Sunday, 30 November 2025

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond last week visited a military port to witness the return of dozens of armoured vehicles from Afghanistan, Vigilance can report.

According to a source at the MoD the Defence Secretary arrived at the Marchwood Sea Mounting Centre, near Southampton, as a total of 94 vehicles were unloaded following transit from a port in the Middle East. The source said the latest delivery meant that more than 1,000 vehicles and pieces of major equipment had been redeployed from Afghanistan to date, adding thus far, more than 1,080 vehicles and pieces of major equipment have been redeployed to the UK, alongside 1,570 containers of materiel from Afghanistan.

 

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The diplomatic troika: Joint Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi (centre), US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov hold joint press conference in Geneva. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferreé

Last week in Geneva, the United Nations-Arab League Joint Representative Lakhdar Brahimi held  a meeting with senior officials from Russia and the United States which sought a diplomatic alternative instead of resorting to military actions in resolving the Syrian imbroglio, especially the dismantling of the chemical weapons which the Syrian State under the wild donkey Al-Bashir Assad had unleashed on his hapless compatriots on August 21, 2013.

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Blaming cloud providers for giving in to the demands of US intelligence is a naive perspective on a more complex issue. European organisations should consider other deployment alternatives, says Jes Breslaw, Director Cloud Solutions, EMEA, Accellion

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