8 h. ago British military announces first delivery of Ajax armoured vehicles – eight years late

First 50 vehicles, costing nearly £10m each, finally ready to deploy to Nato’s eastern flank, where drones now dominateBritain’s military has announced the first delivery of Ajax armoured vehicles, eight years behind schedule and amid questions about their relevance as cheap drones dominate the battlefields of Ukraine.The junior defence minister Luke Pollard said the first 50 vehicles, costing nearly £10m each, were ready to deploy on Nato’s eastern flank, though he acknowledged the problems of the past when delivery deadlines of 2017, 2020 and 2021 were all missed. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Ajax armoured vehicle programme has ‘left its troubles behind’, says minister

Ajax has declared a key delivery milestone that means it can now deploy a squadron on operations.

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14 h. ago British Armed Forces given free calls abroad to keep in touch with loved ones

The offer has been announced by phone network giant Vodafone in the run-up to this weekend’s Remembrance Day, allowing our Armed Forces to keep in touch with loved ones

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46 h. ago Londoners dialled 999 over spiders in their room and missing KFC as force says just 15% of calls genuine

Another time-waster said their dog would not come back into their house

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54 h. ago In their darkest moments, too many Australians are being met with lethal force instead of love and care | Lorena Allam

Police are often not equipped to deal with mental health callouts. Alternative first responders are better placed to de-escalate tension and reduce harmWhen police tasered and killed Clare Nowland – a 95-year-old aged care resident with dementia – after her nursing home called triple zero for help managing her behaviour, her family were devastated and the public was shocked.How could a frail and elderly woman on a walking frame, albeit grasping a steak knife, die in such a violent way? Continue reading...

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54 h. ago Moment 'ridiculous' caller dials 999 to report his Uber Eats driver has arrived empty

The video has been released by the Metropolitan Police after it was revealed that around one in seven of the 999 calls made to the force are genuine emergencies.

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56 h. ago Police force refered to IOPC over multiple knife incidents before train stabbing

The police force admitted it had been called to three incidents in Peterborough prior to Saturday night's attack at Huntingdon Station in which 11 people had been treated in hospital

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66 h. ago 'Classic' war film based on British officer's memoir on TV tonight

This British war film that was released in the 1950s and is based on the real-life of a famed British army officer who was imprisoned in Nazi Germany during World War Two.

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4 d. ago Bob Vylan are suing a Jewish organisation who called for their Manchester gig to be cancelled... having called for the death of the Israel Defence Force at Glastonbury: KATIE HIND

Bob Vylan have called in lawyers after they were labelled 'antisemitic' and accused of 'incitement' by the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester.

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4 d. ago COMMENT: NATO is creaking, our foes are flexing their muscles... and the top brass's response? A letter soaked in HR babble telling soldiers to steer clear of men

COMMENT: Last week, Lieutenant General David Eastman MBE sent a circular to the officers of the British Army instructing them to review their 'affiliations' with private members' clubs

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4 d. ago NATO is creaking, our foes are flexing their muscles... and the top brass's response? A letter soaked in HR babble telling soldiers to steer clear of men

Last week, Lieutenant General David Eastman MBE sent a circular to the officers of the British Army instructing them to review their 'affiliations' with private members' clubs

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5 d. ago ‘British Armed Forces still not safe for women four years since my daughter killed herself after sexual assault’

Jaysley Beck’s family blame attack by Michael Webber and handling of assault by Army for 19-year-old’s death

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5 d. ago Gaza sliding into deadly limbo of ‘no war, no peace’, top Qatari diplomat warns

Majed al-Ansari calls for international force to be urgently set up to pave way for Israeli withdrawalGaza is sliding towards a deadly limbo where a ceasefire is nominally in place but killing continues, a top Qatari diplomat has warned, calling for rapid progress in setting up the international security force and administration to pave the way for full Israeli withdrawal.“We don’t want to reach a situation of no war, no peace,” said Majed al-Ansari, adviser to Qatar’s prime minister and spokesperson for the foreign ministry. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Gaza risks sliding into deadly limbo of ‘no war, no peace’, top Qatari diplomat warns

Majed al-Ansari calls for international force to be set up urgently to pave way for Israeli withdrawalGaza risks sliding towards a deadly limbo where a ceasefire is nominally in place but killing continues, a top Qatari diplomat has warned, calling for rapid progress in setting up the international security force and administration to pave the way for full Israeli withdrawal.“We don’t want to reach a situation of no war, no peace,” said Majed al-Ansari, adviser to Qatar’s prime minister and spokesperson for the foreign ministry. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Trump calls for Senate to scrap filibuster in order to force end to month

Snap food benefits are set to run out this weekend as shutdown comes close to matching the record of 2018-2019A US Republican senator is asking President Donald Trump’s administration to help the Malaysian government prevent US artificial intelligence chips from being smuggled through the country to China, according to a letter seen by Reuters.Reuters has previously reported that US officials believe Malaysia is among a handful of countries where organized smuggling operations have worked to get US chips into China that would otherwise be banned from export to China.To support the semiconductor industry in their efforts, it may be beneficial for US and Malaysian officials to develop priority customs clearance procedures for shipments of advanced U.S. chips with anti-diversion mechanisms.These attacks and their mounting human cost are unacceptable. The US must halt such attacks and take all measures necessary to prevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats.Otherwise...

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5 d. ago Three British and Irish women stranded in Himalayas' Hidden Valley for days

Three British and Irish women and 12 trekking guides from Nepal have been stranded in a remote valley in the Himalayas for the past three days after heavy snowfall.

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7 d. ago Australia v India: first men’s Twenty20 international abandoned – as it happened

First T20: India 97 for 1 v Australia. Match abandonedRain forces T20I at Manuka Oval to be called off after 9.4 oversAbhishek Sharma has lit up the T20 in Canberra but all good things must come to an end. After throwing his bat at anything and everything it is a tame dismissal as the 25-year-old chips to Tim David at mid-off. Abhishek mis-read a slower ball from Nathan Ellis but that was some clever bowling.3rd over: India 26-0 (Abhishek 19, Gill 7) Shubman Gill is batting in his partner’s shadow but gets the runs flowing with a top edge over the keeper to the rope. Hazlewood did everything right by bowling back of a length but is unfortunate not to pick up a wicket. Abhishek ruins what was otherwise a tidy over with a glance off his hip over short fine leg for another boundary. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Police probe claims of sexual abuse during Army enlistment medicals

The alleged abuse took place at several Army locations in the UK between the 1970s and 2016, Wiltshire Police said

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9 d. ago UK military equipment used by militia accused of genocide found in Sudan, UN told

Exclusive: two dossiers of material seen by the security council raise questions over export of British arms to the UAE, which has been accused of supplying weapons to paramilitary RSF groupBritish military equipment has been found on battlefields in Sudan, used by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group accused of genocide, according to documents seen by the UN security council.UK-manufactured small-arms target systems and British-made engines for armoured personnel carriers have been recovered from combat sites in a conflict that has now caused the world’s biggest humanitarian catastrophe. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Charles lays flowers at first national LGBT armed forces memorial

The King talked to a number of those who had their military careers cut short before the ban was lifted in 2000.

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