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Bill to legalize assisted dying in England and Wales faces heated parliamentary debate

Nov. 28, 2024 12:45 PM EST

LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers are expected to vote Friday on a law proposed to help terminally ill adults end their lives. The contentious bill would allow adults expected to have fewer than six months to live to request and be provided with help to end their life, subject to...

UK political magazine The Spectator's new editor is Michael Gove

Sep. 25, 2024 10:31 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Michael Gove, who was a longtime U.K. Cabinet minister under successive Conservative Party governments, has been appointed the editor of The Spectator, one of the world’s oldest political magazines. Wednesday's announcement came little more than two weeks after...

Timeline of events surrounding the 2017 fire at Grenfell Tower in West London that killed 72

Sep. 04, 2024 09:48 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s worst residential fire since World War II led to deaths of 72 people in a high-rise apartment building in west London more than seven years ago. An inquiry, whose final report is being released Wednesday, began soon after the fire at Grenfell Tower, which...