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Foreign Office official quits over UK refusal to ban arms exports to Israel

Mark Smith says evidence of Gaza war crimes is clear, but that his complaints were brushed aside

The Guardian - UK

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Watch live as Angela Rayner sets out the Labour government’s plans for housebuilding in the UK on Tuesday, 30 July.

The Independent UK

Pro-Palestinian protesters block entrances to Foreign Office in London

Demonstration organised by Workers for a Free Palestine demands government shifts policy on Israel’s war in Gaza

The Guardian - UK

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Alan Duncan attacks Tory party after being cleared over antisemitism claims

Former minister exonerated after ‘political decision’ led to investigation despite there being no formal complaint

The Guardian - UK

David Lammy must signal how the UK will reconnect with the world

Reset with Europe is priority for man who is on course to be foreign secretary, amid two wars and crisis in France

The Guardian - UK

Is tourism bouncing back to ‘no go’ Venezuela?

Exclusive: While UK Foreign Office warns against travel to the troubled South American nation, package holidaymakers from Europe are flocking there

The Independent UK

Bahrain human rights activist granted British citizenship after three year delay

Foreign Office accused of allowing relationship with Bahraini government to impact citizenship decision

The Independent UK

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Foreign Office accused of blocking British citizenship for prominent Bahrain human rights activist

Exclusive: Emails shared with The Independent show the Home Office pushing for a decision over Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, who has been waiting more than three years

The Independent UK

Foreign Office ‘quiet diplomacy’ futile in overseas arrest cases, says expert

Academic tortured in UAE tells families of Britons arrested in controversial circumstances abroad to go public promptly

The Guardian - UK

For Labour, the Gaza crisis is a foreign policy tightrope in waiting

Starmer’s belief in international law and the rise of Labour Friends of Israel offer clues to potential stance on Palestinian statehood

The Guardian - UK

Rwanda’s top UK diplomat oversaw use of Interpol to target regime opponents

Exclusive: Johnston Busingye formally appointed days after UK agreed Rwanda asylum deal with Paul Kagame in 2022

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak rejects claim he plans to move to California if he loses election – as it happened

Prime minister dismisses speculation after Tory peer Zac Goldsmith became latest to hint at planned relocation

The Guardian - UK

David Cameron says UK will not withhold arms sales to Israel

Foreign secretary says British weapons position different to US, but UK does not support Rafah invasion without civilian protection plan

The Guardian - UK

David Cameron backed Israel arms sales two days after death of UK aid workers

Decision appears to be based on official assessment of Israel’s compliance with humanitarian law that did not cover recent events

The Guardian - UK

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Evening Standard

China's ambassador summoned to Foreign Office to be warned against Beijing interfering in British democracy

The move came after a former parliamentary researcher and a second man were charged with spying for China after a probe by counter-terrorism police

The Guardian - UK

UK Foreign Office holding secret talks with Sudan’s RSF paramilitary group

Exclusive: Rights groups denounce negotiations with Rapid Support Forces, accused of ethnic cleansing and war crimes

The Guardian - UK

Even its old boys are turning on the stuffy Foreign Office. They’re right to do so

This seat of Britain’s global power is elitist and stuck in the past. It needs to take into account the UK’s new, reduced status, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Evening Standard

Post-Brexit new-look Foreign Office should ditch 'colonial-era pictures on the walls'

Brexit offers chance to look anew at UK foreign policy, Lord Sedwill and other experts say

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The Guardian - UK

Foreign Office is ‘elitist and rooted in the past’, says new report

Department ‘all too often operates like a giant private office for the foreign secretary’, paper claims

The Guardian - UK

Legal assessment of Israel’s actions in Gaza risks being subsumed in Tory row

Conservative supporters of Israel want David Cameron to dial back criticism and accept defeat of Hamas is in UK’s interest

The Guardian - UK

Israel alone? Allies’ fears grow over conduct – and legality – of war in Gaza

When the US allowed a ceasefire resolution to pass at the UN, the warning was clear – and concern is rising elsewhere

The Guardian - UK

UK government lawyers say Israel is breaking international law, claims top Tory in leaked recording

Ex-Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence official Alicia Kearns said at a Tory fundraiser that legal advice would mean the UK has to cease all arms sales to Israel without delay

The Guardian - UK

Fresh blow for Rwanda deportation plan as report shows extreme poverty and hunger

Foreign Office paper says not enough being done, with over half the population living on less than $1.90 a day

The Guardian - UK

MPs and peers sign letter urging UK government to ban arms sales to Israel

Ministers under growing pressure to act amid signs Israel intends to ignore UN ceasefire resolution

The Guardian - UK

Cameron urged to publish Foreign Office legal advice on Israel’s war in Gaza

Labour presses foreign secretary as human rights groups seek judicial review of government’s refusal to ban arms exports

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