2020. REUTERS/Simon

LONDON (Reuters) – Julian Assange appeared before a British court on Monday to fight an extradition request from the United States which wants to put the 48-year-old on trial for hacking government computers and violating an espionage law. For the main story: Below are the main developments and quotes from the hearing. * Assange’s lawyer,

LONDON (Reuters) – Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States as he would not get a fair trial and would be a suicide risk, his lawyer told a British court hearing on Monday. Assange’s lawyer, Edward Fitzgerald, said extradition would expose Assange to inhumane and degrading treatment by a disproportionate sentence and

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has full confidence in his interior minister, Priti Patel, and she has a “strong” working relationship with the main domestic intelligence agency MI5, a spokesman for Johnson said on Monday. “The PM has full confidence in the Home Secretary (interior minister) and the vital work she is

LONDON (Reuters) – British intelligence took the unusual step on Monday of denying a newspaper report that the main domestic spy agency, MI5, had withheld information from the interior minister because some spies did not trust her. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Home Secretary Priti Patel leaves Downing Street in London, Britain February 13, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will comply with the obligations set out in the so-called Northern Ireland protocol with the European Union but does not see that entailing new checks on goods, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday. The Sunday Times newspaper reported that Johnson’s Brexit team had been ordered to come