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.