The United Kingdom’s dependence on cheap foreign labour must end. That is what Labor leader Kier Starmer said at a meeting of the large British employers’ organization Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Several companies in the country have called on the government to relax labour migration rules to combat staff […]
Ukraine
Hundreds of serious criminals and murder suspects escaped from the local prison during the retreat of Russian troops from the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson. However, only a part could be arrested, the police said. Of the more than 450 detainees who fled, 166 have now been re-arrested. In addition, […]
Musk said on Twitter that US billionaire Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX is losing about $20 million a month by providing its satellite internet service to Ukraine. Still, he continues to pay the bill for the Starlink internet terminals in the country. The company does not receive any money from […]
The European Commission considers the massive Russian missile strikes against Ukraine and Belarus’ announcement to increase military presence at the borders as a “further escalation” of Russian aggression. The “rain of rockets” on innocent civilians is unacceptable and “doesn’t belong in the 21st century”. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s accusation that […]
The Ukrainian secret service was behind the murder of journalist Daria Dugina, the daughter of Putin’s domestic ideologist Alexander Dugin. At least, that is what the Russian intelligence service FSB decides after the investigation into the murder that was completed well one day after the facts. According to the FSB, […]
A meeting between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine is only possible after the resumption of peace negotiations between the two countries. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this during a visit to Turkey. Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky has long wanted to sit down with his Russian counterpart Vladimir […]
An agreement has been reached to deliver Ukrainian grain from the hitherto blocked port of Odesa. That writes the Kremlin-loyal newspaper Izvestia, based on sources in the Russian government. Russia and Turkey are said to have agreed on a roadmap whereby Turkey would mine the coastal area near Odesa […]
The Russians currently have the upper hand in the battle in the hotly contested eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region. A Ukrainian general acknowledged that, but he also said that Ukraine is doing everything it can and doing everything it can. Observers expect that the Russians want to completely conquer Luhansk […]
Moscow-backed separatists in southeastern Ukraine have removed road signs bearing the name of the almost entirely conquered city of Mariupol in Ukrainian and English and replaced them with signs in Russian. The Ministry of Transport of the self-declared People’s Republic of Donetsk said in a statement. The ministry also […]
Google has blocked 8 million ads related to the war in Ukraine this year. This was announced by Google on Wednesday at the same time as it released its annual figures on harmful ads. The American search engine blocked or removed more than 3.4 billion advertisements in 2021. However, […]
