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Bashar al-Assad to see 'precipitous fall in living circumstances' after fleeing Syria into exile in Moscow

People have looted his palaces in Damascus after he was deposed

Evening Standard

Terror threat to UK if Syria camps holding Shamima Begum and other IS extremists collapse, warns ex-MI6 chief

Former top spy Sir Alex Younger stressed the risks of Donald Trump pulling US troops out of Syria

Evening Standard

Vladimir Putin trying to get in Donald Trump's head to 'manipulate' him with flattery, says former MI6 chief

The Russian president was accused of ‘classic spy bluster’ with his praise for the US president elect as a ‘real man’

Evening Standard

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David Lammy’s past comments about Donald Trump ‘a concern’, says ex-spy chief

Sir Richard Dearlove said the president-elect may put criticisms of him to one side because of his strong political mandate.

The Independent UK

Israel’s Gaza action has bordered on reckless, says ex-MI6 chief

Alex Younger’s claim that insufficient care is being paid to collateral risks comes as UK is urged to suspend arms sales to Israel

The Guardian - UK

Vladimir Putin doubles down on Ukraine war aims as he labels invasion a 'civil war'

Putin boasted that 244,000 Russian troops are in the battlefield while a further 486,000 soldiers have signed a contract with the Russian military

Evening Standard

Putin not winning Ukraine war, says ex-MI6 chief as the Russian president talks up his military campaign

Sir Alex Younger, former head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, stressed the conflict had seen an estimated 350,000 Russian soldiers killed or injured with frontlines now 'entirely static'

Evening Standard

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Gaza war stoking 'unparalleled' threat of UK extremism, ex-MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger warns

The Met has stepped up arrests of people waving extremist anti-Israel banners at recent pro-ceasefire rallies in London

Evening Standard

Sussexes condemn ‘all acts of terrorism and brutality’ amid Israel-Hamas war

International aid groups said deaths in Gaza could accelerate as Israel prevents the passage of supplies.

The Independent UK

Egypt warned Israel of Hamas attack days earlier, senior US politician says

Head of US foreign affairs committee says warning was given, but it is unclear ‘at what level’, supporting claims reported from Egyptian sources

The Guardian - UK

UK resists calls to label China a threat following claims a Beijing spy worked in Parliament

The British government is resisting calls to label China a threat to the U.K.

The Independent UK

Richard Osman ‘tapped on the shoulder’ at Cambridge by MI6 – but failed the test

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

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine not Russia has the ‘strategic patience’ to win the war, says Britain after Wagner revolt against Putin

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

Evening Standard

Britain takes threat from China ‘deadly seriously’, says minister amid spy balloon row

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.

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Chinese cameras leave British police vulnerable to spying, says watchdog

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

The Independent UK

Britain must ‘wake up’ to China security challenges, ex-MI6 head says

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

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Putin Could Be Replaced By More Extreme Leader, Warns Former UK Spy Chief

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

Evening Standard

Ukraine’s Kherson offensive is more symbolic than strategic

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…

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The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Kherson: the cost of war in Ukraine

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

Daily Mirror

World is closer to nuclear war than Cuban Missile Crisis, Russian academic says

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"

The Independent UK

We are closer to nuclear war than in Cuban Missile Crisis – Khrushchev relative

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

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin 'gambled' with Ukraine invasion but 'doesn't have a reverse gear'

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"

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