Mohmed Abdulkarim, 24, and Nouman Essghir, 24, were charged under the National Security Act 2023.
Abdulkarim, of London, has been charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service - allegedly Iran - while Essghir, also of London, has been charged with entering a prohibited place for a purpose prejudicial to the UK.
Frank Ferguson, Chief Crown Prosecutor for the CPS Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said: "The Crown Prosecution Service has decided to prosecute two individuals with National Security Act offences following a Counter Terrorism Policing investigation into a high-profile incident involving RAF Fairford.
"We will continue to work closely with our partners as this complex investigation continues."
The first hearing will take place at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday 27 October, 2026.
Five other men arrested during the investigation remain on police bail.
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Sky News has learnt that a trio of board members appointed on 15 October are expected to quit after a disagreement with Poundland's majority owner, Gordon Brothers.
Sources said the dispute, which centres on the shareholder's decision not to accept a solvent offer for the company from Martin Property Group, meant that Poundland was increasingly likely to be broken up after being placed into insolvency proceedings.
If it materialised, such a development would threaten thousands of high street jobs, with a filing for administration possible within hours of John Healey's inaugural budget as chancellor of the exchequer.
That would come as a bitter blow to the government, which is desperate to project a positive outlook for the economy despite an array of fiscal headwinds.
Sources said the fading hopes of a rescue deal for Poundland could yet be revived if a revised offer for the company was submitted in the next 48 hours.
The three directors appointed this month to the Poundland board were Andrew Kirkpatrick, a former adviser to Steinhoff International when it owned Poundland; Stephen Welch, who is overseeing efforts to revive British-based fintech FNZ; and Dominic Young, a former director of The Spectator's owner when it was sold to the hedge fund tycoon Sir Paul Marshall.
Sources said the trio had expressed disquiet at what appeared to be attempts by Gordon Brothers to manoeuvre Poundland towards an insolvency process.
Martin Property Group has made a solvent offer for the company - including preserving a distribution centre in Andy Burnham's Makerfield constituency.
At the weekend, the Telegraph reported that another Irish company, Innovest Holdings, was also pursuing a solvent bid for Poundland, although the extent of its funding remained unclear on Tuesday morning.
If it does collapse, Poundland would be among the biggest retailers to go bust for years.
It employs over 10,000 people and trades from about 600 stores.
Gordon Brothers, which only took control of Poundland in the summer of 2025, is understood to believe that a £30m shareholder loan - for which it paid just £1 - is more likely to be repaid in full in a break-up scenario.
A pack of retailers, including rival Poundstretcher, B&M, Iceland and The Range, have reportedly expressed interest in varying numbers of Poundland stores.
Martin Property Group is said to have proposed full repayment of the £30m on its existing terms, with the loan not due to mature for several more years.
Gordon Brothers is understood to have expressed concern that Poundland could be liquidated before that date, meaning it would miss out on full repayment of the loan.
Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), the professional services firm, has been handling the Poundland auction since the summer, although it was unclear if it would land the administrator's role in the event that the chain does collapse.
Poundland's management team had identified Martin Property Group as its preferred partner, prompting Gordon Brothers to appoint the trio as independent directors "bringing additional M&A transaction and industry experience".
Even after a store closure programme triggered by its sale last year, Poundland remains one of the biggest general merchandise retailers in the UK.
The company also has a presence in the Irish retail market, taking its total number of outlets to between 550 and 600.
Warsaw-listed Pepco Group, which sold Poundland to Gordon Brothers last year, retains a minority stake in the chain, which has struggled for years as a consequence of rampant inflation and a diversification of its product mix which drove shoppers to rival chains.
Sky News reported at the start of the process that Gordon Brothers was keen to agree a deal by the end of October.
Sales figures released in recent weeks suggest that Poundland's performance has begun to improve since the Gordon Brothers deal, with a new store format said to have produced positive results.
Those figures have raised doubts among some about whether an insolvency appointment is required.
Gordon Brothers said: "As well as interest from buyers for the whole business, the sale process has also surfaced a number of formal and indicative offers for significant viable parts of the business from established retail operators.
These options will now be objectively evaluated, with a view to minimising uncertainty for Poundland's people and all relevant stakeholders."
Martin Property Group could be reached for comment, while A&M declined to comment.
Another health worker was injured in the attack on Friday - the latest in a series of violent incidents fuelled by misinformation about the deadly virus.
Officials said the two were targeted by a group wielding machetes and batons, who accused the pair of spreading the disease by contaminating water sources.
The nurse had worked at the general hospital in the town of Bafwasende in Tshopo province, and had been helping raise awareness about the Bundibugyo strain, which the DRC's health ministry says has killed more than 4,800 people in the country since the start of the outbreak in May.
A local health official said they were "shocked at how the population turned against this nurse", and that it was "impossible to believe that he was mistaken for a stranger".
The World Health Organization (WHO) condemned the attack, with its director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, insisting that health workers "must be able to work in dignity and safety".
In a social media post, Julien Harneis, the UN's senior Ebola coordinator, said the nurse's death was "a loss to the Ebola response and an even greater loss to patients".
A local official said that health workers in Bafwasende are currently staying at the general hospital under police guard, while the army was also briefly deployed to the area.
The official added: "None of the nurses have slept at their homes because they fear for their security."
Numerous attacks on health workers
Recent attacks on health workers have targeted hospitals, vehicles and staff involved in the Ebola response - adding to the difficulty of containing the spread of the disease.
The house of another community worker raising awareness about Ebola in the region was set on fire last week, officials said.
Meanwhile, last month, a Congolese politician was beaten to death for defending government measures in dealing with the outbreak.
Earlier this month, both Kenya and Nigeria reported their first cases of Ebola linked to the current outbreak.
The patient in Nigeria, the Ugandan-born wife of a Swiss diplomat, has been medically evacuated to Switzerland for treatment for the virus, authorities said on Monday.
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Nigerian health minister Muhammad Ali Pate said her condition had improved significantly, and she was stable, conscious and able to communicate.
"This does not mean she is not still infectious, hence the strict protocols in place," Mr Pate wrote on X.
The Swiss government said: "This situation does not pose any risk to public health in Switzerland."
The woman tested positive after returning to Nigeria's capital, Abuja, from Uganda. Nigerian authorities say they have not yet established how she contracted the virus.
Kenya has reported nine cases and two deaths, while Uganda also reported cases in May and June. However, the WHO declared the latter country free of the virus in August.
The transmission means the strain has the widest geographic spread of any Ebola outbreak in Africa to date.
Social media posts over the weekend appeared to show cracks and lines on the inner display of the iPhone Duo, which was released on 23 October and has a starting price of £1,999 ($2,668) in the UK.
On Monday, Apple said it was "aware of an issue impacting the inner display on a small number of iPhone Duo units", adding that the company would replace affected devices.
The technology giant did not comment on what might cause the issue, or how many devices had been impacted.
Roughly the size of a passport when closed, the iPhone Duo opens to reveal a 7.6in (19.3cm) screen - the largest ever for an iPhone - and allows people to use an Apple Pencil on the device - a capability previously reserved to iPad users.
The Duo - Apple most expensive iPhone to date - enables users to split the screen to use two different apps on the device, or two windows of the same website for things like comparison shopping.
At the company's launch event last month, Apple CEO John Ternus, who formally took over from Tim Cook on 1 September, said the new device will "redefine the experience of using a foldable phone".
While the iPhone Duo is the first foldable handset developed by Apple, several of the company's rivals - including Samsung, Motorola and Google - have already released foldable devices.
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The release of the Duo comes after Apple unveiled advances in artificial intelligence earlier this year, including upgrades to its Siri assistant, and emphasised a focus on privacy and day-to-day use as the company tries to catch up with rivals on AI.
In June, it was reported that millions of UK Apple customers are set to be included in a class action lawsuit against the tech giant over the storage system iCloud.
If successful, the £3bn lawsuit could see around 39.7 million people receive compensation.
He is accused of transmission of national defence information and conspiracy to transmit national defence information.
A judge unsealed the details of the case on Monday and said the facts underlying the investigation had "been subject to considerable press coverage".
Referencing previous claims against him, Mr Comey said in an Instagram video, "they're back again" and insisted he was "still innocent".
"It would almost be funny if it weren't such an appalling abuse of the Department of Justice, one that we cannot become numb to," he said.
Mr Comey said the next few years would be "hard for all of us" and that he wasn't afraid.
His lawyers have filed a motion to dismiss the charges. The case is "time barred," they argue, because the government had 10 years to bring the case "by obtaining a grand jury indictment."
The charges stem from a 5 October 2016 New York Times article entitled "Yahoo Said to Have Aided U.S. Email Surveillance by Adapting Spam Filter".
Mr Comey is accused of directing staff to speak to the article's writer, Charlie Savage, to "correct misinformation" and "thereby illegally transferred classified information".
The details were set out in a filing, unsealed on Monday, by special assistant US attorney Dustin Farahnak.
The criminal case is the third to be brought against Comey since Trump's second term began.
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The first case was dismissed last year.
And the former FBI director was indicted over a photo he posted of sea shells spelling out "86 47".
Prosecutors claim the numbers were a coded threat against President Trump's life.
The case has been delayed until early 2027.