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Foreign Office Warns Against Travel to 55 Countries — Why Ignoring 'Don't Travel' Advice Could Leave You Uninsured Abroad

Foreign Office warns against travel to 55 countries in 2026, cautioning that ignoring 'don't travel' advice could invalidate travel insurance.

International Business Times UK

Foreign Office was hacked, admits minister amid claims it was cyber attack by China

Tens of thousands of confidential documents and data were accessed in the hack, it is claimed

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer appoints career diplomat Christian Turner as US ambassador

Turner, appointed ambassador to UN in May, now replaces Peter Mandelson who was sacked over Epstein links

The Guardian - UK

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Chinese ambassador summoned by Foreign Office over Jimmy Lai verdict

Yvette Cooper says the Foreign Office had summoned China’s top diplomatic representative to the UK to express unhappiness over the guilty verdict

Evening Standard

Guatemala’s tourism minister hits out at Foreign Office warnings

Exclusive: ‘We have not had a single violent incident against tourists in the past two years’ says Harris Whitbeck

The Independent UK

Starmer to pick new US ambassador as relations with Trump tested

Exclusive: a trio of candidates have been interviewed by the PM, but he could still decide to directly appoint someone else

The Guardian - UK

Trump wants to destabilise European democracy. Where on earth is parliament?

You’d think MPs would be lining up to decry the US president’s support for far-right nationalists. Instead, only backbenchers and a few junior ministers bothered to turn up

The Guardian - UK

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Yvette Cooper issues sanctions against Russia amid accusations of ‘information warfare’

The Foreign Secretary said Russian agencies are responsible for "vast malign online networks" disseminating disinformation across Europe

The Independent UK

Davey claims ‘historic victory’ for Lib Dems after tokenistic vote in favour of customs union with EU – as it happened

The vote will have no practical impact, despite Davey’s ‘historic’ claim

The Guardian - UK

Starmer: Novichok poisoning inquiry shows UK must be vigilant to Russian threats

The Prime Minister said the inquiry’s report ‘is clear: moral responsibility lies with Putin’.

Evening Standard

Vladimir Putin ordered Skripal novichok poisonings in show of ‘Russian power’, Dawn Sturgess inquiry finds

The foreign secretary has warned in the wake of the report that the Russian president represents ‘an active threat’ to British citizens

The Independent UK

Family of two women stranded in Sri Lanka ‘hugely relieved’ after rescue

Melanie Watters, 54, and her friend Janine Reid, 55, from London, were stranded by floods in Pussellawa for nearly a week

Evening Standard

UK sanctions GRU after Putin found ‘morally responsible’ for Novichok death

Russian President Vladimir Putin bears ‘moral responsibility’ for the nerve agent death of Dawn Sturgess, an inquiry found.

Evening Standard

Foreign Office lost ‘opportunities to influence’ US after Harry Dunn death, review finds

Anne Owers highlights delays in escalation after crash in August 2019, after which Anne Sacoolas flew to US

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Evening Standard

Officials lost opportunities to influence US on Dunn suspect’s immunity – review

A review into the government’s handling of the Harry Dunn case was launched in July.

Evening Standard

Two London women stranded in cyclone-hit Sri Lanka 'running out of food and water'

The Foreign Office has said there is currently no plan to evacuate the British nationals following the cyclone which has already claimed hundreds of lives

The Guardian - UK

British women stranded by landslides in Sri Lankan mountains running out of food and water, daughter says

Friends Melanie Watters and Janine Reid have been trapped in Pussellawa since Thursday

The Guardian - UK

Artist caught up in row over Foreign Office queen portrait speaks out

Larry Achiampong, whose ‘pan-African colours’ replaced picture of former monarch, calls angle of some media coverage deeply problematic

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The Independent UK

UK slams Gaza aid delays as tents for displaced take months to arrive

The Foreign Office said 1,100 UK-funded tents will finally be delivered to Gazans displaced by the war

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer 'set to approve' Chinese super embassy in east London

Neither the Home Office or the Foreign Office will raise any formal objections to the plan, according to reports

The Independent UK

Eleven countries added to methanol poisoning warning list

Six tourists died of methanol poisoning after drinking shots in Laos in 2024

Euronews

In the Taliban's shadow: Why Germany failed to help all local hires

Halima worked for the German Air Force in Afghanistan. Today, she lives in fear of the Taliban and has received no response from Berlin.

The Guardian - UK

Men with family stuck in Gaza say lack of action from UK government is breach of human rights

Two fathers in Britain enlist law firm to get government to follow through on evacuation promises made months ago

The Guardian - UK

Starmer was briefed on Mandelson’s Epstein links before appointing him, say civil servants

PM had been given ‘summary of reputational risks’ but did not know about contents of emails before PMQs, MPs told

The Guardian - UK

UK politics: MPs spar over response to Cambridgeshire train attack – as it happened

Lib Dem spokesperson says Reform ‘trying to exploit incident for political gain’ and shadow home secretary’s remarks are ‘beneath contempt’

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