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It sounds like a simple question: how many British nationals, Afghan allies and other people eligible to come to the UK are still waiting to be evacuated from Afghanistan? With just days to go before the 31 August deadline and the Defence Secretary Ben Wallace warning yesterday that “not everyone will get out” of the…
More than 250 people have applied to a project which hopes to send a physically disabled person into space for the first time. Since it was launched earlier this year, 257 people have applied for the European Space Agency’s (Esa) “parastronaut feasibility project”, including 20 men and 11 women from the UK, Channel 4 News…
The British government has released figures, but experts say these numbers significantly underestimate the true total cost.
When the decision to begin the withdrawal from Afghanistan was announced in June, the government said it would rapidly accelerate applications made under its Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy – many by former interpreters for British forces.
More than 40 former military commanders are calling for urgent action to help Afghans who served alongside British forces to settle in the UK.
They work behind closed doors and they’re paid for by the taxpayer – to the tune of some £10 million in total, it turns out.
Record numbers of people have been attempting the risky journey across the Channel in small boats.
The crisis in the Gulf sparked by President Trump’s decision to kill Iran’s top military commander has pushed the UK into a sticky position.
Boris Johnson has insisted that Britain is ‘absolutely’ committed to NATO – as he visited British troops stationed in Estonia.
Saudi Arabia has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds paying for British MPs to visit the country.
Evgeny Buzhinsky is a former Lieutenant-General who worked in the Russian Ministry of Defence for over 15 years and is now chairman of the PIR Centre, a Moscow-based think tank.
In Salisbury, the search continues for the source of the nerve agent attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. They remain in hospital in a “very serious” condition five days on. The Ministry of Defence has sent in 180 specialist personnel and equipment to support the police investigation. They’re tasked with removing vehicles…
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General Sir Nick Carter didn’t hold back as he warned of the threat of Russian military action. He said there were stark parallels between 1914 and how Russia might view things now.
Two leading human rights lawyers face a tribunal next week over false claims against British soldiers during the Iraq war.
Sergeant Blackman’s former commanding officer reveals to Channel 4 News the untold story of warnings issued about the disgraced marine’s unit, a lack of leadership and how “more could have been done in advance to avoid” the tragic outcome.