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  • 4 days ago | bbc.com | Sam Francis

    Defence plan will ensure UK is ready for war, minister saysGetty ImagesThe government will invest billions of pounds to move the UK to "war-fighting readiness" in the face of a new era of threats from nuclear powers like Russia and China, the defence secretary has said.

  • 4 days ago | bbc.co.uk | Sam Francis |Jonathan Beale

    The SDR, carried out by former Labour Defence Sectary Lord Robertson, found the UK's armed forces are "not currently equipped" to fight opponents like Russia or China, with inadequate stockpiles of weapons, poor recruitment and crumbling morale. The report warned the UK is already experiencing daily attacks on its critical national infrastructure, testing the economy's vulnerabilities and "and challenging its social cohesion".

  • 2 weeks ago | bbc.co.uk | Chris Mason |Sam Francis

    Image source, ReutersImage caption, Diego Garcia is the location of a UK-US military airstripSir Keir Starmer is due to sign a deal handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius on Thursday. Under the terms of the deal Mauritius would gain sovereignty of the islands from the UK, but allow the US and UK to continue operating a strategically important military base on one of the islands for an initial period of 99 years in exchange for a multi-billion pound payment.

  • 2 weeks ago | bbc.com | Sam Francis

    The new UK-EU deal at a glanceSam FrancisEPAThe UK and the EU have reached a new deal setting out post-Brexit relations on areas including fishing rights, trade and defence. The full details will be set out later. But here's a look at what we know is in the deal.

  • 3 weeks ago | bbc.co.uk | Sam Francis

    Tice's comments come after his partner, journalist Isabel Oakeshott, recently wrote about her experience of moving to Dubai. Tice said he agreed with her. The practice of standing for the anthem every morning in Dubai schools "educates children about being proud of the country that you are living in," he argued. Dubai is ruled as an absolute monarchy, with a hereditary royal family at the head of government, and was found by Amnesty international to jail political prisoners.

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