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Sindy Siddle, who has a Chinese passport, told she cannot leave with her husband and childA British family trapped in the centre of the coronavirus outbreak are facing their “worst nightmare” after being told wife and mother Sindy Siddle will not be al…
FCO urgently exploring options for British nationals to leave Hubei province, says No 10Latest news on the coronavirus – live updatesThe government is finalising plans to evacuate UK nationals from the Chinese province at the centre of the coronavirus …
UK embassy in Beijing says it is working on option for British nationals to leave ChinaCoronavirus latest – live updatesBritain’s embassy in Beijing has said it is “working to make available an option” for British nationals to leave the Chinese provinc…
Curator assures the public that stereotype-busting show will not include Sting or Kama SutraForget “no sex please, we’re British”. More a case of “there will be lots of sex, we’re the British Museum”. But the curator has assured the public the first ma…
Experts decide no need for checks as member of Coronavirus family infects up to 1,700 in ChinaHealth officials have ruled out introducing screening for passengers at UK airports, despite mounting fears over a deadly new virus from China. Three big US a…
Rights groups voice concern as mayor in Sinaga’s home city instructs police to carry out raids to uncover ‘LGBT behaviour’The mayor in the home city of an Indonesian man described as Britain’s “most prolific rapist” has ordered raids to uncover members…
Opposition links violence to Narendra Modi’s BJP party and tensions over citizenship lawStudents have protested in cities across India after a masked mob stormed a high-profile university in Delhi and attacked students and teachers with weapons includi…
Chiune Sugihara’s son tells how he learned of his father’s rescue mission in Lithuania, which commemorates his achievements this yearAs a child in Japan in the 1950s and 60s, Nobuki Sugihara never knew his father had saved thousands of lives. Few did. …
Gary McLaren, 50, reported to have died after firework he was trying to light explodedA British man has died in Thailand after a firework reportedly exploded in his face during New Year’s Eve celebrations.Local police said Gary McLaren, 50, was killed …
Most Britons were not hostile and helped south Asians and east Africans to settle, says Nitin Mehta, while Jane Lane believes racism needs to be tackled at an early ageKavita Puri, like so many others before her, talks about the racism faced by immigra…
Vinita Damodaran lauds the protesters in India rallying to protect the postcolonial constitution, and Laura Phillips criticises the British colonial legacy in CanadaThe protests erupting all over India about the changes to citizenship embodied in the C…
Kadyr Yusupov’s family believes his ‘confession’ that he spied for a foreign government was coerced A secret court in Uzbekistan is poised to sentence a retired career diplomat to up to 20 years in prison on a treason charge that his family says is the…
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…
Inclusion of pledge to follow Communist party leadership sparks rare defiance at FudanChanges to the charter of one of China’s top universities, including dropping the phrase “freedom of thought” and the inclusion of a pledge to follow the Communist pa…
The 47 people caught in the blast came from seven different countries. There are 16 confirmed fatalities, with many of the injured still in critical conditionThere are 16 confirmed victims of the fatal eruption on White Island/Whakaari – 12 Australians…