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NHS delivery drones used in a trial in 2022. — courtesy PA
UK government wants flying taxis to take off in 2 years
LONDON — The first flying taxi could take off in the UK by 2026 and become a regular sight in our skies two years later, if a government announcement goes to plan.The Future of Flight action plan, developed with the aerospace industry, also says drones and other flying vehicles will become more autonomous.It predicts that the first pilotless flying taxi will take off in 2030.But experts say hurdles such as infrastructure and public acceptance need to be overcome first.There are a number of different models, but most flying taxis look like a futuristic helicopter and can usually carry about five people.They are part of a family of vehicles called "eVTOLs" — which stands for electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.The technology for them exists now, but it is likely...
March 18, 2024

UK government wants flying taxis to take off in 2 years

A small boat crossing the Channel. — courtesy Getty Images
Rwanda saga won't be over even when law is passed
LONDON — Ten votes are expected in the House of Commons later on the government's plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.It is nearly two years since Boris Johnson first proposed the idea, to try to put people off attempting dangerous crossings of the English Channel in small boats.The House of Lords has backed ten changes, or amendments, to the proposed new law.The changes include allowing the courts to consider the safety of Rwanda and rewording the plans to allow legal challenges in cases where an individual feels they have been wrongly labeled an adult.Government sources regard most if not all of the attempts to amend their plans as thinly disguised efforts to delay, disrupt or destroy them.Conservative MPs are expected to overturn the Lords' amendments in a series of...
March 18, 2024

Rwanda saga won't be over even when law is passed

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak seen in this file photo.
Mood among Tory MPs darkens as Sunak faces leadership questions
LONDON — The mood in the Conservative Party is dark, and it has noticeably darkened over the past few days.Why? Last week was not a good week for Rishi Sunak, to say the least. First Lee Anderson, who had been suspended from the Conservative ranks over comments he made about Sadiq Khan, joined Reform, the insurgent right-wing party.Then came the reporting of alleged comments made by Frank Hester, a mega-donor to the Conservative Party.Generally Conservative MPs seem content with Sunak's decision to keep hold of the £10m he gave the party last year, but there is definite frustration at the prime minister's handling of the revelations, especially the initial decision not to condemn the reported comments as racist.But there are more fundamental reasons that the vibe appears to have...
March 18, 2024

Mood among Tory MPs darkens as Sunak faces leadership questions

The Metals Company wants Greenpeace out of UN talks for disrupting its research expedition
Battle over deep-sea mining heats up
LONDON — Greenpeace could be thrown out of the UN body overseeing controversial plans to begin deep-sea mining.One mining company claims the campaign group disrupted a research expedition in the remote Pacific.Member states of the UN's International Seabed Association could choose to strip Greenpeace of its observer status within the group.Greenpeace says the incident in question was a peaceful protest aimed at protecting a pristine ecosystem.The mining company involved, The Metals Company, accuses Greenpeace of being "anti-science".It is the latest salvo in a long-running battle over access to a trove of hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of metals lying on the surface of the seabed in some parts of the deep ocean.Green campaigners say it will cause terrible damage...
March 18, 2024

Battle over deep-sea mining heats up

A farmer at a protest in Spain
Farmers protest in Madrid despite EU concessions
MADRID — Thousands of Spanish farmers protested with tractors in Madrid on Sunday, as Polish farmers blocked a highway leading to Germany.Dozens of tractors and hundreds of farmers returned to Madrid on Sunday denouncing the European Union's agricultural politics.Organizers claimed that 1,000 people attended the protest, but the government counted 450 farmers as attending.The march started at the Ministry of Ecology Transition and ended outside the Agriculture Ministry headquarters, symbolizing the two main concerns of farmers: extensive bureaucracy and "eco" measures.Some farmers carried banners reading: “No to 2030 agenda”, meaning the EU's "Green Transition".Protesters claim that policies dictated by the European Union aimed at protecting the...
March 18, 2024

Farmers protest in Madrid despite EU concessions

Officials said the turnout was greater than 74% in the Russian election
Putin claims landslide election victory, scorns US democracy
MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin was always going to claim his fifth term as president with a landslide, faced with three other candidates all approved by the Kremlin.But when election officials said results gave him more than 87% of the vote, he said Russia's democracy was more transparent than many in the West.In truth no credible opposition candidate was allowed to stand.Supporters of dead Putin critic Alexei Navalny did stage symbolic protests.Their "Noon against Putin" initiative meant that long queues of voters turned out in Russian cities including Moscow and St Petersburg and outside many embassies abroad, but it was never going to have any impact on the result.Monitoring group OVD-Info said at least 80 Russians were arrested. There was no repeat of the sporadic attacks on...
March 18, 2024

Putin claims landslide election victory, scorns US democracy

Grant Shapps speaks during a join press conference with Polish Defense Minister after their meeting on a military training compound next to Orzysz, North-Eastern Poland. — courtesy Getty Images
Shapps 'abandoned Odesa trip over security threat'
LONDON — Grant Shapps aborted a trip to southern Ukraine last week for "security reasons", the UK Defense Ministry said.The defense secretary had to scrap his visit to Odesa last week after UK intelligence reportedly warned Russia had become aware of his travel plans.Shapps was due to travel to Odesa a day after a missile hit the city while the Ukrainian president and the Greek prime minister were visiting.Five people were killed in the strike, Ukrainian authorities said.Shapps had travelled on an overnight train from Poland to Ukraine, accompanied by chief of the defense staff, Adm Sir Tony Radakin, and a small team of British officials.The aim of their journey was to meet Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky and senior members of his wartime administration.But having arrived...
March 17, 2024

Shapps 'abandoned Odesa trip over security threat'

Iceland volcano spews lava in eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula
Iceland violent volcanic flare-up triggers state of emergency
REYKJAVIK — A state of emergency has been declared in southern Iceland after another volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula — the fourth since December.Lava has reached the eastern defenses around the small, evacuated town of Grindavik, local media said.The powerful and fast lava flows began late on Saturday — but the authorities say they have since diminished significantly.Activity around the fissure — initially 3km long (1.9 miles) ± has dissipated.Iceland's Meteorological Office said the streams of lava were still flowing on Sunday, but the rate at which they were moving had begun to slow down.The director of Iceland's Civil Defense Vídir Reynisson said all that could be done to prepare for the flow of lava had been done, and the biggest concern was the impact on...
March 17, 2024

Iceland violent volcanic flare-up triggers state of emergency

In his acceptance speech Vaughan Gething said:
Vaughan Gething to become Wales' first black leader
CARDIFF — Vaughan Gething is set to be Wales' next first minister after narrowly winning the Welsh Labour leadership election with 51.7% of the vote.Gething, who will become the first black person to lead Wales, beat his rival Jeremy Miles, who took 48.3%.He was congratulated by UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.But Plaid Cymru expressed "deep concerns" over donations from a controversial waste company in Cardiff.Gething's campaign was marred by headlines about £200,000 of cash from Dauson Environmental Group, owned by a man that had twice prosecuted for environmental offensesWelsh government minister and Miles supporter, Julie James called for a review of how leadership campaigns would be run in the future.Mark Drakeford is expected to...
March 17, 2024

Vaughan Gething to become Wales' first black leader

People stand in a line to enter a polling station around noon on the final day of the presidential election in Moscow on Sunday. — courtesy Reuters
Lines at Russian polling stations grow suddenly following opposition appeal
MOSCOW — Lines at some polling stations in Russia grew suddenly at around 12 p.m. local time Sunday, the hour at which supporters of the deceased opposition leader Alexey Navalny called on people to protest the election.A CNN team at a polling station in Moscow said the line grew rapidly over a five to ten minutes spell at around noon, and estimated 150 people had arrived.The CNN team said that police were letting people in batches through the gates to pass through security, with metal detectors and bags being checked inside the building.One 39-year old voter said he had come at noon “to see other people, and they have come too.”A woman told the CNN team, “This is the first time in my life I have ever seen a queue for elections.” Asked why she had come at that hour, she simply...
March 17, 2024

Lines at Russian polling stations grow suddenly following opposition appeal

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