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Dutch Ministry of Defence wants to dismiss dozens of soldiers who have been convicted of civil offences in the last eight years. In many cases these are old convictions of which the Ministry was already aware. Lawyer Michael Ruperti told the ANP news...
The two cases have regrettable parallels: in both instances the MoD set its face against coming clean about the fate of its prisoners. Now it has been forced to admit the existence of the H1 blacksite, and is still stonewalling over the fate of Yunus...
Visiting France's Minister of Defence and War Veterans Gerard Longuet (L) and Malaysia's Defence Minister Zahid Hamidi pose for photos at the former's arrival for a welcoming ceremony at the Ministry of Defence in Kuala Lumpur February 13, 2012. View Photo »
It means it's all the more urgent that before anything gets worse, the Ministry of Defence are prepared to act. So my call today is for urgency in the Ministry of Defence that they accept their responsibilities and take the action that is necessary, and do so before March 31.
February 2012 Last updated at 10:50 ET Island services from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) will not be diminished by cuts, the chief minister has said. The Isle of Man has had an agreement with the UK since 1992 which sees an annual Manx spend of...
Mr Good added: 'We know that up to 90 per cent of all UFO reports can be explained in conventional terms. However, I would say millions of people worldwide have actually seen the real thing.' According to classified documents released by the Ministry...
Regiment soldier killed by small arms fire on patrol in Afghanistan Feb 14 2012 AN RAF airman has been shot dead during a routine patrol in Afghanistan's Helmand province, the Ministry of Defence said. The serviceman, from the Royal Air Force Regiment,...
Visiting France's Minister of Defence and War Veterans Gerard Longuet (C) and Malaysia's Defence Minister Zahid Hamidi inspect an honour guard during a welcoming ceremony at the Ministry of Defence in Kuala Lumpur February 13, 2012. View Photo »
It means it's all the more urgent that before anything gets worse, the Ministry of Defence are prepared to act. So my call today is for urgency in the Ministry of Defence that they accept their responsibilities and take the action that is necessary, and do so before March 31.
The serviceman, from the Royal Air Force Regiment, was hit by small arms fire during an insurgent attack in the Western Dashte area of Nad-e Ali yesterday. His next of kin have been informed. Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Mackenzie, a spokesman for British...
Defence to handle its Recruiting Partnering Project, a contract reportedly worth £50 million a year. In a statement this morning, Capita confirmed that it had been selected as the recommended supplier. The contract is due to be awarded in the middle of...
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Visiting France's Minister of Defence and War Veterans Gerard Longuet (L) and Malaysia's Defence Minister Zahid Hamidi pose for photos at the former's arrival for a welcoming ceremony at the Ministry of Defence in Kuala Lumpur February 13, 2012.
View Photo »Visiting France's Minister of Defence and War Veterans Gerard Longuet (C) and Malaysia's Defence Minister Zahid Hamidi inspect an honour guard during a welcoming ceremony at the Ministry of Defence in Kuala Lumpur February 13, 2012.
View Photo »This is a Ministry of Defence handout image of Prince William , left, prepares for his first sortie with a crew member at Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands Saturday Feb. 4, 2012, part of his six week deployment to the Islands. Prince William arrived in the Falkland...
View Photo »This is a Ministry of Defence handout image of Britain's Prince William, right, and his crew prepare for take off for their first sortie from the Mount Pleasant Complex, in the Falkland Islands Saturday Feb. 4, 2012, part of his six week deployment to the Islands. Prince William...
View Photo »A photo handed out by Britain's Ministry of Defence shows a Royal marines team boarding a suspected pirate vessel 420 nautical miles from the Seychelles and 350 nautical miles from the Somali coast in the Indian Ocean in this photo taken on November 28, and released on December 1, 2011.
View Photo »Police officers fill in paperwork outside of the Ministry of Defence building in central London November 30, 2011. They were on duty covering a march proceeding through central London as millions of public sector workers were due to strike today in a nationwide co-ordinated protest over...
View Photo »Iraqi Defence Minister Saadoun Dulaimin looks on joint press conference with Czech counterpart Alexander Vondra (unseen) during on January 23, 2012 at the Czech Ministry of Defence headquarter in Prague.
View Photo »Czech Defence Minister Alexander Vondra (R) and his Iraqi counterpart Saadoun Dulaimin listen to questions during a joint press conference on January 23, 2012 at the Czech Ministry of Defence headquarter in Prague.
View Photo »Czech Defence Minister Alexander Vondra (R) shakes hand with his Iraqi counterpart Saadoun Dulaimin after their joint press conference on January 23, 2012 at the Czech Ministry of Defence headquarter in Prague.
View Photo »Holger Pfahls, former State Secretary of the German Ministry of Defence, arrives at a courtroom in the court of Augsburg, southern Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. Pfahls who was part of a corruption scandal linked to former Chancellor Helmut Kohl has been convicted of hiding millions...
View Photo »FILE - March 31 2011 file photo of the Duke of Cambridge at the controls of a Sea King helicopter. Britain's Ministry of Defence has said that Prince William has arrived Thursday Feb. 2 2012 in the Falklands for a tour duty as an RAF search and rescue pilot. The prince's visit has...
View Photo »Britain's Defence Secretary Liam Fox leaves the Ministry of Defence in London in an October 10, 2011 file photo. Fox resigned on October 14, 2011 following a furore over his close friendship with a businessman with defence-related interests, Britain's Ministry of Defence said. A stream...
View Photo »Britain's Defence Secretary Liam Fox leaves the Ministry of Defence in London October 13, 2011. Prime Minister David Cameron gave qualified backing to his defence secretary, who has come under pressure for giving regular ministry access to a businessman with no official position and no...
View Photo »LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 13: Defence Secretary Liam Fox arrives at the Ministry of Defence building on October 13, 2011 in London, England. Mr Fox is to facing increasing pressure over his working relationship with Adam Werritty.
View Photo »AT SEA - OCTOBER 11: In this handout picture released by the Ministry of Defence and NATO, the RFA Fort Victoria, currently on NATO counter piracy operations east of Suez, responds to calls to assist a pirated Italian merchant ship, the MV Montecristo, along with an American Navy...
View Photo »This image made available by Britain's Ministry of Defence Tuesday Oct. 11, 2011 shows the Italian merchant ship MV Montecristo accompanied by a United States Naval vessel during a NATO counter piracy operation east of Suez, Tuesday Oct. 11. 2011. British and U.S. forces freed the...
View Photo »This image provided by Britain's Ministry of Defence shows a Royal Naval boarding team as it carries out a compliant boarding of the Italian vessel MV Montecristo east of Suez Tuesday Oct. 11, 2011. British and U.S. forces freed an Italian cargo ship and from Somali pirates in a...
View Photo »Britain's Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox, center, leaves the Ministry of Defence to go to make a statement in the Houses of Parliament in London, Monday, Oct. 10, 2011. Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday he won't make any instant judgment on whether the country's top...
View Photo »Britain's Defence Secretary Liam Fox leaves the Ministry of Defence in London October 10, 2011. British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday backed Fox before taking delivery of a report on whether Fox broke ministerial rules in his dealings with a friend who has business interests...
View Photo »Soldiers Mark Quinsey (L) and Patrick Azimkar are seen in an undated combination photograph released by Britain's Ministry of Defence in London on March 9, 2009. Quinsey and Azimkar were shot dead at Massereene barracks, in Northern Ireland in 2009. Brian Shivers, who was charged with...
View Photo »In this image made available in London by the Ministry of Defence, Thursday Sept. 1, 2011, crew members unload a large consignment of Libyan currency from a Royal Air Force C-17 aircraft at an airfield in Benghazi, Libya, late Wednesday Aug. 31, 2011. Around 280 million Libyan dinar...
View Photo »In this Ministry of Defence photo made available Sunday Aug. 14, 2011, Colonel-in-Chief of 5 Rifles, Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, visiting 5 Rifles whilst they are on exercise at Copehill Down, Salisbury Plain, England, Sunday Aug. 14, 2011. The Countess was shown around the...
View Photo »In this image made available by the Ministry of Defence, a Company Sergeant Major from The Argyll and Southerland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, checks out a Royal Guard of Honour, at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, Monday Aug. 8, 2011, before the arrival of Britain's...
View Photo »In this image made available by the Ministry of Defence, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is accompanied by the Officer Commanding the Ballater Guard, Major Nick Wight-Boycott, as she inspects a Royal Guard formed by soldiers of The Argyll and Southerland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal...
View Photo »This undated image made available by the Ministry of Defence in London, Monday Aug. 8, 2011, shows Lieutenant Commander Sarah West who is to be the first woman to command a warship for the first time in the history of the Royal Navy. West, 39, will take control of HMS Portland making...
View Photo »Visiting France's Minister of Defence and War Veterans Gerard Longuet (L) and Malaysia's Defence Minister Zahid Hamidi pose for photos at the former's arrival for a welcoming ceremony at the Ministry of Defence in Kuala Lumpur February 13, 2012.
View Photo »It means it's all the more urgent that before anything gets worse, the Ministry of Defence are prepared to act. So my call today is for urgency in the Ministry of Defence that they accept their responsibilities and take the action that is necessary, and do so before March 31.
It means it's all the more urgent that before anything gets worse, the Ministry of Defence are prepared to act. So my call today is for urgency in the Ministry of Defence that they accept their responsibilities and take the action that is necessary, and do so before March 31.
Through close co-operation with the Ministry of Defence, the industry is identifying its impact on our defence infrastructure and bearing its share of the costs of mitigating that impact ... By doing so, we expand our ability to tap into Britain's world-beating renewable energy resources.
It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of a member of the Royal Air Force on Friday 23rd December 2011. The serviceman was seriously wounded when his vehicle was caught in an explosion south of Kabul on Thursday 22nd December.
It would not be allowed in Europe but they protect their own ... The Chancellor help keep manufacturing here through better procurement. With the Ministry of Defence you can win a tender and then see it put through a reverse auction. All that means is that it goes to the cheapest, not the best value. It...
The Ministry of Defence held a fair and open competition in accordance with European Union procurement rules
The MoD [Ministry of Defence] takes any loss and theft of communications and information systems and associated media storage devices very seriously. We have robust procedures in place to mitigate against such occurrences and to manage such losses when they do occur.
The government or the Ministry of Defence should be prepared, but we have got to do it because they are not
Added to the savings made from retiring the Harrier fleet from service, this sale takes the total estimated receipts and savings to the Ministry of Defence to around one billion pounds
The new contracts continue the strategy of widening the national reach of the business as well as broadening the client base to focus on large private businesses rather than the Ministry of Defence and public sector, which the board continues to believe may be under threat from central government cost-s...
Sepa believes that the Ministry of Defence is responsible for the radioactive material present at Dalgety Bay and as such, Defence Infrastructure Organisation is the responsible party in terms of remediation.
I think the military having a role is sensible and from my point of view I think it's terrific – great people, readily trained. It makes perfect sense as long as we remember they have their operational requirements to deal with as well. That's for the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence and government ...
It comprises representatives of the three bodies – the Ministry of Defence, the army chain of command and the Provost Branch – which would be vulnerable to criticism if the case on systemic abuse is established.
I want the Ministry of Defence to recognise their responsibility - we know it’s come from previous work done by the Ministry of Defence - and to take action. They’ve got to clear the surface, they’ve got to continue to monitor this, then they have got to remedy what has been wrong here.
This is yet another example of the incoherence of last year’s Strategic Defence and Security Review. What if the Government’s bluff had been called? What would the Ministry of Defence be saying if Westminster had been hit by something? They took a big risk. The Government needs to realise there’s only a...
Now, we have taken the decision that few senior officers specially the DGP (Director General of Police), additional DGP and Home Secretary will be sent to Delhi after few days to have talks with the Army Headquarters, Union Home Department and Ministry of Defence for preparing a road-map
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been fully involved in Olympic security planning work and it is anticipated that the Armed Forces, at the request of the civilian authorities, will provide some specialist support including the use of assets where appropriate. However, this will be a police-led operatio...
DPR prepares and operates contingency plans for publicity during operations and emergencies. It also provides feedback on the reaction in the media to the programmes, policies and activities of the ministry and armed forces, and analyse the various angles of the stories. DPR acts as media advisor to the...
