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Rishi Sunak
Problems mount for UK PM Rishi Sunak as his party suffers heavy defeat in two parliament votes
LONDON — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing difficult questions after his governing Conservative Party lost two seats in parliament on Thursday.The two by-elections – special elections that take place outside of regular election cycles – were won by the main opposition party Labour in dramatic swings that if replicated on a national level would mean a large Labour majority at a general election.The losses are particularly painful for Sunak, coming just one day after the UK officially entered recession during an ongoing cost-of-living crisis.Other flagship policies are failing for Sunak. His pledge to reduce irregular migration by stopping small boats crossing into England from France is being undermined as a key government deportation policy is repeatedly held up because of...
February 16, 2024

Problems mount for UK PM Rishi Sunak as his party suffers heavy defeat in two parliament votes

Alexei Navalny was Russia's most prominent opposition leader of recent times
Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in Arctic Circle jail
MOSCOW — Russia's most significant opposition leader for the past decade, Alexei Navalny, has died in prison inside the Arctic Circle, the prison service has said.Seen as President Vladimir Putin's most vociferous critic, Navalny was serving a 19-year jail term on charges widely considered politically motivated.He was moved to an Arctic penal colony, said to be one of Russia's toughest jails, late last year.The prison service in the Yamalo-Nenets district said Navalny had "felt unwell" after a walk on Friday.He had "almost immediately lost consciousness", it said in a statement, adding that an emergency medical team had immediately been called and tried to resuscitate him but without success."The emergency doctors declared the prisoner dead. Cause of...
February 16, 2024

Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in Arctic Circle jail

Smoke rises over an industrial site in Avdiivka on Thursday
US warns key Ukraine town could fall to Russia
WASHINGTON — The US has warned that Russia could seize Ukraine's key eastern town of Avdiivka — the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in recent months."Avdiivka is at risk of falling into Russian control," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said, citing Ukraine's ammunition shortages.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to do everything to "save as many Ukrainian lives as possible".Russian troops have made gains in Avdiivka, threatening to encircle it.The town — which has been almost completely destroyed — is seen as a gateway to nearby Donetsk, the regional Ukrainian capital seized by Russian-backed fighters in 2014 and later illegitimately annexed by Moscow.Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of...
February 16, 2024

US warns key Ukraine town could fall to Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
Zelensky to sign security agreements with Germany and France as Kyiv shores up support
KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to sign bilateral security agreements with Germany and France on Friday as Kyiv works to shore up Western support nearly two years after Russia launched its full-scale war.The Ukrainian leader will meet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin before traveling to Paris to meet French President Emmanuel Macron."This agreement follows the commitments made in the G7 format on the sidelines of the NATO summit in July 2023," Macron's office said on Thursday.The bilateral security and long-term support agreements follow a security deal between Ukraine and the UK signed when British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visited Kyiv last month. This agreement covers the next 10 years.Zelensky will on Saturday attend the Munich Security...
February 16, 2024

Zelensky to sign security agreements with Germany and France as Kyiv shores up support

Julian Assange has been held in London's high-security Belmarsh Prison since 2019
Julian Assange: Australian politicians call for release of WikiLeaks founder
SYDNEY — Australia's parliament has passed a motion calling on the US and UK to release Julian Assange, ahead of a crucial legal hearing.Assange will appear in front of the UK's High Court next week for his final appeal against US extradition.The Australian citizen, currently in London's Belmarsh Prison, is wanted in the US on espionage charges and faces up to 175 years in prison.Australian MPs voted 86-42 that Assange should be allowed to come home.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who supported the motion, has called for the Assange case to come to a "conclusion" since taking office in 2022.He raised the matter directly with US President Joe Biden during a state visit in October.It followed a cross-party delegation of Australian MPs traveling to Washington to lobby...
February 15, 2024

Julian Assange: Australian politicians call for release of WikiLeaks founder

Emergency services said the hospital maternity ward in Selydove had taken the main impact of Tuesday night's attack
Russian landing ship Caesar Kunikov sunk off Crimea, says Ukraine
KYIV — A big Russian amphibious ship, the Caesar Kunikov, has sunk off the coast of Russian-occupied Crimea, according to Ukraine's armed forces.Powerful explosions were heard early on Wednesday, according to local social media, which suggested the landing ship was hit south of the town of Yalta.Ukraine's intelligence directorate released video of what it said were Magura V5 sea drones striking the ship.Ukraine has repeatedly hit Russia's Black Sea fleet in occupied Crimea.Satellite images last year showed much of the fleet had left the peninsula for the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.Ahead of a Nato ministerial meeting in Brussels, the secretary general of the Western defensive alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said Ukrainian forces had won a "great victory" in...
February 14, 2024

Russian landing ship Caesar Kunikov sunk off Crimea, says Ukraine

File photo of Britain's King Charles III, Buckingham Palace
King Charles makes first public outing since cancer diagnosis
LONDON — King Charles III has made his first public outing since his cancer diagnosis, attending church alongside Queen Camilla.The King waved to onlookers as he walked to St Mary Magdalene’s church on the monarch’s Sandringham estate in eastern England on Sunday morning.Earlier this week he was photographed in the back of a car on his Sandringham Estate.On Monday, Buckingham Palace announced Charles, 75, had been diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer and will step back from public-facing duties while he undergoes treatment.It was identified after he was admitted to a London hospital for a corrective procedure for an enlarged prostate last month, said the palace.Prostate cancer has been ruled out to CNN by a royal source, who did not provide any further detail.He was advised...
February 11, 2024

King Charles makes first public outing since cancer diagnosis

DR Congo violence: Panic in Goma as M23 rebels advance
GOMA — Emile Bolingo is not sure how long he and other residents of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, can hold out.This major city in the region, with about two million people, has been cut off from the farms that feed it for several days.It is the latest episode in a resurgence of fighting that has seen tens of thousands added to the nearly seven million who have been forced from their homes in the country because of multiple conflicts.Rebels from the ethnic Tutsi-led M23 movement are blocking the two main roads into Goma from the north and the west and preventing produce from getting through."We are scared of going hungry if the [Congolese army] do not liberate any of the main roads very soon. You can feel the panic here... people are very scared,"...
February 11, 2024

DR Congo violence: Panic in Goma as M23 rebels advance

Hungarian President Katalin Novak announced her resignation in a live television address. — courtesy, Reuters
Hungarian President Katalin Novak resigns over child abuse pardon scandal
BUDAPEST — The president of Hungary has resigned live on television over a decision to pardon a man convicted of covering up a child sexual abuse case.It was revealed last week Katalin Novak had given clemency to a man jailed for forcing children to retract sexual abuse claims against a director of a state-run children's home.Protests calling for her to step down had been growing in Hungary. Novak apologized and said she made "a mistake" in granting the pardon.Judit Varga, the former minister of justice who approved the pardon, has also resigned from her new role leading the European elections campaign for Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ruling Fidesz party.The controversy which led to the resignations came after the names of 25 people pardoned by Novak in April last...
February 10, 2024

Hungarian President Katalin Novak resigns over child abuse pardon scandal

Ukraine's new army chief is Oleksandr Syrskyi the former Commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. — courtesy Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters
Ukraine’s new army chief faces big challenges in taking the fight to Russia
KYIV — The worst kept secret in Kyiv has finally been confirmed: the man who led Ukraine’s armed forces for two years is out of his job.President Volodymyr Zelensky replaced General Valerii Zaluzhnyi on Thursday, after 10 days of rumor and speculation — and months of a fraying relationship.The announcement comes at a critical moment in the war with Russia and is likely to herald a change in Ukrainian strategy. But it is also hazardous.The removal of Zaluzhnyi from his position as commander-in-chief comes as Ukrainian units are on the backfoot in several parts of the long front line, especially in the eastern Donetsk and Kharkiv regions.They are desperately short of shells and other munitions and running short of experienced soldiers.The Russian war machine is running at full tilt and...
February 10, 2024

Ukraine’s new army chief faces big challenges in taking the fight to Russia

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