EU leaders forced to drop migration from Granada declaration

Delegates at a gathering of EU leaders were forced to drop a declaration on migration that diplomats are understood to have been preparing for weeks. Poland and Hungary forced delegates to remove the passage in a last-minute row over migration during a meeting in Grenada, Spain. At the end of Friday’s EU summit, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who faces […]

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Israel declares state of war as militants storm border and blast Gaza

Israel has declared a “state of war” after thousands of rocket strikes were launched from the Gaza strip by Palestinian militants. At least six people have died and a further 200 are injured.  Local police report that at least 60 militants from the Hamas group have crossed the border into the country, in an attack which appears to have taken […]

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Wagner Group late leader accused of planned coup against ex-Soviet country

The late leader of the mercenary Wagner Group planned to overthrow the pro-Western government in Moldova, the country’s president has claimed. Yevgeny Prigozhin and his team wanted to encourage anti-government protests in the landlocked country to turn “violent”, according to Moldovan President Maia Sandu. She told the Financial Times: “The information that we have is that it was a plan […]

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Top academic warns Labours victory over SNP really not good news for Sunak

Michael Shanks wins Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election Labour’s crushing defeat of the SNP in a Scottish by-election is “really not good news” for Rishi Sunak, according to a leading academic. Professor Matthew Goodwin said the 20 percent swing to Sir Keir Starmer’s party in yesterday’s Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election suggests they are outperforming national polling, which already puts […]

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