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Theresa May’s ‘prestigious’ slot for speech to EU leaders
A bumper UK/EU free trade deal has always been at the heart of Brexiteers’ assumptions about why life on the outside might be better for the UK.
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The Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is to be scrapped along with its fleet of Harrier jets as the coalition prepares to announce cuts in the Strategic Defence and Security Review.
The axeman cometh and the cuts are already being revealed: child benefit for over-16s cut, the building of new affordable housing virtually stops and new aircraft carriers will sail without any jets.
The Ministry of Defence dismisses as “speculation” a report Britain and France could share their naval aircraft carriers in a bid to maintain military strength in the face of planned cost-cuts.
With the future of America’s military spending abroad looking uncertain, in the UK, the government has commissioned a review into Britain’s defensive capabilities.
The Queen was in Portsmouth today for an official ceremony marking the hand over to the Royal Navy of the most expensive vessel in its history.
North Korea is firmly in the current fray. It has accused the United States of being “reckless” and “foolish” after President Trump ordered an aircraft carrier to sail into waters just off the Korean peninsula.
A bumper UK/EU free trade deal has always been at the heart of Brexiteers’ assumptions about why life on the outside might be better for the UK.
The Iranian military releases US Navy personnel on Wednesday morning after detaining them when two American boats strayed into Iranian waters while patrolling in the Gulf.
The government is putting a positive spin on today’s big announcement on defence spending. How strong will the armed forces really be in 2020?
An urgent meeting is held with media groups after a French television network was attacked by hackers purporting to support Islamic State, as experts warn they could be planning further assaults.
For the first time in nearly a decade and a half we are not formally at war – but exactly how many “security” or “military” people we have left behind in Iraq and Afghanistan is an imprecise matter.
Cult movie Back to the Future II sees Marty McFly flung to a future 80s kids could only dream of: the year 2015. So where are all the amazing gadgets the film and other fiction promised us?
The emphasis at the Nato summit has been on forming a new Iraqi government and putting a Muslim, regional face on any “coalition of the willing”.
The Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatists agree a ceasefire after talks in Minsk, as Nato members decide to increase defending spending at their summit in Newport.
Across the Philippines, the scale of the destruction wrought by Typhoon Haiyan is becoming clear. But President Aquino has suggested the death toll could by a quarter of the 10,000 initially reported.