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The US Justice Department has charged three men over a September incident at a British airbase used by the US military, and prosecutors allege the men acted in support of Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Kataeb Hezbollah.
A 41-year-old US Army member was arrested near Gloucester on 10 November 2026 in a UK-US investigation into suspected espionage for Russia.
French authorities, with British investigators present, searched three properties in Paris and Saint-Tropez in mid-October 2026 in an investigation linked to the late Mohamed Al Fayed, according to the Paris prosecutor's office.
Argentina and the United Kingdom began two days of hearings at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea over the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falkland Islands. Argentina is seeking provisional measures, and the UK says the tribunal cannot rule on sovereignty.
The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, that US tankers left a second British airbase on Monday after a threat from Iran. UK and US officials on the record offered only general remarks, though an unnamed US official cited by the WSJ said security at Mildenha
A two-minute silence at 11:00 opened the national ceremony in London on 8 November 2026, followed by wreath-laying for those who died in the two world wars and later conflicts.
A British doctor who tested positive for Ebola while working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is receiving specialist treatment in London, the UK government said on Thursday.
The UK government says the risk to the public remains low, while an official document seen by Reuters says a British healthcare worker with Ebola is being evacuated to the UK.
People were arrested outside the UK Supreme Court in connection with a hearing on the ban on Palestine Action, though reports differ on how many were detained and when.
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre has assessed that an AI-powered cyberattack on the country's critical national infrastructure is likely within roughly the next two years.
Iran has listed two branches of the British armed forces as 'terrorist organizations', according to Anadolu Agency, TASS and Infobae, with TASS and Infobae attributing the move to its Foreign Ministry, amid strained relations between Tehran and London.
Writing in The Guardian ahead of the Commonwealth summit in Antigua and Barbuda, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he is open to a formal apology for Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade, but rejected financial reparations and proposed debt relief instead.
Delcy Rodriguez, whom Le Monde describes as Venezuela's interim president, has demanded that the Bank of England return Venezuelan gold, according to TASS and Le Monde.
According to The Guardian, the Public Accounts Committee warned that taxpayers and energy bill payers face high cost risks from Sizewell C, while the UK government rejects the committee's assessment.
European wholesale gas prices rose on Monday, 26 October 2026, amid concerns that the Middle East conflict threatens supplies, with The Guardian reporting the highest level since 2022.
British singer Raye has won the 2026 Mercury Prize for This Music May Contain Hope, according to the BBC, The Guardian and Reuters, at a ceremony in Newcastle.
Organisers ASO presented the full 2027 routes in Paris on Thursday: the men's race starts with three stages in Britain, and the women's race starts in England before ending on the Puy de Dôme.
Counter-terrorism police have re-arrested two men under the National Security Act over a suspected plot at the US-run RAF Fairford airbase on 27 September; UK officials link it to Iran, which denies involvement.
Google Cloud blamed a 'power event' for an outage at its UK data centre complex on 20 October 2026. Banks reported app problems that the BBC says have not been officially linked to the incident, and a courts video platform and a delivery firm also reported issues.
The UK Ministry of Defence says RAF Typhoon jets will help defend Saudi cities and infrastructure against Houthi missiles and drones but will not carry out offensive strikes.