The Latest Breaking News from the Foreign Office

Zaynab Wandawi, a British national born in Salford, was turned away at the Rafah border crossing into Egypt.

Relatives of the 200 British or dual nationals trying to leave describe scenes of chaos and desperation

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

The Middle Eastern country shares its northern border with Israel and Syria

Hundred of flights cancelled and several cruises diverted