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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the vote paves the way for opening the accession negotiations rapidly.
North Macedonia: MPs vote for EU proposal lifting Bulgarian veto despite protests
SKOPJE — Lawmakers in North Macedonia have backed a controversial French-brokered deal that aims to settle a dispute with Bulgaria and open the way for EU membership talks.Opposition lawmakers disrupted the vote with shouts and a walkout, but it passed with 68 votes in favor in the 120-member parliament.The proposal, which was not made public since it was suggested in late June, sparked daily protests in the country’s capital Skopje with thousands gathered in front of key government buildings for almost two weeks.North Macedonia has been a candidate for EU membership for 17 years, but the beginning of talks was blocked first by Greece — which was resolved by the 2019 Prespa Agreement — only to be followed by the Bulgarian veto in 2020.The GERB-led government of former Prime...
July 17, 2022

North Macedonia: MPs vote for EU proposal lifting Bulgarian veto despite protests

Sir Tony took up his role in November 2021. — courtesy PA
No new probe into SAS claims, defense chief says
LONDON — No new investigation will be launched into allegations about the behavior of an SAS unit in Afghanistan, the chief of the defense staff has told the BBC.According to BBC Panorama, its troops may have unlawfully killed 54 people during one six-month tour in 2010/2011.Adm. Sir Tony Radakin said two independent police investigations had found "that did not happen".His predecessor had said he would have launched a probe into the claims based on the BBC's findings.The Ministry of Defense said it could not comment on specific allegations, but that declining to comment should not be taken as acceptance of the allegations' factual accuracy.Asked whether an SAS squadron had repeatedly murdered unarmed men and detainees in Helmand, Sir Tony told the BBC's Sunday...
July 16, 2022

No new probe into SAS claims, defense chief says

Tory leadership frontrunners have clashed over how best to fund public services and control inflation in the contest's first TV debate.
Tory leadership rivals trade blows over tax and spending
LONDON — Foreign Secretary Liz Truss attacked tax rises introduced under ex-chancellor Rishi Sunak as "wrong" and pledged to reverse them.But Sunak said they were needed to fund the NHS, and accused her of believing in economic "fairy tales".Rivals also sparred over Boris Johnson, trans rights and trust in politics.All five remaining candidates in the Tory leadership race took part in the Channel 4 TV debate, the first of two this weekend. They come ahead of the next round of MPs' voting on Monday.Tory MPs will whittle the field down to two final contenders next week, before around 160,000 Tory members decide the party's next leader in a postal vote.In a lively 90 minutes of exchanges, the economic backdrop loomed large as candidates were pushed on how they...
July 16, 2022

Tory leadership rivals trade blows over tax and spending

Franco A. was sentenced to five years and six months in prison for multiple offenses.
German officer who posed as Syrian refugee jailed over far-right terror plot
BERLIN — A former German soldier has been jailed for plotting far-right attacks on politicians while posing as a Syrian refugee.Prosecutors believe he was trying to pin the attacks on immigrants in a bid to destabilize the state.The officer - named only as Lt Franco A - was sentenced to five years and six months in prison.He was arrested in 2017 while trying to retrieve a handgun found by a cleaner in a toilet at Vienna airport.After his arrest it transpired that he was traveling under a false identity, and had registered himself as a Syrian refugee in Germany, even though he spoke no Arabic.Prosecutors said that Franco harbored "a nationalist, racist and anti-Semitic ideology," and had illegally acquired semi-automatic assault rifles, practiced shooting them, made lists of...
July 15, 2022

German officer who posed as Syrian refugee jailed over far-right terror plot

Paul Urey
British aid worker captured in east Ukraine dies in custody
KYIV — A British aid worker, captured in eastern Ukraine, died in custody on 10 July, separatist authorities announced on Friday.Paul Urey, who was born in 1977, was detained by Russian forces with another man Dylan Healey at a checkpoint in April, according to an NGO helping Healey's family.The two men were apparently held while driving to help evacuate a woman and two children from their home in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia.Originally from the north of England, Paul Urey is described as a family man who spent eight years in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor.In early July, a pro-Moscow separatist news agency in eastern Ukraine reported that two Britons - likely referring to Urey and Healey - were facing charges of being mercenaries, for which other British nationals had...
July 15, 2022

British aid worker captured in east Ukraine dies in custody

Firefighters were deployed to stop blazes spreading in the Cáceres in western Spain.
Thousands flee wildfires in France, Spain and Greece
PARIS — Residents and holidaymakers have fled towns and villages in France as fires are whipped up by high winds and tinder-dry conditions in several countries in Europe.More than 10,000 people have been forced to leave the south-western Gironde region in the past few days.Dozens of fires are burning in Portugal and Spain where temperatures have surged above 40C.At least 281 deaths in the two countries were linked to the heatwave.Several towns in western Spain have been evacuated.The head of France's firefighters' federation has warned of the impact global warming is having on civil protection. "It's firefighters, civil security who deal with the effects on a daily basis - and these effects aren't in 2030, they're right now," said Grégory Allione.Heatwaves...
July 15, 2022

Thousands flee wildfires in France, Spain and Greece

Apartment buildings destroyed after shelling in Obolon district, in Kyiv. Thursday's attack on Vinnytsia was far from the current frontlines.
Guterres condemns deadly missile strike on Vinnytsia
NEW YORK — The UN Secretary-General is appalled by the deadly missile attack on Thursday against the city of Vinnytsia in central Ukraine, that reportedly killed at least 22 people, far from the frontline of the main fighting in the east, including three children and wounded more than 100 others, his Spokesperson said in a statement.Cruise missiles fired from a Russian submarine in the Black Sea struck civilian areas of the city, including an office block and residential buildings, according to media reports, citing Ukrainian authorities.“The Secretary-General condemns any attacks against civilians or civilian infrastructure and reiterates his call for accountability for such violations,” the statement said.UN humanitarians report that in the past 24 hours, strikes have resulted in...
July 15, 2022

Guterres condemns deadly missile strike on Vinnytsia

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss came third in the latest round of voting in the Tory leadership contest.
Liz Truss and Penny Mordaunt in bitter battle to stay in Tory leadership race
LONDON — Backers of Foreign Secretary Liz Truss have attacked Tory leadership rival Penny Mordaunt, as they fight to stay in the race to succeed Boris Johnson.Former Brexit Minister Lord Frost said Ms Mordaunt did not "master detail" and ex-party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith questioned her level of experience.But Ms Mordaunt's supporters insisted she was ready to become PM.Ex-Chancellor Rishi Sunak came first in Thursday's second round of voting, with Ms Mordaunt second and Ms Truss third.The eliminated candidate, Attorney-General Suella Braverman, gave her backing to Ms Truss.Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Lord Frost urged former Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch, who came fourth in Thursday's vote by MPs, to leave the race and throw her support behind Ms Truss...
July 15, 2022

Liz Truss and Penny Mordaunt in bitter battle to stay in Tory leadership race

Ukraine said on Wednesday that an agreement to resume grain exports blocked by Russia appeared close as Turkey hosted four-way talks, raising hopes of an end to a standoff that has exposed millions to the risk of starvation.
Ukraine-Russia grain talks: Kiev says end to export blockade is close but UN stays cautious
KIEV — Ukraine said on Wednesday that an agreement to resume grain exports blocked by Russia appeared close as Turkey hosted four-way talks, raising hopes of an end to a standoff that has exposed millions to the risk of starvation.Kiev believed a deal was just "two steps away", Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba was quoted as saying before the talks began. Other participants, however, seemed less optimistic, and Turkey's Defense Ministry gave no details of the meeting's outcome after announcing it had ended.The talks involving military officials in Istanbul represented the first face-to-face encounter between Russian and Ukrainian government representatives in months.The session was devoted to a United Nations plan to export blocked Ukrainian grain to world markets through...
July 13, 2022

Ukraine-Russia grain talks: Kiev says end to export blockade is close but UN stays cautious

Pope Francis gestures as he leaves his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Oct. 11, 2017, in this file photo.
Pope Francis names women to bishops advisory committee for the first time
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has for the first time named three women to serve as members of the Vatican committee that vets bishop nominations.Italian sister Raffaella Petrini, French sister Yvonne Reungoat and laywoman Maria Lia Zervino will join the previously all-male office, the Vatican said on Wednesday.The appointments are the latest in a series of significant moves allowing women more say in Catholic Church governance.The dicastery oversees the work of most of the church’s 5,300 bishops, who run dioceses around the world.Its members — including cardinals, bishops and now women — meet periodically to evaluate new bishops who are proposed by Vatican ambassadors.The pope still has the final say despite the consultation and vetting process.Petrini was the first woman to be...
July 13, 2022

Pope Francis names women to bishops advisory committee for the first time

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