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Back then, voters stuck two fingers up at the establishment and backed Farage’s Brexit project instead. There’s nothing to say they won’t do the same again. “That strategy is wishful thinking and a comfort blanket,” said one ally of Farage of Labour’s new offensive. “The British public would rather vote for something positive than against what they are told is a negative.” Pressure on the left Starmer’s focus on Farage can already be seen in moves to tighten immigration, slash foreign aid spending and reduce the welfare budget. But these have been angering his left-leaning base. Wary of losing votes…

Published on 03/06/2025 – 12:42 GMT+2Russia attacked the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Tuesday, killing at least three people and injuring 20, according to Ukraine’s emergency service.According to the preliminary investigation results, Russia struck the city with long-range multiple-launch rocket systems.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at least one of the missiles failed to detonate, piercing the wall of a nine-story residential apartment building.“The Russians launched a savage strike on Sumy – directly targeting the city and its ordinary streets with rocket artillery. It was a fully deliberate attack on civilians”, Zelenskyy said in a statement.Sumy region military administration reported that a…

The PNAT, which opened in 2019 in the aftermath of a string of deadly terror attacks in France, told POLITICO later Monday it is investigating both the murder itself and whether there may have been a conspiracy to commit the act. The office has faced criticism in past cases for not pursuing investigations into acts that could have appeared racially motivated or linked to right-wing extremism. In December 2022, it declined to investigate the murder of three people during a shooting at Paris’ Kurdish community center, drawing frustration from the community’s local representatives. The recent deadly stabbing of Aboubakar Cissé…

Published on 03/06/2025 – 12:04 GMT+2A Greek court has found 10 people guilty of negligence over a devastating fire that killed more than 100 people near Athens in 2018. A total of 21 defendants were accused in connection with the fatal blaze that struck the town of Mati, northeast of the capital Athens, after starting in a resident’s garden. The Athens Court of Appeal ruled on Tuesday that eight former senior fire brigade officials, a former general secretary for civil protection and the man responsible for starting the fire were guilty of charges including manslaughter by negligence. Only six of…

The justice minister, a tough-on-crime conservative, floated several proposals, though they have yet to be fully fleshed out. He called for abolishing mandatory sentence adjustments, which requires judges to find alternative arrangements to prison for shorter sentences, and instituting a mandatory three-month prison term served behind bars for “any attack on a representative of the state.” The type of measures floated by Darmanin would likely need to be changed via new legislation, and, despite the rightward shift of France’s politics in recent years, it’s not a given that lawmakers would back the proposals. However, as he lays the groundwork for…

Israeli soldiers on Monday barred journalists from entering villages in the West Bank on a planned tour organized by the directors of the Oscar-winning movie No Other Land.The directors of the deeply compassionate and powerful documentary, which focuses on the systematic Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, said they had invited the journalists on the tour to interview residents about increasing settler violence in the area.In video posted on X by the film’s co-director, Yuval Abraham, an Israeli soldier tells a group of international journalists there is “no passage” in the area because of a military order.Basel…

While the U.K. insisted that the money should support humanitarian efforts inside Ukraine, Abramovich suggested it would be used to assist “all victims of the war in Ukraine,” including those in Russia. “We are deeply frustrated that it has not been possible to reach agreement on this with Mr Abramovich so far,” the statement said. “While the door for negotiations will remain open, we are fully prepared to pursue this through the courts if required, to ensure people suffering in Ukraine can benefit from these proceeds as soon as possible.” Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Abramovich…

Dutch far-right figurehead Geert Wilders announced Tuesday morning that his party would quit the government in The Hague, throwing the Netherlands into turmoil. Wilders’s Party for Freedom (PVV) left the coalition in a dispute over the government’s position on asylum. This story is being updated.

“Yermak made sure he was present at every meeting I had with Zelenskyy, listening, interjecting. Or Yermak would just sit there and scroll through his phone and show Zelenskyy something and crack a private joke with raised eyebrows. In time I just stopped going to meetings and communicated just by email,” he told POLITICO. Center of power Yermak quickly expanded his role and surrounded himself with people beholden to him, among them a coterie of unpaid advisers who owe allegiance solely to him.  Some have been suspects in corruption cases, prematurely closed down on the orders of Oleh Tatarov, a…

Published on 03/06/2025 – 7:45 GMT+2A false news report has gained traction online and fuelled conspiracy theories that recent Russian airstrikes in Ukraine were targeting a European paedophile ring.The fake report, published by a website called Real Raw News, claims that President Vladimir Putin ordered the assault on a child-trafficking cartel formed of Ukrainian, Albanian, French and German paedophiles, prompting anger among Western governments.The strikes were supposedly what prompted US President Donald Trump to take to his Truth Social platform to blast Putin as “crazy” for intensifying attacks on Ukraine.The article says that the intel about the paedophile ring came…