But, by continuing to supply arms and ammunition to the Saudis, Britain would appear to be complicit. . The possibility that British arms may be responsible for the death of innocent children is absolutely sickening, and unforgivable. ..…
US pundits and politicians have poured moral and financial support into their cause, and Trump has, in his own way, helped make their case, warning in a recent visit to Britain that Europe is “losing [its] culture” because of immigration. . British nationalists like Sumner have long been..…
Steinmeier also saluted the Cenotaph in a show of respect for Britain's fallen soldiers during the commemoration on Sunday of the 100th anniversary of World War I's end. . British officials say the presence of the German president on Sunday was meant to symbolize the friendship between the..…
The newspaper also said that European Union had rejected May's plan for mechanism to Britain's departure from any temporary customs arrangement it agrees. The newspaper sourced the development to British sources, and not sources in EU team.. ..…
British influence Iran has not always been for the good of the people of Iran except has very much been in the interests of both Britain's and the interests of British commerce — Corbyn's view of where the in rebuilding relations lay was clear. ..…
Steinmeier also saluted the Cenotaph in a show of respect for Britain's fallen soldiers during the commemoration on Sunday of the 100th anniversary of World War I's end. . British officials say the presence of the German president on Sunday was meant to symbolise the friendship between the..…
Britain sent nine million men, including troops from around the British Empire, chiefly India. ... Britain and British empire: 960,000 dead, two million injured; . Italy: 600,000 dead, one million injured; . ..…
Yet Indian nationalists did not seek to take advantage of Britain’s vulnerability by inciting rebellions, or even disturbances, against the Empire. Instead, Indians rallied to the British cause: there were no mutinies against the British, though political unrest did continue in Punjab and..…
Winston Churchill, Britain’s legendary wartime leader, thought of 1914-1945 as one long war. . . . A model of the River Clyde, a British ship that took part in the World War I landings in Gallipoli, Turkey.Tomas Munita for The New York Times “Those who fail to learn from history are..…
Today, if you visit Ieper, you will find a building called the Menin Gate Memorial, on which are inscribed the names of more than 54,000 soldiers from Great Britain and the British Empire who died in nearby battles between 1914 and 1917 and whose bodies were never found. . ... With the..…
About 70 current-day countries were involved in WWI, which saw six former superpowers at its heart: Austria-Hungary, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire. . Millions of troops from former British colonies in Asia and Africa were deployed under British command 100 years..…
Sir Mark Sykes, a British diplomat, secretly divided up Ottoman lands in the Middle East between Britain and France in 1916 with F (...) rench counterpart François Georges-Picot (the Sykes-Picot agreement) in anticipation of a Turkish defeat. ... Persia was supposedly neutral during the..…
British commemorations . In Britain, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier laid a wreath at a commemoration ceremony held at the Cenotaph war memorial in central London. ... Steinmeier was the first German leader to join the annual remembrance ceremony in Britain . . ..…
One of the difficult challenges for British Christians as we approach Remembrance Sunday is to understand why Christians of ago were in general so hugely supportive of Britain's in Great War.. ... In 1914, while the halcyon days of British Empire were past, Britain..…