Alistair Burt speaks candidly about difficulties of tackling complex cases as families express concern over mandateThe special envoy for British citizens detained overseas has spoken about the difficulties he faces in his new...
Read MoreShallah, Fatimah and Maahi are among hundreds of thousands of Afghan women and girls deported from Iran and Pakistan in the past year to a life of severe restrictionsIt was a warm summer afternoon on 15 August 2021 when the...
Read MoreFarewell, New Mexico. The war isn’t going well and nowhere on Earth is safe from the US president’s favourite displacement activityBusy times for crayon-wielding US president Donald Trump, Earth’s most tireless freelance...
Read MoreAs the Trump administration refuses to end its war in Iran, it is steering into the storm, not out of itRussia hasn’t yet killed large numbers of Europeans outside Ukraine, but it’s getting closer. The night of 4-5 August, an...
Read MoreGovernment resilience campaign aims to ensure people can cope in a national disaster, in order to free resources for most vulnerableUK citizens will be told to stock up on tinned food and take steps to ensure they are prepared...
Read MoreIncident marks apparent escalation by Tehran in its in retaliation against UK over allowing US to use British basesHackers linked to Iran have been blamed for a cyber-attack that caused a British power plant to be temporarily...
Read MoreIt is not enough now for war to kill, it must eradicate a people’s cherished and precious heritage tooWars may not take summer holidays, but they do sometimes see exhaustion. As drones race back and forth across Ukraine and the...
Read MoreEver the strategist, the Chinese leader is taking the offensive, both abroad and at home. That’s bad news for global order, and minorities in his countryImagine what would happen if a British prime minister in London told the...
Read MoreLeading thinktank says higher oil prices and inflation will give Andy Burnham a ‘challenging inheritance’Andy Burnham has been warned by a leading thinktank of “very difficult trade-offs in the next autumn budget” if the Iran...
Read MoreHome secretary Shabana Mahmood says police are ‘pursuing multiple lines of enquiry to establish the motivation for this attack’Ann Widdecombe death: counter-terrorism police take over investigationThe government has announced...
Read MoreHome Office announces ban on support for Iranian military group in escalation of diplomatic tensions with TehranThe UK will list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation, ministers have announced, in...
Read MoreSix months on from the bloody crackdown on anti-regime protesters, families remembering loved ones at their graves at Behesht-e Zahra in Tehran tell their storiesFamily members gather to mourn Sepehr, who was 25 when he was...
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