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A photography exhibition, "Yesterday and Today: A Look at Philippines-Israel Relations through the Years," opened at the mall. Some of the images date to the Philippines’ “Open Door Policy" in the 1930s, when more than 1,200 European Jews fleeing the Holocaust were given a safe haven in the Philippines. [20]
In 1984 the British government signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration with China and agreed to turn over Hong Kong and its dependencies in 1997. British rule ended on 30 June 1997, with China taking over at midnight, 1 July 1997 (at end of the 99-year lease over the New Territories , along with the ceded Hong Kong Island and Kowloon ).
[citation needed] Although Guinea broke diplomatic ties with Israel in 1967, Israel's extensive support for Guinea during its fight against an Ebola virus epidemic led to the re-establishment of bilateral relations in 2016. [13] Nicaragua restored relations in March 2017; Chad did likewise in January 2019. [14]
Legal and human rights groups have filed a legal challenge with Britain’s High Court calling for the U.K. to stop granting licenses for weapons exports to Israel, activists said Thursday.
[97] In the same month, he became the first British foreign secretary to visit Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. [98] Cameron claimed that in July 2024 he had been preparing to sanction Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for inciting violence against Palestinians, but his attempts had been derailed by the general ...
Rishi Sunak has promised ‘always’ to stand with Israel, in a message to Britain’s Jewish community a week on from the attack by Hamas.
Irgun would become notorious for the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946, in which 91 people died, and the Deir Yassin Massacre on 9 April 1948, carried out in ...
Israel launches an invasion of southern Lebanon in an escalation of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. [136] 3 October The United Kingdom agrees to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius, excepting the Diego Garcia airbase, which will remain under joint British-American control for at least 99 years. The agreement was ...