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Presenter and crime author says he interviewed for role of spy but ‘would have been terrible’

James Cleverly says Kyiv’s forces are ‘steadily clawing back their territory’ with the summer counter-offensive

Britain takes the threat from China “deadly seriously”, a Government minister said on Thursday as a review was being carried out into whether Beijing is targeting the country with spy balloons.

Warning in surveillance commissioner’s report comes after Chinese CCTV cameras banned from government property

UK is reviewing its security measures after the US claimed to have downed a Chinese spy balloon

The former head of Britain's MI6 recently said Russian President Vladimir Putin could be replaced by someone more extreme

The story of the Ukrainians’ long-heralded counter-offensive on the city of Kherson is one of symbol as much as substance. Their forces have attacked across a 50-mile front, targeting five or six key strongpoints, to cut off and destroy Russian forces in Kherson, the first major strategic city seized by…

Editorial: As Kyiv struggles to take the initiative, the humanitarian crisis grows

Nina Khrushcheva, an academic whose great-grandfather was leader of the Soviet Union during the 1962 standoff, warned the conflict in Ukraine is more dangerous because neither side appears prepared to "back off"

Nina Khrushcheva, whose great-grandfather was the Soviet Union leader during the 1962 standoff, said the present conflict is more dangerous.

Former MI6 boss Sir Alex Younger has said that Vladimir Putin "gambled" with his invasion of Ukraine and warned the Kremlin leader "doesn't have a reverse gear"