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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the UK has sanctioned officials running the Arctic penal colony where Russian opposition figure and critic of President Vladmir Putin Alexei Navalny died, saying Britian and its allies were considering "all options to hold Russia and Putin to account". "He died for a cause to which he dedicated his whole life - freedom - and to return home knowing that Putin had already tried to have him killed is one of the most courageous acts of our time," he tells members of parliament. SOUNDBITE
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the UK will act again if Iran-backed Huthi rebels in Yemen persist in attacking shipping in the Red Sea, speaking after a second round of joint US-UK strikes. "We urge the Huthis and those who enable them to stop these illegal and unacceptable attacks. But if necessary, the United Kingdom will not hesitate to respond in self-defence. We cannot stand by and allow these attacks to go unchallenged," he tells parliament. SOUNDBITE
France's President Emmanuel holds bilateral talks with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan. IMAGES
Images released by the Led By Donkeys political activist group show their members completely covering the road outside the Russian embassy in London with hundreds of litres of yellow and blue paint in an act of solidarity with Ukraine. The demonstration comes on the eve of the first anniversary of Russia's full-scale offensive in Ukraine. IMAGES
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and her British counterpart James Cleverly hold a bilateral meeting at the sidelines of a the G7 foreign minister's meeting in Muenster, Germany. IMAGES
UK politicians come and go at 10 Downing Street as new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak forms his new government. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is one of the notable arrivals, retained from Sunak's predecessor Liz Truss disastrous government. Sunak's second cabinet appointment was his close ally Dominic Raab as deputy prime minister and justice secretary. IMAGES