4 d. ago EU foreign affairs chief savages France for using fishing row to block UK from having a 'logical role' in new European defence agreement amid Russia threat

Kaja Kallas, the former prime minister of Estonia, appeared to criticse the Macron government, which is insisting that a British pact with Brussels is linked to fishing rights.

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5 d. ago Defense chiefs from around 30 countries expected at NATO for talks on a future Ukraine force

Britain and France are convening a meeting of defense ministers from around 30 countries to press ahead with plans to deploy troops to Ukraine to police any future peace agreement with Russia

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2 w. ago Prince Harry will be 'cut' by the allegations of racism and misogyny from his beloved charity Sentabale

The comments come amid the bitter internal power struggle in that charity that exploded this week which saw the Duke of Sussex unexpectedly step down.

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3 w. ago ‘The only thing still working’: Russia and UK agreement to tend war graves transcends bitter international relations

Private understanding ensures tending of British military graves in Russia and Crimea, and Soviet graves in UKIn graves at Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and Vladivostok, in Russia, lie the bodies of 663 British military personnel. Most of the dead lost their lives in the period just after the first world war, when allied troops were sent to support rightwing White forces in the Russian civil war against the Bolsheviks, while 41 are casualties from the second world war Arctic convoys.Their resting places have been tended over decades by the Russian military and by private contractors, paid by the UK’s Commonwealth War Graves Commission. But after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, economic sanctions meant Britain could no longer pay for the graves to be maintained. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump story about ‘surrounded’ Ukraine troops contradicted by his own intelligence, report reveals

Russia and Ukraine reached a tentative ceasefire agreement, but Putin’s attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure reportedly have not stopped since the ceasefire was announced

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3 w. ago Do you think Nigel Farage should step down as leader of Reform UK? Vote here

With Reform UK in the midst of a bitter internal feud and Nigel Farage seemingly more focused on his US standing than leading his party, questions are mounting over his future as leader ... and we want to know if you think he should step down

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3 w. ago Callum McGregor Celtic injury return date 'revealed' after influential skipper's absence in Rangers defeat

The midfielder had to watch on as the Hoops fell to defeat against bitter rivals Rangers before the international break

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3 w. ago Zelensky says Putin's partial ceasefire agreement 'at odds with reality' as Russia pounds Ukraine

Ukraine’s President Zelensky demands the world block Russia’s attempts to drag out the war following Moscow’s latest attacks

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