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UK Affirms Intelligence Sharing With US After Report of Rift

Ministers moved to reassure that cooperation continues through Five Eyes despite mounting legal scrutiny of US maritime strikes.

Overview

  • Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said longstanding Five Eyes intelligence and law‑enforcement frameworks continue, including intelligence sharing.
  • US Secretary of State Marco Rubio rejected the CNN account of a UK break in cooperation as a false story.
  • Defence Secretary John Healey said British personnel deployed with the US carrier group would operate in line with international humanitarian law.
  • UK sources say Britain has no intention of joining any attack on Venezuela, with only single‑digit British officers embedded on the US carrier group.
  • Washington says 82 people have been killed in 21 strikes since September against vessels it accuses of narco‑trafficking, a campaign that legal experts continue to question.