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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": 530518,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "a0d1d2c83ff4226949cb9ccd9be2f643",
            "title": "Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds",
            "description": "The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.",
            "content": "A shadow industry of law firms and advisers is charging thousands of pounds to help migrants pretend to be gay in order to stay in the UK, the BBC has found.\nIn the first part of a major undercover investigation, we reveal how migrants whose visas ar... [13059 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c937wldkkw8o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/d071/live/bf2ed390-388c-11f1-9d5c-8ba507d7dbde.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-15T04:58:25Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "fd4a1a6206303306c26ebf766744da86",
            "title": "Higher-income households benefited most from Help to Buy, thinktank finds",
            "description": "Analysis by IFS shows George Osborne’s mortgage schemes launched in 2013 had little effect on social mobility",
            "content": "Higher-income households were the biggest beneficiaries of George Osborne’s Help to Buy mortgage schemes, introduced in the 2010s, according to an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) thinktank.\nLaunched by the Conservative-Lib Dem coal... [3060 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/apr/15/higher-income-households-benefited-most-from-help-to-buy-mortgages-thinktank",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/261dbcc7b9ecf43c86e453b328f4a260d6971c79/1042_52_3494_2795/master/3494.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=17e7d555f3a4113bb6760190b75083c4",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-15T01:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f6cbfd87e549275f0a7b6e26a61acfea",
            "title": "How war in Gulf reveals the ‘cut corners’ on British defence",
            "description": "With the army’s size halved since the cold war, UK ambitions to be globally deployable do not match the reality, experts say",
            "content": "If Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was a wake-up call for Nato, the war in the Gulf has brought some harsh realities home to the British public about the state of the UK’s armed forces.\nWhile air defence systems and fighter jets were ... [4180 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/14/war-gulf-british-defence",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/534903b24e84b1c53bd453aa5c6bfbc0835a8953/750_95_2754_2203/master/2754.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=3bcef69e900e6859122958169e32664f",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-15T01:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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