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": 505152,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "22fda3969310b541130ed0fe3c19102e",
            "title": "Foreign Office’s top civil servant Olly Robbins forced out over Mandelson vetting row",
            "description": "Keir Starmer understood to have lost confidence in official over decision to override security vetting failure",
            "content": "Sir Olly Robbins, the UK Foreign Office’s top civil servant, has been forced out of his post after the decision to fail Peter Mandelson during his security vetting was overruled by his department.\nRobbins was the Foreign Office’s most senior official... [3203 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/16/foreign-offices-top-civil-servant-olly-robbins-leaves-post-in-mandelson-vetting-row",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b9ddb609c763962db59dce93022e368f67552ab2/871_0_3750_3000/master/3750.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=327c499d731355e4a4f6ddc81cd66f63",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-16T22:51:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4220e65dbc7076c7de50cefa7fceb6ce",
            "title": "Rachel Reeves warns other budgets may be cut to lift defence spending",
            "description": "Chancellor says she is ‘working through a range of options’ to boost the armed forces but does not want to put up taxes",
            "content": "Rachel Reeves has warned “difficult choices” are required to increase defence spending and other budgets may have to be cut, including welfare.\nUnder pressure for a faster rise in the military budget amid the Iran conflict and Russia’s war in Ukraine... [3518 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/16/rachel-reeves-warns-other-budgets-may-be-cut-to-lift-defence-spending",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3453a90b926909f506471151bf20773f3dd49ff2/934_152_3394_2716/master/3394.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=01c1812e62af96c8b9df12ce0a539296",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-16T21:08:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "836fcfdfaa2e821c53c6d5f2c376e583",
            "title": "Reeves looking to break link between gas cost and electricity prices",
            "description": "Chancellor wants to reduce impact of gas on market prices, as it almost always sets price of electricity in UK",
            "content": "The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has said she and Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, are looking at ways to break the link between the cost of electricity and gas prices.\nGas almost always sets the price of electricity under the marginal cost pricing m... [2618 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/16/reeves-break-link-between-gas-cost-and-electricity-prices",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/97985d8b9d569b786d297fc7d810b202ca22c21b/1420_268_1909_1527/master/1909.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=c2bb46c9d8922ba2d0d147ea0b3dbb89",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-16T20:43:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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