The Latest Breaking News from FCDO

First UK nationals leave Gaza as Rafah border opens for them to cross into Egypt

The crossing is opening for 'controlled and time-limited periods' to allow specific groups of foreign nationals and the seriously wounded to leave

Evening Standard · Nov 1, 2023

Foreign Office official ‘sent sad face’ to British teacher trapped in Gaza

Zaynab Wandawi, a school teacher from Manchester, has been in Gaza for more than three weeks with 10 members of her husband’s family

The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2023

Terrorists are ‘very likely’ to carry out attacks in the UAE, according to updated Foreign Office advice

Official advice was changed on 29 October

The Independent UK · Oct 31, 2023

Mexico travel: Is it safe to travel amid Hurricane Otis and what are your rights if you have a trip booked?

Hurricane Otis made landfall near Acapulco on Mexico’s Pacific coastline early Wednesday

The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2023

Girls in Africa quitting school over cost of living crisis, says charity

Camfed calls for six-year plan to get 6 million girls into school, warning that drop-out rate is limiting children’s chances

The Guardian - UK · Oct 25, 2023

Mexico travel: Is it safe to travel amid Hurricane Otis and what are your rights if you have a trip booked?

Hurricane Otis made landfall near Acapulco on Mexico’s Pacific coastline early Wednesday

The Independent UK · Oct 25, 2023

Is Paris safe to visit? France travel advice after reported bomb threats

The security alert for France was raised to its highest level after a terror attack and multiple hoax bomb threats

Evening Standard · Oct 25, 2023

Jimmy Lai: UK refuses to release details of efforts to free British citizen jailed by China ‘to avoid damaging relations’

Media tycoon and activist Jimmy Lai has been detained in China since 2020 and while foreign secretary James Cleverly says he raised the issue in Beijing, it is not clear how

The Independent UK · Oct 25, 2023

UK government shame as Afghan refugee faces being sent back to Taliban after admin error

Exclusive: ‘They led him down this road of believing he had a chance and they put him up for months in Islamabad at an eye-watering cost of money. At the end of all this process they’re booting him out’

The Independent UK · Oct 24, 2023

FCDO vows to work for more hostage releases as British woman’s mother freed

London-based Sharone Lifschitz spoke of her relief that her Israeli mother Yocheved was handed over by Hamas.

The Independent UK · Oct 23, 2023