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Topic: United Kingdom

Not sure face masks really work as Covid prevention, say UK govt’s top scientists

The scientists said enforced mask-wearing could result in decreased compliance with other measures such as social distancing and hand washing.

UK lawmakers put Facebook, Twitter, Google under scrutiny over Covid misinformation

Executives from the tech companies were interviewed on how their companies handled the spread of medical misinformation during the pandemic.

No-deal Brexit threatens recovery of Covid-affected UK economy

As British and European Union negotiators head into the last round of talks, UK might end the post-Brexit transition period without a free trade agreement in place.

Boris Johnson will revamp his agenda to deal with UK’s worst recession in 300 years

Elected just 6 months ago, Johnson, who promised to level up 'forgotten' parts of the UK before the virus struck, will likely focus on reasserting his broader political mission.

UK plans citizenship for residents in Hong Kong if China doesn’t back down on new law

About 300,000 people in Hong Kong have British National (Overseas) passports, giving them the right to come to the UK for six months.

Pressure mounts on British PM Boris Johnson to fire chief aide Dominic Cummings

Johnson will face a volley of questions from senior members of Parliament over his handling of the Covid crisis as well as his relationship with Cummings.

China raises defence spending, 30,000 UK pubs face closure & other global Covid news

As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.

Rishi Sunak warns UK is headed into ‘severe recession’ unprecedented in scale

The Bank of England has predicted that a three-month lockdown could lead to a 14% slump this year — the deepest recession since the early 18th century.

‘Show us the science’: UK wants more transparency in Boris Johnson’s Covid strategy

Support is slipping for Johnson as UK recorded the world's second-highest number of deaths after a week of confused messages over relaxing the lockdown.

UK GDP shrinks by 2% amid Covid-19 crisis, biggest quarterly decline since 2008

The fall was the biggest since the financial crisis of 2008 and included a contraction of 5.8 per cent in the March GDP alone, the biggest monthly fall on record.

On Camera

Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous

It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.