Rafah resident: ‘artillery bombardment has not stopped for a single moment’ overnight On Saturday, residents reported tank fire in the Tal al-Sultan neighbourhood in west Rafah, while witnesses in the east and centre of the southern city described intense artillery shelling. “From the early hours of the […]
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Star DJ Armin van Buuren, indie pop band Chef’Special and the players themselves feature on the Dutch team’s anthem for this summer’s European Championships in Germany. Van Buuren and Chef’Special wrote Larger than Life and roped in the team to provide backing vocals for the first time […]
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Dutch F-16 fighter jets which the Netherlands is giving to Ukraine can be used to attack targets in Russia, foreign minister Hanke Bruins Slot has confirmed. Nor will their use limited to the border area near Kharkiv, the minister told news agency ANP. The Netherlands […]
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Ukraine’s hopes of quickly joining the EU are being rebuffed, ahead of a historic meeting in Kyiv. An EU-Ukraine summit takes place on Friday, and top officials have begun arriving in the Ukrainian capital. Ahead of the meeting, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Ukraine had […]
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that allowing Russia to compete at the 2024 Olympics in Paris would amount to showing that “terror is somehow acceptable”. He said he had raised the issue with French President Emmanuel Macron. Moscow must not be allowed to use the […]
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Boris Johnson has said Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike in an “extraordinary” phone call in the run-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The then-prime minister said Mr Putin told him it “would only take a minute”. Mr Johnson said the comment was […]
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Police arrested a 31-year-old Rotterdam man who they suspect of co-perpetrating the assassination of criminal defense attorney Derk Wiersum last September. The man was arrested in Amsterdam on Monday, and remanded into custody by a magistrate on Thursday, police said. A tactical team was used to make […]
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The German chancellor has ruled out sending fighter jets to Ukraine, just days after committing to supplying tanks. In an interview with a German newspaper, Olaf Scholz warned against a bidding war for weapons. But Ukraine has asked allied nations to create a “fighter jet […]
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Spanish police have arrested a 74-year-old man on suspicion of sending letter bombs to high-profile targets, including the country’s prime minister. The man was reportedly taken into custody in the north of Spain and is due to appear in court later this week. In total […]
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Ukraine’s argument for wanting battle tanks is clear. It insists they can make all the difference – helping to push Russia back from Ukrainian territory and handing Kyiv the initiative. Germany produces the vast majority of modern heavy tanks in Europe – the Leopard 2s. […]
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An adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that the West’s “indecision” over sending extra weapons to Ukraine is “killing more of our people”. “Every day of delay is the death of Ukrainians,” Mykhailo Podolyak wrote on Twitter. His remarks come after Ukraine’s defence minister […]
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A truckload of medical supplies bound for Ukraine has left an airport warehouse. Boxes loaded with bandages, needles and hospital gowns left Cotswold Airport in Kemble, Gloucestershire on Monday. The shipment contains more than 70 pallets of vital aid for sick and injured people across […]
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Since vaccines have been available, I have received my first and second doses, as well as a booster shot. Vaccines work by exposing our immune system to the virus’s spike protein, and setting in motion an early arsenal of antibodies and specific T cells. These […]
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