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The Duchess of Sussex once confessed she has ‘always been a hugger’ – and today proved no different for the very affectionate Meghan Markle. The Duchess of Sussex, 42, proved her love of a hug by embracing attendees while enjoying the games in Dusseldorf, Germany. The mother-of-two has been all …

Open this photo in gallery: HMCS Summerside sails from its homeport in Halifax as Rear-Admiral Josée Kurtz raises her cap during the departure ceremony for HMCS Summerside and HMCS Shawinigan, in Halifax, on July 3.Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press Two Royal Canadian Navy warships sailed out of Halifax harbour Monday, bound …

Action men! Royal Marine commandos perform daring parachute jump onto a frozen Arctic lake as NATO forces send warning message to Putin to stay out of Scandinavia By Katherine Lawton Published: 20:11 EDT, 18 March 2023 | Updated: 20:12 EDT, 18 March 2023 Royal Marine commandos performed a daring parachute …

Britain is experiencing a wave of strikes on a scale unseen for decades. More than 40,000 rail workers represented by the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) and Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) will continue national rail strikes on Thursday and Saturday. Around 10,000 RMT members on the London Underground …

Britain is co-ordinating with its allies on a potential plan to send warships to the Black Sea port of Odesa to offer a protective escort to ships exporting Ukrainian grain. Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said yesterday he had discussed the creation of such a ‘protective corridor’ from Odesa with …

The Royal Navy cemented its position as the gold standard for maritime power after leading NATO’s staunchest naval exercises in three decades as the alliance flexes its muscles in direct response to Vladimir Putin’s aggression.  HMS Prince of Wales, Britain’s 65,000-ton ‘supercarrier’, was pictured under the aurora borealis in Norway …

Britain’s newest ‘supercarrier’ was at the centre of one of the world’s most powerful naval task forces yesterday as Nato started its largest Arctic exercise in 30 years. HMS Prince of Wales, one of two UK aircraft carriers, was in Norway for a month-long exercise involving 30,000 Nato troops from …

These images show Britain’s HMS Queen Elizabeth leading the largest and most powerful task force assembled by a European Navy in almost 20 years. The £3billion aircraft carrier – the joint largest in the Royal Navy’s history – was the crown jewel in a flotilla of nine ships which form …

Royal Navy scrambles to intercept fleet of NINE Russian warships spotted in waters close to UK NATO allies involved in the operation to monitor ‘every movement’ of the fleet Corvettes, landing ships and missile-armed patrol boats had been spotted  Commanding officers say Russians ‘operated in safe and professional manner’ By …

Royal Navy’s newest £100m warship HMS Trent breaks down nine days into its maiden voyage and hauled back to port in Gibraltar The 90-metre ship had to be dragged back to port after only nine days at sea    The Royal Navy said she was experiencing a defect and was waiting …