24 h. ago Trump changed the name of a US military base. It costs nearby businesses a small fortune

Businesses in the area are facing a challenge now that the Trump administration has once again renamed the military post

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7 d. ago Mauritius PM boasts of 'great victory' on Chagos Islands after Keir Starmer agrees Brits will pay £30BILLION to keep military base after handing over the British territory

Ministers have insisted the deal to transfer sovereignty of the British territory is 'good value' - despite Sir Keir's counterpart describing it as a 'great victory'.

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8 d. ago Putin faces biggest 'air raid on Russia since WW2' as he's forced to up Kremlin's defences

The Russian dictator is reportedly in a state of panic and is scrambling for defence after Ukraine carried out major strikes on a key military base 220 miles from the Kremlin

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8 d. ago Sir Keir Starmer accused of signing 'one of the worst deals in the history of deals' after surrendering the Chagos islands for 'as much as £30billion'

The PM claimed the controversial giveaway of Britain's territory in the Indian Ocean would cost only £3.4 billion over the next century and was necessary to secure a vital military base.

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8 d. ago UK to pay £101mn a year under deal to hand over Chagos Islands to Mauritius

British government says accord will guarantee future of joint military base with US

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8 d. ago Starmer defends Chagos deal as Badenoch criticises multibillion ‘surrender tax’

Sir Keir Starmer said the agreement to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius secured the ‘vital’ Diego Garcia military base.

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8 d. ago Nearly 2,000 Afghan children living in hotels, military bases and other temporary accommodation in UK

Afghan families are being temporarily housed in army bases and Home Office hotels around the UK

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9 d. ago Finland ‘preparing for the worst’ as Russia expands military presence near border

Head of strategy of Finnish defence forces says they are monitoring Moscow’s manoeuvring ‘very closely’Finland has said it expects Russia to further build up troops along their shared border when the war in Ukraine ends, after reports that Moscow had strengthened its military bases near the Nato frontier.Maj Gen Sami Nurmi, the head of strategy of the Finnish defence forces, said the military is following Moscow’s manoeuvring “very closely” and that it was their job, as part of the Nato alliance, to “prepare for the worst”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Vladimir Putin expands nuclear missile base after test at frozen site kills five in radiation leak

A Russian military base that has reportedly seen Vladimir Putin's nuclear-powered missiles being tested appears to have been expanded according to satellite imagery

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2 w. ago Judges dismiss national security charges against immigrants who enter new militarized zone at border

Federal magistrate judges in New Mexico have started dismissing military-base trespassing charges against immigrants who cross the southern U.S. border through a newly designated national defense zone

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2 w. ago Live updates: Trump visits main U.S. military base in Middle East as violence flares in Gaza

Live updates: President Donald Trump is to visit the main U.S. military base in the Middle East even as he uses his four-day visit to Gulf states to reject the “interventionism” of America’s past in the region

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2 w. ago Final American hostage Edan Alexander RELEASED by Hamas after 19 months

Israeli-American hostage, Edan Alexander, was released on Monday. The 21-year-old New Jersey native was serving in the Israeli military when he was taken from his base during the Hamas attack.

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2 w. ago How India and Pakistan conflict turned from brink of war to ceasefire in days

As nuclear threat became very real possibility, Trump tasked Marco Rubio and JD Vance to contact the feuding countriesIndian surface-to-air missiles were already soaring towards Pakistan’s most significant military bases when the first call came from the US.It was 4am in Islamabad and Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state and recently appointed US national security advisor, was on the line to the man everyone knew was calling the shots in Pakistan: army chief Gen Asim Munir. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Why is Putin massing troops on the border of Finland? Military build

Moscow is building troop accommodation, aircraft deployment infrastructure and other facilities at key military bases, analysts have said.

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2 w. ago UK seaside town abandoned by Butlin's with posh holiday village now in its place

From a military base used in World War 2 to one of Billy Butlin's biggest holiday camps - it's fair to say this multi-million pound tourist village has lived many different lives

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2 w. ago India and Pakistan both claim victory after ceasefire declared

Celebrations held in both countries while Kashmir residents beg for long-term solutions over disputed territory India and Pakistan have both claimed victory after a ceasefire was declared over the weekend, which brought the two nuclear-nations back from the brink of war.After days of escalating clashes that culminated in both sides launching missile and drone strikes on each other’s major military bases – the closest they had come to full-scale war in decades – the ceasefire between India and Pakistan was declared by Donald Trump on Saturday evening. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on a Himalayan truce: it follows a familiar pattern of conflicts past | Editorial

After drone strikes, nuclear jitters and a ceasefire, the latest fighting between India and Pakistan reveals how peace dies by routine “The arms race between India and Pakistan poses perhaps the most probable prospect for future use of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons,” James Woolsey, the CIA director, told Congress in 1993. That assessment is relevant now, after days of escalating conflict that included missile and drone strikes on military bases. It is a uniquely modern arms race: high on nationalist fervour and habitual mistrust, choreographed so that each clash is always just one provocation away from becoming the last.On Saturday, Donald Trump announced a “full and immediate” ceasefire between India and Pakistan. The truce, brokered by US officials, came amid speculation by military analysts that Pakistan was edging closer to using nuclear weapons. It was met with cautious optimism – not least as both sides accused each other of violating the agreement wit...

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3 w. ago Kashmir crisis live: Pakistan and India accuse each other of striking military bases in major escalation

‘Multiple locations’ in India being targeted in retaliatory attacks, says state-run media, after Pakistan says three air bases attacked by Indian missilesFull report: Pakistan says it has hit back after India strikes military basesWho is Asim Munir, the army chief leading Pakistan’s military amid the crisis with India?The general once fell foul of Imran Khan, but since taking the top spot has been quietly amassing power over the government and supreme court, as our profile here says.Yet even now that the country is out of the clutches of martial law, it is still widely understood that the most powerful man in Pakistan is not the head of the government but instead the chief of the army.Since Gen Munir took over as Pakistan’s army chief more than two years ago, he has been accused of quietly consolidating greater power without even having to topple the country’s civilian rulers. As he kept himself largely out of the limelight, he consolidated an iron grip over the army’s ranks and ben...

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3 w. ago Pakistan launches missile strikes as India hits back with raids on military bases in deepening conflict between nuclear

It's the latest escalation in a conflict triggered by a massacre last month that India blames on Pakistan.

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3 w. ago Pakistan accuses India of targeting three military bases with missiles as tensions escalate

The Pakistan military said most of the Indian missiles, fired from military jets, were intercepted by air defencesPakistan has threatened further retaliation after accusing India of targeting three of its military bases with missiles fired from fighter jets, in a major escalation of the brewing conflict between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.“India, with its naked aggression, has attacked with missiles. Nur Khan base, Murid base and Shorkot base have been targeted,” Pakistan military spokesperson Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said in a live broadcast aired by state television early on Saturday. Continue reading...

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