## British public will be called up to fight if UK goes to war because ‘military is too small’, Army chief warns

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British public will be called up to fight if UK goes to war because ‘military is too small’, Army chief warns.

The British public faces being called up to fight in the event of a war with Russia because the military is "too small", the head of the Army will warn.

Listen to this article Loading audio... General Sir Patrick Sanders will warn the Government of the need to "mobilise" the public if the UK goes to war with Russia, The Telegraph reports.

It follows a warning by a senior Nato official that the West faces all-out war with Russia within 20 years.

Read more: 'There's a 1939 feel': Tobias Ellwood warns UK 'complacent' after army chief says Brits face being called up to fight.

While the British Army chief does not support conscription, he does believe there needs to be a "shift" in the mindset of regular Brits.

Sir Patrick wants regular Brits to 'think more like troops' in case all-out war with Russia does break out. »

### Opinion | We Are Normalizing Trump. Again.

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These assessments are a major reason roughly half of American voters, according to polls, say they will not vote for him.

But even as Trump has steadily escalated his defiance of behavioral norms, a substantial share of the American electorate remains willing to cast a ballot for him.

In other words, these voters have normalized perhaps the least normal president in American history. »

### Gene Therapy Allows an 11-Year-Old Boy to Hear for the First Time

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While living in a poor community in Morocco, he expressed himself with a sign language he invented and had no schooling.

On Oct. 4, Aissam was treated at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, becoming the first person to get gene therapy in the United States for congenital deafness.

The goal of the gene therapy is to replace the mutated otoferlin gene in patients’ ears with a functional gene. »

### Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 passenger jet awaiting takeoff

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The report said the aircraft was lining up and waiting for takeoff when the “nose wheel came off and rolled down the hill”.

Boeing 757 planes have two rubber nose wheel tyres positioned side by side and are checked before flight.

A Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 aircraft, similar to the one that lost a nose wheel. »

### Turkish parliament approves Sweden’s membership of Nato

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The Turkish parliament has given its long-awaited approval to Sweden’s membership of Nato, bringing the Nordic country significantly closer to joining the western military alliance after months in limbo.

Three months after Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish president, submitted a bill on approving membership to parliament, MPs voted in favour of ratifying it late on Tuesday night.

Paul Levin, the director of the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies, said Sweden’s Nato membership would be very significant for the Nordic country. »

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