8 h. ago NATO fighter jets scrambled as mystery aircraft enters Dutch airspace

Royal Netherlands Air Force fighters were deployed from Volkel military base on Sunday after the Ministry of Defence sounded the Quick Reaction Alert when an aircraft entered Dutch airspace

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34 h. ago Pressure grows on ‘reckless’ Hegseth as twin scandals engulf Pentagon chief

Defense secretary defiant but allegations of war crimes and blistering watchdog report increase calls for him to goPete Hegseth is facing the most serious crisis of his tenure as defense secretary, engulfed by allegations of war crimes in the Caribbean and a blistering inspector general report accusing him of mishandling classified military intelligence. Yet despite the long list of trouble and as lawmakers from both parties call for his resignation, Hegseth shows no signs of stepping down and still holds Donald Trump’s support.The twin crises have engulfed the former Fox News personality in separate but overlapping allegations that lawmakers, policy experts and former officials say reveal a pattern of dangerous recklessness at the helm of the Pentagon. Democratic legislators have reignited calls for his ouster after revelations that survivors clinging to wreckage from a September boat strike were deliberately killed in a “double-tap” attack, while a defense department investigation...

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42 h. ago Scotland superfan who booked 22 £3k hotel rooms for World Cup hits draw jackpot

Determined to beat the price surge, Daris Nesbit had already shelled out on flights to Boston - and that plan paid off as we were drawn into Group C with Brazil, Morocco and Haiti.

Economics

46 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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49 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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49 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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58 h. ago Pressure growing on Pete Hegseth as GOP and Democrats unite in demanding answers on boat strikes: Latest

Secretary of Defense facing calls to testify under oath and impeachment threat over ‘narco-boat’ bombings

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3 d. 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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4 d. ago A year in immigration: The top 2025 immigration photos by AP’s photojournalists

Dozens of migrants sat on long benches on a U.S. military plane as it waited to leave the West Texas airport. They were shackled and handcuffed yet dressed casually, mostly in jeans and sweatshirts. All wore light blue surgical masks.

Culture

4 d. ago Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 search to resume 11 years after jet went missing

Malaysian transport ministry says robotics company Ocean Infinity will restart search operation on 30 DecemberThe search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will resume this month, the Malaysian transport ministry has said, more than a decade after the plane disappeared in one of aviation’s greatest mysteries.In a statement on Wednesday, the transport ministry confirmed that the marine robotics company Ocean Infinity, based in the UK and US, would resume a search of the seabed from 30 December, over a period of 55 days, with operations conducted intermittently. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Destiny Udogie reveals Tottenham players will 'stick together' behind Thomas Frank as pressure grows

Frank has overseen a poor run of the results as Tottenham are without a win in any competition since beating Copenhagen

Sport

5 d. ago Bon Vivant: 'Exceptional' Scottish bar shut down due to growing economic pressure

A long-standing and much-loved Scottish bar and restaurant has closed its doors for good.

Economics

5 d. ago Folktales review – taking on tyranny of social media as teens learn to live like hunter

In this documentary, high schoolers camp out in subzero temperatures, making their own fires and driving sledges in the wildThe Pasvik Folk high school in remote northern Norway teaches teenagers to grow as young adults and escape the pressures of toxic social media by challenging them to get back in touch with their “stone age brain” and live like hunter-gatherers in the snowy wild. This is the subject of a documentary from Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. Over winter months of almost continuous darkness, the teens cleanse themselves with tasks such as camping out in subzero weather, making their own fires and driving sledges with huskies.Prior to all this of course is presumably a solemn promise to do without their phones, tablets and laptops, although there are no scenes of the kids actually having to surrender these gadgets (this isn’t rehab, after all). They have to swim in icy water; and they make it look like fun. What doesn’t look like fun is the camping out and there is one te...

Politics

6 d. ago Sadiq Khan under growing pressure to ban gambling adverts from the Tube

Barnet, Enfield, Brent, Hackney and Lewisham have all joined the Coalition to End Gambling Ads (CEGA)

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6 d. ago Old tensions simmer just below surface as Tusk and Merz to meet in Berlin

Ukraine will top agenda, but meeting comes as positive sentiment towards Germany in Poland hits near record lowsWhen the Polish and German governments meet on Monday for annual political talks in Berlin – the first since Friedrich Merz became chancellor – the headlines are likely to be dominated by Ukraine.Amid growing US pressure for a peace deal with Russia, Warsaw and Berlin will want to send a signal of support for Kyiv and of unity between central Europe’s largest – and militarily strongest – countries. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Blow for Reeves as business confidence at near record low after Budget

Labour chancellor under pressure to do more to improve the prospects for economic growth

Economics

7 d. ago Thousands rally in Madrid to demand snap election over corruption allegations

Pressure grows on Pedro Sánchez amid series of claims involving his family, party and administrationTens of thousands of people have attended an anti-government demonstration in Madrid to demand a snap general election as the country’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, tries to weather a series of corruption allegations involving his family, his party and his administration.Sunday’s protest, called by Spain’s conservative People’s party (PP) under the slogan, “This is it: mafia or democracy?”, was held three days after one of Sánchez’s closest erstwhile allies, the former transport minister José Luis Ábalos, was remanded in custody by a judge investigating an alleged kickbacks-for-contracts scheme. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Rachel Reeves latest: Starmer to back chancellor as she faces growing pressure over Budget black hole row

Downing Street denies claims that Rachel Reeves misled the public about a £20 billion black hole in the public finances

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7 d. ago Starmer stands by Reeves as claims grow she misled public on finances

Downing Street says Reeves’ remarks were ‘entirely accurate’ as pressure grows over claims she misled voters

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9 d. ago ‘I’m doing a better job than anyone’: Norris confident he can seal F1 world title

British driver is staying calm as the pressure grows in Qatar and believes he has the form to be world champion, despite Max Verstappen’s mind gamesStanding outside the McLaren motorhome in the paddock for the Qatar Grand Prix as a warm desert breeze stirs the air, Lando Norris cuts a figure entirely at ease even in the centre of the maelstrom of an increasingly tense fight to claim his first Formula One world championship.While dozens of photographers jostle for space, the mic boom of the Netflix Drive to Survive series swaying over them, Norris has an air of assuredness as he speaks to the clacking of shutters that have increasingly become the backing track to the 26-year-old’s march towards the title. Continue reading...

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