49 h. ago Trump makes Second World War joke in front of German chancellor

Donald Trump made a Second World War joke about Germany re-arming while meeting the country’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, in the Oval Office on Thursday, 5 June, amid negotiations over tariffs.

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69 h. ago North Korea's Kim says he'll 'unconditionally support' Russia's war against Ukraine

North Korea says that leader Kim Jong Un told a top Russian official that his country will “unconditionally support” Russia’s war against Ukraine

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3 d. ago Sudan's former prime minister Hamdok says recent military gains won't end the war

Sudan’s former prime minister has told The Associated Press that the military's recent victories will not end the country's two-year civil war

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3 d. ago Ukraine's backers meet to drum up arms and ammo. The Pentagon chief is absent for the first time

Ukraine's Western backers are gathering to drum up more weapons and ammunition for the country's efforts to repel Russia's all-out war

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3 d. ago Trial starts for Salvadoran officers accused of killing Dutch journalists in 1982

The trial of three retired Salvadoran military officers for the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during the Central American country’s civil war is underway in the northern city of Chalatenango

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4 d. ago Voices: ‘The money tree appears to have grown again’: Readers react to Starmer’s defence review

Our community is divided on Starmer’s push to make Britain ‘war-ready’. While some supported it as a smart move in uncertain times, others felt the money should go to urgent needs at home

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4 d. ago UK's threats from FOUR countries amid fears of nuclear and biological warfare

The UK faces multiple threats as the world becomes increasingly unstable with Prime Minister Keir Starmer ordering a review to enhance the country's defence capabilities, setting it on the path of war readiness

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5 d. ago Revealed: Chilling threats by hostile states to our energy, food supply and way of life

A blueprint to get Britain 'war ready' to fight Vladimir Putin today reveals a chilling list of this country's vulnerabilities, from cyber-attacks to our reliance on undersea data cables...

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5 d. ago Defending Britain with the magic money tree? Starmer warned he faces hiking taxes to get the country 'war

Keir Starmer has heralded a strategic review of the UK's military, promising investment in new submarines, munitions and personnel.

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5 d. ago Voices: That’s fighting talk, prime minister – but can you deliver?

In the face of Russian aggression, Keir Starmer says he must ready the country for war, by increasing military spending and building a platoon of nuclear submarines – but, as Mark Almond cautions, perhaps the only thing the Ministry of Defence can be guaranteed to produce on time are defence reviews

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6 d. ago China says Hegseth calling it a threat is touting a Cold War mentality

China has denounced U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for calling the Asian country a threat, accusing him of touting a Cold War mentality

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9 d. ago Cash Isa tax raid will hike cost of mortgages, Nationwide boss warns Reeves

Chief exec Debbie Crosbie said she was keen for the duty-free allowance to remain at £20,000 a year - as the lender reported a 30% jump in profits.

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1 week ago ‘Nonsense and stupid’: Trump’s tariff war will cause global damage, says Grosvenor boss

Policy will eventually right itself, adds Mark Preston, who heads Duke of Westminster’s property groupDonald Trump’s global tariff trade war is “nonsense and stupid” and will damage every country in the world, including the US, the boss of one of Britain’s most powerful property companies has said.Mark Preston, chief executive of the 348-year-old Grosvenor Group, controlled by the Duke of Westminster, said he was “convinced” that the president’s sweeping tariff policies would ultimately be removed. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump’s tariff war will cause global damage, says Grosvenor boss

‘Nonsense’ policy will eventually right itself, adds Mark Preston, who heads Duke of Westminster’s property groupDonald Trump’s global tariff trade war is “nonsense and stupid” and will damage every country in the world, including the US, the boss of one of Britain’s most powerful property companies has said.Mark Preston, chief executive of the 348-year-old Grosvenor Group, controlled by the Duke of Westminster, said he was “convinced” that the president’s sweeping tariff policies would ultimately be removed. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says his country is committing war crimes

Prime minister over 2006-09 and former Likud member says Palestinian victims are at ‘monstrous proportions’The former prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, has said that Israel is “committing war crimes” in Gaza, saying “thousands of innocent Palestinians are being killed, as well as many Israeli soldiers”.Olmert, who served as the 12th prime minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009, wrote in an opinion piece for the Israeli newspaper and website Haaretz that “the government of Israel is currently waging a war without purpose, without goals or clear planning and with no chances of success”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago King Charles fires warning shot to Donald Trump amid Canada threats

King Charles has delivered a historic speech at the state opening of parliament in Canada amid the country receiving unwanted attention from Donald Trump, who has launched a trade war against his neighbour and made threats to annex the country as America’s 51st state

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1 week ago IMF warns Rachel Reeves could have to hike taxes again to balance the books amid Cabinet war over spending

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has welcomed the IMF's latest assessment nudging up the growth forecast for UK plc from 1.1 per cent to 1.2 per cent this year.

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2 w. ago UK government urged to introduce GCSE in Ukrainian for child refugees

Children’s commissioner joins Kyiv in asking DfE to create new qualification to cope with ‘immense upheaval’ of fleeing warThe children’s commissioner has joined Kyiv in lobbying the UK government to introduce a new GCSE in Ukrainian to help child refugees cope with the “immense upheaval” of fleeing war in their country.In December, the Guardian revealed that Ukraine was “deeply concerned” to discover many Ukrainian teenagers are being pressed into learning Russian in British schools because no GSCE in Ukrainian is available. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago EU to lift economic sanctions on Syria to aid recovery of war

Move comes one week after Trump announced all US sanctions on Syria would be liftedThe EU has agreed to lift economic sanctions on Syria in an effort to help the war-torn country recover after the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime.After the decision by EU foreign ministers on Tuesday, the EU’s chief diplomat, Kaja Kallas, wrote on X: “We want to help the Syrian people rebuild a new, inclusive and peaceful Syria.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Donald Trump claims Europe would speak 'a little Japanese' if it wasn’t for America

The US President made the astonishing comment while chatting about the recent VE Day military parades in the West, bragging that his country was the one that "won the war"

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