UK apologises over 1990 Kuwait flight after Iraq invasion

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The UK foreign secretary Liz Truss has apologised for a diplomatic failure to warn British Airways against landing in Kuwait during the Iraqi army’s 1990 invasion, which led to the capture of nearly everyone on board.

Britain’s ambassador in Kuwait warned the Foreign Office about the imminent Iraqi incursion, but the airline carrying 385 passengers was not informed, according to records released by the department…