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UK Sanctions Balkans Gangs As Irregular Migrant Numbers Rise

Britain on Wednesday sanctioned Balkans-based gangs and financiers helping facilitate small boat crossings, as migrant arrivals this year via the Channel were set to surpass the 2024 totals.

International Business Times

Universities warn Starmer: Evacuate Gaza scholarship students now or they will lose their place

Exclusive: Senior leaders at several top UK universities have written to the PM to warn that a failure to evacuate students by Sunday will see them miss out

The Independent UK

Revealed: UK Foreign Office staff pushed for Israel trip despite suspension of trade talks

Exclusive: Peer met Israeli officials and business leaders on visit that had no support from ministers

The Guardian - UK

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Mark Sedwill is frontrunner to become new UK ambassador to US, sources say

Former cabinet secretary seen as favourite despite running risk of angering No 10 with China spy trial comments

The Guardian - UK

Ministers plan high-level visits to China despite espionage trial outcry

National security adviser, education secretary and science minister to visit before end of year as part of policy to reset relations

The Guardian - UK

Record bitcoin sum seized in UK-US crackdown on romance scam centres

Luxury London properties frozen as Foreign Office and US officials impose sanctions on gang behind centres in south-east Asia

The Independent UK

Belgium airports cancel departing flights for a whole day amid strikes

Both of Brussels’ airports have announced mass cancellations amid the national strike

The Independent UK

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Foreign Office chief to visit China after collapse of high-profile espionage case

Exclusive: Oliver Robbins to visit China next week on ‘long-planned’ government business after collapse of trial of two men over spying charges

The Guardian - UK

Cooper to host talks on security and migration at Western Balkans summit

The Foreign Secretary will meet European partners from countries including Albania, Serbia, and North Macedonia as well as France, Germany and Italy.

Evening Standard

Scottish Government requests 'urgent' update on Scots imprisoned by Israel

The Scottish Government has written to the Foreign Office to ask for an "urgent" update on the Scots imprisoned by Israel ...

The National (Scotland)

China threatened to retaliate against UK over foreign influence rules

Exclusive: Chinese officials warned that targeting its security apparatus would negatively affect relations

The Guardian - UK

Family of couple detained in Iran call on ministers to ‘secure urgent release’

Lindsay and Craig Foreman deny espionage charges after they were arrested in January.

The Independent UK

UK pledges £27m in new aid for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

Foreign secretary says aid will deliver food, shelter, clean water, and healthcare to people displaced by conflict in Myanmar

The Independent UK

Parents of young British man killed in Ukraine say Foreign Office was unhelpful

Marlyn Tarmey joined the foreign legion to fight in Ukraine in March 2024, but was killed in June that same year at just 20 years old.

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The Independent UK

Voices: I’m an MP and doctor invited to the West Bank to look at health provisions. Instead, Israel sent us packing

COMMENT: The MP and GP Simon Opher was invited on a fact-finding mission to Israel and the West Bank. When he arrived, Israel called him a threat to ‘public safety, security and order’ and turned him away

The Independent UK

True scale of global migration crisis revealed – and UK ‘has no plan to tackle it’

As Sir Keir Starmer focuses efforts on tackling small boat crossings, MPs accuse the government of having no plan to tackle the wider issue of global displacement, which has reached ‘crisis levels’

The Guardian - UK

MPs give Foreign Office fall guy a mauling over Mandelson

Hapless Stephen Doughty was given the hospital pass of defending the PM over the ex-US ambassador’s appointment

The Guardian - UK

Mandelson not given in-depth vetting before appointment, says Foreign Office

Letter to MPs says former US ambassador went through process only after his new role was announced to public

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Evening Standard

PM should face ‘serious consequences’ if dishonest about Mandelson – Badenoch

The Foreign Office did not contribute to a due diligence process ahead of Lord Mandelson’s appointment, Yvette Cooper said.

The Independent UK

MPs to ask fresh questions of Starmer’s judgment on Mandelson

A three-hour emergency debate will be held in the Commons on Tuesday about the appointment of Lord Mandelson as ambassador to the US.

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer to come under more pressure over Lord Mandelson amid Labour backbench anger

A three-hour emergency debate will be held in the Commons on Tuesday about the appointment of Lord Mandelson as ambassador to the US

Evening Standard

Starmer ‘angry’ after Mandelson sacking and insists he need not resign as PM

The Prime Minister sacked Lord Mandelson last week but has faced questions about his judgment in appointing the peer as US ambassador.

Evening Standard

UK to deploy RAF jets to Poland after Russian drone incursion into Nato airspace

Russia’s ambassador, Andrei Kelin, was summoned by the Foreign Office on Monday over his country’s ‘unprecedented violation’ of Nato airspace

The National (Scotland)

Ministers deny 'turning a blind eye' to Gaza atrocities despite RAF spy planes

MINISTERS have denied that they are “turning a blind eye” to atrocities in Gaza despite routinely flying RAF spy planes over the territory.

Evening Standard

UK summons Russian ambassador after ‘unprecedented violation’ of Nato airspace

The Foreign Office said the incursions in Polish and Romanian airspace were ‘utterly unacceptable.’

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