Tag: Dominic Raab

Argentina has formally requested to join NATO as a 'global partner', a status that would facilitate greater political and security cooperation as President Javier Milei eyes stronger ties with the West.Firebrand Milei has been accused of playing 'two different games', as the famously unpredictable leader recently vowed to establish a diplomatic ...

Rishi Sunak resigned from the Government following a major row last weekend with Boris Johnson over how and when to cut tax, it has been reported. The former Chancellor, who declared his bid to replace Mr Johnson with a slick campaign video yesterday, helped to trigger a landslide of resignations ...

NEW DELHI: Asserting India would stand with the people of Afghanistan, foreign minister, S Jaishankar said it was “essential that humanitarian assistance providers are accorded unimpeded, unrestricted and direct access to Afghanistan.” Addressing the UN High-Level Meeting on the Humanitarian Situation in Afghanistan on Monday evening, the minister said ...

Pakistan on Thursday temporarily closed the Chaman border crossing – the second-largest commercial border point with Afghanistan – due to security threats, said the country’s Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, AP reported.“We will be closing the Chaman crossing for a while,” Ahmed said, but did not specify how long ...

London: Britain’s intelligence assessment was that it was unlikely Kabul would fall this year, foreign minister Dominic Raab said as he defended Britain`s withdrawal from Afghanistan after the Taliban swept across the country much more quickly than expected. Britain, like the United States, failed to predict how swiftly the ...

LONDONThe British foreign secretary on Wednesday said that the “central assessment” of the UK government was that Kabul was “unlikely” to fall to the Taliban this year.In parliament, Dominic Raab was grilled by MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee over a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan, where the Taliban have ...

Dominic Raab today said Britain did not expect Kabul to fall to the Taliban this year as he insisted he never considered resigning over his handling of the UK's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Foreign Secretary told the Foreign Affairs Select Committee that the Government's central assessment had been it ...

Boris Johnson insisted he 'absolutely' has full confidence in Dominic Raab tonight despite fresh anger that he was holidaying while Kabul burned.The PM shrugged off demands for the Foreign Secretary to resign after delegating a junior minister to make a crucial call to his Afghan counterpart last week.Mr Raab, who ...

Russia and China have been elected to the UN human rights council for the next three years, but Saudi Arabia failed in its attempt to win a place on the 47-seat body. The result is a severe blow to the country’s efforts to improve its image in the wake ...

David Cameron was long committed to spending 0.7% of GDP on overseas aid as a way of demonstrating in the early part of the decade that the Conservatives had changed, although the pledge was not always popular across the party. It is a target that has been hit every ...