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Yvette Cooper has announced a funding boost for Ukraine alongside a raft of new sanctions on Russia, as she visits Kyiv in her first overseas trip as foreign secretary.

The North Korean government is increasingly implementing the death penalty, including for people caught watching and sharing foreign films and TV dramas, a major UN report has found.

Conservative frontbencher Alex Burghart said his party would force a vote in Parliament to release the documents that the prime minister and the foreign secretary were shown before appointing Lord Mandelson.

Nepal also tops the list of foreign students in India, with more than 13,000 out of some 47,000, according to the latest official data.

On Friday, the South Korean foreign ministry said it had called for the US Congress to support a new visa for Korean firms.