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The foreign secretary has said he would like to see a “sustainable ceasefire” in the Israel-Gaza conflict. Lord Cameron also warned “too many civilians have been killed” in Gaza. More than 18,000 people have been killed, including thousands of children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. His intervention in a Sunday Times article marks a shift in tone from the UK government, ...

LONDON, Dec 15 : A teenager from Britain who resurfaced in southern France after disappearing six years ago is expected to return to northern England in the next few days, police said on Friday after the boy left a spiritualist mountain community in the Pyrenees. Alex Batty disappeared at the age of 11 during a holiday with his mother and ...

A 17-year-old British boy from Oldham who went missing in Spain in 2017 has been found in France, authorities say. Alex Batty was found in the town of Revel, east of Toulouse, early on Wednesday morning. The prosecutor’s office in Toulouse told the BBC the family had confirmed the teenager’s identity. Alex had been missing for six years after going ...

Former minister David Davis has confirmed he intervened to stop an attack on a rough sleeper near Parliament on Tuesday evening. The veteran Tory MP said he stepped in when he two men began “kicking seven bells” out of another man on the floor. He told the BBC the man was so “badly beaten up” that he let him stay ...

The United Kingdom is set to implement substantial revisions to its Student visa rules effective January 1, 2024, impacting international students and their dependents. These changes are poised to reshape the landscape for those pursuing education in the UK. The recent regulations have implications not only for Bangladeshi students currently enrolled in educational institutions in the UK but also for ...

The Metropolitan Police lacks the funding it needs to meet London’s “unique demands”, Sadiq Khan has said. The mayor has written to Home Secretary James Cleverley to call for an increase in the National and International Capital City (NICC) grant. NICC is a mechanism provided to the Met to support the additional costs of policing a capital city – including ...

Former immigration minister Robert Jenrick has said Rishi Sunak is making “a political choice” to revive Rwanda asylum scheme in a way that is unlikely to work. In his first interview since quitting his post, Mr Jenrick told the BBC the draft law was “weak” and would be “bogged down” by legal challenges. Everyone who “understands” asylum law thinks the ...

Rishi Sunak’s flagship Rwanda Bill “will fail” in its current form, Suella Braverman has said. The PM finds himself in what could be the gravest crisis of his leadership so far, sparked by the resignation of immigration minister Robert Jenrick. The former home secretary said Mr Sunak’s pledge to “stop the boats” was key to winning the next election. But ...

Britain signed a new treaty with Rwanda on Tuesday which it said would overcome a court decision blocking its plan to deport asylum seekers to the East African country, a ruling that dealt a huge blow to the government’s immigration policy. The Rwanda scheme is at the centre of the government’s strategy to stop illegal migration and is being watched ...

Campaigners warn that the government will be “on the wrong side of history” if it rejects a new compensation scheme for NHS infected blood scandal victims. Thousands died after being treated with contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. MPs backed plans to set up a new compensation scheme, following a rebellion on Monday by Tory MPs. The Haemophilia ...