foreign secretary

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Britain's smaller overseas aid budget will be targeted at areas in "greatest crisis and conflict", the foreign secretary has said, as she announced some countries face "significantly" reduced grants.

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The government will increase funding of the BBC World Service over the next three years, the foreign secretary is to announce on Thursday.

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Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said the World Service "offers clarity, accuracy and an independent voice where reliable information is increasingly difficult to access".

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It comes as Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper landed in Saudi Arabia on Thursday amid continued concern about Iranian threats to the Strait of Hormuz - a key artery for commercial shipping.

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The "whatever" note "was not a good idea", his then Foreign Secretary Jack Straw later told me.

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