Tag: Cold War

• Tuesday, February 26th 2019 - 10:13 UTC

  UK's third next generation nuclear deterrence sub will be named HMS Warspite

  

  The greatest name in the history of the Royal Navy in the 20th Century will be resurrected in the 21st. The third next-generation nuclear deterrence submarine will be named HMS Warspite, Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson announced on Monday, carrying on the tradition of breathing new life into first-generation hunter-killer names.

• Tuesday, October 2nd 2018 - 08:35 UTC

  “UK would leave without a deal rather than be bullied into a one-sided agreement”

  

  Dominic Raab, the British minister responsible for Brexit has told the EU to “get real” and reach a deal with the UK, and said EU chiefs had disrespected Theresa May with “jibes” at a recent summit. Raab underlined that the UK would leave without a deal rather than be “bullied” into signing a “one-sided” arrangement.

• Wednesday, September 26th 2018 - 09:11 UTC

  Conciliatory message from Beijing to the Trump administration as bitter trade war increases

  

  China and the United States can compete but should not view each other with a Cold War mentality and should avoid falling into a zero-sum game trap, the Chinese government's top diplomat said, amid deteriorating ties between the superpowers.

• Wednesday, July 11th 2018 - 09:12 UTC

  Lord Carrington dies. He resigned as foreign secretary when Argentina invaded the Falklands

  

  Lord Carrington, a versatile British politician who held senior posts under Conservative prime ministers from Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher and who was secretary general of NATO in the last years of the Cold War, died on Monday. He was 99.

• Thursday, July 5th 2018 - 08:27 UTC

  Two British citizens critically ill after exposure to nerve gas Novichok

  

  Two British citizens are critically ill after they were exposed to Novichok, the same nerve agent that struck down a former Russian agent and his daughter in March, Britain’s top counter-terrorism officer said on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 08:59 UTC

  Guterres praises UK contribution to UN, “Brexit or no Brexit”

  

  Britain will remain a “very important pillar” of the United Nations after Brexit, the organization's secretary general has said. Antonio Guterres’s comments appear to contradict the fears of some opponents of Brexit that the UK’s withdrawal from the EU might throw into question its position as one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, alongside the US, Russia, China and France.

• Monday, May 7th 2018 - 08:14 UTC

  US Navy resurrecting Second Fleet to patrol US coast and north Atlantic

  

  With tensions between NATO and Russia rising, the U.S. military is resurrecting a fleet to patrol the Atlantic Ocean and help respond to global contingencies. The U.S. Second Fleet will provide forces along the U.S. coast and in the northern Atlantic Ocean, according to Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. John Richardson, who made the announcement Friday during a change of command ceremony in Norfolk, Virginia.

• Tuesday, April 17th 2018 - 08:01 UTC

  UK/Russia relations “worse than during the Cold War” because of Russiaphobia

  

  Diplomatic tensions between the UK and Russia deepened amid claims that Moscow was blocking investigators from reaching the site of a chemical weapons attack in Syria. The UK said it was “essential” the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was granted “unfettered access” to Douma.

• Tuesday, February 20th 2018 - 09:55 UTC

  Unearthing Corbyn's past and contacts with Czech intelligence: “ridiculous smear”, says Labour

  

  Labor party leader Jeremy Corbyn should be “open and transparent” about his alleged contacts with a Communist spy during the 1980s, Theresa May has suggested. Asked about claims a Czech intelligence officer met and tried to recruit Mr Corbyn during the Cold War, she said MPs must “account” for past actions.

• Monday, November 10th 2014 - 09:08 UTC

  “Nothing and no one can stand in the way of freedom” says Berlin mayor

  

  More than a million Germans and people from around the world celebrated on Sunday the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the event that more than any other marked the end of the Cold War.