The UK’s large-scale cut to its aid budget will fall on some of the world’s poorest and most unstable countries, as campaigners and Members of Parliament warn of Britain’s declining soft power.

Europe’s biggest naval powers don’t see a way of reopening the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping before the Iran war subsides.

Europe’s biggest naval powers don’t see a way of reopening the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping before the Iran war subsides.