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    The Spanish government has canceled the authorization that had been granted to a fleet of Russian warships, headed by the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, to make a stop at the Spanish exclave city of Ceuta on its way to the eastern Mediterranean. The ships had been due to refuel and to take on water and supplies at the North African port. According to a statement from the Office of Diplomatic Information (OID), the Russian embassy in Madrid retracted at midday today the request to make a stop after the Spanish Foreign Ministry requested clarification on whether the three vessels were going to be taking part in support or conflict actions over the Syrian city of Aleppo. Hours earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg repeated concerns that the fleet could play a ...

    Russia has revealed its biggest ever nuclear missile which is powerful enough to destroy a country as big as France with a single strike. Vladimir Putin is seeking to replace his arsenal of SS-18 Satan weapons with the new RS-28 Sarmat super-nukes. They are packed with up to 16 nuclear warheads according to pictures revealed online from the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau. The weapons – which will be ready for launch in 2018 – will make the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki look like “popguns”, experts have said. A message posted alongside the picture said: “In accordance with the Decree of the Russian Government 'On the State Defense Order for 2010 and the planning period 2012-2013', the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau was instructed to start design and development work o...

    More than 1,200 police and officials in France have begun an operation to clear the Jungle migrant camp in Calais. The camp has been housing at least 7,000 people in squalid conditions. Migrants queued peacefully to be processed, and the first of some 60 coaches that will carry them to refugee centres across France have now left. There is concern that some migrants will refuse to go because they still want to get to Britain and that weekend clashes with police could be repeated. The dismantling of the camp is expected to start on Tuesday. The UK has begun to accept some of the estimated 1,300 unaccompanied children from the camp. The first group without family ties to the UK has arrived in Britain under the "Dubs amendment" rules, which grant refuge to the most vulnerable....