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• Russia threatens UK military and orders nuclear drills after ‘provocation’

  06-05-2024 17:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Vladimir Putin responds to recent statements from David Cameron and Emmanuel Macron over Ukraine warUkraine war – live updatesRussia has threatened to strike British military facilities and ordered its military to hold battlefield nuclear weapons drills in a move the Kremlin described as a response to comments from the French president, Emmanuel Macron, on western troops fighting in Ukraine and from the British foreign secretary, David Cameron, on using British-supplied weapons against Rus
  
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• Former female trainee in Royal Marines says sexual assault was dismissed as ‘high jinks’

  06-05-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Marines ‘want to protect the chain of command’, she says. ‘They don’t want to protect women’When Isabel became a trainee for the Royal Marines band, she thought she was fulfilling a childhood dream. But within a few weeks the 18-year-old found herself subject to what she describes as a sexual assault, an incident that was rapidly dismissed by her commanding officers as “high jinks” – and subsequently felt ostracised to the point where she became su
  
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