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...But officials said the increase was expected to fall well short of the £10bn increase spread over two years that Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, has been pushing for to allow military spending to keep...
...party leader Jeremy Corbyn “who wanted to change the army into a peace corps”....
...Janet Yellen, US treasury secretary, on Tuesday said the administration was poised to take “additional sanctions action against Iran in the coming days”....
...The relationship worsened during a visit by US officials - including assistant secretary of state for African affairs Molly Phee and head of the US-Africa Command General Michael Langley - to Niamey....
...In comments at a G7 meeting on the Italian island of Capri, US secretary of state Antony Blinken said that “the US has not been involved in any offensive operations”, but declined to comment on specifics...
...But the senior defence official on Monday said China still had not agreed to set up a meeting between the head of Indo-Pacific command, Admiral John Aquilino, and his two counterparts in the People’s Liberation...
...The Supreme Court’s decision in the case could fundamentally shift the balance of power in the US government....
...“That gap was OK five years ago, but now — with the war in Ukraine, crisis in the Middle East and growing great power tensions between the US and China — the UK’s capacity to generate sustained naval power...
...Gina Raimondo, US commerce secretary, told reporters the grant would put the US on track to meet its goal of ensuring that 20 per cent of the world’s most advanced chips are made in the US by the end of...
...With a defence budget of £54bn, equivalent to 2.1 per cent of GDP, the UK is Nato’s biggest military spender after the US in absolute terms....
...In Deterring Armageddon, Peter Apps, a Reuters columnist and British Army reservist, takes us back to the beginning to unveil an impressive chronicle, rich in anecdote, of Nato’s history from its uncertain...
...John Kerry, the top US climate diplomat and former presidential candidate, will retire in coming months, shortly ahead of a US election in November that could return Donald Trump to the White House....
...vote in the face of aggressive courting by his Republican rival Donald Trump....
...In December, General Charles Brown, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, held his first call with General Liu Zhenli, his Chinese counterpart, in another sign of improved communication between the two...
...One is Keith Kellogg — a retired three-star US Army lieutenant general and a veteran of the NSC in the Trump White House....
...The Army Corps of Engineers will work with the US Coast Guard to remove the collapsed bridge from the bow of the ship....
...Exclusive: One of the largest private western investors in Ukraine has accused the country’s officials of corruption, claiming they are trying to extort tens of millions of euros from him....
...His verdict: “Waste of time, money and everything else. I suppose it kept a few of us from cluttering up the unemployment bureaux at home, but that’s about all . . . A really nasty, dirty little war.”...
...The Global Business Alliance, a trade group representing the largest foreign multinationals investing in the US, on Tuesday wrote to US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen to ask her to focus “only on actual...
...The country also has a dedicated corps of anti-tunnel engineers and underground commandos equipped to probe tunnels and try to collapse them....
...It was established in 1770, five years before the US Army and six before America declared independence. When Milley arrives, he is not wearing fatigues or any army uniform....
...His comments came hours after Ukraine was hit by another Russian barrage, with officials in Kyiv growing increasingly concerned their forces could run out of munitions by the time allies in the US and EU...
...Of the four men who lined up at an army recruitment centre in Kyiv one morning this month, only one was there voluntarily....
...Tehran’s mission to the UN depicted the strike as part of clashes “between the US army and resistance groups in the region, who reciprocally confront each other”....
...The European Commission was informed about the US announcement in advance, an EU energy official said....
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