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The UK Plans to Lower the Voting Age to 16. Here’s What to Know.

The plan has been described as the largest expansion of voting rights in Britain in decades.

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A polling station in Brighton, England, last year. Britain has set the minimum voting age for general elections at 18 since 1969.
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A 900-Year-Old Typo May Unravel a Chaucer Mystery

The Tale of Wade, twice referred to in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems, survives only in a tiny fragment. Two academics argue a scribe’s error deepened the confusion around it.
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U.K. Secretly Resettled 4,500 Afghans in Britain After Huge Data Breach

The government said that information about 18,000 Afghans was accidentally revealed in 2022. A legal order had prevented any reporting on the subject.

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British soldiers in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, in 2020. The acknowledgment of the data exposure comes at a time when immigration is a sensitive issue in British politics.
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U.K. Faces Rising Threat From Iranian Plots, Intelligence Committee Says

An official report warned that Iran was targeting dissidents and gathering intelligence on Jewish and Israeli targets in Britain.

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Kevan Jones, the chairman of Britain’s parliamentary intelligence committee, in a photo provided by the British Parliament.
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