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UK extends 80% wage subsidies as England goes back into lockdown

The scheme supported 8.9 million jobs at its peak, and had been forecast to cost around 52 billion pounds ($67.28 billion) over its eight-month lifespan.

England declares second coronavirus lockdown; Tamil Nadu minister dies

Worst week in Wall Street since March, major averages pulled back considerably in the week as investors worried that soaring Covid-19 infections could slow down economic recovery

UK PM declares England's second stay-at-home lockdown for 4 weeks

Johnson has announced a second stay-at-home lockdown across England, starting from next Thursday and to run for four weeks until at least the start of December

UK PM considering month-long lockdown as Covid-19 cases rise: Reports

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is considering a month-long nationwide lockdown amid the rising number of coronavirus cases in the country, according to reports quoting government sources

PM Boris Johnson faces lockdown revolt from more than 50 UK Tories

In a letter to the PM, the MPs warned that his pandemic strategy of targeting local areas with restrictions is disproportionately damaging the economies of northern regions

The EU's plan to get a Brexit deal: Let Boris Johnson claim he won

With talks between the UK and EU still deadlocked after the British prime minister nearly-but-didn't-quite stage a walkout Friday, that's the only way EU officials say they can secure trade deal

Manchester at war as it is dragged into highest coronavirus Tier in UK

The region of Greater Manchester remained at war with the central government as Boris Johnson stepped in to forcibly place it within Tier 3 of the strictest Covid-19 lockdown restrictions

Brexit: UK says no to more EU trade talks, dashing earlier optimism

Earlier, Michael Gove, the minister overseeing Brexit, had said there was agreement on the need to intensify trade talks and work on legal texts, after the negotiations broke down last week

Brexit talks on the edge; Angela Merkel holds key to a deal or no-deal

Johnson asks UK to prepare for the latter; UK-based Indian businessmen hope a compromise will be found

UK PM Boris Johnson threatens to impose restrictions on Manchester

Prime Minister Boris Johnson threatened to force the Greater Manchester region into the most severe level of COVID-19 restrictions after local officials refused to accept the govt's financial package

Prepare for no-trade deal Brexit, Johnson says, but talks to continue

Johnson's remarks, which follow an EU demand that London make further concessions, may push Brexit towards disorder

Londoners banned from mixing indoors in new coronavirus clampdown

Curfew imposed in Paris as European leaders scramble to contain new cases

UK PM Johnson expresses "desirability" for trade deal with European Union

Ahead of a European Union summit, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed the "desirability" of a new trade deal with the bloc, but also his disappointment that more progress had not been made

EU and Britain to keep talking past Boris Johnson's Brexit deadline

A source close to the talks, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Frost would say agreement was difficult but not impossible if both sides work intensively in the coming weeks

Boris Johnson tells ministers he wants EU trade deal on 'right terms'

The bulk of Australia's exports to the EU are subject to tariffs and quotas set under basic World Trade Organization (WTO) terms

Boris Johnson shuts pubs in UK hot spots as coronavirus infections rise

The toughest measures will be brought into force from Wednesday in the Liverpool city area, where the outbreak is spreading fastest

France govt warns no Brexit deal better than bad one on fisheries

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has adopted a similar stance

UK PM to detail new restrictions on Oct 12 to curb Covid-19 spread

The letter said that the government was hoping to "finalise these details as soon as possible" amid "rising incidence in parts of the country"

UK coronavirus update: With 15,166 new cases, tally crosses 590,000 mark

Britain's coronavirus reproduction number, also known as the R number, is now between 1.2 and 1.5, slightly down from between 1.3 and 1.6 last week

UK's Boris Johnson plans new 3-tier system of Covid-19 lockdown measures

PM Boris Johnson is set to unveil a new three-tier system of measures alongside local regions across UK being handed greater decision-making powers as part of efforts to slow the spread of Covid