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Heavily armed police rushed to Britain’s Houses of Parliament Tuesday morning after a vehicle struck members of the public and crashed into the counter-terror security barrier ringing the building.

LONDON (AP) – Britain’s Supreme Court on Thursday criticized Northern Ireland’s strict anti-abortion laws but dismissed a legal challenge. A majority of the court decided that the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, which initiated the case, did not have the

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Channel 4 says that Caitlyn Jenner will deliver its annual diversity lecture at the House of Commons.

Institutions are putting their reputations above the safety of vulnerable children who are being sexually exploited, an inquiry has found.

The men and women of the British Armed Forces should follow their U.S. counterparts and be encouraged to wear their uniform while engaging with local communities, a Parliamentary debate has heard.

Police officers responded to a “suspicious” envelope containing white powder delivered to Britain’s Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London Tuesday afternoon. A spokesman for the Commons said of the investigation: “The Police are currently investigating an incident on the Parliamentary

Katie Ascough, who was impeached last fall as president of the University College Dublin Student Union (UCDSU) for her pro-life stance, has received the Westminster Award for Human Life, Human Rights, and Human Dignity.

Allegations of sexual misconduct, harassment, and affairs have been made against 37 male and female Tory MPs and cabinet ministers, including the use of prostitutes and ‘extreme sex acts’ with multiple men.

Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May has launched an investigation into allegations of a sex abuse of power by a government minister, just days after a Labour member of parliament was suspended from his own party for offensive remarks.

Female staff working in parliament are naming which MPs to avoid due to allegedly sexually inappropriate behaviour in a secret WhatsApp group, it has been reported.

Identitarian movement activists unveiled a large banner on Westminster Bridge Monday morning, their anti-Islamification message facing directly onto Britain’s Houses of Parliament.

LONDON (AP) – British authorities say the cost of repairing the tower that houses London’s famous Big Ben has doubled. Parliamentary authorities said Friday the cost of repairing the Elizabeth Tower is now estimated to be 61 million pounds ($81

LONDON (AP) — The British Parliament’s Big Ben bell is due to sound the hour for the last time before it is silenced for repair work scheduled to last until 2021. After 12 deep bongs at noon Monday, the bell

LONDON (AP) — Some British politicians are criticizing plans to silence Big Ben for four years during repairs to Britain’s Parliament.

LONDON (AP) – Big Ben will fall silent next week in London as a major restoration project gets underway. The bongs of the iconic bell will be stopped on Aug. 21 to protect workers during a four-year, 29-million-pound ($38 million)

A man has been detained under mental health legislation outside the Houses of Parliament Thursday afternoon after he “verbally abused officers”. The incident is reported to have taken place by Black Rod’s Garden, adjacent to the Sovereign’s Gate to the Houses

London’s Palace of Westminster was placed on lockdown Friday morning after a man believed to be carrying a knife was reportedly disabled with a Taser stun device and arrested by police officers outside the Palace Yard gate. The location of

Terror attack fears have forced organisers of Britain’s largest pro-Israel event to scrap plans for this year’s edition of A Night to Honour Israel. Sponsored by the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) organization, the evening of celebration was scheduled for June 22 at an undisclosed venue in Westminster.

LONDON (AP) — A 27-year-old man who was arrested while carrying knives near the U.K. Parliament nearly two weeks ago has been charged with three offenses. Khalid Mohamed Omar Ali was charged Tuesday with preparation of terrorist acts and unlawful

The UK is set to deploy attack dogs to defend Parliament in new plans to protect Westminster from terrorism following the deadly attack in March.

LONDON (AP) — A 31-year-old Romanian tourist who was knocked into the River Thames from Westminster Bridge during an attack on Britain’s Houses of Parliament more than two weeks ago has died, London police said Friday.

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust has ordered hospital security guards to remove Union flag badges from their stab vests after a member of the public complained they were “offensive”.

Contents: Analysts skeptical of ISIS claiming responsibility for London terror attack; US resettlement of refugees from Australia’s detention centers is about to begin

Khalid Masood came back from jail obsessed with Islam, neighbours have said, after serving two years for a brutal attack that he tried to blame on ‘racism’.

The Islamist terrorist who attacked Westminster this Wednesday was a Muslim convert, who was possibly radicalised in prison and had lived in several areas of the UK known for radical Islamic activity.

The fourth victim of the Westminster terror attack has been named as 75-year-old Leslie Rhodes of South London.

Recent incidents in France are most telling about an Age of Enlightenment giving way, albeit centuries later, to an “Age of Turbidity.”

LONDON (AP) — London’s top anti-terror officer says two more “significant arrests” have been made in connection with the Westminster attack, in central and northern England. Nine people are currently in custody, while one has been released on bail.

London’s Metropolitan Police named the man responsible for Wednesday’s Westminster terror attack as British born Khalid Masood. In a press release from Scotland Yard Thursday afternoon approximately 25 hours after the attack took place, the force revealed 52-year-old Khalid Masood, born

American Kurt Cochran, who was on a tour of Europe with his wife, has been named as one of the three victims who died in Wednesday’s terror attack in Westminster.

The first named civilian victim of Wednesday’s terror attack, which saw a terrorist mow down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge with a car before entering the grounds of Parliament and stabbing a police officer to death, has been identified as married mother of two, Aysha Frade.

The Prime Minister has said the “Islamist” attack of Parliament was not “Islamic” and Islam is a “great faith”.

LONDON (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for an attack by a man who plowed an SUV into pedestrians on a crowded London bridge and then stabbed a police officer to death on the grounds of Britain’s

Prime Minister Theresa May has confirmed the Westminster attacker who killed three on Wednesday was “British-born” and had been investigated by security forces in the past. Speaking in parliament, Mrs May said the man was known to police and MI5 and

Supporters of Islamic State have praised the deadly attack in Westminster, justifying the killings as “revenge” for the second Gulf war and air strikes on the terror group in Iraq and Syria.

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło has drawn a clear link between the European Union’s permissive migration policy and terror events such as the Westminster attacks.