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The talks at London’s Lancaster House are being led by Dominic Raab and come a month before Boris Johnson hosts a meeting in Cornwall with the other leaders of the world's seven largest so-called advanced economies: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US. The UK currently holds the rotating presidency of the G7 and is aiming to carve out a new place in the world as “Global Britain” - so the meetings are “a big test to see if its global foreign policy can live up to its name”, says the BBC’s James Landale. Here are five crunch issues on the agenda today in Londo...

UK to send largest Carrier Strike Group since Falklands/Malvinas war to South China Sea The British government has given details on the massive Royal Navy/Royal Air Force Carrier Strike Group being sent to the Indo-Pacific region. The mission, described as “a truly global deployment, from the North Atlantic to the Indo-Pacific,” provocatively includes sailing through the South China Sea. It could depart as early as May 18. British aircraft carriers HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Queen Elizabeth moored at Portsmouth harbour, November 2020 (credit: WSWS media) The NATO-backed mission is being ...

Advertisement Apart from the main Quad countries – Australia, India, Japan, and the United States – many European countries are demonstrating a keener interest in playing a greater role in the Indo-Pacific, with the United Kingdom being the latest. Earlier in the week, U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace announced that the British Carrier Strike Group (CSG) led by HMS Queen Elizabeth will undertake a “global deployment” that would include visits to 40 countries including India, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. The deployment is also intended to reinforce the U.K.’s new position in ...

URL copied to clipboard In 1993, President Clinton’s newly appointed CIA director, James Woolsey, described the post-Cold War security environment and the collapse of the Soviet bloc as the United States slaying the dragon and being left in a jungle inhabited by poisonous snakes. Throughout the 1990s, the United States duly reconfigured its huge military power away from heavy armour, anti-submarine forces and other Cold War elements and towards expeditionary warfare, special forces, stand-off weapons and rapid deployment, all useful for fighting small wars in far-off places. What was no...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In order to provide an overview for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, we summarize below some of the most important international anti-corruption developments from the past month, with links to primary resources. This month we ask: Which company resolved a foreign bribery case in Scotland? What was the outcome of a three-year foreign bribery trial in Italy? Why is Brazil's former president free to run for office again, despite multiple corruption convictions? The answers t...