16 h. ago SAS officer 'blocked bid by Afghan troops to come to UK because they may have witnessed war crimes'

A United Kingdom Special Forces officer rejected the asylum applications of 1,585 Afghan soldiers who may have witnessed war crimes committed by British troops.

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61 h. ago Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill edges closer to passing. Here’s what it says, and what it means for you

The bill looks to slash taxes and increase spending on oil drilling, the military, and immigration, while also making cuts to Medicaid and food assistance programs

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3 d. ago Rise of UK robot soldiers as British Military to be the 'cutting edge' in battlefield AI

Defence Secretary John Healey has announced plans to take Britain's military to the 'cutting edge' of Artificial Intelligence as he suggested it will have a 'massive impact' on battlefields

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3 d. ago Don’t be fooled. Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ is typically ugly and typically misnamed | Arwa Mahdawi

Republicans love to make the most harmful laws sound sensible or even noble. This pretty-sounding package of tax breaks and spending cuts is just the latest exampleWhat’s big, beautiful and kept a lot of Republicans up late on Sunday night? There might be various responses to that question, but the answer I’m looking for is the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Coming in at 1,116 pages, the bill isn’t quite War and Peace but it’s definitely big. Whether the mega-package of tax breaks and spending cuts is beautiful, however, is up for debate.And there has certainly been a lot of debate. The bill has been in limbo for a while because a few Republicans who consider themselves “fiscally conservative” are happy with the package’s extension of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and increased spending for the military and immigration enforcement, but don’t think enough social and climate-related programmes have been slashed to pay for it all. In particular, they want deeper cuts to food stamps and Medicaid, ...

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7 d. ago 'Old school' British Army corporal pulled bed out of the floor and screamed 'sort out your admin' before having a KNIFE FIGHT with a junior soldier

Corporal Geraint Evans-Dymond (pictured), 35, flipped over a bunk bed which had been bolted to the floor, before telling Fusilier Hezron Harper to 'sort out your admin'.

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9 d. ago Labour faces 'mutiny' over 'betrayal' of British soldiers over bid to axe law that protects Northern Ireland veterans from legal action

EXCLUSIVE: Soldiers from three regiments in the British Army appeared to break ranks to voice their anger over the law change which would strip legal protection away from Troubles' veterans.

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1 week ago Hegseth's plan to cut senior military jobs could hit more than 120 high

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plans to slash the number of senior military leaders across the services would cut more than 120 high-ranking officer jobs in the active duty and National Guard, including as many as nine top general slots

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1 week ago Secret tunnel with staircase 'used by British soldiers to attack President' found under US Capitol building

Congressman Tim Moore says the hidden tunnels and secrets of the US Capitol are some of the 'neat' works about the building that he likes to show visitors to Washington D.C.

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1 week ago British soldiers will be sent to fight Russia alongside EU troops under a landmark new pact

Laked documents revealed that the UK and EU are set to unveil a defence agreement next week, bringing Britain into the deepest military alignment with the EU since its historic 2020 departure.

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2 w. ago British couple stuck in Thailand with mounting £100,000 hospital bill after soldier slipped at tourist hotspot they had found on TikTok and shattered his skull and leg

Liam Gibson, from Hartlepool, was visiting the idyllic Na Muang Waterfall 2 when the 21-year-old slipped and tumbled onto a rock ledge metres below.

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2 w. ago Princess Leonor beams in crisp white uniform as she joins fellow cadets aboard Spanish Navy's training ship

The 19-year-old Crown Princess of Spain, who began her military training two summers ago, cut a striking figure in her crisp white uniform complete with black insignia.

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2 w. ago Pete Hegseth orders Pentagon to cut top military positions by 20 percent

Pete Hegseth has demanded that the active duty military cut 20 percent of its four-star generals in a further move toward Donald Trump's mandate to cut government waste.

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2 w. ago Hegseth directs 20% cut to top military leadership positions

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the active duty military to shed 20% of its four-star general officers as the Trump administration keep pushing the services to streamline their top leadership positions

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2 w. ago SAS 'very likely' to have been deployed with police in major UK terror attack swoop

Elite British soldiers from the Special Air Service are "very likely" to have been deployed alongside counter-terror police in a series of co-ordinated raids

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2 w. ago WW2 veteran's plea ahead of VE Day after seeing concentration camp horror firsthand

As a young British Jewish soldier Mervyn Kersh was 'on a mission' when he joined up in World War II but nothing could prepare him for the horrors he saw and wants the world to remember

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3 w. ago Trump live: President’s unprecedented budget proposal alarms some key Republicans

Despite steep cuts to non-defense discretionary spending, huge military parade still being planned for president’s birthday in June

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3 w. ago Trump live: President’s unprecedented budget proposal slashes $163 billion in federal spending

Despite steep cuts to non-defense discretionary spending, huge military parade still being planned for president’s birthday in June

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3 w. ago Despite a slew of broken car mirrors, Massachusetts residents take woodpecker invasion in stride

During the War of 1812, residents of Rockport, Massachusetts, hurled rocks at British soldiers using their stockings as slings

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3 w. ago What the first British soldier to enter Adolf Hitler's bunker after his suicide 80 years ago saw... and how he was allowed to take a memento

The first British soldier that the Soviets allowed into Hitler's lair, in July 1945, was Hugh Lunghi, who was in Berlin as an interpreter for the Potsdam Conference.

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3 w. ago UK military security breach as identities of elite soldiers mistakenly leaked for decades

It has been discovered that two publications associated with the British Army have been leaking secret information on the identities of soldiers for years and terrorists could have easily got their hands on it

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