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Foreign Secretary William Hague has expressed his 'immense sadness' at the loss of life at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand.
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A general strike in Portugal on 24 November will affect travel, including air travel. Contact your travel provider for the latest information on services.
Minister Jeremy Browne MP, FCO Minister for Latin America and the Caribbean, will be visiting Guatemala on 26 November. It is his first trip to the country, and the first by a UK Minister since April 2008.
Her Majesty The Queen and The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh will pay a state visit to the UAE on 24-25 November.
Her Majesty The Queen visited the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi on 24 November
Minister for the Middle East Alistair Burt is visiting Iraq. He is the first Foreign Office Minister to visit Iraq since the UK Coalition Government took office in May.
The meeting will take place on 19 and 20 January 2011 and will also be attended by policy innovators and business leaders.
Foreign Secretary William Hague has spoken following this morning's artillery attack by North Korea on the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong.
Foreign Secretary William Hague discussed Macedonia's progress towards EU and NATO membership when he met Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski in London on 23 November.
Seventeen students met Minister of State Lord Howell as part of a visit to the Foreign Office. The three teams from different schools were finalists in the competition run by the British Red Cross and international law firm,…
A new strategy that will reinvigorate the UK's relationship with its Overseas Territories will be at the heart of discussions at the annual Overseas Territories Consultative Council on 17 November.
Foreign Secretary William Hague laid a Written Ministerial Statement in Parliament following the UN special session at the Security Council on 16 November.
Minister for Africa Henry Bellingham has spoken after the International Criminal Court (ICC) began trial proceedings against Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo.
Celebrations for last week's Muslim festival of Eid ul Adha at the military base in Kandahar were led by the Imam to the British Armed Forces.
Foreign Secretary William Hague has given a statement on an explosion at Pike River mine in New Zealand.
Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, met British Cabinet Minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi at the OIC's Headquarters in Jeddah today.
Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne will meet key inward investors and UK businesses based in Mexico during his visit from 20 to 24 November.
Foreign Secretary William Hague speaks to Sky News about the handover of security operation in Afghanistan, at the NATO Summit in Lisbon.
Foreign Secretary William Hague speaks to BBC world news about the role of UK troops in Afghanistan
In our latest history podcast, Grant Hibberd, a Research Assistant with the FCO’s Historians team, discusses "The Sealand Affair", an obscure but fascinating footnote in British legal and diplomatic history.
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