7 h. ago Rockets, gold and the Foreign Legion: can Europe defend its frontier in the Amazon? | Alexander Hurst

It borders Brazil, but French Guiana is now a remote outpost of the EU. It is home to Europe’s only spaceport, some of the most biodiverse forest on the planet and a military mission that is testing the limits of western powerAbove me, a ceiling of rough wooden branches and tarp. To my right, an officer in the French Foreign Legion types up the daily situation report. In front of me a French gendarme named David is standing in front of a table full of large assault rifles, pointing out locations on a paper map. A generator hums. All around us, splotches of forest dot the hundreds of islands that make up the archipelago of Petit-Saut, a watery ecosystem three times the size of Paris.Except Paris is 7,000 kilometres away from where I am, in Guyane, or French Guiana, a department of France in South America, just north of the equator. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Foreign office failings over death of teen motorcyclist Harry Dunn laid bare by independent review

FOREIGN Office failings over the death of teen motorcyclist Harry Dunn were laid bare by an independent review yesterday. Officials did not treat the crash outside a US military base case as a crisis and withheld information from his family, it found. US state department employee Anne Sacoolas was driving on the wrong side of...

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20 h. ago Foreign Office failed to treat Harry Dunn’s death as crisis, damning report finds

Failures and omissions made after driver Anne Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity, review concludes

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23 h. ago Officials lost opportunities to influence US on Dunn suspect’s immunity – review

A review into the government’s handling of the Harry Dunn case was launched in July.

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24 h. ago Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide

Exclusive: Analyst claims UK officials deleted alert to threat of genocidal violence by paramilitaries to protect UAEWarnings of a possible “genocide” in Sudan were removed from a UK risk assessment by Foreign Office officials, according to a whistleblower whose testimony raises fresh concern over British failures to act on the atrocities unfolding in the war-ravaged country.The threat analyst said they were prevented from warning that genocide could occur in Darfur by Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) officials in a humanitarian risk assessment collated days after Sudan’s brutal civil war erupted in April 2023. Continue reading...

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50 h. ago UK slams Gaza aid delays as tents for displaced take months to arrive

The Foreign Office said 1,100 UK-funded tents will finally be delivered to Gazans displaced by the war

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69 h. ago Symptoms as Foreign Office issues deadly warning to UK holidaymakers

The Foreign Office has issued a serious alert to those planning to go abroad

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3 d. ago Rising levels of hate forcing women out of Swedish public life, says equality agency

Country seen as champion of equal rights faces reckoning after senior politician says she felt compelled to quitIncreasing hate, threats and harassment against female politicians are scaring women away from public life and forcing them to censor themselves, the Swedish government’s equality agency has said, warning that this poses a “big threat to democracy.”Women’s safety in politics has come under heightened scrutiny in the Scandinavian country since October, when Anna-Karin Hatt resigned as leader of the Centre party after only five months in office, citing hate and threats. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Foreign Office warning of 'risky' trips to popular winter destination

The Foreign Office has issued a warning to Brits who are planning on heading to a popular European winter holiday spot in the coming weeks, as they could be at risk of hospitalisation or even death

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4 d. ago Foreign Office 'risky' warning for Brits heading to European winter holiday spot

A popular skiing holiday destination could end up unexpectedly costing you thousands of pounds

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4 d. ago Ukrainian naval drones strike two Russian oil tankers in Black Sea

Kyiv tries to pile pressure on Russia with attack on empty vessels on way to load up with oil for foreign marketsUkrainian naval drones hit two tankers operating under sanctions in the Black Sea as they headed to a Russian port to load up with oil destined for foreign markets, an official said on Saturday, as Kyiv tries to pile pressure on Russia’s vast oil industry.The two oil tankers, identified as the Kairos and Virat, were empty and sailing to Novorossiysk, a major Russian Black Sea oil terminal, the official at the security service of Ukraine told Reuters. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago David Lammy's Foreign Office 'removed portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in favour of pan

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy removed a picture of the ex-monarch photographed by David Bailey from his office in July 2025 shortly before the cabinet reshuffle.

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5 d. ago The week Europe realised it stands alone against Russian expansionism

Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protectionKaja Kallas, the European Union foreign policy chief, asked her officials this week to dig up the number of times Russia had – in its various guises – invaded other states in the 20th and 21st centuries. The answer that came back was 19 states, on 33 occasions. Kallas, the former Estonian prime minister, was not just indulging in some form of historical mathematics. She was seeking to make a point that lies at the heart of the dispute between the US and Europe over Ukraine’s future, a dispute that has again revealed the chasm across the Atlantic about the true nature of the Russian regime.Kallas reads history books as a leisure activity and – drawing on her own country’s history of Soviet occupation – has long maintained that the Soviet Union fell, but its imperialism never did. “Russia has never truly had to come to terms with its brutal past o...

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8 d. ago The world turns on the BBC: Foreign officials warn they will take much tougher stance on the broadcaster in the wake of Trump fakery

The US President is threatening a $5billion lawsuit after the BBC edit on its programme 'Panorama' made it look as though he had advocated violence.

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9 d. ago Revealed: The illegal migrant turned Sheffield taxi driver who's freely promoting a genocidal guerrilla group in Sudan

As apologists for mass murderers go, Abdalmonim Alrabea comes across as a genial chap. When I call on him at his flat in Sheffield, he shakes my hand with a smile when I introduce myself and invites me in.

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1 week ago European voice must be ‘front and centre’ of Ukraine peace deal talks – McEntee

The Minister of Foreign Affairs was commenting as talks between US, Ukrainian and European officials took place in Geneva.

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1 week ago Starmer’s top business adviser emerges as frontrunner to replace Mandelson as envoy to US

Varun Chandra is seen as an outsider by a Foreign Office going through an aggressive restructuring

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1 week ago Keir Starmer 'set to approve' Chinese super embassy in east London

Neither the Home Office or the Foreign Office will raise any formal objections to the plan, according to reports

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2 w. ago Foreign Office issues warning for popular Christmas market destination

A national strike is planned resulting in travel disruption

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2 w. ago UK holds talks with LinkedIn on clamping down on Chinese espionage

Government wants social media platforms to be less attractive for foreign agents after recent intelligence warningsThe government is holding talks with LinkedIn on how it can clamp down on prolific Chinese espionage activity after a rare interference alert was issued by MI5.The National Protective Security Authority, which is part of the UK’s security services, is speaking to social media platforms about making them less attractive for foreign agents, a government official told the Guardian. Continue reading...

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