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Match Of The Day host Gary Lineker outside his home in London, Sunday, March 12, 2023. Lineker will return to airwaves after the BBC reversed the former soccer great's suspension on Monday, March 13, 2023, following a post on Twitter that had criticized the British government’s new asylum policy. (Lucy North/PA via AP, File)

BBC backtracks on Lineker over tweet slamming U.K. asylum plan

By Jill Lawless

Britain's football commentator John Motson follows a match, May 13, 2018. Motson has died at the age of 77. He was one of the most well-known voices in British sport for 50 years. The BBC announced the death of Motson on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023 without giving any details. Motson was fondly known as “Motty.” He called games for Britain’s national broadcaster from 1968-2018. He covered 10 World Cups, 10 European Championships and 29 FA Cup finals during that time. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP, File)

British soccer commentator John Motson dies at 77

By Steve Douglas - Associated Press

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waits for the arrival of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi at Hyderabad house, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Days after India blocked a BBC documentary that examines Modi’s role during 2002 anti-Muslim riots and banned people from sharing it online, authorities are scrambling to halt screenings of the film in colleges and universities and restricting its clips on social media, a move that has been decried by critics as an assault on press freedom. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

BBC film on India’s PM Modi, 2002 riots draws government ire

By Sheikh Saaliq and Krutika Pathi - Associated Press

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry speaks during a press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, at the foreign ministry headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

John Kerry urges Putin to not let Ukraine invasion distract from combating climate change

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 11, 1995, file photo, Diana, Princess of Wales, smiles at the United Cerebral Palsy's annual dinner at the New York Hilton. An investigation has found that a BBC journalist used “deceitful behavior” to secure an explosive interview with Princess Diana in 1995, in a “serious breach” of the broadcaster’s guidelines. The probe came after Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, made renewed complaints that journalist Martin Bashir used false documents and other dishonest tactics to persuade Diana to agree to the interview. (AP Photo/ Mark Lennihan, File)

BBC reporter Martin Bashir used deceit to get 1995 Diana interview: Report

By Sylvia Hui

In this Dec. 7, 2018, file photo, former FBI Director James Comey, with his attorney, David Kelley, right, speaks to reporters after a day of testimony before the House Judiciary and Oversight committees, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) **FILE**

James Comey: Biden should consider Trump pardon

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

This Oct. 9, 2012, file photo shows, from left, Jason Bonham, son of the late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham; singer Robert Plant; bassist John Paul Jones; and guitarist Jimmy Page at the &quot;Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day&quot; premiere in New York. (Photo by Dario Cantatore/Invision/AP, File)

Jimmy Page: ‘Unlikely’ Led Zeppelin will tour again

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Monday, March 9, 2020 file photo, Britain's Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex leaves after attending the annual Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey in London. Court documents have revealed that Meghan felt “unprotected” by Britain’s monarchy and was “prohibited from defending herself” against negative media reports when she was pregnant, according to documents submitted Thursday July 2, 2020, as part of Meghan’s lawsuit against the publisher of the Mail on Sunday newspaper and MailOnline website. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Court papers: Meghan felt ‘unprotected’ by monarchy

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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, second right, wearing a protective face mask, talks to a medical staff members during his visit to the Academy of Military Medical Sciences in Beijing, Monday, March 2, 2020. The number of new virus infections rose worldwide along with fears of a weakening global economy, even as cases in China dropped to their lowest level in six weeks on Monday and hundreds of patients at the outbreak's epicenter were released from hospitals. (Ju Peng/Xinhua via AP)

China pig flu strain has pandemic potential: Report

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro carries a boy on his back as he greets supporters gathered outside the presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, May 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Andre Borges)

Judge orders Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro to wear mask in public

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he speech the industrial development laboratory at French drugmaker's vaccine unit Sanofi Pasteur plant in Marcy-l'Etoile, near Lyon, central France, Tuesday, June 16, 2020.The visit comes after rival pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca this weekend announced a deal to supply 400 million vaccine doses to EU countries, including France. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, Pool)

Macron marks appeal that gave birth to French Resistance

By DANICA KIRKA and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

In this file photo dated Wednesday, May 6, 2009, the cast of Fawlty Towers from left, Prunella Scales, John Cleese, Connie Booth and Andrew Sachs reunite to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the TV show and mark a special program "Fawlty Towers: Re-opened" at The Naval and Military Club, London. One of the most memorable episodes of one of the most popular British sitcoms of all-time, Fawlty Towers, has been withdrawn from a streaming service because of numerous racial slurs. (AP Photo/ Edmond Terakopian, FILE)

Episode of U.K. sitcom Fawlty Towers pulled over racist slurs

By Pan Pylas - Associated Press

Blood samples from coronavirus patients are prepared for analysis as part of the TACTIC-R trial, in the Blood Processing Lab in the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease, in Cambridge, England, Thursday, May 21, 2020. The new trial known as TACTIC-R is testing whether existing drugs will help prevent the body's immune system from overreacting, which scientists hope could prevent organ failure and death in COVID-19 patients. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, pool)

U.K. will turn coronavirus tests around within 24 hours by end of June, says PM Boris Johnson

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

Prince William urges men to open up on mental health issues

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

Liverpool's Mohamed Salah kicks the ball during the English Premier League soccer match between Norwich City and Liverpool at Carrow Road Stadium in Norwich, England, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) ** FILE **

Premier League to resume June 17

By Rob Harris - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, March 25, 2020, file photo, American Airlines jets sit idly at their gates as a jet arrives at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

American Airlines to seek $12B in government aid as coronavirus crisis hits travel industry

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020, about the Trump administration's policies on Iran, Iraq and the use of force. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Mike Pompeo: U.S. has offered to help Iran with coronavirus outbreak as deaths there top 210

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg poses for media as she arrives for a news conference in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. The 50th annual meeting of the forum is taking place in Davos from Jan. 21 until Jan. 24, 2020 (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Greta Thunberg lands her own TV show on BBC

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: China’s virus efforts good-faith

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The results of an exit poll are projected onto the outside of Broadcasting House in London, just after voting closed for the 2019 General Election, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019. An exit poll in Britain’s election projects that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party likely will win a majority of seats in Parliament. That outcome would allow Johnson to fulfill his plan to take the U.K. out of the European Union next month. (Jeff Overs/BBC via AP)

BBC to cut an estimated 450 jobs in modernization plan

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