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Northern Ireland’s First Minister Paul Givan is expected to announce his resignation, media reported on Thursday, after a renewed row over post-Brexit trade in the province.

Northern Ireland leader ‘to resign’ – reports

February 3, 2022

The trial of deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was expected to hear its first testimony Monday, more than four months after a military coup ousted her government.

Myanmar court sentences Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in prison

December 6, 2021

Dutch Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag has resigned over her handling of the Afghan evacuation crisis last month.

Dutch foreign minister resigns over ‘slow’ Afghan rescue

September 17, 2021

In a foreword in the six-monthly report covering July-December 2020, British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab said a sweeping national security law Beijing imposed on the city in June last year was being used to stifle political opposition.

UK announces £12.6 million to fight terrorism in Nigeria, Cameroon, others

June 29, 2021

FILE PHOTO - Britain's Foreign Affairs Secretary Dominic Raab arrives at BBC Broadcasting House in London, Britain December 13, 2020. REUTERS-Simon Dawson

UK: Shooting of protesters in Myanmar ‘beyond the pale’

February 20, 2021

China bans BBC World News in row over Xinjiang reporting

February 12, 2021

With teachers, bureaucrats and air traffic controllers among the government employees walking off the job to demand an end to junta rule, the country’s new military leader Min Aung Hlaing told striking workers to return to work.

Myanmar junta says 23,000 inmates freed as protests continue

February 12, 2021

Africa Development Bank (AfDB) is planning to invest $10 billion for the expansion of renewable energy projects in the continent, over the next five years.

AfDB mulls $10 billion boost for Africa’s renewable energy

January 15, 2021

“Stay at home,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a televised address to the nation, as he unveiled unprecedented peacetime measures after the country’s death toll climbed to 335.

Britain pledges £47 million aid to Nigeria, eight countries

December 31, 2020

Belarus’s main opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has taken refuge in neighbouring Lithuania [Ritzau Scanpix-Reuters]

OSCE: Belarus vote was ‘not transparent, free or fair’

November 5, 2020

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e-Tickets: Nigerian, UK tech companies sign £56 million contract

May 1, 2019

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is currently serving a five-year jail sentence in Iran. She wrote to Iranian authorities this week to claim she was not receiving medical attention she needed. Family Handout-PA

UK extends rare diplomatic protection to mother jailed in Iran

March 8, 2019

Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland called for the 'immediate release' of two Canadians [Chris Wattie-Reuters]

Canada demands China release two detained Canadians

December 22, 2018

Matthew Hedges was pardoned and deported to the UK after he was sentenced to life in prison for spying in the UAE [AFP]

Matthew Hedges: UAE coerced me to give false confession

December 5, 2018

After rollercoaster week, Theresa May faces Brexit showdown

June 10, 2018