John Healey
UK Defence Secretary
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UK Shelves £3.4B Chagos Handover After Trump Truth Social Post: 'Do Not Give Away Diego Garcia'
Britain will not introduce legislation to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in the parliamentary session beginning May 13, the Foreign Office confirmed, after Donald Trump publicly attacked the 99-year Diego Garcia lease as 'a big mistake' Starmer was making with a claimant Trump called 'fictitious.'
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UK tracked three Russian submarines near undersea cables, Defence Secretary Healey says: 'We see you'
The Ministry of Defence disclosed on April 9 a weeks-long tracking operation against a Russian Akula-class attack submarine and two specialist GUGI deep-sea vessels. A separate 10-day operation shadowed a Kilo-class submarine through the English Channel and North Sea.