Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)

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Announced sanctions; renamed East Jerusalem consulate UK Mission, Jerusalem

Britain announced on September 8 that it would ban imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and build a sanctions regime against settlement activity over six to nine months. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told Parliament that settler groups were carrying out ethnic cleansing of Palestinians with Israel's government turning a blind eye. Israel ordered the British consulate in East Jerusalem closed and banned 11 UK MPs.

Updated Yesterday

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Issued the sanctions and funding package; has not said whether any of the 15 designated commanders holds assets in Britain

Britain froze the assets and banned the travel of 15 Sudanese commanders on 26 October 2026, a year after El Fasher fell to the Rapid Support Forces. The Foreign Office has not said whether any of them holds money in Britain.

Updated Oct 29

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Imposed matching sanctions on Prince Group and Chen Zhi

The U.S. Treasury sanctioned 146 targets tied to the Cambodia-based Prince Group in October 2025, and the U.K. imposed matching sanctions. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) cut the Huione Group, a Cambodian payments conglomerate, off from U.S. banking. FinCEN found it laundered at least $4 billion between August 2021 and January 2025.

Updated Oct 28

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Leading Britain's response

Argentina asked the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea on October 13 to halt British-authorized oil drilling near the Falkland Islands. The tribunal has set a public hearing on the request for November 10 and 11.

Updated Oct 17

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Sanctions authority

The UK froze three crypto businesses out of its financial system on October 8, adding payment processors Cryptomus and Heleket and Kyrgyzstani exchange TokenSpot to its Russia sanctions list. Cryptomus and Heleket sit under one designation, Xeltox Enterprises Ltd, so switching between the two brands does not escape the freeze. UK persons and firms must now freeze any assets tied to these entities and stop dealing with them immediately.

Updated Oct 12

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As of May 2026: Designating authority for the May 2026 package

Russia recruits women from Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America with promises of catering and hospitality work, then puts most of them on a Shahed drone assembly line in Tatarstan. On May 5, 2026, the United Kingdom first applied human-trafficking sanctions to the pipeline, designating 35 people and entities tied to Alabuga Start programme and firms in Russia, China, and Thailand supplying drone components.

Updated May 31

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As of May 2026: Issuer and policy owner of UK foreign-policy sanctions designations

Britain just named names in Syria's ugliest post-Assad story: who helped kill civilians, and who paid for the machinery of abuse. The UK's new package freezes assets, bans travel, and blocks them from UK business.

Updated May 15