3 h. ago The next Epping? A plan to house 600 male migrants in an Army camp in rural Sussex has hit house prices and even enraged the Greens... but officials still refuse to listen

ROBERT HARDMAN: As of Monday, the 37-acre site will cease to be a Ministry of Defence base and the new landlord will be the Home Office, which plans to move in around 600 migrants into the barracks

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6 h. ago France intercepted drones flying over nuclear submarine base, defence minister says

Europe on high alert for foreign interference as Irish police probe drone incursion against Ukrainian president’s plane

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6 h. ago France intercepted drones flying over nuclear base, defence minister says

Europe on high alert for foreign interference as Irish police probe drone incursion against Ukrainian president’s plane

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12 h. ago France intercepts illegal drone overflight at nuclear submarine base

French officials are investigating an illegal drone overflight of the Atlantic coast base for France's nuclear-armed submarines

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33 h. ago AUKUS will survive Trump, says former defence minister Smith

AUKUS will survive Trump, says former defence minister Smith  Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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39 h. ago Teen cadets booted out of army camp & told ‘cease all activity’ for 600 migrants – as locals blast ‘dishonesty & deceit’

TEEN cadets have been booted out of an army camp and told to cease all activity to make way for 600 migrants. Plans to move 600 migrants to a military site on the edge of Crowborough, East Sussex are set to go ahead despite delays, leaving locals furious. The Ministry of Defence ordered Crowborough's No.8 detachment...

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60 h. ago What we know about Russia's claim of capturing Pokrovsk – video

The Guardian’s defence and security editor, Dan Sabbagh, explains the current situation in Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region. On Monday the Russian defence ministry published a series of videos that showed Russian soldiers walking around the city centre waving their flags, and claimed they had taken over the entire zone. Ukraine denied this, saying its forces still controlled the northern zoneThe slow death of Pokrovsk Which areas is Russia demanding as its price for peace in Ukraine? – visual explainer Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Prime Minister review – portrait of Jacinda Ardern shows a fully human being in charge for once

Documentary about New Zealand’s former leader records a shrewd but likable premier who did without the usual politician’s defencesNew Zealand’s former prime minister Jacinda Ardern emerges from this documentary portrait the way she did when she was in power from 2017 to 2023 as a human being. More than any politician anywhere in the world in my adult lifetime, she looked like an actual member of the human race who was catapulted to office too fast to have acquired the defensive carapace of the professional politician. She was vulnerable and scrutable and likable in ways utterly alien to everyone else.Obviously this sympathetic film has been edited in such a way as to omit most of the hard business of internal politics and to foreground this humanity, although there is one fascinating moment at the very end when her partner Clarke Gayford gently asks if she might be doing too much; with a tiny flash of temper she asks if he is telling her to “delegate”. Gayford got his Denis Thatcher...

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4 d. ago How WW3 could break out from one tiny part of the world as tensions mount

Fears are rising that conflict could break out in Taiwan after Japan's defence ministry confirmed reports that it was planning to deploy medium-range missiles to a nearby island

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4 d. ago Special forces chief made ‘conscious’ choice to cover up war crimes, probe told

Members of UK special forces gave evidence to the Afghanistan Inquiry in a series of closed hearings.

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6 d. ago Heard the one about troops facing a court martial if they keep telling dirty jokes?

The move follows revelations from a Ministry of Defence survey which found more tha 60 per cent of female troops had been subjected to such jokes by male colleagues.

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9 d. ago This French judge approved Netanyahu’s arrest warrant. Now Trump is targeting him | Owen Jones

Three ICC judges have been put on a sanctions list with terrorists after approving an arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister. This is the charade of the ‘rules-based order’The fate of one French judge is a case study in the west’s long unravelling. Nicolas Guillou cannot shop online. When he used Expedia to book a hotel in his own country, the reservation was cancelled within hours. He is “blacklisted by much of the world’s banking system”, unable to use most bank cards.Guillou, you see, has been sanctioned by the United States, putting him on a 15,000-strong list alongside al-Qaida terrorists, drug cartels and Vladimir Putin. Why? Because alongside two other judges of the international criminal court pre-trial chamber I, he approved arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, and Mohammed Deif, the former commander of Hamas’s military wing. Guillou and his colleagues had “actively engaged in the ICC’s illegitima...

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1 week ago Army pauses use of Ajax fighting vehicles for two weeks after soldiers fall ill

Some 30 soldiers became ill when training to use the armoured fighting vehicle over the weekend.

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1 week ago Ajax armoured vehicles paused after soldiers report hearing problems

Suspension raises fresh questions around Ministry of Defence’s procurement processes

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1 week ago UK halts use of Ajax armoured vehicles after soldiers report hearing problems

Suspension raises fresh questions around Ministry of Defence’s procurement processes

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1 week ago Pressure mounts on Nigel Farage to launch probe into Russian influence on Reform

Labour defence minister Luke Pollard has challenged Nigel Farage to prove that Nathan Gill - who was jailed for accepting Russian bribes - was a one-off case

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1 week ago Ministry of Defence awards £140m contract for three Edinburgh area army sites

The Ministry of Defence has granted a £142.1 million contract to improve living, working and training facilities at Edinburgh army sites

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1 week ago Major European airport closed after mystery drones spark travel chaos with flights grounded

A MAJOR European airport has suspended flights following a spate of mysterious drone sightings - sparking widespread travel chaos. Dutch authorities said Eindhoven Airport shut down its airspace after several UAV sightings - which also caused military air traffic to pause. Counter-drones teams and police officers rushed to the scene to investigate, Netherlands Defence Minister...

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1 week ago Major European airport halts flights after multiple drone sightings amid fears of Russian incursions

This comes amid a wave of reports of drone sightings in northern Europe.

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1 week ago Major European airport halts flights after multiple drone sightings, defence minister announces

In a post on X this evening, Ruben Brekelmans, the defence minister, said the sightings had prompted Civilian and military air traffic.

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