SANAA The United States and Britain have carried out air strikes on several sites in Yemen in what they said was a bid to degrade Huthi rebels’ ability to conduct attacks on maritime shipping. AFP journalists heard loud explosions in the capital Sanaa and the port city of Hodeida overnight from Thursday to Friday. The Huthi-controlled television...
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Britain and American forces strike Houthi targets after spike in attacks on shipping
British and US forces have struck Houthi targets in Yemen in the fifth combined operation since January. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed the strikes took place on Thursday as part of a response to Houthi attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The MoD said intelligence confirmed two locations near Hudaydah...
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Biden bows to international pressure to allow Ukraine to use US weapons on Russia
The opinion of Nato allies is shifting towards allowing Ukraine to use Western weapons to strike military targets on Russian soil, the Czech foreign minister said on Thursday. Speaking to reporters, Jan Lipavsky said there was a growing belief that it was better to allow Kyiv to destroy Russian aircraft before they can take-off armed...
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US And Britain Strike Houthi Rebel Targets In Yemen After Surge In Shipping Attacks – News18
Last Updated: May 31, 2024, 03:30 IST Read all latest and breaking World News on News18.com The U.S. and Britain struck 13 Houthi targets in several locations in Yemen on Thursday in response to a recent surge in attacks by the Iranbacked militia group on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, three...
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Georgie Campbell: Husband pays tribute to ‘phenomenal’ British horse rider who died competing at equestrian event
The husband of a professional horse rider who died while competing in Devon has described her as “strong, beautiful, and phenomenal”. British event rider Georgie Campbell died after competing on the fourth and final day of the Bicton International Horse Trials on 26 May. The 36-year-old could not be saved after she and her horse...
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Tata Steel CEO Narendran says want to move fast on UK decarbonisation
T V Narendran, managing director and chief executive officer, Tata Steel 2 min read Last Updated : May 30 2024 | 8:00 PM IST Tata Steel wants to accelerate efforts towards decarbonisation in Britain, its chief executive said on Thursday, in the backdrop of trade unions voting to strike against the company’s plans to...
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Russia hoping to ‘knock sense’ in Britain and West as it carries out nuclear drills
Russia is hoping that nuclear drills will “knock sense” into the West and dissuade Nato countries from sending fighter jets to Ukraine. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Belgium’s recent pledge to send 30 US-made warplanes to Kyiv by 2028 is a “signal action”. Speaking to the RIA state agency, he said: “They are trying...
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Jon Stewart calls rejection of UK candidate ‘dumbest thing since Boris Johnson’
The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US The US late-night satirist Jon Stewart has responded after Britain’s Labour Party blocked left-wing academic Faiza Shaheen from standing as a candidate in the upcoming general election for liking...
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World War 3 on brink as Russia told to light ‘demonstrative’ nuclear explosion
In a provocative proposal, Dmitry Suslov, a senior member of the Moscow-based Council for Foreign and Defence Policy, has suggested that Russia should consider a “demonstrative” nuclear explosion. The suggestion comes amid escalating tensions with the West over Ukraine use of Western-supplied arms against Russian targets. The proposal from Suslov, whose think tank’s ideas occasionally...
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WORLD EXCLUSIVE – BOMBSHELL LUCAN DOSSIER: The explosive case file that reveals the truth about Lord Lucan and the nanny he bludgeoned to death – PLUS a world-first podcast event on Britain’s most notorious murder
The Mail has obtained a sensational, never-before-seen Scotland Yard report from almost 50 years ago that finally reveals the definitive account of the Lord Lucan mystery. The newly discovered, previously confidential 60-page document chronicles in astonishing detail the Crown’s case against the missing peer, suspected of bludgeoning his children’s nanny Sandra Rivett to death with...
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Britain has become the welfare state for the world
New properties were being built. Designer clothes were suddenly evident everywhere. And the whole place was flush with cash. When Inspector Vassil Panayotov, a determined copper who could have stepped straight out of an old-fashioned detective mystery, noticed how much money was swilling around the Bulgarian village of Sliven, in the foothills of the Balkan...
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KS3 / KS4 / GCSE History: How did Britain use fake news in World War Two?
DAN SNOW: Hi, I’m Dan Snow, and I’m here to talk to you about fake news. Fake World War Two news that is, because we’re looking at the history of that conflict using clips from the archives of the BBC. In this one coming up, Larry Lamb is finding out how the war didn’t just...