3 h. ago White House warns Downing Street against letting China build 'super embassy' near sensitive financial sites

The Oval Office has urged Downing Street against giving a China's 'super embassy' the green light to be built near London financial centres. 

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58 h. ago New virus discovered in China is 'one small step' away from triggering a pandemic, scientists warn

American researchers say the new strain of bat coronavirus could be multiple times deadlier the COVID-19 and can cause the next potential pandemic.

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60 h. ago UK faces calls for 5% GDP defence spend, ahead of PM’s meeting with Nato chief

Mark Rutte, the secretary general of the alliance, said on Thursday he is proposing Nato members spend 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence.

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3 d. ago NATO chief makes huge demand to UK on defence spending after Donald Trump calls

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte today said allies will find themselves 'in great difficulty' in the coming years if they stick with the current 2% GDP alliance spending target

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3 d. ago Will Nato states have to find $325BILLION a year more for defence? Alliance chief heaps pressure on Starmer saying Europe and Canada must 'equalise' contributions with the US

Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte warned that the current target of spending 2 per cent of GDP on defence is no longer sustainable after very public criticism from Donald Trump.

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3 d. ago Keir Starmer 'picks money man RAF chief to head UK Armed Forces' as he launches push to get Britain 'war

Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, an RAF engineer, is reportedly in line to be the next Chief of Defence Staff.

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4 d. ago Starmer chooses RAF chief Sir Richard Knighton to lead armed forces

Prime minister is understood to have made chief of the defence staff appointment amid what has been billed as the most transformative period for the MoD in decades

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4 d. ago Nato to force UK to lift defence spending to 3.5% of GDP to appease Trump, say sources

Starmer bound to accept Mark Rutte’s higher target after announcing ‘Nato-first’ defence strategy, insiders sayDefence sources believe that Britain will be forced to sign up to a target of lifting defence spending to 3.5% of GDP by 2035 at this month’s Nato summit after a campaign by the alliance’s secretary general to keep Donald Trump onboard.One senior insider said Britain would “without a doubt” sign up to a proposal from the Nato chief, Mark Rutte, to lift allies’ defence spending, which would represent a real-terms increase of about £30bn from the Labour government’s plan. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Doctors issue urgent health warning as dangerous new Covid virus from China triggers US outbreak

Doctors have issued an urgent warning after the dangerous new Covid variant NB.1.8.1 was detected in a new US state. It has been on the rise since the beginning of May.

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6 d. ago Nato must brace to be attacked by Putin warns Germany's defence chief

Germany's defence chief has starkly warned that NATO should be prepared for a possible attack by Russia in the next four years. 

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6 d. ago Defence chief slams 'shocking' images of smugglers picking up migrants like 'taxi'

Defence Secretary John Healey has pointed the finger at French authorities after 'shocking' images of migrants being picked up by smugglers 'like a taxi' to be brought to the UK

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6 d. ago China accuses Pete Hegseth of sowing division in Asia in speech ‘filled with provocations’

US defence secretary ‘vilified china with defamatory allegations’ at Shangri-La DialogueChina’s government has accused Pete Hegseth of trying to “sow division” in the Asia Pacific region over his speech at a Singapore defence conference where he warned China was a potentially “imminent” threat.On Saturday Hegseth said China was “credibly preparing to potentially use military force to alter the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific”, and was rehearsing for “the real deal” of invading Taiwan. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Jamie Dimon warns that the US’s biggest problem is not China but ‘the enemy within’

‘The amount of mismanagement is extraordinary. By state, by city, for pensions and that stuff is going to kill us,’ JPMorgan Chase CEO says

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7 d. ago India finally admits it lost fighter jets in clash with Pakistan – but refuses to say how many

Speaking candidly about the brief conflict with Pakistan earlier this month, India’s chief of defence staff says two countries never close to nuclear war

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7 d. ago US defence chief warns China may invade Taiwan 'imminently' in stark message

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has warned that China poses an "imminent" threat to Taiwan, urging Asian nations to increase their defence spending and collaborate with the United States to prevent conflict.

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8 d. ago America's top banker Jamie Dimon issues chilling warning about the country's 'enemy within'

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has sounded the alarm about the 'enemy within' the US, which he warned is a bigger threat than China and 'going to kill us' all.

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1 week ago Drivers 'must avoid' buying these cheap tyres says motoring expert

Tyre manufacturer Bridgestone has warned drivers to avoid buying some budget tyres - often made in China - which can prove to be a false economy in the long-run

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1 week ago JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned Trump foreign policy would push allies to China. Greenland is reaching out now

‘We do want to partner up with European and American partners. But if they don’t show up, I think we need to look elsewhere,’ Greenland's business minister says

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1 week ago UK and US should cooperate on AI to counter China ‘threat’, says Mandelson

The British ambassador to the US used a speech in Washington on Tuesday to warn that China posed a more serious threat than the Soviet Union.

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1 week ago World’s poorest nations facing ‘tidal wave’ of debt repayments to China, report warns

Debt service flows to Beijing, already at a historic high, are set to remain elevated for the rest of this decade, think tank says

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