🔴 In his first public speech as the Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Patrick Sanders will warn that the UK must be prepared to “act rapidly” to contain Russian expansionism
🔴 Sir Patrick's comparison of Russia's invasion to the rise of Nazi Germany came as a missile strike on a crowded shopping centre in Ukraine's central city of Kremenchuk on Monday killed at least 16 civilians and wounded dozens more telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴 The leaders of the G7 on Monday night branded the attack "abominable" as they vowed to hold Vladimir Putin accountable for the war crime
🔴 In a joint statement, they said: "We, the leaders of the G7, solemnly condemn the abominable attack on a shopping mall in Kremenchuk
🔴 The casualty figures were difficult to determine as rescuers searched the smoldering rubble.
On Monday night, Nato pledged to increase forces available on high alert to more than 300,000 troops – a more than sevenfold rise
🔴 The woman known globally as “Napalm Girl” has received her final round of burns treatment, fifty years after her village in Vietnam was struck by a napalm bomb
Kim Phuc was just nine years old in 1972 when she was photographed running naked and terrified from her home in Trang Bang, her body covered in third degree burns after her clothes caught on fire
📸 The iconic photo by Vietnamese-American Nick Ut, which won a Pulitzer Prize, captured the horror of the moment and came to symbolise the awful consequences of war
🗣️ “This is why I told my 10-year-old daughter about my abortion” – three @Telegraph writers reveal how they tackled discussing abortion with their kids
“I wanted to shock her into thinking about abortion as it really is”, wrote Jemima Lewis.
“A couple of months ago, my 10-year-old daughter said: ‘If I knew someone who had an abortion, I would never speak to her again, because killing babies is wrong’”
“My first thought was: ‘What a weirdly American thing to say.’
“The best way I could think of to haul her out was to tell her the truth”
🔴 Liz Truss has called on Nato allies to step up their defence spending, accusing the alliance of not spending enough "collectively" on defence in the years following the Cold War
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🔴 Russian forces have withdrawn from Snake Island off Ukraine's coast in the Black Sea as a "gesture of goodwill", the defence ministry said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴 Vladimir Putin has rejected Boris Johnson's charge that if he were a woman he would not have invaded Ukraine.
During a visit to Turkmenistan, he pointed to Margaret Thatcher's decision to send troops into the Falklands as a rebuttal of the PM's theory telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
👑An official investigation into the handling of bullying allegations made against the Duchess of Sussex will be kept secret, Buckingham Palace has confirmed
Even those who participated will be kept in the dark about its findings
The review, conducted by an independent legal firm, will never be published, nor will staff be updated on the changes made as a result
The allegations were first made in writing in October 2018, when the couple’s press secretary at the time wrote to their private secretary, outlining his concern “that the Duchess was able to bully two PAs out of the household in the past year”
🔴EXCLUSIVE: The inquiry into whether Boris Johnson misled Parliament over partygate risks becoming a "kangaroo court", Downing Street sources have claimed 🧵👇 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
➡️On Wednesday, allies of the Prime Minister accused the House of Commons' privileges committee of relying on “hearsay evidence”, after MPs ruled that witnesses will be granted anonymity
🗣️They also questioned why Harriet Harman has been allowed to chair the investigation, which could determine Mr Johnson's fate as Prime Minister...
...despite the Labour grandee suggesting as recently as April that Mr Johnson had lied
In an exclusive interview to mark his signing for @TelegraphSport, Gatland says he may look for a new position overseas when his contract with the Chiefs in New Zealand is up next summer
🗣️Speaking to @GavinMairs, Warren Gatland also highlights his concerns for the future of the Lions - even if it might harm his own chances of becoming head coach again for the tour to Australia in 2025