In total, 90,357 Dutch nationals who live in another country have registered to vote in the EU elections via The Hague. That is a rise of almost 30% on 2019. That year, 35,690 Dutch expats actually voted, equivalent to turnout of 56%. The biggest group […]
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Users face growing threat from 200-plus synthetic drugs in circulation across UK, says government’s chief drugs adviser The chief drugs adviser to the government has given his strongest warning yet on legal highs in Britain, saying there are now more than 200 synthetic psychoactive drugs […]
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BAT warns over surge of illegal disposable vapes as US sales fall British American Tobacco, the maker of Lucky Strike and Dunhill cigarettes, has warned that dwindling cigarette sales in the US and the surge of illegal disposable vapes could lead to lower sales and […]
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In the centre of the Russian town of Yefremov is a wall covered in pictures of war. Giant photographs of masked Russian soldiers with guns and supersized letters Z and V – symbols of the country’s so-called special military operation in Ukraine. There’s a poem, […]
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The resilience of Ukrainian refugees “shines out”, the Prince of Wales has said during a visit to Poland. Prince William met with some of those who had fled the war with Russia while in Warsaw on the second day of his surprise trip to the […]
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The line of trees appears to fragment and disappear as it winds its way towards the Russian positions on the outskirts of the small town of Velyka Novosilka. Dima, a Ukrainian army infantryman with the 1st Separate Tank Brigade, treads carefully along a path where […]
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has returned to the front line near Bakhmut where fighting has raged for months. The devastated city has long been a focal point of the war as Russian forces try to revive their military campaign in the east. His visit came […]
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More than a dozen European Union member states have agreed to supply Ukraine with at least one million artillery shells over the next year. The plan, worth €2bn in total, was agreed in Brussels on Monday. Ukraine had told the EU it needed 350,000 shells […]
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Russia has threatened to destroy any fighter jets given to Ukraine by its allies, after two countries promised planes. Slovakia became the second Nato country to pledge Kyiv some MiG-29 aircraft on Friday, a day after Poland. Slovakia’s fleet was grounded last year and it […]
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A US drone that crashed into the Black Sea is at the heart of a new row between Washington and Moscow. Does newly released footage of the incident bring us any closer to knowing what happened? The US has said it brought down the drone […]
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Ukraine has invited Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to visit, after the Republican dismissed the Russian invasion as a “territorial dispute”. Mr DeSantis is widely expected to run for president in 2024 and made his remarks in response to questions sent to possible Republican contenders. The […]
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A Russian soldier who claims to have avoided detection in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region for six months has been detained, Ukrainian police say. The 42-year-old serviceman was stopped by members of the Ukrainian armed forces while they were patrolling the Kupiansk district, Kharkiv’s regional police department […]
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Finding people willing to speak to me from Mariupol was never going to be easy. After 10 months of Russian occupation, fear and distrust are the two most frequent responses I encountered when looking for someone who could tell me how things really are in […]
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