Declassified documents show UK aware of Israeli war crimes for 24 years
UK Foreign Office files, public since 2024, record warnings about Israeli violence and rights abuses since 2002.
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UK Foreign Office files, public since 2024, record warnings about Israeli violence and rights abuses since 2002.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham defended a ban on trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank
A diplomatic rift grows between the UK and Israel after Britain led a ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements
Dissent voiced in an ongoing inquiry into Australia’s most ambitious nuclear submarine pact has laid bare growing uncertainty over US commitment, amid questions about the clarity of Canberra’s explanation of the Aukus deal to citizens. Under the trilateral security pact between Australia, the UK and the United States, Canberra will get eight nuclear-powered submarines at an estimated cost of up to A$368 billion (US$266 billion). Three used Virginia-class nuclear submarines will initially be...
Israel said on Tuesday it was closing Britain's consulate in East Jerusalem in response to plans by the UK, France and Canada to block imports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with Julie Norman, Associate Fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House and Director of UCL’s Israel-Palestine Initiative.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the US will ‘obviously not’ follow the UK in sanctioning illegal Israeli settlements
BBC's Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson reports from an area close to Israel's proposed site in the occupied West Bank.
Chagos Islands should not be handed over to Mauritius, president of Maldives says in letter to UK's prime minister.
President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for deeper cooperation between “major technological powers” China and the UK as he held his first official call with Prime Minister Andy Burnham. Xi congratulated Burnham on his appointment as prime minister, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua, emphasising that the shared interests of China and the United Kingdom outweighed their differences in social systems. “Both sides should respect and trust each other, transcend differences, seek common...
China’s President Xi Jinping urged Britain to protect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese investors in his first phone call with UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham, saying the two countries’ common interests outweigh their differences.
Buenos Aires, Argentina – The Argentine president announced a package of measures to penalize companies operating in the hydrocarbons sector in the Falkland/Malvinas Islands without Argentine authorization. The statement comes in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s comments regarding his neutrality in the long-standing dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the archipelago. […] The post The Falklands/Malvinas dispute: Javier Milei tightens sanctions against companies drilling for oil on islands appeared first on Latin America Reports.
Britain expresses sorrow over slavery, but rejects financial compensation.
Britain’s King Charles has reiterated that Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, remain non-working members of the royal family following their return to the United Kingdom. A letter sent on behalf of the king to senior government officials said the couple will continue to refrain from using their royal titles as they have done since stepping back from official royal duties in 2020. Any charity work the couple undertakes will be carried out in a private capacity and operational security decisions...
Hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans toiled in Jamaica under more than 300 years of British rule.
Petition to King Charles questions the legality of slavery under English law and UK’s responsibility for reparations.
A Jamaican government delegation visiting Britain is set to file a petition addressed to King Charles on Monday, raising the question of slavery reparations, Kingston’s culture ministry said. Culture Minister Olivia Grange will lead the delegation “to advance Jamaica’s push for reparations for the African ancestors who suffered under hundreds of years of enslavement”, the ministry said in a statement. The petition asks the king, who is Jamaica’s head of state, to refer three questions on the...
Dozens of masked anti-immigration protesters blocked roads leading to Britain’s busiest ferry port on Saturday, clogging traffic and disrupting travellers and cargo vehicles heading for France.
Traffic at Britain's largest international port briefly halted as 'stop the boats' protesters blocked approaching roads.
Dozens of masked anti-immigration protesters blocked roads leading to Britain’s busiest ferry port on Saturday, clogging traffic and disrupting travellers and cargo vehicles heading for France. The government condemned the action, saying it went beyond peaceful protest. The Port of Dover said Saturday morning that all traffic in and out was “stopped due to an ongoing public order incident” and police said they were “engaging with the protesters”. Video posted on social media showed several dozen...
US President Donald Trump raised doubts about whether the United States would support Britain in another conflict over the Falkland Islands in an interview with a British broadcaster aired Thursday, injecting new tension into the long-standing dispute over the British-controlled archipelago also claimed by Argentina. Trump's comments came as his ideological ally, Argentine President Javier Milei, prepared to deliver a televised national address about what his government has described as diplomatic progress over the islands that lie about 480 kilometers off Argentina’s coast in the South Atlantic. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Editor Rochelle Ferguson-Bouyahe tells us more.
The comments come as Argentinian president Javier Milei says the "winds of change" favoured his country's claim on the British overseas territory.
Argentine President Javier Milei escalated his country’s dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands on Thursday, vowing new measures to halt an oil project near the British-controlled archipelago and praising US President Donald Trump for saying Washington could reconsider its neutral stance on the islands’ sovereignty. Milei cast Trump’s comments as proof that his close relationship with the US president – criticised by political opponents as overly deferential – was paying dividends. “The...
The US president says the UK was not "there to help me" in his ongoing war with Iran.
French President Emmanuel Macron met Britain’s new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, for official talks at 10 Downing Street. The meeting came a day after the pair were joined by King Charles and Queen Camilla at the British Museum for a preview of the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition in London. Macron is the first EU leader to meet Burnham. Talks are expected to cover relations between Britain and the European Union, support for Ukraine, and migrant crossings in the English Channel.
The Bayeux Tapestry may have brought them together — but migrant crossings and Ukraine are likely to dominate the agenda as UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham and French President Emmanuel Macron hold their first formal talks on Thursday. The two leaders met for the first time on Wednesday evening at a preview of the tapestry’s exhibition at the British Museum, alongside King Charles III. The occasion was hailed by both sides as a symbol of improving relations between Britain and France. For more, FRANCE 24’s Stuart Norval is joined by our London correspondent Bénédicte Paviot and FRANCE 24’s International Affairs Editor Philip Turle.
What can an 11th-century comic strip about the Norman Conquest of England tell us about the spectre of sea change in 2026 Europe? France’s president is on hand for the hottest ticket in London, the first-ever cross-Channel visit of the Bayeux Tapestry, which, for the record, is not a tapestry but a delicate scroll of embroidered cloth that chronicles a radical turning point in our continent’s history. Should France’s outgoing president and the British monarch who welcomes him be likened more to the defending Saxons or the invading Normans?
French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham are set to hold their first talks on Thursday after meeting a day earlier at the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition at the British Museum. Migrant boats crossing the Channel and the war in Ukraine are some of the issues the two leaders are expected to discuss.
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he was “happy” Prince Harry and his family left the US and relocated back to Britain. “I am happy about it. I was not a fan,” Trump said in the Oval Office when asked about the recent decision by Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, to leave California after six years. The family arrived back in Britain at the end of August. The couple stepped down from official royal duties in 2020 when they moved to the US. “I thought they treated...