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Two years that shook the travel industry

Today marks two years since travel was turned on its head by the Covid-19 pandemic. Simon Calder looks back at an extraordinary 24 months for the international travel industry

The Independent UK

UK minister in BVI for urgent talks on sanctioning Russian oligarchs

Amanda Melling’s visit follows fears UK tax havens may offer loophole for those trying to avoid clampdown

The Guardian - UK

Harry Dunn’s mother has faith in CPS despite court hearing postponement

Charlotte Charles spoke as she marked what would have been her son’s 22nd birthday.

The Independent UK

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Foreign Office update: Thirteen countries Brits can now travel to without any tests or vaccine proof

Travellers do not need to be vaccinated or take a test to enter these nations

Liverpool Echo

Foreign Office accused of cover-up to obscure that Boris Johnson ‘lied’ over Afghan dog rescue

‘If you are to say that, you are basically saying that the prime minister and the defence secretary are liars’

The Independent UK

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: ex-Tory MP urges inquiry into why Iran debt went unpaid

Alistair Burt, previously a Foreign Office minister, queries delay to payment of cash that freed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson did prioritise animal charity for Afghan evacuation, MPs told

Second whistleblower suggests to committee that top civil servants lied to cover up episode

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Boris Johnson DID order Afghan animal rescue and officials 'must have' lied, says whistle blower

Pen Farthing was able to evacuate 173 cats and dogs from Afghanistan last summer

Manchester Evening News

Boris Johnson 'did intervene' to prioritise animals in Afghanistan airlift

A second Foreign Office whistleblower has come forward to back up claims that Boris Johnson intervened to have rescue animals airlifted out of Kabul while Afghans fleeing the Taliban struggled to get onto aircraft.

Daily Record

Second whistleblower says decision to evacuate Afghan animals did come from PM

Boris Johnson previously said it was “complete nonsense” to suggest he had been involved.

The Independent UK

Foreign Office issues message to every UK traveller going abroad as restrictions end

With most restrictions now scrapped, the UK Government's Foreign Office has issued eight steps for UK travellers should follow.

Daily Record

US-UK national moved back to Iranian prison, daughter says

An Iranian-American environmentalist who was recently released from an Iranian prison has been taken back to jail, one of his daughters told a news conference in London on Monday.

Reuters

British-Iranian Morad Tahbaz moved from prison in Iran to hotel room

Conservationist detained since 2018 left behind when Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori released

The Guardian - UK

Foreign Office issues eight steps for holidaymakers to follow when travelling abroad this year

Advice comes after the ending of all Covid restrictions on travel from and to the UK

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The Guardian - UK

Family’s MP says Johnson’s ‘poor grasp’ of Zaghari-Ratcliffe case led to errors

Writing in the Observer, Tulip Siddiq accuses Foreign Office of callous behaviour, as calls grow for full investigation

The Guardian - UK

The left behind: the dual nationals still in jail in Iran

Anoosheh Ashoori and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe are free but other families in the west are waiting anxiously

The Guardian - UK

Publicity or silence? No formula for success in cases like Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s

Analysis: Richard Ratcliffe ignored Foreign Office advice and spoke out but other families have kept quiet

Evening Standard

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran to use £384m debt repayment on humanitarian causes, minister says

A Foreign Office minister insisted on Thursday that Iran will not be able to use a £384 million debt repayment which helped secure the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe for anything other than humanitarian purposes.

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The Independent UK

Russian air strike appeared to target civilian building in Mariupol – Cleverly

The Foreign Office minister said the Russian attack in the besieged Ukrainian city appeared to have breached international conflict rules.

The Guardian - UK

Foreign Office urged Richard Ratcliffe not to make ‘song and dance’, says MP

Tulip Siddiq said decision by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband to be ‘so public and vocal’ had been vindicated

The Guardian - UK

Debt, sanctions and a cold Westminster tent: how the Iranian hostages were freed

Release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Ashoori mixed serpentine statecraft, brutal realpolitik and occasional stubborn idealism

Daily Mirror

Tory invited to Lebedev's villa with 'girls' and Boris Johnson - 'Profumo quit for less'

Rory Stewart, who was Foreign Office Minister, said there was "no way" he could accept the invite, adding John Profumo "lost his job for a lot less"

The Independent UK

Tory minister claims Ukrainians ‘shout God save the Queen’ as they fire UK weapons at Russian tanks

Foreign Office minister James Cleverly says he is ‘very proud’ of UK’s assistance to Kyiv

The Guardian - UK

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s six years of bewilderment and injustice

British-Iranian woman has endured almost unbearable psychological stress since her arrest at Tehran airport in April 2016

Daily Mirror

Meet the Russian oligarchs worth £100bn hit by new wave of UK sanctions

The oligarchs sanctioned today have a combined estimated worth of more than £100 billion, according to the Foreign Office.

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