📺EXCLUSIVE: Russia's leaders believe they are "at war" with the UK & its allies but 🇬🇧is failing to deter the threat, a former spy who wrote a dossier on Donald Trump says. Christopher Steele suspects Russian agents may even have left him a "calling card"
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Christopher Steele also claimed:
- He had evidence of Russian hostilities against UK, including during #Brexit referendum
• Moscow thinks it could possibly collapse EU
• His wife's career as a crown servant suffered in dossier fallout & she retired early
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Former #MI6 officer behind Trump dossier "surprised & disappointed" after @theresa_may played down his links to UK government.
Christopher Steele said he'd spent hours briefing her in 2010 & had been reviewing official UK papers days before dossier leaked.
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EXCLUSIVE: From rowdy debates with a tipsy @BorisJohnson as students to chatting with last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev & possibly having tea ("not poisonous") poured for him by a young Vladimir Putin - former British spy Christopher Steele speaks out

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Russian agents may have targeted ex-spy Christopher Steele after Trump dossier became public. Intruders left 2 wedding rings in his wife’s washbag. Asked what message they were sending, he said "We know where you are. We can get to you. Don't think you'll be able to hide from us” Image

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6 Oct
EXCLUSIVE: NATO has decided to halve the size of Russia’s mission to the alliance in response to suspected malign Russian activities, including killings & espionage. 8 diplomats, thought to be undeclared intelligence officers, will be asked to leave & 2 other positions scrapped
A NATO official said: “We can confirm that we have withdrawn the accreditation of eight members of the Russian Mission to NATO, who were undeclared Russian intelligence officers. 1/3
"We can also confirm that we have reduced the number of positions which the Russian Federation can accredit to NATO to 10. 2/3
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5 Oct
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Sir Simon Gass, the Prime Minister's High Representative for Afghan Transition, and Dr Martin Longden, the Chargé d'Affaires of the UK Mission to Afghanistan in Doha, met with senior Taliban leaders.
The diplomats "discussed how the UK could help Afghanistan to address the humanitarian crisis, the importance of preventing the country from becoming an incubator for terrorism, & need for continued safe passage for those who want to leave the country," the UK spokesperson said
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30 Aug
BREAKING: US-led @coalition against Islamic State says they will leverage their "expertise & the efforts of its working groups" to go after ISIS in Afghanistan & other global branches as well as in Iraq & Syria
In a statement on ISIS attacks in Kabul, @coalition says: "The Coalition & its partners continue to stand shoulder to shoulder, as we did when we fought to achieve the territorial defeat of Daesh/ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

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ISIS = determined enemy & we will continue to take necessary action to ensure its enduring defeat. To that end, we are focused on leveraging the Coalition’s expertise & the efforts of its working groups to counter Daesh/ISIS’ global branches, including Daesh/ISIS-Khorasan...

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26 Aug
BREAKING: UK defence source confirms there were two explosions outside Kabul airport. One explosion occurred by Barons Hotel, followed by small arms fire, then a second explosion occurred by Abbey Gate. No UK military casualties, according to initial assessment
UPDATE: A former interpreter with UK forces who was with his wife, 3-month-old baby girl & 3-yr-old son desperately waiting for an evacuation flight said the explosions were near them. His family is safe but he said: “It was like doomsday, injured people everywhere”
Here is what the former interpreter said he saw (he was by the Baron Hotel with his young family - site of the suspected suicide bombing): "The explosion was near us & it was a bit strong. I saw people running with blood on their faces & bodies"
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26 Aug
BREAKING: UK minister says the terrorist threat to the evacuation effort at Kabul airport and the handling centres, processing desperate people trying to flee, is "very imminent, very credible, very lethal"
Armed Forces Minister @JSHeappey looks distraught, having to ask desperate Afghans to avoid the airport, their best chance of escape from Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. But he tells @SkyNews "In all good conscience... we had to share that very, very real threat with people in Kabul"
Offering more detail on the specific threat, @JSHeappey said: "Intelligence over the course of the week has become ever more certain around the highly credible, imminent, lethal attack onto the airport or the handling centres being used by western forces."
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25 Aug
NEW: Brigadier Dan Blanchford, commander in charge of UK evacuation mission from Kabul says the operation is now airlifting around 2,000 people per day to safety, with more than 10,000 Afghans and UK nationals rescued from the country since it started
The UK mission - Operation Pitting - has also evacuated people from 38 other countries to safety at the request of their respective governments, the brigadier said, speaking from the airport in the Afghan capital
With the deadline of 31 August for exit of all US-led troops looming, Brigadier Blanchford said: "We continue to redouble our efforts... to identify those that are most vulnerable & most at risk & find ways to bring them onto the airport so we can process them and get them out"
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