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...filed with the US Department of Justice....
...“Very few of the changes are positive,” said Peter Truscott, chief executive of Crest Nicholson. Gove’s approach was “like the general ordering around imaginary armies,” Truscott said....
...of the other statistics published by the department....
...The latter is run by the Libyan National Army of renegade general Khalifa Haftar, considered an ally of Hemeti....
...Marcus Hellyer, head of research at Strategic Analysis Australia, said the “blizzard of numbers” released by the defence department made clear that the Labor government would pay for the nuclear submarines...
...He added: “My estimate is unprotected departments will now face cuts of about 4 per cent a year — that’s two-thirds of the rate that [former chancellor] George Osborne cut those departments by in the 2010s...
...Based on the state department’s analysis of the law and “available facts”, Blinken also accused members of the RSF and allied militias of crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing in a statement on Wednesday...
...However, Britain’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has placed a temporary export bar on the carving and given the V&A until June 14 to raise £2mn so it can match the price paid by the American institution...
...US secretary of state Antony Blinken has “determined” that members of the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces committed war crimes in Sudan, as the country’s army clashes...
...Still, the defence department’s disclosures have raised questions about how and why the secretary’s condition had been concealed, especially at a time of two major wars in Gaza and Ukraine....
...Yes, we have aircraft carriers, nukes, pipe bands and the Red Arrows. But Ben Wallace, the previous defence secretary, cut the army’s headcount to 72,500....
...Meanwhile, Putin is reconstituting the Russian army faster than many expected, after much of it was shredded in Ukraine....
...Here’s US secretary of state Antony Blinken at a meeting of regional leaders on the day of Henry’s resignation....
...helicopter for the army and air force....
...US secretary of state Antony Blinken will return to the region today for a fresh round of diplomatic talks as efforts to allow foreign nationals to leave the Gaza Strip continue....
...“Hamas is building on the fact that . . . there will be a ceasefire without it needing to pay a thing,” Katz said in an interview with Israel’s Army Radio....
...Minister of defence Yoav Gallant spoke of months — to which the US secretary of state Antony Blinken reportedly retorted: “I don’t think you have the credit for that.”...
...The department estimated in August that inflation would account for £10.9bn of the increased costs....
...The official Xinhua news agency gave no details of former minister Li’s case in its announcement of the appointment of Dong, who was previously the head of the People’s Liberation Army Navy....
...It includes Allan Cheesman who, as head of Sainsbury’s wine department in the 1980s and 1990s, was the country’s most powerful professional wine buyer in an era when supermarkets really cared about the quality...
...when its army moves into southern Gaza....
...And here’s what I’m keeping tabs on today and over the weekend: Economic data: The US Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics releases monthly import and export statistics and the University of Michigan...
...Taiwan has 141 older F-16 models which are being upgraded to the newer Viper type. The 66 new F-16 V aircraft approved by Trump are due to arrive by the end of 2026....
...General Lord Richard Dannatt, former head of the army, told Sky News that Shapps “knows very little about defence” and said it would take him “quite some time to get up to speed”....
...Their meeting of minds meant that they took note of the Sino-Soviet split before most members of the state department and US academics had grasped its potential significance....
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