The mother of the 200th British soldier killed in Afghanistan has angrily accused politicians of leaving troops "short-changed".

Hazel Hunt's son, Richard, 21, of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Welsh, died on Saturday after being injured on patrol.

She said troops needed more and better equipment and called Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth "stupid and arrogant".

Handing the presidency of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, in Sharm el Sheikh last Friday was like crowning the Libyan leader, Col Muammar al Qaddafi, “king of the kings of Africa”, commented Fahmy Huweidi in the Moroccan daily al Masae.

“If NAM has become an archaeological specimen that plays no role in current events, the African kings are not much different,” the writer said. “The former, if you will, is just political folklore, and the latter more of a popular joke.”

For his part, Shamlan Youssef al Issi wrote in the Emirati daily Al Ittihad that the NAM summit focused excessively on the multiple threats that globalisation poses to developing countries, which is rather odd considering that NAM members are caught in the net of global affairs.

The truth that NAM still denies is that the interests of most Third World countries revolve around the American orbit: they rely on the US in matters of economic, logistical and humanitarian aid, and, more critically, American military assistance and protection.

Handing the presidency of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, in Sharm el Sheikh last Friday was like crowning the Libyan leader, Col Muammar al Qaddafi, “king of the kings of Africa”, commented Fahmy Huweidi in the Moroccan daily al Masae.

“If NAM has become an archaeological specimen that plays no role in current events, the African kings are not much different,” the writer said. “The former, if you will, is just political folklore, and the latter more of a popular joke.”

For his part, Shamlan Youssef al Issi wrote in the Emirati daily Al Ittihad that the NAM summit focused excessively on the multiple threats that globalisation poses to developing countries, which is rather odd considering that NAM members are caught in the net of global affairs.

The truth that NAM still denies is that the interests of most Third World countries revolve around the American orbit: they rely on the US in matters of economic, logistical and humanitarian aid, and, more critically, American military assistance and protection.

Gordon Brown is to announce a root and branch rethink of Britain’s defence strategy within weeks, throwing the future of the Trident nuclear deterrent into doubt.

Defence sources say the new strategic review – the first to be carried out in a decade – will look at every aspect of national security.

The move heralds another policy U-turn by the prime minister as he clears the decks for the general election campaign.

Until now, Brown has insisted a future Labour government would spend up to £25 billion renewing the Trident missile system and the Vanguard submarines that carry them. However, his decision to include the nuclear deterrent in the planned defence review is an acknowledgement the project might no longer be affordable.

A union boss will today call on Gordon Brown to scrap Britain's nuclear weapons.

Dave Prentis reckons Trident missiles are a "criminal waste of money".

He will tell Unison's annual meeting that scrapping them will save billions of pounds.

Replacing Trident could cost £25billion, with running costs of £1billion a year.

A soldier collapsed and died of heatstroke while being subjected to an informal Army punishment known as "beasting", a court has heard.

Pte Gavin Williams, 22, of Hengoed, Caerphilly, died at Lucknow Barracks in Tidworth, Wiltshire, on 3 July, 2006.

Sgt Russell Price, 45, Sgt Paul Blake, 37, and Cpl John Edwards, 32, who carried out the punishment, all deny the manslaughter of Pte Williams.

The jury was told the punishment was "exhausting physical activity".