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The MPL-50 is particularly mythologized in Russia, the UK Defense Ministry said (file photo).
Russian reservists fighting with shovels — UK Defense Ministry
LONDON/ MOSCOW — Russian reservists are likely using “shovels” for “hand-to-hand” combat in Ukraine due to a shortage of ammunition, the UK’s Ministry of Defense said.In late February, reservists described being ordered to assault a Ukrainian position “armed with only ‘firearms and shovels’“, the ministry said in its latest intelligence update.It mentioned a shovel known as MPL-50. The tool was designed in 1869 and had changed little, the Ministry said.“The lethality of the standard-issue MPL-50 entrenching tool is particularly mythologized in Russia,” the Ministry said.The continued use of the shovel “as a weapon highlights the brutal and low-tech fighting which has come to characterize much of the war”, it said.One of the reservists described being “neither...
March 05, 2023

Russian reservists fighting with shovels — UK Defense Ministry

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Greek train crash: Mitsotakis seeks forgiveness from families
ATHENS — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has asked for forgiveness from the families of the 57 victims of this week’s train crash.In a Facebook message, Mitsotakis said that “in the Greece of 2023... two trains heading in different directions cannot run on the same line and no-one notice”.Protests have continued for days. Clashes with police were reported on Sunday as thousands joined a demonstration in the capital Athens. Police estimated 12,000 people attended the protest.Some demonstrators set fire to rubbish bins and threw petrol bombs. Police responded firing tear gas and stun grenades, clearing the central Syntagma Square of the protesters within a few minutes.The protesters also reportedly released hundreds of black balloons into the sky in memory of the dead, with...
March 05, 2023

Greek train crash: Mitsotakis seeks forgiveness from families

Former British Secretary of State for Health Matt Hancock, seen in this file photo, is embroiled in a WhatsApp message row.
Matt Hancock: Leaked messages suggest plan to frighten public
LONDON — Matt Hancock suggested to an aide that they “frighten the pants off everyone”, messages published by the Sunday Telegraph show.It appears the former health secretary discussed when to reveal the existence of the Kent variant of COVID, to ensure people comply with lockdown rules.In another exchange, the head of the Civil Service, Simon Case, suggested the “fear/guilt factor” was vital to the government’s messaging.More than 100,000 WhatsApp messages were leaked to the Telegraph by the journalist Isabel Oakeshott, who has been a vocal critic of lockdowns.The former health secretary has repeatedly criticized the leaks, referring to the published messages as a “partial, biased account to suit an anti-lockdown agenda.”In an exchange between Hancock and an aide from Dec....
March 05, 2023

Matt Hancock: Leaked messages suggest plan to frighten public

Vlad Untila attends a ceremony in the village of Molovata Noua.
Moldovan enclave that’s surrounded by pro-Russian forces
MOLOVATA NOUA — A short drive from Ukraine’s southern border, hundreds of Russian troops guard a vast Soviet-era ammunition depot in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria.This depot, these soldiers and this pro-Russian separatist region are under increasing global scrutiny.In the past few weeks, accusations have flown between Russia, Ukraine and Moldova over alleged plots to destabilize Moldova, and warnings about the potential for conflict to erupt here again.Moldova’s Prime Minister Dorin Recean has said Russian troops should be expelled from the region, amid warnings from President Maia Sandu that Moscow is planning to topple her pro-Western government.Russia, meanwhile, has been talking up the threat of a “false flag” attack by Ukrainian forces — and warned that any...
March 05, 2023

Moldovan enclave that’s surrounded by pro-Russian forces

Sunak vows to end asylum claims from small boat arrivals
LONDON — Anyone arriving in the UK on a small boat will be prevented from claiming asylum, under new legislation expected to be unveiled on Tuesday.UK Prime MinisterRishi Sunak, who has made “stopping the boats” one of his top priorities, told the Mail on Sunday: “Make no mistake, if you come here illegally, you will not be able to stay.”A new “rights brake” could stop lawyers using the right to family life to stop deportations, the paper said. Refugee groups said it was unworkable.The new legislation is expected to make asylum claims inadmissible from those who travel to the UK on small boats.It would place a duty on the home secretary to remove anyone arriving on a small boat to Rwanda or a “safe” third country “as soon as reasonably practicable” and ban them from...
March 05, 2023

Sunak vows to end asylum claims from small boat arrivals

Migrants hold banners asking for help, from a deck of the Norway-flagged Geo Barents ship operated by Doctors Without Borders, in Catania’s port, Sicily in 2022.
Ministers from five Mediterranean countries push for more EU solidarity on migration
BRUSSELS — Less than a week after a deadly migrant shipwreck off Italy, five European Union member states on the Mediterranean Sea pushed back Saturday against their northern neighbors for not accepting asylum-seekers under a voluntary relocation initiative.The ministers responsible for migration policy in Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain met in Malta’s capital, Valletta, ahead of next week’s EU ministerial meeting on migration in Brussels.The countries started working together as the MED 5 in 2021 to confront the challenges of illegal migration.Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarachi told reporters that just 1% of the migrants who arrived in those front-line nations along the EU’s southern border last year were taken in by other EU members under a voluntary...
March 05, 2023

Ministers from five Mediterranean countries push for more EU solidarity on migration

Protesters in the port city of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, peacefully rail against the train crash.
Anger, grief and protests in Greece as first funerals of train crash victims take place
ATHENS — Protesters returned to the streets of Thessaloniki on Saturday amid public anger over the deadliest rail disaster in Greece’s history.Days of rallies have taken place across the country in light of Tuesday’s crash, which killed at least 57 people, due to a perceived lack of safety measures in the transport network.The stationmaster involved is set to appear before a prosecutor and an examining magistrate Sunday after his deposition was postponed a day earlier.The 59-year-old is accused of placing two trains running in opposite directions on the same track, resulting in a passenger train slamming into a freight carrier late Tuesday at Tempe, 380 kilometers north of Athens.The government has blamed human error, and the stationmaster faces multiple charges of negligent homicide...
March 05, 2023

Anger, grief and protests in Greece as first funerals of train crash victims take place

Electoral posters are displayed in Tallinn, Estonia, Thursday. — courtesy AP
Soaring inflation and weapon deliveries to Ukraine top Estonia voter concerns
TALLINN —Polling stations reopened this morning in Estonia as the country votes in its first general election since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year.The center-right Reform Party of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, one of Europe’s most outspoken supporters of Ukraine, is a favorite to win.She faces a challenge from the far-right opposition Conservative People’s Party of Estonia, or EKRE, which is seeking to limit the Baltic nation’s exposure to the Ukraine crisis and is blaming the government for citizens’ economic misery.Early voting has been open since Monday and by Saturday 47% of the country’s one million eligible voters had already cast their ballots to pick representatives to the 101-seat parliament or riigikogu. Many Estonians prefer to vote electronically, casting...
March 05, 2023

Soaring inflation and weapon deliveries to Ukraine top Estonia voter concerns

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country “will further strengthen our relationship with the ICC”.
Zelensky says 70,000 war crimes committed in Ukraine as Kyiv moves to open ICC
KYIV — Ukraine’s top prosecutor says the country is moving towards opening an office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as Kyiv seeks to establish a special tribunal to prosecute Russian officials responsible for the war.The ICC is currently probing possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the war in Ukraine but it has no mandate to pursue the broader crime of aggression.“Today, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved a memorandum between the Ukraine government and the International Criminal Court, which will allow the opening of the office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in Ukraine in the near future,” the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin said.Kostin told a justice conference in Lviv it would “allow the ICC...
March 04, 2023

Zelensky says 70,000 war crimes committed in Ukraine as Kyiv moves to open ICC

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and Roberta Metsola in Lviv, Saturday. — courtesy Press Service of the President of Ukraine.
EU Parliament president holds talks in Ukraine with Zelensky
KYIV — The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, met with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky in Lviv on Saturday, in what is her second visit to the country since Russia’s invasion.She promised him that cooperation between Kyiv and the EU parliament would “only grow stronger”, and said she hoped that Ukraine would be allowed to begin European Union membership negotiations this year.Brussels granted Kyiv formal candidate status in June last year. It had applied just days after Russia launched its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24.In a Twitter post, Metsola praised Ukrainians as the “brave people who inspired the world” and “who sacrificed everything for our values”.Zelensky also took to social media to thank Metsola for her “leadership in supporting...
March 04, 2023

EU Parliament president holds talks in Ukraine with Zelensky

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