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...The story of women in western intelligence services is finally having its moment, first with a piece a year ago by my colleague Helen Warrell about female spies at Britain’s MI6, and now a book by American...
...Another James Bond, another George Smiley, another fiction glorifying what Roosevelt called “the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder”....
...Lord George Robertson, a former Nato-secretary-general and ex-UK defence secretary, has called on the government to extend its exemption to cover torture, genocide, crimes against humanity and other war...
...Additional reporting by Helen Warrell...
Government in secret consultation with maritime industry over measures to prevent crossings
...Here to Romaine George Parker, Seb Payne and Laura Hughes have written a brilliant piece about Liz Truss’s 49-day premiership....
Top brass favour leader of cyber operations and special forces over high-profile sea lord
Taliban warns any effort by western forces to continue flights beyond August 31 would be a ‘violation’
Defence secretary expresses ‘deep regret’ but government now faces questions on foreign policy and protecting civilians
...Two decades ago, the Taliban’s refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden and his fellow al-Qaeda leaders provided the justification for US president George W Bush to launch the American-led invasion of Afghanistan...
...Almost two decades ago Tony Blair, then UK prime minister, pledged to his American counterpart George W Bush “I will be with you, whatever”....
...Lord George Robertson, who was Nato secretary-general on the day of the 9/11 attack in New York, and who triggered Article 5 a few hours later, suggested the disunity was damaging....
...The Treasury’s position may be a hangover from the “golden era”, when then chancellor George Osborne conducted a tour of China accompanied by ministers and business chiefs, aimed at establishing Britain...
...personnel who died during the conflict, and hailed the fact that no terrorist attacks had been mounted against western targets from Afghanistan since 9/11 — the atrocity which prompted former US president George...
Spring trip will be first major bilateral visit by a UK prime minister since Theresa May’s African tour in 2018
...Lord George Robertson, a former Nato secretary-general and ex-Labour defence secretary, said during the Lords debate that such a move would “undermine some of the most basic international legal standards...
...Gregory Koblentz, an associate professor of biodefence at George Mason University, and Filippa Lentzos at King’s College London, who mapped the facilities, found that of the 42 labs where planning data was...
Trident, counterterror and the union take centre stage in biggest foreign policy assessment since cold war
...My colleague Helen Warrell has written about women spies in MI6, which is Britain’s foreign-facing intelligence agency. She spent six months with them, which is unprecedented....
Tory MPs angry at seeking deeper links with Beijing as Raab admits deals necessary with nations breaching human rights
Striking announcements on nuclear deterrent, biological and chemical warfare, and even of potential for another pandemic
Brexit negotiator David Frost shifted into different role as Stephen Lovegrove is moved from Ministry of Defence
...Last year a US court heard that Dickson Yeo, an academic at George Washington University, had used LinkedIn to target US military and government personnel on behalf of Chinese intelligence....
...Professor Gregory Koblentz, a biodefence expert at George Mason University in Virginia, said the WHO’s difficulties in establishing basic facts about safety and security at the Wuhan Institute for Virology...
Frustration at perceived excessive bureaucracy and a lack of data said to have led to ‘tough’ exchanges
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