the Foreign Office
noun
: a government department especially in Great Britain that deals with foreign affairs
Note: The official name of the British Foreign Office is now the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Andrei Kelin, Russian ambassador to the United Kingdom, was expelled in retaliation to the ouster of two British Embassy staff in Moscow, the Foreign Office said.
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arkansasonline.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Lau said she had not been contacted by Britain’s Home Office, the government department responsible for immigration and security, or the Foreign Office.
—Henry Austin, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2025
According to the former prime minister, Netanyahu excused himself to use Johnson’s bathroom while at the Foreign Office.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Oct. 2024
Britain will send a Royal Navy ship to boost aid to Gaza through an international maritime corridor and an upcoming U.S.-led temporary pier, the Foreign Office said in a statement.
—Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
Britain summoned the Israeli ambassador, due to the incident, the Foreign Office said in a statement.
—Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
Although reformers have recently tried to push the German government in the direction of greater clarity and boldness (the Foreign Office’s ongoing comprehensive strategic review is one example), Germany’s leadership still sees advantages in ambiguity.
—Lauren Harrison, Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 2014
One of the wanderers in Las Palmas, a girl named Maya, had gone to the British consulate and asked to be repatriated; the Foreign Office had agreed to loan her the cost of return passage.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
The entire scene is familiar to Daniel Briggs, an ethnographer from Northumbria University in England, who spent four summers studying young British people in Magaluf for research underwritten by the Foreign Office, the arm of the U.K. government that safeguards citizens abroad.
—David Segal, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2023
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arkansasonline.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Lau said she had not been contacted by Britain’s Home Office, the government department responsible for immigration and security, or the Foreign Office.
—Henry Austin, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2025
According to the former prime minister, Netanyahu excused himself to use Johnson’s bathroom while at the Foreign Office.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Oct. 2024
Britain will send a Royal Navy ship to boost aid to Gaza through an international maritime corridor and an upcoming U.S.-led temporary pier, the Foreign Office said in a statement.
—Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
Britain summoned the Israeli ambassador, due to the incident, the Foreign Office said in a statement.
—Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
Although reformers have recently tried to push the German government in the direction of greater clarity and boldness (the Foreign Office’s ongoing comprehensive strategic review is one example), Germany’s leadership still sees advantages in ambiguity.
—Lauren Harrison, Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 2014
One of the wanderers in Las Palmas, a girl named Maya, had gone to the British consulate and asked to be repatriated; the Foreign Office had agreed to loan her the cost of return passage.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
The entire scene is familiar to Daniel Briggs, an ethnographer from Northumbria University in England, who spent four summers studying young British people in Magaluf for research underwritten by the Foreign Office, the arm of the U.K. government that safeguards citizens abroad.
—David Segal, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2023
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