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Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 3, 2021
U.K. and India plan to connect the world's green power grids
Linking the grids would allow parts of the world with excess renewable power to send it to areas with deficits.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2021
Brexit cold turkey: U.K. tries to kick 25-year imported labor habit
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit experiment — unique among major economies — has further strained supply chains already creaking.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2021
Fuel shortages pile pressure on Johnson as U.K. crisis escalates
The food and fuel shortages add to a pile of daunting challenges for Johnson, with Britons facing a surge in electricity and gas prices.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 25, 2021
Britain expected to ease visa rules as truck driver shortage bites
The driver shortage has been caused partly by Brexit and COVID-19, and the loss of about a year of driver training and testing.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2021
At Oval Office meeting, Boris Johnson's Brexit promise of U.S. trade deal fades from view
Despite having talked up a deal with Washington as a major prize of his campaign to leave the EU, the British prime minister himself has since tried to downplay expectations of progress.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 18, 2021
The hidden agenda behind the deal France called a betrayal
The United States and Australia went to extraordinary lengths to keep Paris in the dark as they secretly negotiated a plan to build nuclear submarines.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 22, 2021
What’s an ex-U.K. prime minister to do?
Former British Prime Minister David Cameron's lobbying for a collapsed finance firm allegedly earned him $10 million for two years of part-time work.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 7, 2021
London defined Boris Johnson. Then Brexit changed the metrics.
The city that made the British prime minister's political career risks becoming an economic casualty of his premiership.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 7, 2021
South African study shows high protection from Johnson & Johnson shot
The country's health regulator approved the J&J shot in April, and it is being used in the national vaccine program alongside Pfizer's.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 22, 2021
At this point, the U.K.'s COVID-19 rules follow politics as much as science
If the last 18 months have taught us anything, it's that a successful COVID-19 policy requires three things: high levels of public trust, a coherent strategy and effective implementation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 19, 2021
U.K. set for big reopening as cases soar the most in the world
Pandemic restrictions are ending in England on Monday, a moment that was meant to herald the full reopening of the battered economy.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 19, 2021
Britain turns into test case for COVID-19 endgame
After inoculating a larger proportion of people than any other major economy, Britain is emerging as a test case in Europe as it attempts to draw a line under COVID-19.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 15, 2021
Rampant variant derails U.K. plan to lift COVID-19 measures
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson pushed back his plan to lift coronavirus restrictions by four weeks as a more infectious variant spreads rapidly across the U.K. and threatens to undermine the country’s effort to vaccinate its way out of the pandemic.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 11, 2021
G7 to donate 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to poorer countries
Some campaign groups condemned the plan as a drop in the ocean, with Oxfam estimating that nearly 4 billion people will depend on COVAX for vaccines.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Jun 9, 2021
At the G7, can Biden unite the globe’s top democracies to take on China?
At the summit in England from Friday, Biden will be working to rally the world's democratic nations — and counter China — as the globe struggles back from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 6, 2021
U.K.'s Boris Johnson calls on G7 to vaccinate world by end of 2022
Johnson will host the first in-person summit in almost two years of G7 leaders and said he would seek a pledge to hit the global vaccination goal.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2021
Prosecute the populists?
Until the cease-fire, the world’s attention was trained on Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza, which may have suited Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is facing trial on corruption charges. And Netanyahu is hardly the only populist leader in legal peril.

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