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Kosovan PM says he could consider early elections in north if violence ends

US and EU rebuke Albin Kurti over his handling of recent clashes triggered by ethnic Albanian mayors taking office

The Guardian - UK · May 31, 2023

Could Liz Truss’ visit to Taiwan start a culture war in the Tory Party?

‘Instagram diplomacy’? The ex PM has set a cat among the Tory pigeons and unleashed a mighty foreign policy row as she lands in Taiwan on a one-woman mission to shore up the country’s independence, says Anne McElvoy

Evening Standard · May 17, 2023

Visiting Taiwan, ex-UK PM Liz Truss calls for tough line on China

Visiting self-ruled Taiwan. Truss says democracies need to make clear there are consequences for aggression.

Al Jazeera · May 17, 2023

Tory war of words erupts as Liz Truss snaps back at 'Instagram diplomacy' jibe

The flash-in-a-pan Prime Minister - who served just 49 days in No10 - is just trying to keep herself relevant by jetting off to the hotspot to rant about China, Tory MP Alicia Kearns, who heads the foreign affairs select committee, said

Daily Mirror · May 11, 2023

Liz Truss’s plan to visit Taiwan called ‘worst kind of Instagram diplomacy’

Alicia Kearns, foreign affairs select committee chair, launches blistering attack on former prime minister

The Guardian - UK · May 11, 2023

Sudanese army blocks Britons from boarding last rescue flights

Nearly 1,900 have been evacuated, says UK government, but final flight has yet to leave Khartoum

The Guardian - UK · Apr 29, 2023

Sudan crisis: UN urges both sides to stop targeting civilians; Turkey says evacuation plane shot at – as it happened

UN human rights commissioner intervenes; Turkey’s defence ministry says plane was shot at while landing at Wadi Seidna airstrip

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2023

‘Too dangerous’ to use British forces to rescue UK citizens from Sudan

James Heappey insisted the situation in Khartoum is ‘very different’ from the 2021 Afghanistan evacuation.

The Independent UK · Apr 24, 2023

UK troops fly to Sudan as officials work on evacuation plan for Britons

Government still working out evacuation plan as pressure builds to help ‘abandoned’ UK citizens

The Independent UK · Apr 24, 2023

More emergency Sudan talks as calls mount for UK nationals to be rescued

Thousands of Britons remain trapped by the fighting.

The Independent UK · Apr 24, 2023