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State-backed companies to get compulsory purchase powers, as Labour leader reveals housing plans

If China attempts to cut Taiwan off from the world by severing more than a dozen undersea cables that connect it to the internet, large numbers of

If China attempts to cut Taiwan off from the world by severing more than a dozen undersea cables that connect it to the internet, large numbers of fast-moving low Earth orbit satellites will be...

As Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met this week to discuss what analysts believe will be a deal for an exchange of weapons, the West's leading companies were descending on Europe's biggest arms show in London. Since the last iteration of the biennial Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) in September 2021, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and dramatically increased tensions over Taiwan and North Korea have given a shot of adrenaline to ...

The dozens of Ukrainian drones believed to have been used against Russian airbases last week represent the largest single unmanned attacks of the Ukraine war so far, but they could be dwarfed by future major conflicts.

At the start of the year, a leaked memo from U.S. Air Force General Mike Minihan, head of the U.S. Air Mobility Command, said his gut told him the United States and China would go to war as early as...

Predators and humans don’t mix well. The solution lies not in bullets, fences or poison, but in chemistry, according to Dr Peter Apps.

Both following Putin's February 2022 invasion and the earlier 2014 annexation of Crimea, the U.S. was the first major allied nation to reinforce nervous countries in Eastern Europe, as well as by far the single biggest backer of Ukraine itself when it comes to weapons and intelligence. Over the last two decades, Washington has also occupied a valuable piece of ideological middleground within the alliance: less hawkish on the Kremlin that Eastern and Central European states, but also less pr...

The cost of sprinklers is ­estimated at £500,000 per block. Birmingham City Council has spent £93million on 181 systems in its stock of 188 high-rises – 64% of the sprinkler installations in the survey.

Peter Apps’ magnificent account of the Grenfell fire tragedy and Tom Crewe’s historical novel about pioneering Victorian gay rights advocates will each receive £3,000