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United Kingdom Nation News API

Get the live top nation headlines from United Kingdom with our JSON API.

Get API key for the United Kingdom Nation News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from United Kingdom.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=gb&category=nation&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 480524,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "77c7ecb984dcd12a71f763af23cc7aea",
            "title": "Conservatives call for rethink of Parliament revamp",
            "description": "Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says current plans to refurbish the Palace of Westminster are \"out of control\".",
            "content": "The Conservatives are calling for a proposed renovation of the Houses of Parliament to be paused and \"refocused\" over concerns about costs potentially running into the tens of billions.\nMPs have been presented with proposals to refurbish the ailing P... [5240 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czd8n800zdno",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/aa54/live/e12c4f20-0c15-11f1-9fee-1b551ad8077f.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-17T22:21:52Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "fc236e5bf4a204d33bd4ec98a0bc00b8",
            "title": "Reform UK defections see new group on Kent County Council",
            "description": "Restore Britain forms a Kent County Council group after seven Reform councillors change sides.",
            "content": "Seven councillors from Kent County Council's Reform UK group have joined a new party, seen as another force on the political right.\nThe councillors have joined Restore Britain, launched last week by Rupert Lowe, the MP for Great Yarmouth, and will fo... [341 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg1d551weko",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/bb8d/live/9e309a40-0c48-11f1-b8ba-135d136c986f.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-17T21:54:36Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "e7400952273c25bcc0565ff80bc141bf",
            "title": "Four Chagossians return to islands in attempt to stop British transfer to Mauritius",
            "description": "Group says they intend to establish permanent settlement but Mauritius’s attorney general calls their move a ‘publicity stunt’",
            "content": "Four Chagos Islanders have landed on one of the archipelago’s atolls to establish what they say will be a permanent settlement, in an attempt to complicate a British plan to transfer the territory to Mauritius.\nThe Mauritius attorney general said the... [3532 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/17/four-chagossians-return-to-islands-in-attempt-to-stop-british-transfer-to-mauritius",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5daeed2b6698b3f20fa2231cdcb40040b5fd58de/142_0_5000_4000/master/5000.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=7e5aa6a470b9497b146b3d60c382e161",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-17T21:40:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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