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UK Premier Boris Johnson heads to N. Ireland to  try to break political deadlock in the UK territory which also threatens to bring to a head differences with the EU over post-Brexit trading arrangements.
Johnson battles on two fronts as Brexit protocol returns to haunt him
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson heads to Northern Ireland on Monday to try to break political deadlock in the UK territory which also threatens to bring to a head differences with the EU over post-Brexit trading arrangements.At the heart of the disputes is the international treaty the British prime minister negotiated in 2019 to secure the UK's departure from the European Union, breaking a long impasse.The government says it will have "no choice but to act" unless the Northern Ireland Protocol is reformed, amid reports that it is about to introduce legislation to unravel it. It insists it wants to reform the agreement, not scrap it.The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), long opposed to the protocol, came second in recent elections and is refusing to form a...
May 15, 2022

Johnson battles on two fronts as Brexit protocol returns to haunt him


Finland Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto meets his Swedish counterpart Ann Linde ahead of the informal meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers. They briefed allies on their national security debates and possible NATO membership.
Sweden's ruling party joins Finland in confirming NATO membership bid
HELSINKI/STOCKHOLM — Finland's president and government announced Sunday that the Nordic country intends apply for membership of NATO, paving the way for the 30-member Western military alliance to expand amid Russia’s war in Ukraine.President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Sanna Marin made the announcement of the historic policy shift from the country's traditional neutrality at a joint news conference.Sweden's ruling Social Democratic Party later gave the green light to a NATO bid for its country, paving the way for the government to apply for membership jointly with Finland.However, Turkey has raised objections and has threatened to veto the bids."Today, we, the president and the government's foreign policy committee, have together decided that Finland ......
May 15, 2022

Sweden's ruling party joins Finland in confirming NATO membership bid

Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin (L) and Finland's President Sauli Niinistö announce that Finland will apply for NATO membership, Helsinki.
Finland's president and PM announce formal intention to join NATO
HELSINKI — Finland's president and government announced Sunday that the Nordic country intends apply for membership in NATO, paving the way for the 30-member Western military alliance to expand amid Russia’s war in Ukraine.President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Sanna Marin made the announcement at a joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki. The Finnish Parliament is expected to endorse the decision in coming days, but it is considered a formality.A formal membership application will then be submitted to NATO headquarters in Brussels, most likely at the some point next week.Marin said she hopes the Finnish Parliament will confirm the decision to apply to join NATO in the next few days and said she hopes it will be based on a strong mandate.Speaking...
May 15, 2022

Finland's president and PM announce formal intention to join NATO

Weather satellites captured the climactic eruption (Himawari-8/JMA - video looped three times)
Tonga eruption was 'record atmospheric explosion'
LONDON — The eruption of the Tonga volcano in January has been confirmed as the biggest explosion ever recorded in the atmosphere by modern instrumentation.It was far bigger than any 20th Century volcanic event, or indeed any atom bomb test conducted after WWII.The assessment comes in a pair of scholarly papers in the journal Science that have reviewed all the data.Of recent history, it's likely only the Krakatoa eruption of 1883 rivaled the atmospheric disturbance produced.That catastrophic event in Indonesia is thought to have claimed more than 30,000 lives. Fortunately, the Jan. 15 climactic eruption of the underwater volcano at Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (HTHH) in the south Pacific resulted in very few deaths, even though it too produced large tsunamis."Tonga was a truly...
May 15, 2022

Tonga eruption was 'record atmospheric explosion'

Full lunar eclipse to bring super blood Moon
LONDON — One of our planet's most stunning sights is coming to the skies - a super blood Moon. In the year's only full lunar eclipse, Earth will come between the Sun and the Moon.Falling fully into Earth's shadow, the Moon will slowly darken before turning dusky red. It will be visible with the naked eye before dawn on Monday in most of Europe. The Americas will get a great view on Sunday evening.The Moon will appear larger than usual because it will be at its closest point to Earth of its orbit, giving it the name super Moon.It will also be called a super flower blood Moon. In the Northern Hemisphere, a full moon in May is often called a flower Moon because it coincides with the Spring flowers.The only sunlight reaching the Moon during the full eclipse will be passing...
May 15, 2022

Full lunar eclipse to bring super blood Moon

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who hosted a meeting of top G-7 diplomats, said the war had become a “global crisis.”
Russia extending Ukraine military war to 'grain war', says Baerbock
BERLIN — The Group of Seven leading economies warned Saturday that the war in Ukraine is stoking a global food and energy crisis that threatens poor countries, and urgent measures are needed to unblock stores of grain that Russia is preventing from leaving Ukraine.German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who hosted a meeting of top G-7 diplomats, said the war had become a “global crisis.”Baerbock said up to 50 million people, particularly in Africa and the Middle East, would face hunger in the coming months unless ways are found to release Ukrainian grain, which accounts for a sizeable share of the worldwide supply."Russia has deliberately chosen to extend the military war against Ukraine now as a grain or you can say grain war to many states in the world, especially in...
May 14, 2022

Russia extending Ukraine military war to 'grain war', says Baerbock

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned his Finnish counterpart that joining NATO and abandoning Finland's neutral status would be a
Putin warns Finland joining NATO would be 'mistake'
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned his Finnish counterpart that joining NATO and abandoning Finland's neutral status would be a "mistake".He told Sauli Niinistö there was no threat to Finland's security.The exchange came during a phone call made by the Finnish president, ahead of a formal request, which Finland is expected to announce very soon.Sweden has also indicated its intention to join the Western alliance, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Finland shares a 1,300-km (810-mile) border with Russia. Until now, it has stayed out of NATO to avoid antagonizing its eastern neighbor.Putin did not make a specific threat of retaliation over Finland's move, but the Russian Foreign Ministry has indicated there will be retaliation.Russia's...
May 14, 2022

Putin warns Finland joining NATO would be 'mistake'

The majority of human trafficking cases for sexual exploitation involve women. — courtesy IOM
‘I rescued over 1,000 trafficking victims’
GENEVA — A human trafficking expert at the United Nations has told UN News how she was instrumental in saving over 1,000 trafficking victims, mainly in eastern Europe and Central Asia. Reda Sirgediene works for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) as the Regional Adviser on Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling for Central Asia after serving for more than 20 years in the Lithuanian police force.“My position as head of National Trafficking in Persons Investigation Office in Lithuania was very challenging, but also very interesting. I would conduct and coordinate domestic and international police operations and investigations that led to the identification and rescue of victims.We would receive information that there was a potential case of exploitation involving...
May 14, 2022

‘I rescued over 1,000 trafficking victims’

Abandoned buildings in Pripyat, two kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine. — courtesy IAEA/Dana Sacchetti
Amid fresh Russian claims, no trace of secret Ukraine bioweapons program
MOSCOW/ KIEV — Amid new claims by Moscow of a covert biological weapons program in Ukraine, the Director of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) affirmed on Friday that the UN is not aware of any such program and has neither the mandate nor the technical operational capacity to investigate it — a message first delivered to the Security Council on March 11 and 18, by High Representative Izumi Nakamitsu.“This remains the case today,” Thomas Markram said.The Russian Federation, the United States and Ukraine are all States Parties to the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention prohibiting the development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use of biological and toxin weapons.Channels for recourse Markram — who is also the Deputy to the High Representative — explained that the...
May 14, 2022

Amid fresh Russian claims, no trace of secret Ukraine bioweapons program

A family in Southern Madagascar suffering from malnutrition. — courtesy WFP/Tsiory Andriantsoarana
Ukraine war squeezes food supplies, drives up prices, threatens vulnerable nations
ROME — Kicking off a three-day meeting on Friday on the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its wider impact on food and energy prices, the head of the UN agriculture agency outlined key ways for governments to help safeguard global food security.Under the theme Securing Global Food Security in Times of Crisis, Qu Dongyu, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General, told agriculture ministers from G7 wealthy nations gathered in Stuttgart, Germany, that the most significant threats stem from conflict, and the associated humanitarian impact, together with multiple overlapping crises.“Crisis represents a challenge for food security for many countries, and especially for low‑income food import dependent countries and vulnerable population groups,” he said.A...
May 14, 2022

Ukraine war squeezes food supplies, drives up prices, threatens vulnerable nations

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