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FILE Britain's Mo Farah celebrates winning the gold medal, in the men's 5000-meter medals ceremony, during the athletics competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016. Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah has disclosed he was brought into Britain illegally from Djibouti under the name of another child. The British athlete made the revelation in a BBC documentary. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
UK Olympic great Mo Farah says he was trafficked as a child

By Danica Kirka Jul. 12, 2022 08:07 AM EDT

Scotland's First Minister and Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon poses for photographers, at Bute House in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sunday, May 9, 2021. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has invited the leaders of the U.K.’s devolved nations for crisis talks on the union after Scotland’s pro-independence party won its fourth straight parliamentary election. Sturgeon said the election results proved a second independence vote for Scotland was “the will of the country." She said any London politician who stood in the way would be “picking a fight with the democratic wishes of the Scottish people.” (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)
Sturgeon: Scotland independence vote matter of when, not if

By Sylvia Hui May. 09, 2021 06:12 AM EDT

Tower Bridge in London, Saturday, May 8, 2021, against the backdrop of the skyline of the financial district. On what was dubbed Super Thursday, around 50 million voters were eligible to take part in scores of elections in the UK, some of which had been postponed a year because of the pandemic that has left the U.K. with Europe’s largest coronavirus death toll. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
Scottish government sets stage for another independence vote

By Pan Pylas May. 08, 2021 06:47 AM EDT

First Minister and SNP party leader Nicola Sturgeon celebrates after retaining her seat for Glasgow Southside at the count for the Scottish Parliamentary Elections in Glasgow, Scotland, Friday May 7, 2021. On winning her seat in Glasgow, Nicola Sturgeon, said early results indicated that her party was on course to win its fourth straight election in Scotland but that the final outcome would not emerge until Saturday evening. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)
UK's Johnson hails electoral win as focus turns to Scotland

By Pan Pylas May. 07, 2021 03:23 AM EDT

People arrive to vote at a polling station in Glasgow, Scotland, Thursday May 6, 2021. Scots are heading to the polls to elect the next Scottish Government - though the coronavirus pandemic means it could be more than 48 hours before all the results are counted. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)
Super Thursday: Britons vote in a bumper crop of elections

By Pan Pylas May. 06, 2021 06:59 AM EDT

A general view over London from the Greenwich Observatory, with Tower Bridge and St Pauls Cathedral, left, and the City, of London, Saturday, March 27, 2021. Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic have hit London in a perfect storm. On May 6, Londoners will elect a mayor, whose performance will help determine whether this is the start of a period of decline for Europe's biggest city — or a chance to do things better. Current Mayor Sadiq Khan, who is favored to win re-election, says his top priority is preserving jobs threatened by the economic blow of the pandemic. Rival Shaun Bailey says his top priority is crime. Whoever wins will face the challenge of leading London's fightback from its biggest shock for generations. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Beyond the pandemic: London votes for a mayor during crisis

By Jill Lawless Apr. 30, 2021 02:33 AM EDT

FILE - In this file photo dated Saturday, March 20, 2021, floral tributes and messages surround the bandstand on Clapham Common in London after the nearby disappearance of Sarah Everard. A U.K. police watchdog said Tuesday March 30, 2021, that officers did not behave “in a heavy-handed manner” when they broke up a vigil for Sarah Everard, who disappeared while walking home in London and was later found murdered. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, FILE)
UK watchdog: Police acted correctly at vigil for slain woman

Mar. 30, 2021 07:59 AM EDT

A lone passenger waits and looks at the information screen as a train arrives at Monument Underground station in London, Friday, March 12, 2021. Even as many of its famous institutions closed during the coronavirus pandemic for most of the past 12 months, London's Underground kept running through three successive lockdowns. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Beyond the pandemic: London's Tube battles to stay on track

By Jill Lawless Mar. 24, 2021 03:20 AM EDT

People gather, at the band stand in Clapham Common, in memory of Sarah Everard, after an official vigil was cancelled, in London, Saturday, March 13, 2021. A serving British police officer accused of the kidnap and murder of a woman in London has appeared in court for the first time. Wayne Couzens, 48, is charged with kidnapping and killing 33-year-old Sarah Everard, who went missing while walking home from a friend’s apartment in south London on March 3. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
London police chief says she won't quit after vigil clashes

By Sylvia Hui Mar. 14, 2021 10:48 AM EDT

People gather, at the band stand in Clapham Common, in memory of Sarah Everard, after an official vigil was cancelled, in London, Saturday, March 13, 2021. A serving British police officer accused of the kidnap and murder of a woman in London has appeared in court for the first time. Wayne Couzens, 48, is charged with kidnapping and killing 33-year-old Sarah Everard, who went missing while walking home from a friend’s apartment in south London on March 3. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
London police tactics at vigil for slain woman draw scrutiny

By Sylvia Hui Mar. 13, 2021 08:36 PM EST

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 31, 2020 file photo a patient is helped from an ambulance as they arrive at St Thomas' Hospital, one of may hospitals that are in the front line of the coronavirus outbreak, in London. The crisis facing Britain this winter is depressingly familiar: Stay-at-home orders and empty streets. Hospitals overflowing. A daily toll of many hundreds of coronavirus deaths. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Johnson under fire as UK again faces onslaught of COVID-19

By Jill Lawless Jan. 10, 2021 03:00 AM EST

People leave the Charing Cross hospital in London, Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. Britain’s National Health Service will from next week employ a little-used field hospital specially built at a huge exhibition center in east London in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic last spring. NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens said Thursday that the pressures facing hospitals in London and the southeast of England are so acute that the Nightingale hospital at the ExCel London will be opened next week to inpatients. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
London mayor seeks help as UK sees record new virus deaths

By Danica Kirka And Jill Lawless Jan. 08, 2021 07:23 AM EST

People wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus as they walk past a pub in Soho, London, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. London and its surrounding areas will be placed under Britain's highest level of coronavirus restrictions beginning Wednesday as infections rise rapidly in the capital, the health secretary said Monday, adding that a new variant of the virus may be to blame for the spread. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
UK urged to ax 'rash' easing of restrictions over Christmas

By Pan Pylas Dec. 15, 2020 05:32 AM EST

A person casts a shadow walking past a social distancing information sign painted on the pavement in Leeds city centre, England, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. Local lockdowns are being imposed in several British cities where confirmed coronavirus infections have risen sharply. The council leader in the northern England city of Leeds says people will be barred from meeting members of other households indoors or in backyards. The measure affects more than 750,000 people. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP)
Local lockdowns imposed in several cities as UK cases rise

By Danica Kirka And Jill Lawless Sep. 25, 2020 01:25 PM EDT

A man waves handcuffs attached to muzzles during a protest in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. Several hundred Romanians, including many families with young children, held a protest in the country's capital against measures meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus, especially social distancing and the mandatory use of masks in schools. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Virus measures targeted by protesters despite case spikes

By Sylvia Hui And Vadim Ghirda Sep. 19, 2020 04:28 PM EDT

A staff member walks past empty lanes of a Covid-19 drive thru testing facility at Twickenham stadium in London, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. Britain has imposed tougher restrictions on people and businesses in parts of northeastern England on Thursday as the nation attempts to stem the spread of COVID-19, although some testing facilities remain under-utilised. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
'This is a big moment:' UK virus restrictions escalating

By Pan Pylas Sep. 18, 2020 06:19 AM EDT

Staff waits beside the empty lanes of a Covid-19 drive thru testing facility at Twickenham stadium in London, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. Britain has imposed tougher restrictions on people and businesses in parts of northeastern England on Thursday as the nation attempts to stem the spread of COVID-19, although some testing facilities remain under-utilised. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Some UK bars to close early amid rising COVID-19 infections

By Danica Kirka Sep. 17, 2020 12:46 PM EDT

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wearing a face mask, visits the headquarters of the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust in London, Monday July 13, 2020. (Ben Stansall/Pool via AP)
UK, France move to extend rules on face coverings in public

By Danica Kirka And Pan Pylas Jul. 14, 2020 06:09 AM EDT

Farmers from the group Save British Farming drive tractors around Parliament Square, in London, in a protest against cheaply produced lower standard food being imported from the U.S. after Brexit that will undercut them, Wednesday, July 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Brexit is back: UK aims to prepare public for Jan 1 EU break

By Danica Kirka And Jill Lawless Jul. 13, 2020 09:08 AM EDT

7 police officers hurt in unlicensed music event in London

Jul. 04, 2020 04:55 AM EDT
LONDON (AP) — Seven police officers have been injured while trying to break up an unlicensed music event in west London, the latest in a series of illegal...