Britain and Japan formally signed a trade agreement on Friday in Tokyo, marking the UK’s first big post-Brexit deal on trade, as it continues to struggle to agree on a deal with its closest trading partners in the EU, Reuters reported.

The United States and Britain on Monday condemned what they said were a litany of malicious cyberattacks orchestrated by Russian military intelligence, including attempts to disrupt next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Reuters reported. British and US officials said the attacks were conducted by Unit 74455 of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, also known as the Main Centre for Special Technologies.

The UK and Ukraine have signed a bilateral agreement to support Kiev's sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russia's "malign influence," British PM Boris Johnson's office says on Thursday, during the second day of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit.

The UK has imposed sanctions on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and seven other officials over election fraud and violence against protesters, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told Reuters on Tuesday.

The United Nations and the UK will co-host a global climate summit on 12 December, the fifth anniversary of the landmark Paris Agreement, the world organisation announced on Wednesday. “The climate emergency is fully upon us, and we have no time to waste. The answer to our existential crisis is swift, decisive, scaled up action and solidarity among nations," the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.

The UK secured its first major post-Brexit trade deal on Friday after signing an agreement with Japan just as discussions with the EU appeared to be on the verge of collapse, news wires reported.

Britain and the European Union will hold emergency talks on Thursday over PM Boris Johnson’s plan to undercut parts of the Brexit divorce treaty, with Brussels exploring possible legal action against London, news wires reported. Commission VP Maros Sefcovic flew urgently to London to meet British counterpart Michael Gove as chief negotiators Michel Barnier and David Frost were to hold trade talks.

Britain plans to start regular, population-wide testing for Covid-19 in order to suppress the spread of the virus and ease restrictions that have crippled its economy so fra, news wires reported. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the government was trialling a range of new, faster tests that can give instant results and hoped to roll them out towards the end of the year.

Britain on Thursday decided to reimpose 14-day quarantine on people travelling from France and the Netherlands, urging Paris to quickly announce a reciprocal measure, news wires reported. The move is expected to spark a mass exodus among the estimated half a million British holidaymakers currently in France, after a rise in coronavirus cases there.

Britain is raising the self-isolation period for people who test positive for the coronavirus or have symptoms to 10 days from seven days, news wires reported.