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We’re back! And so are Ukraine’s key backers. On the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union, leaders meet in Kyiv this Monday to discuss new pledges of support for the country. On the podcast, Zoya Sheftalovich and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Nick Vinocur discuss what support Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is looking to secure from the Coalition of the Willing ahead of another difficult winter. Next we look at elections in the state of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany, where the far-right Alternative for Germany is on course for a sweeping victory. If it wins an outright majority, its…
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham will visit Ukraine on Monday on his first international visit since taking office last month. The Labour Party leader’s visit comes as he announced that the United Kingdom will help support Kyiv with its domestic production of long-range missiles. The UK has “agreed that defence firm MBDA can release classified information on Brtish-made components for the long-range missile, SCALP, to establish local assembly lines in Ukraine,” a statement said. The decision to release the classified information on the missile, which uses both British and French technology, would allow France and Ukraine to move forward with…
A landslide at a waste site in Guinea early on Sunday has killed 30 people and injured several others after heavy rains caused a mound of rubbish to collapse, government officials reported. The landslide buried nearby tens and shacks and destroyed several homes as rescuers and excavators were searching through the debris at the collapsed landfill as part of a search-and-rescue operation. At least six other people were seriously injured. “Significant material and human resources have been deployed to search for any people who may still be buried, to rescue the victims and to recover the bodies,” a statement by…
Die Sommerpause ist vorbei und Kanzler Friedrich Merz blickt entscheidenden Wochen entgegen. Rasmus Buchsteiner analysiert, wie gefährlich seine schlechten Umfragewerte und die anstehenden Ost-Wahlen für die gesamte Koalition werden könnten. Pünktlich zum ukrainischen Unabhängigkeitstag überrascht der britische Premier Andy Burnham mit der Freigabe von Storm-Shadow-Marschflugkörpern. Hans von der Burchard ordnet ein, warum dieses Vorpreschen Merz beim ewigen Streitthema Taurus in Bedrängnis bringt. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview reagiert der ukrainische Botschafter Oleksii Makeiev gelassen auf Wladimir Putins aktuelle Drohungen. Er fordert, Moskaus Einschüchterungen nicht nachzugeben, und hofft auf frischen Verhandlungsdruck durch die erwarteten US-Unterhändler. Das Berlin Playbook als Podcast gibt es jeden Morgen…
The eVisa database keeps a record of a person’s full name, date of birth, nationality, and a facial photograph. But these traits are by definition often a very close match for identical twins, including Webb, whose name is similar to that of her sister. Many such cases Monique Hawkins, acting CEO of the3million, which campaigns for the rights of EU citizens living in the U.K., said problems with the eVisa system sometimes left people unable to prove their identity when they needed it most. “We have seen many cases where someone else’s immigration status is entangled with another person’s eVisa…
The White House has in recent hours received the Supreme Court’s green light for the 400-million-dollar ballroom with which Donald Trump wants to replace the traditional East Wing of the official residence of the president of the United States. While the president on Saturday announced the overall cost of the project, the man directly overseeing it, the director of the White House Management and Administration, Joshua Fisher, has provided all the details according to US broadcaster CBS. (source in Italian) Among those details is that the colonnade of the new ballroom will be sculpted “by some of the greatest artists…
“It’s really important that we consider them together,” Edwards says of social care and assisted dying. “I don’t think that there is a reason to delay” changing the law, she argues, highlighting £125 million provided by Starmer’s government for adult and children’s hospices. (A Public Accounts Committee report said this one-off funding did not directly pay for service delivery or solve financial problems facing the sector.) Edwards’ bill has a four-year implementation period. That means if it becomes law next year, assisted dying wouldn’t be permitted until 2031. She believes the two systems can work on a “dual track” and…
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Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja, Spain’s famous “wolf boy”, has, as has now emerged, died on Saturday 15 August at the age of 80. Born in 1946 in a country that was just recovering from a civil war and a world war, Rodríguez initially grew up in the Andalusian village of Añora. Rodríguez’s life was marked by poverty, hunger and mistreatment. His father could barely feed the family, while his stepmother treated him brutally. When he was six, his father sold him to a goatherd, who left him in a remote valley where he was to herd livestock together with an old…
Western leaders are arriving in Kyiv this weekend ahead of Ukraine’s Independence Day celebrations on Monday. As preparations for the event geared up, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with his Finnish counterpart Alexander Stubb in the capital on Sunday, where the pair hosted a roundtable meeting on joint defence cooperation. Zelenskyy also welcomed US Senators Richard Blumenthal and James Lankford to Kyiv. The president said he briefed the pair on the continuing ballistic missile threat from Russia and the need for improved air defences. European Council President António Costa is also expected to be heading to Ukraine along with other…