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Russell Brand’s trial began in London on 12 October. He faces seven charges involving six women, including three counts of rape, over offences spanning 1999 to 2009. The trial is expected to last six weeks. Brand denies all charges.
Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Denmark and the Netherlands condemned US sanctions against the International Criminal Court, warning that they threaten its independence and the pursuit of justice. The UN, EU and human rights groups also denounced the move.
Simon Andriesz found the 2018 Lutnick-Epstein emails by searching for three initials. His family says he took his own life in Thailand on 23 September. MPs want the UK regulator's treatment of him examined.
The Pentagon has left the UK, France and NATO's three top defence spenders, the Baltic states, out of an allies' meeting in Poland as Trump moves to ease Russia sanctions, invites Putin to his Doral resort and weighs pulling up to 40,000 US troops from Europe.
Armed police arrested the men in Whelford shortly after midnight on 27 September, about 85 households were moved out and an Army bomb disposal team examined three white vans near the Gloucestershire airfield US bombers have used for strikes on Iran since March.
Ukraine is opening its battlefield AI training platform to a foreign partner for the first time. Up to 12 UK defence firms will train autonomous systems inside Avengers Labs.
U.S. personnel searched the London flat of a U.S. Embassy employee over suspected child rape media, detained him and removed him from Britain the same day. He has not been publicly charged, and UK police did not question him before he left. MP warns of cover-up.
Prosecutors in Poland, Norway and Latvia and police in Britain report that the US Justice Department is stonewalling their investigations and has not answered their Epstein evidence requests for over a year.
The Metropolitan Police are seeking the Reform UK donor sting undercover footage from Channel 4 News, and will run the new donation and polling allegations alongside an investigation into Reform UK's money they opened in February 2025
UK declares Israel’s West Bank occupation is unlawful and that settler terrorists are carrying out ethnic cleansing. Israel closed the UK consulate in Jerusalem, expelled UK personnel from Gaza ceasefire monitoring, blocked a UK team in Ramallah and barred 12 Britons. Vows retaliation against UK.
Twelve countries moved to ban trade in Israeli illegal settlement goods on 8 September. The widest coordinated Western action against Israel's crimes against Palestinians in the West Bank.
On 27 August, Russia named British military sites as targets over Storm Shadow transfers. Nine days later there is no official UK response, no ministerial statement, no Russian ambassador summoned. Instead, the PM postponed the 3 per cent defence target.
The UK and France have released the Storm Shadow and SCALP designs for production in Ukraine. Vow to stick with Ukraine for as long as it takes. "Ukraine's security is our security."
