United Kingdom Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Iran was involved in the incident at the Royal Air Force base in Fairford on Sunday that led to the arrest of five men on suspicion of explosive and terrorism offences. RAF Fairford is used to base U.S. heavy bombers for attacks on Iran. In response, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on X that Burnham was “barking up the wrong tree”:

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) Center has issued a warning after receiving a delayed report of an incident in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday. The master of an outbound tanker reported an explosion at the vessel’s port side waterline, about 16 nautical miles east of Khasab, Oman. All crew are safe and accounted for, and the tanker remains under its own power and is continuing its voyage. On October 29th, a tanker was attacked about 25 nautical miles northeast of Khasab when a small boat attached two explosive devices to its port side hull, later attributed to limpet mines.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) Center has issued a warning after receiving a report that a tanker was struck by two unidentified projectiles about 50 nautical miles north of Madinat ash Shamal, Qatar, in the Persian Gulf. The incident was reported at 2320 UTC Wednesday (6:20 p.m. ET). The status of the crew, the extent of the damage and any environmental impact remain unconfirmed, and the vessel has not been identified. A tanker was also struck by multiple projectiles in nearly the same area on October 7th, with casualties reported in that strike.

The United Kingdom is investing heavily in AI safety, committing an additional $160 MILLION to its AI Security Institute. That’s more than 10 times the annual budget of the United States. As AI advances rapidly, the UK is making major investments in testing and evaluating the risks of increasingly powerful AI systems.