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The SAS could lose a vital training base in the Far East if Jeremy Corbyn becomes the next prime minister, senior defence officials have warned. Concerns have been raised about the future of the British garrison in Brunei after senior Labour figures called for a boycott following the country’s rulers’ decision  to introduce death by…

A British teenager who claimed she was gang-raped by Israeli tourists in the party resort of Ayia Napa bore no physical signs of a serious sexual assault, a doctor told a court in Cyprus on Friday. Giving evidence for the prosecution, Dr Sophocles Sophocleous said he found a few light bruises on the young woman’s…

Germany is to tighten its laws against anti-Semitic hate crimes in the wake of last month’s failed attack on a synagogue by a far-Right gunman. “I am ashamed that Jews no longer feel safe in Germany and that so many are even thinking of leaving the country,” Christine Lambrecht, the justice minister, told German MPs. “We have…

Jean-Claude Juncker will go down in history as the man who succeeded in keeping Greece in the European Union but failed to prevent Britain voting to leave in the Brexit referendum. The president of the European Commission retires at the end of today in Brussels, after decades enmeshed in the machinations of EU politics and five tumultuous…

The three alleged murderers of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia were allegedly paid €150,000 to kill her with a car bomb, according to new claims. The alleged assassins initially planned to murder the anti-corruption crusader by shooting her with a rifle, but in the end opted for a bomb which they planted inside her car.…

Angela Merkel launched a spirited defence of Nato on Wednesday in what was widely seen as a public rebuke to France’s Emmanuel Macron. The transatlantic alliance is more important to Europe’s security today than it was at the height of the stand-off with the Soviet Union, Mrs Merkel told the German parliament “More even than during…

Beijing has amped up efforts to discredit a man claiming to be a former Chinese spy, who is seeking asylum in Australia and has given Canberra information, alleging Chinese political interference abroad. On Wednesday, Chinese state media released video footage it said showed Wang Liqiang, who is attempting to defect to Australia, in a Chinese…

Australia’s ferocious bush fire season reignited on Thursday with a huge number of fires, many of them out of control, causing smoke to blanket a number of major cities. By early afternoon, dozens of fires were burning across the southeastern state of Victoria and temperatures of 40.9C (105.6 F) in Melbourne, its capital, matched the hottest day…

North Korea fired two "unidentified projectiles" on Thursday, Seoul said, as nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington remain deadlocked. The projectiles were fired eastwards from South Hamgyong province and came down in the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. They added that the launch, the latest in a…

Russian cows have been given virtual reality headsets in a bid to boost milk yields by making the animals think they live in a permanently sunny pasture. The Moscow agriculture ministry, which announced the pilot project at a large dairy farm outside the capital, cited research that happy cows produce more milk, saying “the quantity,…