US withdraws all bomber aircraft from UK base

The United States confirmed on Sunday that it has withdrawn all B-1 bombers from the British airbase of RAF Fairford, with officials telling US media that the move was linked to “new threats”. Police were called to the base in southwest England on September 27 after a local farmer reported a group of men with several vans engaged in “suspicious” activity. The scare prompted a counter-terrorism probe and forced evacuations at 85 homes near the airbase, which was used by th