#national-security-adviser

#national-security-adviser

The RCMP says it has "shut down illegal police activity in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia" connected to so-called Chinese "police stations" but it hasn't said whether it has made any arrests.In April, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino told a parliamentary committee the federal police service had taken decisive action to close down the alleged stations.

An aerial of the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.Staff Sgt.Brittany Chase (Office of the Secretary of Defen) A U.S. contractor was killed and five U.S. service members and one other U.S. contractor were wounded when a suspected Iranian drone struck a facility on a coalition base in northeast Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon said.

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA A U.S. contractor was killed and five U.S. service members and one other U.S. contractor were wounded when a suspected Iranian drone struck a facility on a coalition base in northeast Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon said.In a statement released late Thursday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said U.S. Central Command forces retaliated with precision airstrikes against facilities in eastern Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A former British ambassador to the US said people should sleep easy in their beds despite the threat of Chinese spy balloons because an awful lot of that goes on everywhere.

The Duke of Sussex has now turned against his other family, the military after revealing he killed 25 people in Afghanistan, a retired British Army colonel has said.Colonel Tim Collins, known for a pre-battle speech he made in Iraq, said Harry's conduct is not how we behave in the army.It comes as the duke faces an intense backlash after writing about his time in Afghanistan in his controversial memoir, Spare.

Iran on Monday removed its top national security official, one of the most powerful men in the country, after he came under scrutiny over his close ties with a high-ranking British spy.The security official, Ali Shamkhani, had been secretary of the Supreme National Council, which shapes Iranian security and foreign policy, for a decade, and before that worked at the Defense Ministry.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was headed to the Group of 7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, the Japanese government confirmed on Saturday, bolstered by a major shift from President Biden, who told U.S. allies that he would allow Ukrainian pilots to be trained on American-made F-16 fighter jets.

Governments in Latin America and beyond were swift to condemn the unrest in Brazil's capital on Sunday.President Biden, who was visiting the southern U.S. border, called the protests outrageous while Jake Sullivan, his national security adviser, said the United States condemns any effort to undermine democracy in Brazil.

The Secret Service said it was investigating how an intruder was able to enter the home of President Biden's national security adviser last month even though a full security detail was posted outside.Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, was not harmed during the breach, the agency's spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi, said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that the identity of the intruder remained unknown.

Vladimir Putin told Bill Clinton three years before his 2014 attack on Ukraine that he was not bound by the Budapest Memorandum guaranteeing the country's territorial integrity, according to the former US president.The revelation raises questions about whether the US and its European allies should have been more prepared for the 2014 attack, when Russia annexed Crimea and attacked the Donbas.

The King and Queen Consort are expected to arrive in Germany later after the couple's visit to France was postponed due to civil unrest in the country.Charles and Camilla were due to begin the first state visit of the King's reign on Sunday but the trip was shelved after a night of violent demonstrations across France that led to hundreds of arrests and police being injured.

"I think we could've repelled a Chinese airborne invasion of Washington that day," he said.Yet the extraordinary conversation underscored the intense fears and instability that gripped Washington in the two weeks between the Jan. 6 assault and Biden's ascension to the presidency.Those fears were prevalent throughout O'Brien's testimony, a 210-page transcript of which was released Friday.

A US aid worker and a French journalist who had been kidnapped by jihadists in the Sahel and held for years have been released.American aid worker Jeffery Woodke and French freelancer Olivier Dubois emerged from a plane that landed on Monday at an airport in Niamey, the capital of Niger.Woodke was abducted in Niger in 2016, while Dubois, 48, was kidnapped in Mali in 2021.