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Defence secretary says lessons from Ukraine highlight need for homegrown supply chainBritain is set to significantly increase its weapons production in order to no longer rely on importing from the US and France.This comes as British and European defence companies move away from buying US-made weaponry and equipment due to concerns over president Donald Trump making the country an unreliable military partner. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/21/britain-set-to-increase-weapons-production-to-avoid-relying-on-us-imports Author : Aneesa Ahmed Publish date : 2025-04-20 23:06:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Peter Dutton promises a suite of law and order policies on the eve of early voting opening. Follow the day’s news livePolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastCash quizzed on whether Coalition ‘drugs and thugs’ crackdown includes domestic violenceCash keeps says the policies will tackle drugs and thugs, but Sally Sara asks her: what is the Coalition doing about family and domestic violence?Sally, this particular announcement is all about drugs and organised crime,

Maura Healey says president targeting universities hurts US ‘competitiveness’ and affects research and hospitalsMassachusetts governor Maura Healey said on Sunday that Donald Trump’s attacks on Harvard University and other schools are having detrimental ripple effects, with the shutdown of research labs and cuts to hospitals linked to colleges.During an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation, the Democratic governor said that the effects on Harvard are damaging “American competitiveness”, since a number of researchers are leaving the US for opportunities in other countries. After decades of investment in science and innovation, she said: “intellectual assets are being given away.” Continue reading...

Chris Van Hollen says ‘if we deny constitutional rights of this one man, it threatens constitutional rights of everyone’US senator Chris Van Hollen, who travelled to El Salvador last week to meet Kilmar Ábrego García, the man at the center of a wrongful deportation dispute, said on Sunday that his trip was to support Ábrego García’s right to due process because if that was denied then everyone’s constitutional rights were threatened in the US.The White House has claimed Ábrego García was a member of the MS-13 gang though he has not been charged with any gang related crimes and the