Jeremy Hunt: 'the backstop has to go.'
In further outsourcing of US foreign policy, Brian Hook , the US Special Representative for Iran, has announced that Bahrain will host 65-nation strong international summit addressing the Iranian threat in the Persian Gulf.
Hashem Abedi, brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi, has been arrested in London after being extradited from Libya. CPS had already authorised charges of murder of 22 people, attempted murder and conspiracy to cause an explosion
Brexit Sec Stephen Barclay: 'We have said we will have no checks and no tariffs as a policy. there would be a finite period for that' On the Irish border in No Deal Brexit.
Stephen Barclay says he believes a No Deal Brexit should lead 'quickly' to talks on a future trade deal.
Brexit Sec Stephen Barclay says he has been saying for some time that a 'No Deal is underpriced'
Brexit Sec Stephen Barclay: 'The govt will not apply checkpoints at the border' in case of No Deal Brexit
Gulf escalation is not in anyone's interests: PM May's spokesman
7 month agoSon of Israeli PM tweets his support for far-right, anti-Muslim, British white nationalist Tommy Robinson
France, Britain, Egypt, Italy and the United Arab Emirates and the United States call for an immediate end to hostilities and violence around Tripoli, Libya
[email protected]: "IRGC watercraft approached a British owned vessel carrying oil and they likely would've either assaulted it or brought in into the Iranian shore creating an international incident were it not for a British warship intervening"
7 month agoHMS Talent departs the Clyde for sea this morning.
Emergency services deal with 'industrial incident' in Peterhead
7 month agoThe Royal Navy has successfully tested the brand new Martlet missile. HMS Sutherland fired four missiles at a fast moving speedboat off the Welsh coast.
UK far-right group Britain First has been fined more than £40,000 by the Electoral Commission for "multiple breaches of law".
Khamenei vows Britain to respond to detention of Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar
In June 2016, RT's London bureau chief, Nikolay Bogachikhin, visited Assange twice, and gave him a USB drive on one occasion, according to the surveillance reports. That five-minute visit was hastily arranged and required last-minute approval from the Ecuadorian ambassador.
EU Commission president nominee says open to further Brexit extension
7 month agoHMS Montrose steaming in the Gulf today - seen from her Wildcat helicopter
Sources suggesting Jeremy Corbyn may be making an emergency trip to Labour HQ to address staff as concerns rise over leadership's response to antisemitism.
PM May hits out at @realDonaldTrump tweets to US congresswomen. Official spokesman says President's comments "completely unacceptable".
7 month agoForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt arrives for Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, where efforts to save the Iran nuclear deal will dominate the agenda.
British Foreign Secretary: Iran could build a nuclear bomb in a year
British Foreign Minister: There is little chance to save Iranian nuclear deal
7 month agoRoyal Navy warship, likely frigate HMS Montrose, showing inside Iranian waters(but could be in international waters), ensuring British crude oil tanker 'Security' passes through without interference. Security just north of Iran's Abu Musa island which hosts an IRGCN base containing FIAC and FAC.
7 month agoThe Portsmouth-based warship is shadowing the Chinese destroyer Xian as it passes east through the Strait of Dover today.
Labour MP Margaret Hodge tells Sky News the Labour leadership has shown a "dogged determination not to listen" on the issue of antisemitism
7 month agoAnother UK-flagged tanker being escorted by the Royal Navy in the Persian Gulf.
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt says the person responsible for the leak of memos from outgoing UK ambassador to the U.S. Sir Kim Darroch "must be held fully to account" but he defends the right of the press to publish the memos if they are judged "to be in the public interest"
West Midlands Police says a murder investigation is under way after a man in his 30s was stabbed in Sparkhill in Birmingham
