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[Link] British defence chief reveals new AUKUS security pact could expand to include other allies

Read: 22/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

The UK's departing Chief of the Defence Staff has signalled the new trilateral AUKUS security pact with the United States and Australia could be expanded to include other allies such as Japan.

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[Link] Nosedive in UK-US relations is another casualty of Afghanistan’s fall

Read: 23/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

So much for the special relationship. As the Afghanistan crisis has unfolded, it has precipitated a high-speed deterioration in Anglo-American relations.

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[Link] British Student ‘Lord Miles’ Evacuated from Afghanistan

Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com

Miles Routledge, the 21 year old university student who traveled to Kabul on Friday just before the Taliban overthrew Afghanistan's government, has been evacuated to Dubai, according to updates and video he posted to his Facebook page.

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[Link] Iranian state-backed hackers posed as flirty Scouser called Marcy to target workers in defence and aerospace

Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com

Iranian state-backed hackers posed as a flirty Liverpudlian aerobics instructor in order to trick defence and aerospace workers into revealing secrets, according to a newly-published study.

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[Link] Trident, aid and spies: key points in UK's integrated review

Read: 26/3/2021 www.theguardian.com

Trident: Cap on the nuclear warhead stockpile to increase for first time since the end of the cold war, to 260, ending a previous target of reducing it to 180 by the mid-2020s.

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