Category: World

Notices Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office notices issued from 28 January 2026 about additions, revocations/delistings and variations/corrections to the UK Sanctions List. Previous notices See previous financial sanctions notices for Counter-terrorism issued by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation prior to 28 January 2026. Purposes of the Counter-terrorism sanctions The Counter-Terrorism (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations […]

A ship with a crane floats in the Mediterranean sun at a marina in Marseille, France. The crane whirs as it hauls waste from the seabed and, when the wire breaks the surface, the gripper at the end is clutching a rubber tyre covered in algae. As the day advances, rusted metal ship parts, fences […]

The findings of this UN report are truly horrific – atrocities including systematic starvation, torture, killings, rape and deliberate ethnic targeting used on the most horrendous scale during the Rapid Support Forces siege of El Fasher. The UK called for this report to be commissioned by the UN in November to hold perpetrators of these […]

MADRID — In a case that has sent shockwaves through the European hospitality sector, Spanish National Police have dismantled a sophisticated, first-of-its-kind booking scam. A 20-year-old man was arrested in Madrid after allegedly bypassing payment security systems to book luxury hotel suites—some priced at over €1,000 per night—for the nominal fee of just one euro […]

In a case that has become a lightning rod for the complexities of modern U.S. immigration enforcement, Seamus Culleton, an Irish national and long-term Boston resident, has secured a critical, eleventh-hour lifeline. On Friday, the First Circuit Court of Appeals granted a temporary 10-business-day stay on his deportation, pausing a removal process that was expected […]

Colleagues, let me begin by welcoming my fellow Ministers joining today’s session and also by thanking Under-Secretary-General Di Carlo for her briefing, as well as Hiba Qasas and Nadav Tamir for their powerful remarks which remind us of the opportunity that lies before us, an opportunity to end the cycle of violence and suffering, and […]

Mr. Al-Assi lives with his family in a tent made of cloth and plastic sheeting next to the rubble of their home in the Al-Zarqa neighbourhood in the centre of Gaza City, where they used to live “happily” and eat good food, including special Ramadan sweets like Qatayef. “Everything has changed now,” he told UN […]

Formal opening deepens relationships and grows on commitments under UK-Ukraine 100 Year Partnership Move will boost trade with Ukraine, creating closer links for businesses while supporting UK’s future reconstruction efforts Follows UK this week unveiling major package of air defence systems for Ukraine worth over £500m The UK has formally opened the British Embassy Office in Lviv, expanding the UK’s diplomatic presence in Ukraine […]

The risk of a woman who lives in a country affected by conflict dying due to maternal causes is around five times higher for each pregnancy she undergoes compared to her peers in stable countries, according to new findings in the WHO report. In 2023 alone, an estimated 160,000 women died from preventable maternal causes in […]

Volker Türk was alarmed by the reports, which said that at least 15 children were among the victims.  “These latest killings are yet another reminder of the devastating consequences on civilians of the escalating use of drone warfare in Sudan,” he said.  The attacks occurred between 15 and 16 February and in four states across Sudan, where the national army and a […]