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Egypt president sacks military chiefs in power struggle
Thousands of Egyptians gather in Tahrir Square to support President Mohamed Morsi’s decision to replace his defence minister and army chief while ordering several senior generals to retire.
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Spare Olympic tickets to go back on sale
Locog is now monitoring the number of tickets used after an abundance of empty seats at the weekend, and will put returned tickets on sale the night before events.
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Deporting F&C soldiers is ‘very harsh’
Exclusive: The former head of the British Army, General Sir Mike Jackson, tells Channel 4 News that service by Commonwealth soldiers in the armed forces should count towards British citizenship.
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Army cuts: what is the real impact?
The government is under fire today for a 20 per cent cut to the armed forces, but Iraq hero Tim Collins says the “best has been done with a bad situation”.
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How will cuts hit Britain’s future defence role?
A 20 per cent cut in the size of the army is announced today. But as Britain continues to punch above its weight militarily, Carl Dinnen asks if this is the first step on the road to a beating.
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FactCheck: Is there an atom of truth in Cameron’s science rhetoric?
The “big step forward” is the discovery of the Higgs boson particle at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland. Don’t worry – we’re not going try to FactCheck the existence of the “God particle”.
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Olympic missile protesters march through east London
East London residents opposed to plans to site surface-to-air missiles on roofs for security during the Olympics, march through Bow in protest.
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Syria: another 17 dead in overnight shelling in Deraa
UN observers set out on another field trip on Saturday amid reports that 17 people were killed in overnight shelling in the Syrian town of Deraa, where the uprising began 15 months ago.
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BAE’s £1.6bn Saudi deal reprieves 250 manufacturing jobs
British defence giant BAE Systems secures a £1.6bn deal with Saudi Arabia that will safeguard more than 240 jobs that were under threat at its Yorkshire factory.
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Nato leaders hope to agree exit from Afghanistan
Nato leaders are meeting in Chicago to endorse plans to hand over command of combat operations in Afghanistan by the middle of next year – as President Obama declares the war is effectively over.
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Ex-Bosnian general Ratko Mladic mocks victim’s mother
The last major player from the Bosnian conflict took his seat in the Hague, making a throat-slitting motion to Munira Subasic, one of many spectators who have waited almost two decades for justice.
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Two British servicemen killed in Afghanistan
Afghan police shoot dead two British servicemen and gunmen kill a peace negotiator in separate attacks that undermine the country’s attempt to negotiate a peace deal with Taliban insurgents.
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FactCheck: The cost of the UK’s U-turn on aircraft carriers
Jim Murphy has challenged the government to “come clean” about how much its aircraft carrier u-turn has cost the taxpayer – which he’d heard could be as much as £250m. “This is an embarrassing shambles,” he said, after Defence Secretary Philip Hammond went from outlining a bill of something between £40m-£50m only to admit later that it could be as much as £100m. Mr Hammond insisted however that the bill would be “much less than £250m”. Who’s right? FactCheck investigates.
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30,000 police march through London in protest over cuts
More than 30,000 off-duty police officers march through central London in protest at cuts aimed at reducing their numbers by 20 per cent.
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9/11 ‘mastermind’ tried in Guantanamo court
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others who say they planned the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington appear in a military court charged with murdering 2,976 people.
