Eberechi Eze’s England career has gone full circle, with the Crystal Palace star looking to light up Euro 2024 three years on from an Achilles injury extinguishing his hopes of going to the last edition. The 25-year-old has taken the path less travelled to the top, requiring resilience to bounce back from being released as […]
SIR – Labour’s first six steps for government sound good on a very superficial level (“What Starmer’s six new pledges mean”, report, May 16). But the defence of our country is the first – and by far the most important – job of any government, and it was not mentioned. I would take Labour’s pledges […]
Budget documents released in March show that the Army’s ambitious plans to double the range of its M109 Paladin armored howitzer artillery have ignominiously bit the dust, despite delivery of functioning prototypes that fired test shots at targets out to 61 miles away. The prototype M1299 Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) sported a longer 58 […]
By Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) – Every day, nearly 60 fully loaded very large crude-oil carriers sail between the Persian Gulf and Chinese ports, carrying about half of the oil that powers the world’s second-largest economy. As the vessels enter the South China Sea, they ply waters increasingly controlled by China’s growing military, from […]
By Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) – Every day, nearly 60 fully loaded very large crude-oil carriers sail between the Persian Gulf and Chinese ports, carrying about half of the oil that powers the world’s second-largest economy. As the vessels enter the South China Sea, they ply waters increasingly controlled by China’s growing military, from […]