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'Churchill would have sacked the lot of them': Donald Trump brutally mocks Royal Navy's 'toy aircraft carriers' as Britain is forced to beg Germans for warship

'Churchill would have sacked the lot of them': Donald Trump brutally mocks Royal Navy's

The Royal Navy has been forced to borrow a German frigate after 'running out of ships' - as Donald Trump mocked Britain's aircraft carriers as 'toys'. The destroyer HMS Dragon had been due to lead a Nato mission in the North Atlantic before it was redeployed to Cyprus earlier this month in the wake of the Iran conflict. The Navy will now lead the Nato deployment using the German frigate FGS Sachsen.

Iran could hit London with a missile, Pete Hegseth says as US puts pressure on UK to join the war

London could be within range of an Iranian missile strike, US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth has warned, as the Trump administration continues to put pressure on the UK to join the war.

EXCLUSIVEFurious Republicans storm out of secret Iran briefing as shifting objectives sparks panic

Furious Republicans stormed out of a classified briefing on Iran on Wednesday amid fears of a ground invasion. Now a Daily Mail source has revealed stark new details.

Coroner orders second post-mortem on British tourist, 21, found dead in Bangkok hotel room after 'several things didn't add up'

Joshua Kershaw, 21, was found dead in a hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand, on January 14, just hours after being admitted to the hospital.

Iran rejects Trump's 'one-sided and unfair' peace plan as officials claim it is cover for a ground invasion

LIVE UPDATES: Follow the Daily Mail's coverage of the US-Israel war with Iran as Tehran dismisses a US plan to end the conflict and vows to defend itself as chaos breaks out across Middle East.

Iran's navy commander who oversaw Strait of Hormuz blockade 'is killed in Israeli strike'

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced Alireza Tangsiri's death in a video statement on Thurs

British woman faces £21,000 medical bill after falling off a beach-ride pony in Thailand and insurance firm declared it an 'extreme sport'

Her insurer later refused to pay out after classing the seaside horse ride as an 'extreme sport' not covered by her policy, leaving her and her husband to foot the bill.

Woman, 25, left paraplegic when she jumped off a roof following gang-rape ordeal dies by euthanasia: Noelia receives lethal injections at Spanish clinic after saying goodbye to family who spent YEARS in court trying to stop her dying

Woman, 25, left paraplegic when she jumped off a roof following gang-rape ordeal dies by

A woman paralysed when she jumped off a roof following a rape ordeal has died by euthanasia in Spain after courts overruled her father's efforts to stop the procedure. Noelia Castillo, 25, from Barcelona, died on Thursday at the Sant Pere de Ribes assisted living facility where she resided, bringing to an end a legal battle that has lasted more than a year and a half. While Spain's euthanasia law came into force in 2021, Noelia's case is the first to go before a judge to decide.

A bloody hellfire of missiles, rockets and drones unleashed by fanatical defenders: MARK ALMOND warns of the trap that could await thousands of US troops invading Iranian oil hub

A bloody hellfire of missiles, rockets and drones unleashed by fanatical defenders: MARK

The storm is gathering speed. After weeks of doubt over President Donald Trump's intentions, and whether America is prepared to commit 'boots on the ground' in the war with Iran, an all-out invasion at one crucial weak point is growing ever closer. US Marines and paratroopers are readying for an attack on Kharg Island, the keystone of Iran's economy. At the eleventh hour, Trump last night paused his original deadline to hit the country's energy plants and extended it to April 6.

Russia 'to begin sending drones to Iran in first evidence Moscow will provide military support in war against US and Israel'

Russia is reportedly set to begin shipping drones, medicine and food to its ally Iran in support of its efforts against the United States and Israel.

'Why the hell would I do that?' Trump in furious break with Netanyahu as he slaps down Israel's plan to topple Tehran regime

The break with Trump comes amid a widening gap between the two leaders.

Moment Iranian enforcers 'open fire on apartment buildings to stop chorus anti-Khamenei chants while pro-regime march passes by'

Iranian security forces opened fire on apartment buildings in Tehran after residents were heard chanting anti-regime slogans.

How Iran's ruthless enforcers use rape to crush dissent: Brutal sex attacks on victims as young as 12 used to strike fear into protesters, rights groups reveal

Known for their brutality, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) slaughtered thousands of protesters who dared to take to the streets in anti-government protests in January.

Stripped, electrocuted and forced to fight each other to the death on camera: New evidence shows how Putin's commanders are torturing their own men

Graphic videos show commanders beating and electrocuting their own troops, denying them food, forcing them to crawl through mud and making them fight to the death.

Tragedy of the all-women group of eight climbers who set off to scale one of the world's highest peaks - only for them all to perish in -40C blizzard after heartbreaking final radio message

In the summer of 1974, an all-women group of eight climbers set off to scale one of the Soviet Union's highest peaks - only for them all to perish in a -40C blizzard.

Every detail of Jeffrey Epstein's massive web of influence uncovered in the Mail's interactive Deep Dive into hundreds of surprising connections

From Donald Trump to Bill Gates and Peter Mandelson, Deep Dive's forensic database tracks how famous figures have been tied to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Secrets of Kim Jong Un's sexual 'Pleasure Squad': Women and girls hand-picked to 'satisfy' North Korean leaders so a young virgin's life force can be absorbed during sex

In 2015, just over three years after he became the third supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un resurrected a sordid family tradition, still shrouded in mystery today.

Horrific executions of El Mencho's 'cannibal cartel': From hitmen who cut out and ate victim's heart to mass beheadings and rivals 'blasted with flame throwers', how slain drug lord used extreme violence to spread fear

Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) frontman Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, 59, was eliminated on Sunday in a joint Mexican military and US-backed operation in Tapalpa.

Is the party over for Thailand's playboy king? He made his poodle an air force chief, spent Covid in a hotel with 20 'sex soldiers' and threw a 'disloyal' mistress in jail… but has the death of his mother changed him?

Maha Vajiralongkorn lived an extraordinarily wild, and at times outright bizarre, life that would put even history's most debauched monarchs to shame.

Inside Putin's horrific torture gulags where inmates are gassed in 'elephant masks', used as 'human furniture' and forced to endure 'Putin's phone'

While subjecting prisoners to torture is nothing new in Russia, the war in Ukraine has seen Moscow ramp up its techniques, which include electrocution, waterboarding, and the sinister 'elephant mask'.

Horror of Putin's nuclear bomb in space: Global leaders are so worried they've started manoeuvres against it . Now TOM LEONARD reveals how it would cripple the West... and that's just the start

In space no one can hear you scream, warns the memorable tagline of the sci-fi chiller Alien.

How animals have been used for espionage from Hvaldimir the roving Russian whale to American 'bat bombs' and a 'spy squirrel' unit caught behind enemy lines

The first time animals are believed to have been used was after German pharmacist Julius Neubronner developed the pigeon photograph method in 1907.

Sadistic human experiments inside Japan's notorious WW2 Unit 731 where PoWs were infected with plague, raped and buried alive are brought to life in ultra-violent Chinese movie

There are no documented survivors of Unit 731, the covert department of the imperial Japanese army that conducted lethal experiments on thousands of living humans in occupied China.

Schoolgirl's horrific gang-rape, torture and murder that sent shockwaves through Japan: How teen Junko Furuta endured 40 days of depraved abuse at the hands of four boys who burnt her alive then buried her body in concrete

Over the span of 41 days, the high school student was abducted by four teenage boys aged between 16 to 18, subjected to unimaginable abuse, repeatedly raped and ultimately murdered.

Strike by strike, how Hamas carried out October 7 atrocities in Israel - two years on

The merciless violence claimed 1,200 lives and saw thousands more injured, raped and brutalised. Hundreds were taken back to Gaza as hostages. Two years on, the dust has not settled.

Sun, sea and smugglers: The scourge of narco gangs delivering drug shipments on Spain's tourist beaches in full view of holidaying families

As sunbathers looked on and children played in the sand, a speedboat roared up to a busy Marbella beach - its masked crew leaping ashore to unload bulging packages before racing back to sea.

Tragic story behind one of the world's most iconic photos of vulture waiting for a starving child to die: How famed photographer killed himself after being tormented by guilt over shocking image

The shocking scene was captured in a picture titled The Vulture and the Little Girl - although the child was later revealed to be a young boy - by South African photographer Kevin Carter in 1993.

How AK-47-wielding ISIS fanatics turned Bataclan theatre into a 'slaughter house' as Paris marks 10-year anniversary of massacre that left 90 dead and shocked the world

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the deadliest day in France since World War Two, when Islamic State jihadists killed 130 and injured hundreds in synchronised attacks.

The Christian who threw himself to the lions - and somehow survived: Moment man who believed he was Biblical character Daniel is mauled while trying to 'convert' big cats in their zoo enclosure

When Chen Chung-ho strolled up to two African lions at Taipei Zoo, nearly 21 years ago, visitors were left confused and stunned.

Putin's new 'super weapons' that could obliterate the West in seconds: How Kremlin can trigger Armageddon at the flick of a switch with 'Flying Chernobyl', tsunami torpedo and space nuke

Deep inside Russia 's military machine, the tyrant is quietly assembling an arsenal designed not to win a war in Europe, but to decimate whole nations at the push of a button.

The girl who gave birth aged FIVE: Incredible mystery of the child who became the world's youngest ever mother

More than 85 years on, the story of Lina Marcela Medina remains one of the world's greatest mysteries.To this day, the identity of the man who impregnated her remains unknown.

The hated Far East rivals on WW3 collision course: How China and Japan could become new global flash point

It is believed that the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has ordered his forces to be ready to seize the island by 2027 and is now warning Tokyo would 'bear all consequences' if it dares to get in the way.

This little boy became one of the most influential people in the world - can you guess who he is?

The black and white image, featured in a recent documentary, captures him long before the world knew his name - just a baby with plump cheeks and a gaze full of curiosity.

Inside the whites-only town where new arrivals are strictly vetted and residents deny being racist

At its entrance stands a bust dedicated to Hendrik Verwoerd, the Dutch-born sixth prime minister of South Africa nicknamed the 'father of apartheid' for his entrenchment of racial policies into law.

Inside China's execution conveyor belt: How 'mobile injection vans and firing squads are used to put thousands to death a year' - outstripping capital punishment figures for the rest of the world combined

In 2022, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty said that at least 8,000 people per year were executed in China from 2007 - more than all other countries combined by some margin.

The curse of 'Death Island': How Thai holiday paradise of Koh Tao became a nightmarish hub of murder, suspicious deaths and rape

Local police have often explained the deaths as accidents or suicides, but many cases appear suspicious to family members of the deceased, and are often left insufficiently investigated.

The bloodthirsty gangs ravaging Brit backpacking mecca including 'Los Killers' cartel led by mass murderer and his glamorous girlfriend - as three women are tortured to death on live-stream

The subtle smirk of the baby-faced 'murderer' was plastered on every TV across South America.

The bloodthirsty terror tactics of Mexico's cartels: How ruthless drug gangs punish their enemies and spread fear from mass beheadings to CANNIBALISM - after nine students were found with hands hacked off

The gruesome discovery of nine bodies and a bag filled with their severed hands on a Mexican highway last week had cartel violence written all over it.

Brutal tactics of Ecuador's gangs who send decapitated enemies' heads to their wives and their hearts to their parents - as it's declared the toughest place on earth to be a cop

The coastal nation has seen murder rates soar in recent years as drug lords and criminal masterminds dug their hooks into fresh territory and exploited its ports for maximum profit

Putin's secret space weapon: Kremlin's mysterious Cosmos 2553 satellite 'is fitted with dummy warhead' in 'forerunner to nuke that could wipe out rival spacecraft and cause chaos on Earth'

The 'Cosmos 2553' satellite was blasted through the atmosphere from Russia 's Plesetsk Cosmodrome in February 2022 days before Putin ordered troops across the border into Ukraine.

People who have come back from the dead... and what they say is waiting for us on the other side

Across cultures, centuries, and belief systems, stories of death experiences have stirred fascination, fear, and faith in equal measure.

Global war for control of the ARCTIC: Climate change is unlocking untapped natural resources, new trade routes... and a new international conflict that RUSSIA is already winning

The melting of Arctic ice opens up a massive new frontier, unlocking a treasure trove of previously untapped natural resources, new trade routes, and strategic superiority

How a baseless internet rumour has forced Brigitte Macron to prove she is a woman in a US court: Astonishing full story that led to French president's wife facing Candace Owens

The bizarre story of how an unsubstantiated internet conspiracy theory about 72-year-old Brigitte Macron secretly being a transgender woman has snowballed into a high-profile U.S. court case.

The humbling of Macron: From getting slapped by his wife, and egged by the public to dwarf comparisons and a snub by Trump - all the times the French president was brought back down to earth

Emmanuel Macron was humbled this week after New York City cops stopped him crossing the street because of US President Donald Trump's motorcade.

The Brits who shame us around the world: Global tourist hotspots where law-breaking UK nationals end up in jail - and the criminal activities they get up to from drug smuggling to nightclub brawls

Brits Abroad has long been shorthand for chaos, from nightclub beatdowns and brawls over sun loungers to rape and murder charges at tourist hotspots around the world.

Un-believable! The Western influencers making a living by telling the world how wonderful North Korea is (maybe someone should tell them Kim Jong Un executes people who try to leave)

A new generation of social media influencers are posting vlogs and glossy Instagram photos about their positive experiences visiting the hermit kingdom.

Majorca counts the cost of rejecting tourists: Restaurants and bars say their season has been devastated after UK families took their cash elsewhere in wake of anti-tourist protests

Restaurant and bar owners in Majorca have said their season has suffered due to a plunge in visitors.

Harrowing image of migrant tragedy that shocked Europe - as thousands still die trying to reach continent: Ten years after Alan Kurdi washed up dead in Turkey, how the EU has failed to tackle migrant crisis

The lifeless body of Alan Kurdi, a two-year-old Syrian boy, was found washed up on a beach near the Turkish resort of Bodrum, his red T-shirt and blue shorts soaked in seawater.

'Women are not safe anywhere': Inside 'rape fantasy' chat rooms where men expose footage of family members - even their own sisters or mothers - to equally perverted strangers

Dominique Pelicot solicited dozens of men on the chat room Coco to rape his heavily sedated wife Gisele. The site been shut down, but countless other 'rape fantasy' groups exist online.

Inside horrifying paedophile sect run by one-eyed Nazi colonel in German-style Chilean village where children were tortured and abused... and which is now a tourist hotspot

Once known as Colonia Dignidad, it used to be a secretive paedophile sect established by a one-eyed Nazi in Parral, south of the capital Santiago after he fled Germany .

The village of wives who killed HUNDREDS of husbands: After years of horrific beatings and abuse, one woman had had enough... and led a terrifying, murderous spate of revenge

From 1911 to 1929, dozens of women across Nagyrev and the Tiszazug region turned to homemade arsenic poison to get rid of husbands, parents, lovers, and even children.

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