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...The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said: “We have a clear strategy to boost UK industry and reach net zero by 2050 — backed by £200bn in low-carbon investment since 2010, with a further £100bn...
...The two sides this month held their first formal military talks since 2021, and Admiral John Aquilino, head of US Indo-Pacific Command, last month said China had not conducted any dangerous intercepts of...
...Martin Kelly, senior Middle East analyst at maritime security practice EOS Risk Group, suggested Tehran would probably regard a physical — or kinetic — attack on the Behshad as crossing a “red line”....
...The Chinese officer made reference to past efforts to target Martin Selmayr, a former secretary-general of the European Commission who was once among the most powerful officials in Brussels....
...The US Treasury department also flagged the issue this month in its latest round of sanctions on Russia....
...John Healey, shadow defence minister, said private contractors were the “soft underbelly of national security”....
...The Cabinet Office, the department that runs the machinery of government, intelligence agencies and private security specialists have been called in to assist with the MoD investigation....
...Among the donors chairing the event will be sugar tycoon Pepe Fanjul, casino titans Steve Wynn and Phil Ruffin, former commerce department secretary Wilbur Ross, Key Square Group founder Scott Bessent and...
...The UK, US, Japan and Canada have all announced such initiatives, while the US Department of Homeland Security added an AI Safety and Security Board to the mix only last week....
...Major General Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, had blamed the communications breakdown in part on Austin’s chief of staff Kelly Magsamen, who was out for much of last week with the flu....
...The US Department of State notified Congress that it planned to approve Turkey’s request to buy 40 F-16s, according to an announcement late on Friday by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency....
...It added that the decision by Kemi Badenoch, the UK’s business and trade secretary, breached the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ended three decades of conflict in the region....
...President John F Kennedy asked his National Security Council in January 1963, “Why should we have in Europe supplies adequate to fight for ninety days when the European forces around our troops have only...
...India’s attempts to claw back social security payments worth tens of millions of pounds for its workers in the UK have become a sticking point in trade talks between the two countries....
...He’s “unfit to be president”, said former national security adviser John Bolton. Trump “admires autocrats and murderous dictators”, said former chief of staff John Kelly....
...Alternatively, the defence budget could be increased at the expense of other departments....
...Antony Blinken, secretary of state; Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of homeland security; and White House homeland security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall are to meet López Obrador and his team “to discuss further...
...John Healey, shadow defence secretary, said that if Labour won the general election, expected later this year, it would conduct a review within its first year in office to assess the state of the armed forces...
...Dame Sharon White With an impressive CV in the public and private sector, White is currently chair of the John Lewis Partnership....
...“There is no plan for anything other than for Secretary Austin to stay in the job and continue the leadership that he has been demonstrating,” John Kirby, a spokesperson for the National Security Council...
...John McTernan, former political secretary to Tony Blair, summed up the reaction on X: “Shortest ever post holder, surely? Placeholder for a Labour nominee!”...
...“The secretary of state determined and provided detailed justification to Congress that an emergency exists that requires the immediate sale” of the ammunition “in the national security interests of the...
...secretary Patrick Ryder said....
...Congress: The leaders of the US’s spy agencies testify to the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee for a second day at a hearing assessing worldwide threats to national security....
...Starting with his vice-president, we can add his chief of staff, John Kelly, both his defence secretaries, Jim Mattis and Mark Esper, his national security adviser, John Bolton, his first secretary of state...
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