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Black smoke and dirt rise from the nearby city of Severodonetsk during battle between Russian and Ukrainian troops in the eastern Ukraine region of Donbas on June 9, 2022.
War in Ukraine reaches pivotal moment, intelligence officials say
WASHINGTON — Ukraine's military is burning through Soviet-era ammunition that fits older systems as the country pleads with the West to send more heavy weaponry and Russia amasses a significant artillery advantage around two strategically important cities in eastern Ukraine.Western intelligence and military officials believe Russia's war in Ukraine is in a critical stage that could determine the long-term outcome of the conflict, according to multiple sources familiar with US and other Western intelligence.This pivotal moment could also force a tough decision for Western governments, which have up until now offered support to Ukraine at a steadily increasing cost to their own economies and national stockpiles of weapons.US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is poised to lead a...
June 15, 2022

War in Ukraine reaches pivotal moment, intelligence officials say

Nicola Sturgeon
Scotland looks to Europe as new independence campaign launched
EDINBURGH — Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has unveiled her new plan to hold a referendum on independence, comparing Scotland with other European countries and laying out her case that Scotland would be fairer, wealthier and happier apart from the UK."After everything that has happened, Brexit, COVID, Boris Johnson, it is time to set out a different and better vision," Sturgeon told journalists at Bute House, her official residence in Edinburgh."Do we stay tied to a UK economic model that consigns us to relatively poor economic and social outcomes that are likely to get worse not better outside the European Union? Or do we instead lift our eyes with hope and optimism and take inspiration from comparable countries across Europe?" the first minister...
June 15, 2022

Scotland looks to Europe as new independence campaign launched

Demonstrators protest outside Hillsborough Castle, ahead of a visit by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in Hillsborough, Northern Ireland, Monday, May, 16, 2022.
EU relaunches legal action against UK over unilateral Brexit changes
BRUSSELS — The European Union announced on Wednesday that it will relaunch legal action against the UK over a draft law London unveiled that would override parts of the Brexit treaty.The Commission first began "an infringement procedure" against the UK in March 2021 but put it on hold in July that year to create space for more discussions over the key Brexit agreement which leaves Northern Ireland within the bloc's Single Market, creating a de-facto border in the Irish Sea.The UK government, which negotiated and agreed to the agreement -- called the Northern Ireland Protocol -- is now saying it endangers the Good Friday Agreement which ended decades of bloody sectarian violence in Ireland.They say that it is leading to political instability since Unionists, who want to...
June 15, 2022

EU relaunches legal action against UK over unilateral Brexit changes

A Boeing 767 aircraft at MoD Boscombe Down, near Salisbury, which is believed to be the plane set to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda.
UK-to-Rwanda asylum flight canceled after legal action
LONDON — The first flight due to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda was canceled minutes before take-off after legal rulings on Tuesday evening.Up to seven people had been expected to be removed to the east African country.But the flight was stopped after a late intervention from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) led to fresh challenges in the UK courts.Home Secretary Priti Patel said she was "disappointed" but added: "Preparation for the next flight begins now."However, James Wilson from campaign group Detention Action said the rare intervention from the ECtHR "shows how potentially dangerous" the Rwanda removals are.He said the court had recognized no one should be forced on to a plane until the policy was fully scrutinized in a High Court...
June 15, 2022

UK-to-Rwanda asylum flight canceled after legal action

A 6-month-old, malnourished boy in South Sudan receives milk through a feeding tube. . — courtesy  UNICEF/Bullen Chol
South Sudan: UN humanitarians forced to cut aid to 1.7 million people
GENEVA — Food assistance to 1.7 million people in South Sudan has been suspended, the UN World Food Program (WFP) said on Tuesday, citing a funding crunch and rising needs.The agency said that had left humanitarians essentially in ‘famine-prevention mode”.Adeyinka Badejo-Sanogo, WFP Acting Country Director in South Sudan, said they had planned to provide food assistance to 6.2 million people this year, “but faced with increasing humanitarian needs and insufficient funding, we have taken the painful step to suspend food assistance to 1.7 million people.“These are people that are experiencing emergency and crisis levels of food insecurity, what we call IPC4 and IPC3.”‘Help to survive’The WFP official explained that more than two in three people are experiencing a serious...
June 14, 2022

South Sudan: UN humanitarians forced to cut aid to 1.7 million people

A view of the Dresden nuclear plant
MEPs strike down EU plans to label nuclear and gas as green investment
BRUSSELS — The European Commission’s highly controversial plan to label gas and nuclear as sustainable energy sources was on Tuesday struck down by two key parliamentary committees.The Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee and the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee rejected the proposal on Tuesday, with 76 MEPs voting to object and 62 voting in favor.In a statement, MEPs on the committees said they "recognize the role of nuclear and fossil gas in guaranteeing stable energy supply during the transition to a sustainable economy.""But, they consider that the technical screening standards proposed by the Commission, in its delegated regulation, to support their inclusion do not respect the criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities as...
June 14, 2022

MEPs strike down EU plans to label nuclear and gas as green investment

A woman in a burkini in Marseille in southern France.
French burkini ban challenged by Grenoble in top court
PARIS — The city of Grenoble has gone to France's highest administrative court to challenge a ban imposed on a new city rule allowing full-body "burkini" swimsuits in public pools.Grenoble's decision to authorize all swimwear, including burkinis, sparked a legal battle with the government.Burkinis are worn largely by Muslim women, as a way of preserving modesty and upholding their faith.Ahead of Tuesday's court case, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin described Grenoble city council's swimwear policy as an "unacceptable provocation" that was contrary to French secular values. Last month, a local court in Grenoble suspended the policy on the grounds that it seriously undermined the principle of neutrality in public services.The ban on burkinis in...
June 14, 2022

French burkini ban challenged by Grenoble in top court

Yana Skakova and her son Yehor who fled from Lysychansk with other people sit in an evacuation train at the train station in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, May 28, 2022.
Civilians trapped as last bridge to key city destroyed
KYIV — Russian forces have destroyed the last bridge linking the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk to a Ukrainian held city on the other side of the river, cutting off all routes of evacuation for those remaining in the city, a Ukrainian official said on Monday evening.Sergei Gaidai, the governor of Lugansk, said on social media that some 70% of Sievierodonetsk was now under Russian control, describing the situation for Ukrainian soldiers holding out in the city as "difficult, but under control".At the same time, the destruction of the last bridge across the river to the twin city of Lysychansk meant that it was impossible to deliver humanitarian supplies, he said, nor remove any civilians still in Sievierodonetsk.Russian artillery also pounded the Azot chemical plant...
June 14, 2022

Civilians trapped as last bridge to key city destroyed

A mother and her son wait to be evacuated from the besieged city of Mikolayiv in Ukraine in March 2022.
Ukraine and rising global insecurity, test for us all, says UN rights chief
GENEVA — War in Ukraine continues to cause mayhem and “destroy the lives of many”, and it is everyone’s responsibility to limit the global food, fuel and financial crisis” that it has sustained, the UN’s top rights official told the Human Rights Council on Monday, in her last session as High Commissioner.Nearly four months since the Russian invasion, Michelle Bachelet used her final keynote address to the Geneva forum, to urge Member States not to give up on the post-COVID-19 plan “to recover better”, and not repeat the kind of devastating global financial meltdown which took place in 2008.Failure to stick to what was agreed during the dark days of the pandemic — to ignore its lessons, and above all, to not put people first in this global recovery — threatens to leave...
June 14, 2022

Ukraine and rising global insecurity, test for us all, says UN rights chief

A boy walks through a migrant camp in Calais, northern France. Many asylum seekers attempt the sea crossing to England from the French coast.
UK’s bid to export refugees to Rwanda ‘all wrong’, says UN refugee chief
GENEVA — UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, on Monday dismissed the British Government’s proposal to process United Kingdom-bound asylum seekers in Rwanda, describing the offshore deal between the two countries announced in April, as “all wrong”.The development comes as senior judges in the UK ruled that the Government's first flight taking asylum seekers to the African nation, could go ahead.A High Court judge refused a temporary injunction on Friday to halt the first flight, due to take place on Tuesday, and on Monday, according to news reports, the Court of Appeal upheld that decision.A full legal hearing on the controversial policy is reportedly due to take place next month.“On Rwanda, I think we’ve been so clear over the last few weeks that we believe...
June 14, 2022

UK’s bid to export refugees to Rwanda ‘all wrong’, says UN refugee chief

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