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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia. — courtesy photo Sputnik
Putin imposes martial law in four Russia-annexed regions of Ukraine
MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin on Wednesday imposed martial law in the four territories that Russia annexed from Ukraine last month. Russia's president made the order for Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia.It came during a meeting of the Russian Security Council on Wednesday. In a set of televised remarks, Putin instructed the government to set up a special coordinating council under Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to work with Russia's regions to boost Moscow's war effort in Ukraine.The Kremlin then issued a decree announcing the entry into force of martial law in these territories from Thursday midnight.It came on the same day that Russian-installed officials in Kherson, one of the four occupied regions, said they were "evacuating" tens of thousands of civilians...
October 19, 2022

Putin imposes martial law in four Russia-annexed regions of Ukraine

Over 200 ITA flights have been canceled on Friday, Oct. 21, due to a national strike.
Italy airport strikes to disrupt flights on Friday
ROME — A national strike will disrupt flights to and from Italy this Friday, Oct. 21. National carrier ITA Airways has canceled over 200 domestic and international flights as a result. Many of these are to and from Rome and Milan.Flights with other airlines will also be impacted. According to easyJet, the strike will affect air traffic control and ground handling services.Travelers are advised to allow extra time for their journey and to check their flight status in advance.On its website, easyJet stated: “Like most airlines operating to and from Italy, we may see some disruption to our flying program on this date”.While they refer to the situation as “outside of our control”, the airline promises to minimize disruption as much as possible.According to Italy’s National Civil...
October 19, 2022

Italy airport strikes to disrupt flights on Friday

Liz Truss speaking in front of Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt (back) during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons, London, Wednesday.
‘I’m a fighter not a quitter,’ Truss tells Starmer in first parliament clash since budget U-turns
LONDON — Liz Truss has insisted she is “a fighter not a quitter” as she appeared at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in parliament for the first time since her budget plan collapsed amid economic and political turmoil.It came on a day that saw more bad economic news, the UK’s annual inflation rate returning to a 40-year high of over 10%, in another illustration of the country’s cost-of-living crisis.In a series of feisty replies to opposition politicians who mocked recent U-turns, the prime minister said she had made it clear that she had made mistakes, but was getting “on with the job” to help the British people.Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer began with a joke about a book on Truss’ time in office, billed as being “out by Christmas”. Was this referring to the...
October 19, 2022

‘I’m a fighter not a quitter,’ Truss tells Starmer in first parliament clash since budget U-turns

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson introduces the new government ministers during a news conference in Stockholm, Sweden. — courtesy TT
‘Devastating consequences’ as new Swedish government scraps Environment Ministry
STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s new right-wing government has sparked an outcry after scrapping the Ministry of Environment in a move the opposition has branded “devastating”.Previously, the ministry was a high-profile stand-alone department with a minister in the Cabinet, but now it will operate as part of another ministry instead.Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson unveiled his new Cabinet on Tuesday, and although he did appoint a Minister of Climate and Environment — 26-year-old Liberal MP Romina Pourmokhtari — she will work under Christian Democrat leader Ebba Busch, the new Minister for Energy, Business and Industry, rather than lead her own ministry.The leader of the Swedish Greens, Per Bolund, noted that for the first time in 35 years Sweden would have no dedicated Environment...
October 19, 2022

‘Devastating consequences’ as new Swedish government scraps Environment Ministry

File photo of Liz Truss during a recent interview in London.
This is not the time to change Conservative leader, minister argues
LONDON — This is not the time to be changing leader, Armed Forces Minister James Heappey has argued, as he defended the prime minister.Suggestions that there is a candidate to replace Liz Truss who would unite the party is “for the birds”, he added.Truss has insisted she will lead the Conservatives into the next general election, despite U-turns leaving her battling to salvage her authority.Labour is calling for an election regardless of Truss’s position.Speaking to the BBC’s Political Editor Chris Mason, Truss apologized for the mistakes she made over the ill-fated mini-budget.On Monday, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt reversed almost all of the tax-cutting proposals laid out last month by former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng.The prime minister chaired a meeting of the cabinet on Tuesday...
October 18, 2022

This is not the time to change Conservative leader, minister argues

Arne Schoenbohm, president of the Federal Office for Information Security, seen in this file photo has been dismissed following reports of possible ties to Russian intelligence.
German cybersecurity chief sacked over alleged ties with Russia
BERLIN — The head of Germany's national cybersecurity agency has been dismissed following reports of possible ties to Russian intelligence.Germany's Interior Minister Nancy Faeser dismissed Arne Schönbohm as head of the BSI agency, German news agency DPA reported.Schönbohm co-founded a cybersecurity group a decade ago that brings together experts from public institutions and the private sector.German media have reported that one of its members is a company founded by a former Russian intelligence agent and that Schönbohm was believed to have maintained relations with the group.The German government said more than a week ago that it was investigating the reports comprehensively."These accusations must be decisively investigated," Konstantin von Notz, the head of the...
October 18, 2022

German cybersecurity chief sacked over alleged ties with Russia

At least 50 meters (164ft) of an underwater pipeline bringing Russian gas to Germany is thought to have been destroyed by a blast last month.
Nord Stream blast ‘blew away 50 meters of pipe’
OSLO — At least 50 meters (164ft) of an underwater pipeline bringing Russian gas to Germany is thought to have been destroyed by a blast last month.Video shot by a Norwegian robotics company, published by Swedish newspaper Expressen, appears to show the massive tear in the Nord Stream 1 pipe.Danish police believe “powerful explosions” blew four holes in the pipe and its newer twin, Nord Stream 2.It is still unknown who or what caused the blasts amid suspicions of sabotage.Gas deliveries have been suspended since the Sept. 26 explosions on the concrete-reinforced steel pipes crossing the Baltic Sea.The Kremlin has accused Western investigators of seeking to blame Russia for the damage.“Elementary logic” shows damaging the pipeline was not in the Russian interest, Kremlin...
October 18, 2022

Nord Stream blast ‘blew away 50 meters of pipe’

Emsland nuclear power station in northwest Germany. — courtesy photo
Germany extends nuclear power amid energy crisis
BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered the country’s three remaining nuclear power stations to keep operating until mid-April, as the energy crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine hurts the economy.Originally Germany planned to phase out all three by the end of this year.Scholz’s order overruled the Greens in his coalition, who wanted two plants kept on standby, to be used if needed. Nuclear power provides 6% of Germany’s electricity.The decision to phase it out was taken by former chancellor Angela Merkel after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.But gas prices have soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, which disrupted Russia’s huge oil and gas exports to the EU. In August Russia turned off the gas flowing to Germany via the Nord...
October 18, 2022

Germany extends nuclear power amid energy crisis

This picture of Lola was shared by her mother in a Facebook appeal. — courtesy Facebook
Paris shocked by murder of Lola, 12, found in box
PARIS — Parisians have been stunned by the shocking murder of a 12-year-old schoolgirl whose body was found on Friday in a container in the courtyard of her apartment building.The girl, named Lola, had spent the day normally at school. Her father raised the alert when she failed to return home in the afternoon.Later in the evening, a transparent plastic packing box containing her body was found at the foot of the building in the 19th arrondissement.Lola’s father is employed as a concierge in the residential block. Her body was found squashed inside the container, hidden by a covering of material.Her hands and feet were tied and she was reported to have a gash on her neck, though the autopsy this weekend found she had died of asphyxiation. Two Post-it notes were also on her feet, one...
October 18, 2022

Paris shocked by murder of Lola, 12, found in box

Smoke rises after Russian shelling in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday.
‘Critical’ threat to power supplies as new Russia strikes hit energy plants
KIEV — Ukraine’s government has described the situation as “critical” after new Russian strikes pounded the country’s power plants on Tuesday, causing major blackouts as winter approaches.The latest assaults look like a coordinated attempt to destroy Ukraine’s electricity and water supplies before winter, with energy facilities struck in or near several cities including Kiev, Dnipro, Kharkiv and Zhytomyr.Two people have been killed in the attacks on the capital, while a man died after a Russian missile struck a block of flats in the southern port of Mykolaiv, the authorities said.“Another kind of Russian terrorist attacks: targeting (Ukraine’s) energy & critical infrastructure,” President Zelensky wrote on Twitter. “Since Oct 10, 30% of Ukraine’s power stations have...
October 18, 2022

‘Critical’ threat to power supplies as new Russia strikes hit energy plants

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