14 h. ago Man accused of assisting Russia ‘planned to pass on Grant Shapps information’

Howard Phillips is on trial over allegedly intending to assist the RIS by helping people he believed were agents working for Moscow.

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18 h. ago EU announces plan to stockpile food, water and medicines over fears Putin will launch WW3 with European invasion within five years

Brussels' 'stockpiling strategy' comes as NATO warns that Russia could be ready to attack the alliance within five years.

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20 h. ago NATO scrambles warplanes as Putin launches attack near European country's border

Vladimir Putin's forces hit Ukraine with 741 missiles and kamikaze drones in a record for the three-year conflict, triggering an emergency response from NATO forces

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25 h. ago European intelligence officials warn that a Russian sabotage campaign is escalating

European intelligence officials say they’re worried the risk of serious injury or even death is rising in a campaign of sabotage blamed on Russia as untrained saboteurs set fires, plant explosives or build bombs

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61 h. ago Could Putin and Xi really invade Taiwan and Europe at the same time? Experts explain why a simultaneous attack is unlikely despite NATO chief's WW3 warning

Analysts argue that even if Putin is unwilling to sacrifice his military for Xi's sake, the two powers are now locked in a new Cold War with the West and preparing in tandem to reshape the global order

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3 d. ago NATO chief issues chilling WW3 warning over 'Russia and China twin attack'

NATO bosses fear China could attempt to annex the island nation of Taiwan while Russia launches an attack on the small Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

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3 d. ago World War Three fears as NATO chief warns of joint Xi and Putin attack

The former Dutch Prime Minister suggested that Chinese leader Xi Jinping could attempt to seize Taiwan while urging Vladimir Putin to launch a parallel attack

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8 d. ago Ukrainian drone strikes a Russian plant after record Russian drone attacks in June

Officials say a Ukrainian drone has struck an industrial plant deep inside Russia, injuring several people and causing a fire

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1 week ago NATO sends warplanes as Russia fires over 500 missiles in Ukraine attack to down jet

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1 week ago Security experts praise the Mail for doing a 'national service' by revealing new MI6 chief's granddad was a Nazi spy chief

A Mail investigation found incoming Secret Intelligence Service boss Blaise Metreweli is descended from notorious Ukrainian traitor Constantine Dobrowolski.

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1 week ago New MI6 chief's grandad was leading Nazi spy who 'helped exterminate Jews'

Blaise Metreweli was announced as the new head of MI6 earlier this month, but it has now emerged that her grandfather was a Nazi spy chief

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1 week ago Grandfather of incoming MI6 chief was leading Nazi spy, reports say

Blaise Metreweli is set to become the first female head of the organisation.

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1 week ago In a plot twist worthy of John le Carré, we reveal the grandfather of the brilliant new head of MI6 was a Nazi spy chief

When Blaise Metreweli was announced as the next head of MI6 it was immediately apparent she had long been groomed for the top.

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2 w. ago Trump REFUSES to commit to NATO Article Five clause as alliance leaders desperately try to win him over

Article Five is a founding principle of the NATO military alliance, requiring allies to treat an attack against one as an attack against all.

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2 w. ago Zelensky blasts NATO members' 'slow' spending increase, warning Putin could attack within five years ahead of meeting with Trump at alliance summit

Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Vladimir Putin could attack a NATO country within the next five years, as he criticised the alliance for a slow spending ramp up. 

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2 w. ago Zelenskyy warns Russia could attack a Nato member within five years as summit waits for Trump’s arrival – Europe live

Ukraine president urges leaders to increase defence spending more rapidly as Nato summit braces for Donald Trump to attendAnalysis: Summit set to be triumphant for Trump but deflating for UkraineKicking off the Nato Public Forum, Dutch justice and security minister David van Well says the organisers looked at some 40 scenarios that could disrupt the summit, including state actors, terrorists, activists, and cyber-attacks.I think you’re probably in one of the safest spaces in the world right now.“That could be sabotage, that’s one of the things that we’re looking into. And then the question is, well, who was behind it? That can be activist group, it can be state actor led, it can be any kind. “In my view, this is slow because we believe that starting from 2030 Putin can have significantly greater capabilities.Today, Ukraine is holding him up. He has no time to drill the army, and they are all getting annihilated and wiped out at the battlefield.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Zelensky warns Russia could attack Nato country within next five years

Volodymyr Zelensky has warned Russia could attack a Nato country within the next five years.

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2 w. ago Nato members willingly increasing defence spending amid rising threat from Russia, says Rutte

Exclusive: As alliance members arrive at The Hague summit, secretary general says Moscow capable of launching attack within three to five yearsMark Rutte, Nato’s secretary general, said it was “not a difficult thing” to get members to agree to raise defence spending to 5% of GDP because of the rising threat from Russia – and stressed that Trump remained “absolutely” committed to supporting the alliance.In an interview on the eve of the western alliance’s summit, Rutte told the Guardian that all 32 members had agreed to increase defence spending because “there is so much at stake” after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Russia is plotting new military offensives in Europe, Zelensky warns

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed that intelligence indicates Vladimir Putin and Russia are planning new military operations on European territory

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2 w. ago Donald Trump slams spy chief and says Iran has two weeks 'to come to senses'

The US President said he had given Iran a 'period of time' to see if its leaders would 'come to their senses' after saying his two week deadline would be the 'maximum'

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