David Cameron vetoes #Rockall fishing agreement between Scotland & Ireland
Despite #Irish & Scottish governments spending 2 years agreeing to the deal – #fisheries are a devolved power – it has been shut down by the Foreign Office
Sources said the reason was entirely political - UK Govt didn't want to be seen agreeing a deal with an #EU nation
The veto is latest example of #Westminster overruling devolved #Scottish government decisions
Detained at a US airport & asked about Israel & #Gaza for 2 hours. Why? Ilan Pappé
Border agents asked whether I believe #Israel is committing #genocide & what I think of popular #protest slogans shortly after landing in Detroit
My initial attempt to find out why I was stopped was disregarded. It was clear the agents were asking the questions & my role was to answer them. So until today I did not officially receive any explanation for detention
UK man arrested on suspicion of helping #Russian intelligence
Uptick reported in Russia-linked espionage cases across Europe in recent months, with suspected spies or saboteurs being arrested in the UK, #Poland, #Germany, #Greece, #Austria, #Latvia, #Italy, #Estonia, & other countries
UK authorities did not clarify the specifics of Phillips’ alleged #espionage activities but said that there was unlikely to be a threat to the public
Poland has 9 suspects detained & indicted, who are directly implicated in the name of Russian intelligence services of #sabotage in Poland
They are Polish, Ukrainian, & Belarusian. They may have been recruited from criminal circles
Acts of sabotage include beatings, #arson, & attempted arson, not just in Poland but also #Latvia, #Lithuania, even #Sweden. The group planned to set fire a factory in #Poland & #Ikea in Lithuania
We know of first cases of executions of civilians by the Russian military
Report of a case when #Vovchansk resident was killed by #Russian soldiers. Police investigators had opened a criminal case on the grounds of violations of rules of war
Other #civilians are being taken into captivity and forced into basements, according to the minister.
During Operation Barbarossa, German invasion of the Soviet Union, Nazi forces occupied much of Soviet Ukraine, executing civilians, destroying cultural heritage & infrastructure
The same Ukrainian regions that were once invaded by Nazis are now suffering from Russian attacks, killings
This visual piece, we are looking at similarities between WWII & the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Starmer welcomes #FarRight Tory defector Natalie Elphicke to Labour
“And the reason that she’s given for joining the Labour Party is very, very important because I think she speaks for very many Tory voters,” Starmer said.
“In saying that the Tory party has changed, it’s left the centre ground. [WOT?!] But equally the Labour Party has changed and we are pretty clearly the party of the national interest, of country first, party second.”
150,000 #Russian soldiers #killed during full-scale invasion of Ukraine, France says
“All of this for what? This can be summed up in two words: for nothing.”
If confirmed, the 150,000 figure is around ten times higher than that suffered by the Soviet army during the decade-long war it fought in #Afghanistan from 1979-89.