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Group staying in Cusco could be confined to rooms 23 hours a day for next three monthsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage A group of Britons stranded in Peru will miss rescue flights put on by the Foreign Office after two trave…
Britons told to stay at home while Trump goes against tide, saying economy will reopen in weeks, not months Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAround one in five people around the globe are under lockdown, ordered to stay home …
Foreign secretary says call centres swamped as stranded complain of scant consular assistanceCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Foreign Office is facing a massive challenge to help repatriate hundreds of thousands of Briton…
DCMS-based unit aims to identify disinformation about virus and establish its scopeA special cross-Whitehall unit has been set up to counter coronavirus-related disinformation, including from Russia and China, working closely with social media companie…
Since Thatcher’s day, the Tories have held the community up as a model minority. The tactic appears to be paying offLast week, the “most Indian cabinet” in British history realised a long-standing dream of the Tory right: the introduction of a purposel…
Health secretary gives statement to Commons on latest advice on travel to ItalyCoronavirus latest – live updatesThe health secretary, Matt Hancock, has clarified advice on travel to Italy in the wake of the five coronavirus deaths in the north of the c…
Prime minister Mahathir Mohamad’s resignation sets rival parties against each other and could result in a snap electionThe country’s ruling alliance collapsed on Monday after the prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, the world’s oldest leader, shocked the …
Labour MP Debbie Abrahams is denied entry into country, with no reason givenA Labour MP and Kashmiri rights campaigner has said she has been deported from India.Debbie Abrahams, the MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth, who is chair of the all-party parl…
British government became first in world to advise all citizens in China to leave the countryCoronavirus – latest developmentsChina’s ambassador to the UK has condemned the British authorities for sowing panic over the coronavirus with its advice for a…
UK citizens should leave ‘if they can’ to reduce risk of exposure to virus, says foreign secretaryStay or go? Britons in China weigh up coronavirus risksIs UK overreacting by telling citizens to leave China?All 30,000 British nationals in China have be…
About 200 UK nationals will be barred from boarding plane from China if they do not agreeHundreds of British nationals brought home from China because of the coronavirus outbreak are expected to be quarantined at a secure NHS facility for a fortnight, …
China does not recognise dual nationality and is not letting Chinese passport holders leaveThe British government is urgently pressing Beijing to allow dual nationals to leave China after public outcry over families being split up during the coronaviru…
Facial recognition firm SenseTime discussed use of AI in universities with governmentA government trade minister held a one-on-one meeting with a facial recognition firm accused of enabling the Chinese government’s campaign of persecution against Uighu…
I have been recording testimonies of these now-elderly pioneers, who never thought they would have to live through such hostility again“I don’t know what it is to be British any more.” This from a man who is a professor at a prominent university and pa…
Humanitarian agencies say Rohingya people displaced by violence in Rakhine state are forced to live in squalid conditionsThe UK has broken ranks with the UN and will keep funding “closed” Rohingya camps inside Myanmar despite fears that doing so may en…