Britain's government on Sunday announced plans for its own talks on the Channel migration crisis with European ministers this week as it was frozen out of a crisis meeting in France.

South Africa blasts the UK government over its hasty placement of several southern African countries under red-list travel restrictions due to concerns over a new COVID-19 variant, which has been detected in small numbers.

French fishermen disrupt cross-Channel traffic in protest at the post-Brexit fishing rights granted by Britain.

The UK and France blame each other for the deaths of 27 migrants who drowned while trying to cross the Channel in an inflatable dinghy to reach Britain.

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger says he does not “expect an all-out attack” on Chinese Taipei by the government in Beijing within the next decade.

French President Emmanuel Macron has accused Britain of playing with his country’s nerves in a dispute over post-Brexit fishing licenses.

The European Union (EU) warns the UK government that its Brexit trade deal is “intrinsically linked” to the Northern Ireland (NI) protocol and “one cannot exist without the other.”