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": 562240,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "f0f19f74087f2d32c9a4dde83a78df05",
            "title": "Zelenskyy meets key allies in London aiming to build on strikes on Russia",
            "description": "Keir Starmer hosts Ukrainian, French and German leaders in Downing Street amid optimism in Kyiv over state of war",
            "content": "Volodymyr Zelenskyy met his staunchest allies at Downing Street on Sunday night, hours after a Russian drone strike damaged a storage centre for spent nuclear fuel nine miles from the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.\nKeir Starmer welcomed Zelenskyy, Em... [4436 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/07/zelenskyy-starmer-macron-merz-ukraine-talks-london",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cfbcddc84fecd04c532759b4f957c16874eb2d41/154_0_3418_2735/master/3418.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=58d08582cf9dfa681b2cae08a22b1a08",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-07T20:18:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "9b071c5726ede236d28754e3b1c4b268",
            "title": "Trump weighs buying another territory after Greenland fiasco: report",
            "description": "Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly presented Trump with option to buy islands housing Diego Garcia base",
            "content": "The White House is reportedly considering a plan that would see the U.S. make a deal to purchase the Chagos Islands after President Donald Trump’s ambitions of seeing the U.S. take control of Greenland ended in failure.\nThe president has repeatedly t... [4198 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-chagos-islands-buy-threat-b2991394.html",
            "image": "https://static.independent.co.uk/2026/06/07/18/2279868915..?width=1200&height=800&crop=1200:800",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-07T18:17:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0d5c0adfb0e84da759fe48296b9f6e55",
                "name": "The Independent",
                "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "d92ccdc097fbe75fec2987fc5ba2bfdd",
            "title": "‘OK, I need to call work’: Meet the new councillors who never expected to get elected",
            "description": "Some say they want to rise to the challenge, while others have been forced to resign almost before their tenure began. Albert Toth looks at the rise of ‘paper candidates’ and what they mean for the future of local politics",
            "content": "OK, I need to have a phone call with work.”\nThat was the first reaction of Tyrone Scott, 34, who became a Green councillor in Hackney, east London, last month despite “not expecting to win at all”.\nHe was selected as one of the party’s many “paper ca... [6027 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/local-elections-paper-candidates-reform-green-england-b2983757.html",
            "image": "https://static.independent.co.uk/2026/06/04/15/51/Tyrone-and-Caroline.png?trim=0,0,0,0&width=1200&height=800&crop=1200:800",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-07T18:07:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0d5c0adfb0e84da759fe48296b9f6e55",
                "name": "The Independent",
                "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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