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LONDON (Kyodo) -- British officials believed Japan would covertly monitor their discussions and activities at the Group of Seven summit in Tokyo in 19

British officials believed Japan would covertly monitor their discussions and activities at the Group of Seven summit in Tokyo in 1979, according to recently declassified documents. Security experts warned the Japanese could be recording information via the equipment supplied to the British&#x2...

British officials believed Japan would covertly monitor their discussions and activities at the Group of Seven summit in Tokyo in 1979, according to recently declassified documents.

Newly declassified files expose the Foreign Office’s dirty tricks campaign to influence the knife-edge 1976 election result

Sir Reginald Hibbert, UK ambassador to France, said the then newly elected French president was hiding the truth about his health in a letter to the head of the Diplomatic Service in 1981.

Sir Crispin Tickell, the second in line British ‘executioner’ of the Republic of Cyprus, died of pneumonia on January 25, 2022, at the age of 91. In Cyprus, Greece, and the Greek diaspora, very few if any know about this British Foreign Office high ranking official and ‘worthy’ follower of the st

Over 60 people have died in police custody since 2010 after being arrested while intoxicated. CBC's Death in Custody project aimed to put names and faces to these often unreported deaths.

He survived for eight days on a lifeboat after his ship was sunk and went on to become the first FCO clerk to rise to ambassador