All news on the topic: Brits

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Family of 18-year-old Brit detained in Dubai over a fling with a girl spends thousands on his release
Marcus Fakana, 18, said he is living in Airbnbs in Dubai which are costing his family £2,000 per month - and spoke of his hopes of returning to Britain by Christmas
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British lawyer becomes the fifth person to die after consuming poisoned alcohol at a hotel
A British woman has become the fifth person to die from a suspected mass poisoning with methanol in Laos.
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British woman accused in £15 million cocaine plot claims she believed she was carrying cash
A British beautician facing decades behind bars after being accused of smuggling cocaine into the US from Mexico has insisted she believed she was only carrying bags of cash across the border.
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Urgent warning issued for Brits visiting Lanzarote as alarming crime spree targets ’anyone’
Anti-cybercrime cops in Spain have traced an alleged scammer back to Lanzarote, as Brits have been warned to be wary of being falling victim to scams while on holiday
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Inside Gambia’s growing sex tourism industry, where British women seek toyboys on the beaches
While the beautiful beaches and palm trees are aplenty, it’s the local young men that elderly British tourists are seemingly on the hunt for when they travel to Gambia on holiday
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Family honors British man killed in Ukraine
A family has paid tribute to their son who has been killed in Ukraine, saying they "begged him not to go" but he wanted to help.
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Court hears that soldier Daniel Khalife, accused of escaping from prison, was previously on the run due to a bomb hoax
Khalife, 23, is alleged to have fled the barracks when he realised he would face criminal charges over claims he passed classified information to Iran’s intelligence service.
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British tourist mugged twice in minutes on Spanish island, losing £150k Rolex to thief
A 55-year-old British man was targeted in two separate muggings just minutes apart after leaving a bar in Palma, Mallorca.
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British woman ’stabbed after being ambushed’ in Spain
A British woman was stabbed during an robbery in the coastal region of Costa Brava in northeastern Spain.
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Daniel Khalife: soldier accused of prison escape delivered package to Iranian agents in Turkey
The former member of the Royal Signals, who denies the charges, told MI6 he wanted to be a double agent, a jury hears.
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Two British men plead not guilty to charges of spying for China
Two Britons, including a former researcher for a senior British lawmaker, pleaded not guilty on Friday to a charge of spying for China.
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British climber rescued after going missing on 23,000-foot mountain
A British climber and her counterpart have reportedly been rescued safely after their food and equipment fell down a ravine.
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British woman says Israel’s strike on Lebanon killed five of her family members
Sana Chamseddin’s uncle, his wife and their three daughters died in IDF bombing of Tyre
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"Leave immediately," Starmer urges Britons in Lebanon, as UK troops are deployed to Cyprus
Two British warships are already in the region and would be used if any evacuation operation is ordered. Royal Air Force planes and helicopters are also on standby.
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British teenager, 15, fighting for life after horrific accident on Mallorca water slide
The 15-year-old boy, who local media reported as being a British national, was rushed to hospital late this afternoon after the shocking incident in Alcudia, on the Balearic Island of Mallorca
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British tourist dies after ’losing control’ of motorbike in Thailand
A British man died in a motorbike crash in Thailand overnight.
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Police have discovered a body during the search for a missing British tourist in Mallorca
Officials believe victims were swept away in flash flood amid heavy storms, after body of British woman was also found on island on Wednesday
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A British woman was sexually assaulted and robbed after leaving a nightclub in Madrid
Police are hunting two men and a woman after a British tourist was robbed and sexually assaulted as she left a Madrid club.
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The TUC leader has urged Keir Starmer to ensure wealthy Brits pay higher taxes to "level the playing field"
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak made the call as he expressed ’real concerns’ about Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s decision to cut the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners
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Brit dies after falling from sixth floor of car park in Majorca
A British man has died after plunging from the sixth floor of a building in the Majorcan capital Palma in front of horrified tourists.
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Major breakthrough in murder case of Britons found dead in burned-out car in Sweden
A breakthrough has been made in connection with the murder of two British men who were found in a burnt-out car in Malmö.
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Body found in search for British girl who went missing while swimming with friends
A body has been found in the search for a British teenager who disappeared during a swim near a beach in the Netherlands.
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British citizen found dead after ’Russian missile strike’ in eastern Ukraine
Ryan Evans, who was a safety advisor for Reuters, was found dead under the rubble of Hotel Sapfir in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, Ukraine.
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Foreign Office issues travel warning as Brits face ’exit bans’ and passport seizures
The UK Foreign Office has updated its travel advice after reports of holidaymakers being prevented from leaving the country and having their passports seized
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UK tourists ’boycott’ Turkey and rush to ’cancel holidays’ over new law
A controversial new law has been introduced in Turkey which has seen the government declare stray dogs can be rounded up and culled