Royal Navy’s newest £100m warship HMS Trent breaks down nine days into its maiden voyage and hauled back to port in Gibraltar The 90-metre ship had to be dragged back to port after only nine days at sea The Royal Navy said she was experiencing a defect and was waiting for parts The captain and … Read more
Top US general David Petraeus demands Britain gives urgent sanctuary to Afghan translators who helped our heroes on the battlefield US General David Petraeus urged Home Secretary Priti Patel to help interpreters He said ‘we owe a considerable debt’ to translators who helped in Afghanistan The US had resettled their translators through a special immigrant … Read more
Putin orders snap military drills involving 150,000 troops and hundreds of aircraft and naval vessels on Ukrainian border to ensure ‘security in Russia’s southwest’ Russia is conducting snap military drills along its southern border with Ukraine 150,000 troops are involved and will test readiness for larger drill in September It comes just hours after Ukraine … Read more
Monochrome monarch! Queen Mathilde of Belgium puts on stylish display in monochrome as she greets NATO ambassadors at the Royal Palace for a New Year’s Reception Queen Mathilde of Belgium, 46, looked elegant as she hosted today’s reception She welcomed prominent NATO and SHAPE officials to the New Year’s event Was joined by her husband King Philipp, … Read more
Donald Trump on Wednesday sniped at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, one of the world leaders caught sniping at the U.S. president during a reception at Buckingham Palace. ‘He’s two-faced,’ he said of Trudeau, complaining that Canada is delinquent in spending 2 per cent of its GDP on defense—something members of the alliance all pledge … Read more
Emmanuel Macron has raged that video of him ridiculing Donald Trump with other world leaders was allowed to be filmed at last night’s Buckingham Palace reception and has claimed the footage was ‘stolen’. The French President, Boris Johnson and Justin Trudeau have each scrambled to wriggle out of their embarrassing diplomatic blunder where they mocked … Read more
Boris Johnson signals he could block Huawei from building the UK’s 5G network over national security fears after Donald Trump called the Chinese tech giant a ‘danger’ and called on the UK to ditch it Trump branded Huawei a ‘danger’ and claimed Italy are not using them He claimed other countries ‘are not going forward’ … Read more