The Latest Breaking News from the Foreign Office

Exclusive: Warning issued to families as Pakistan begins expulsion of thousands of Afghan refugees

Around 200 understood to be trapped in the besieged enclave

The Rafah border crossing with Egypt was opened to allow foreign passport holders and the wounded to leave Gaza.

Foreign nationals unsure if they made list of permitted evacuees because of communications blackout

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

Canada’s International Development Research Centre and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have also pledged funds.

The private military firm, whose former leader was killed in a plane crash over the summer, was proscribed as a terrorist group in September.

Diplomacy is full of quips so brutal they can haunt generations of diplomats. For the Foreign Office, the words that still sting are those of Dean Acheson, that harsh Cold War US Secretary of State, who unforgettably said — and this was in 1962 — “Great Britain has lost an…

The US has recently warned citizens not to travel to the Middle Eastern country