10 h. ago JD Vance believes Grok's sexualised pictures on X are 'unacceptable', says foreign secretary

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has revealed JD Vance has been sympathetic to the UK's position on manipulated images being produced by AI chatbot Grok.

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11 h. ago Cooper praises courage of protesters in Iran in the face of violent crackdown

The Foreign Secretary said exercising the right to free speech and assembly ‘should never come with the threat of violence or reprisals’.

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17 h. ago JACK STRAW: 'Keir Starmer has yet another challenge on his hands from Trump'

'The US president's decision to withdraw the United States from no less than 66 international agencies is really serious', Jack Straw, the former Labour Foreign Secretary writes

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47 h. ago Voices: The world’s worst humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Sudan

As the conflict in Sudan passes the grim milestone of 1,000 days, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper writes that the same diplomatic energy that helped end the war in Gaza is needed to end the crisis

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62 h. ago The Guardian view on Ofcom versus Grok: chatbots cannot be allowed to undress children. | Editorial

A wave of humiliating sexualised imagery must prompt regulators and politicians to step upAn online trend involving asking Grok, the Elon Musk-owned chatbot, to undress photographs of women and girls and show them wearing bikinis has rightly sparked outrage in the UK and internationally. Earlier this week Liz Kendall, the science and technology secretary, described the proliferation of the digitally altered pictures, some of which are overtly sexualised or violent, as “unacceptable in decent society”. What happens next will depend on whether she and her colleagues are prepared to follow through on such remarks. The government’s generally enthusiastic approach to AI, and the growing role they see for it in public services, do not inspire confidence in their ability to confront such threats.In addition to the deluge of bikini images, the Internet Watch Foundation, a charity, has evidence that Grok Imagine (an AI tool that generates images and videos from prompts) has been used to crea...

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3 d. ago What are Trump’s real options for gaining control of Greenland?

The White House has said using the US military is always an option, but few analysts believe it a likely oneEurope live – latest updatesThe Trump administration has said repeatedly that the US needs to gain control of Greenland, a strategically-located, mineral-rich, largely self-governing part of Denmark with foreign and security policy run from Copenhagen.The White House has said using the US military is “always an option”, but few analysts believe an armed operation is likely and France’s foreign minister has said the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has ruled out the possibility of an invasion. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Cooper says she raised international law with US over Venezuela

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper addressed the Commons after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro entered a not guilty plea in court in New York.

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5 d. ago Cooper says she raised international law with Rubio over Venezuela

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper addressed the Commons after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro entered a not guilty plea in court in New York.

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5 d. ago Foreign Secretary issues warning to Donald Trump over Greenland

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper made the comment in the Commons on Monday evening amid growing alarm that US President Donald Trump could annex Greenland

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5 d. ago Government to address nation from 2.30pm today as Keir Starmer criticism mounts

The US flexed it's military and intelligence capabilities on Saturday when they 'captured' Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in a top secret strike that shocked the world

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5 d. ago Foreign Secretary to address MPs on US operation in Venezuela today as 'fog of war' looms

President Maduro is due to appear in court in New York later today on charges of 'narco-terrorism'

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6 d. ago Foreign Secretary expected to address MPs on US operation in Venezuela

Yvette Cooper is expected to update the Commons on the US removal of Nicolas Maduro as president of Venezuela.

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6 d. ago British schoolgirl Charlotte Niddam named as victim of horror New Year's Swiss ski resort fire

Hertfordshire teen Charlotte Niddam was one of the final victims to have her identity confimed by police - Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has called the news 'devastating'

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9 d. ago 'Foreign Secretary must use holidays to reset and bring Jagtar Singh Johal home', says family

Gurpreet Singh Johal said Yvette Cooper has not got back to him following their last meeting and urged her to use the Christmas holidays to “reconsider” his plea.

Society

1 week ago When racists shout ‘Go home’, and you come from 15 places, what to do? | Hugh Muir

A DNA test showed me that theoretically I have links to a long list of countries – and that the way we look at belonging makes little senseWhile accepting that David Lammy, the deputy prime minister and justice secretary is, for many, the human embodiment of Marmite – loved or hated, with not much in between – one can still question whether, for all his faults, he should “go home to the Caribbean”. Whether you agree with him over this or that utterance or the broad sweep of government policy, he has, unquestionably made his contribution to Tottenham, in north London, whose people he has represented for a quarter of a century, to parliament, as a senior MP, as foreign secretary and now as an important figure with several key portfolios.So when a lieutenant of Nigel Farage, admittedly no fan of Lammy’s, suggests, without notable contradiction or condemnation from Reform, that Lammy “should go home to the Caribbean”, one is tempted to look at that askance. But then, in the year just pa...

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1 week ago Cooper orders Foreign Office review of ‘serious failures’ in El

The Foreign Secretary said successive prime ministers were not briefed on tweets dating back as far as 2010 and civil servants were also unaware.

Events

2 w. ago Two countries agree to take back deported migrants after UK visa ban threat

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood warned she could stop issuing visas to foreign nationals from certain countries if those governments did not 'play ball' on returns deals

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3 w. ago China has set a bear trap for Keir Starmer – and our naive PM is walking straight into it | Simon Tisdall

The conviction of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong is another hostile act. How can Britain ignore Beijing’s provocations and human rights abuses?The UK pushed hard to secure the release of Jimmy Lai, the newspaper publisher and British citizen who was a leading light in Hong Kong’s brutally suppressed pro-democracy movement. So, too, did press freedom and human rights campaigners. But the Beijing-appointed high court judges in the former colony convicted him anyway, finding Lai guilty last week on fake charges of trying to “destabilise” the Chinese Communist party (CCP). For Xi Jinping, China’s dictator-emperor, there is no greater crime.Protesting to China’s ambassador, the UK’s foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, condemned the trial as “politically motivated”. She’s right, of course – but her angry words will make no difference. Beijing’s contempt for Britain’s views is as painfully obvious as the UK’s weakness and indecision in the face of Chinese hubris. The breaking of its solemn promise t...

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3 w. ago New UK migration pact to tackle small boats hailed as breakthrough

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has signed a new pact with Greece which will see the UK help authorities deal with smuggling gangs and the supply of small boats used for Channel crossings

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3 w. ago Yvette Cooper criticises Donald Trump for attack on 'decaying' Europe saying Britain's diversity is something to 'celebrate' as part of its 'centuries of civilisation'

The Foreign Secretary, the UK's top diplomat, defended the nation's 'centuries of civilisation' when asked about the new US National Security Strategy.

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