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UK officials said Saudis ditched provisional plan for Mohammed bin Salman to visit UK as early as December 3
...Proscribing Wagner would put it in the same legal category in Britain as al-Qaeda, Isis and Hizbollah....
...Al-Hol and Roj are in an area overseen by a Kurdish-led administration, and Britain is providing humanitarian assistance in camps in the region, Ahmad said....
...There was a backlash earlier this year from green groups and many climate experts after Sultan al-Jaber, the head of Abu Dhabi’s state-owned oil company, was appointed president of COP28....
...IMI, the Abu Dhabi vehicle behind RedBird’s joint venture, is controlled by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a vice-president of the UAE....
...Labour’s manifesto will be finalised when Starmer holds a “Clause V meeting” attended by the shadow cabinet, union representatives and other senior party figures, but that cannot happen until Sunak calls...
...The British government has attributed the explosion at the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza last week to a rocket launched within the enclave at Israel....
...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....
...In a video posted on X, Houthi leader Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi said: “The response to any American attack will not only be at the level of the operation that was recently carried out with more than...
...Cameron had pushed then US president Barack Obama and other western leaders to get tough on President Bashar al-Assad of Syria after his apparent use of chemical weapons....
...Rishi Sunak and Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met on Friday in Cairo, where they discussed the importance of stopping terrorism and protecting civilians, according to Downing Street....
...Sunak spoke with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday and noted “the importance of Egypt’s historic role in the region, including in seeking de-escalation”, Number 10 said....
...Sunak met the Amir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani in Riyadh on Friday....
...crossing between Egypt and Gaza to allow humanitarian aid to enter the territory and British and other nationals to leave, a subject he discussed earlier on Thursday with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi...
...James Cleverly, foreign secretary, travelled to the UAE to meet his Emirati counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan to discuss preventing regional escalation and securing humanitarian pauses....
...has offered support to Egypt to keep its border with Gaza open as a humanitarian and consular route, according to Downing Street.UK prime minister Rishi Sunak spoke with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi...
...Additional reporting by Neri Zilber, Heba Saleh and Samer Al-Atrush...
...The risk of terror attacks in the UK “is rising” as al-Qaeda and Isis show “signs of resurgence”, the government has warned....
...Industrial fleets are hoovering up stocks on the high seas and putting small-scale fishers out of business....
...Camille Saint-Saëns’ Henry VIII has recently been recorded by Boston’s Odyssey Opera and staged at La Monnaie in Brussels, showing that the composer’s operatic output extends beyond Samson et Dalila....
...Another, similar question: What does this mean for Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman, et al? Handily this has the same answer: it’s not good either!...
...The Soviet cosmonauts initially used pencils — before purchasing Paul C Fisher’s pens themselves in 1969....
...Additional reporting by Lucy Fisher in London and Felicia Schwartz in Washington...
...leaders in London for the coronation, including Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, New Zealand prime minister Chris Hipkins and Emir Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani...
...Additional reporting by Lucy Fisher and David Sheppard in London...
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