India to gain? Trump’s Russian diesel deal offers New Delhi leverage

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MI5 tackling more state threats than during Cold War, warns intelligence chief

- Published MI5 is devoting more resource to countering state threats than during the Cold War, the head of the intelligence service has said. Sir Ken McCallum said Russia remained "aggressor number one", and warned MI5 was now facing a situation in which "our terrorism and state threats operational missions are pretty much of equal scale" because threats fr…

Four international deals clinched at Moscow Fashion Week

The total amount of deals discussed by the participants of the seventh Moscow Fashion Week already amounts to nearly $4.2 mln

Rightwing extremists increasingly likely to consider terrorist attacks, MI5 chief says

Move from anti-immigration or anti-Muslim views to violence is ‘most marked trend’ in spy agency’s caseload over last year Extremists holding anti-immigration opinions are becoming increasingly likely to consider carrying out terrorist attacks against immigration centres and asylum hotels in the UK, the head of MI5 has warned. Ken McCallum said a shift from radicalised rightwing sentiment to violence was “the most marked trend” in the spy agency’s caseload over the past year, contributing to a r

Burnham’s Your First Home scheme ‘could boost Bellway’s house output by 10%’

Help-to-buy initiative for England could slow market while first-time buyers wait for launch, builder admits Business live – latest updates The new Your First Home programme for first-time buyers could increase the number of houses British builder Bellway produces each year by 10%, its boss has said. Faced with a chronic shortage of homes, the government has made housing one of its top priorities and Andy Burnham’s surprise announcement of the YFH scheme a fortnight ago sent housebuilders’ share

Russia invites China to invest in its hospitality sector — envoy

Boris Titov adde that a branch of Russia's National Center could also open at the Beijing Exhibition Center in the future