UK Foreign Office

Cypriot individuals and entities included in British and American sanctions lists will see their assets in the Cypriot banking system frozen and will not be able to carry out any banking transactions in Cyprus, Marios Skandalis, chief compliance officer at the Bank of Cyprus, the island's largest lender, has said. 

The United Kingdom has announced the extension of sanctions on persons involved in illegal drilling in the Eastern Mediterranean, namely in Cyprus, beyond December 31, when the transitional period for the UK's formal exit from the European Union expires.

Aleksandar Vucic said this after a meeting with a British diplomat in Belgrade on Thursday.

A new book about the British monarch's diplomatic activities recounts how Queen Elizabeth "hid behind a hedge" in the garden of London's Buckingham Palace to avoid having to meet Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife during their controversial state visit to Britain in 1978.

British travel group Thomas Cook said on Feb. 9 that demand for holidays in Egypt is picking up again, after unrest in the North African nation had pushed holidaymakers into choosing rival sun spots.

LONDON - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric said Wednesday he had briefed PM Aleksandar Vucic on Pristina's new conditions for a resumption of the dialogue, announcing that the Serbian government would hold a session Thursday to take a position on the crucial issue.

The UK Foreign Office issued a travel directive to British nationals attending the EURO2016 in France advising them to be cautious about possible terrorist attacks.