A senior aide to a Shadow Cabinet member has been criticised after he described Israel as "an apartheid state".

Boris Johnson has compared Russia hosting this year's World Cup to the Olympics being staged in Nazi Germany in 1936.

With 60% of the world now living in water stressed areas, WaterAid report reveals nations with lowest access to water.

Russia must be given a sample of the nerve agent which poisoned a former double agent so they can "categorically" say whether it is belongs to them, according to Jeremy Corbyn.

The EU has stopped short of backing the UK government view that Russia was behind the nerve agent attack in Salisbury that left three people fighting for their lives.

Vladimir Putin's crushing victory in the Russian presidential campaign was helped by the furore over the Salisbury nerve agent attack, a Moscow spokesman has claimed. 

Since I first spoke out and called for FIFA to postpone and relocate the World Cup I’ve been met with a torrent of disgruntled tweets, many from Russian bots, saying “sport and politics don’t mix, leave the World Cup alone”.

Boris Johnson has admitted he did take part in a tennis match with the wife of a former Russian minister after she donated £160,000 to the Conservative party.

The nerve agent used to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal may have originated in a government facility in Wiltshire, a senior Russian official has suggested. 

Major power companies and the National Grid have been put on alert over possible Russian cyber attacks on key British infrastructure.

Jeremy Corbyn has not been given access to some top secret intelligence over the Salisbury poisoning, it has been reported.

A bid to give child refugees in the UK the right to be reunited with their families has cleared its latest parliamentary hurdle.

Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg has said the millitary alliance firmly backs the UK's position that Russia was behind the attack on ex-spy Sergei Skripal.

Jeremy Corbyn has suggested that "Russian mafia-like groups" living in Britain could have been behind the poisoning of a former double agent.

Jeremy Corbyn has said Russia "appears to be responsible" for the nerve agent attack on a Russian former spy in Salisbury.

What happened in Salisbury was a calculated act of terror. We must now implement the full Magnitsky powers to ban visas for human rights violators and to make the sanctions public, writes Andrew Mitchell

World leaders from three powerful nations have joined Theresa May in declaring the nerve agent attack in Salisbury an “assault on UK sovereignty” by Russia.

Theresa May will meet members of the public and emergency services in Salisbury today, nearly two weeks after the nerve gas attack in the city which left a Russian ex-spy and his daughter in hospital.

Gavin Williamson has told the Russian government to “go away and shut up” following the nerve agent attack on a Russian former spy in Salisbury.

Alex Salmond has urged broadcast watchdogs not to shut down Russia Today in the wake of the nerve agent attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal.

Nia Griffith has said Labour agrees with Theresa May that Russia was behind the attempted murder of former double agent Sergei Skripal – just a day after Jeremy Corbyn refused to do so.

Emily Thornberry has said Russia must "face the consequences" for the nerve agent attack on a former double agent - in a clear challenge to Jeremy Corbyn.

President Trump has offered his firm backing to Theresa May over the Salisbury attack, saying the expulsion of Russian diplomats from the UK is a "just response" to a "pattern of behaviour" from Russia.

Co-chair of the British Committee for Iran Freedom Sir David Amess MP writes that all western leaders should make it clear once and for all, that the world supports the Iranian people’s demands for democracy and freedom.