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Map shows safest countries to be in if global conflict breaks out
Metro
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June 23, 2025
These countries offer some of the best chances of survival As the US joins Israel in its strikes on Iran and its nuclear facilities and Iran retaliates with attacks on Israel, fears have grown over ‘World War 3’ breaking out. Overnight 20 Israeli...
Deterrence requires discipline
The Critic
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June 22, 2025
To deter, or to destroy? To try to dissuade adversaries from attacking one’s people or interests, or to take the gloves off and try to eliminate them? It’s a question central to Israel’s history, and its predicament. Today, Israel’s Prime Minister...
Remembering those who died: Tribute to HMS Glamorgan’s fallen crew
Penarth Times
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HMS Glamorgan played a vital role in the conflict, providing naval gunfire support to 45 Commando Royal Marines during the assault on Two Sisters, a key position near Port Stanley. In the early hours of 12 June 1982, shortly after completing its...
UN calls for Argentina-UK to resume Malvinas sovereignty talks
Buenos Aires Herald
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June 19, 2025
The United Nation’s Special Committee on Decolonization adopted a new resolution on Wednesday calling Argentina and the United Kingdom to resume talks over the sovereignty dispute over the Malvinas Islands in order to find a peaceful solution “as...
The Papers: 'Iran vows revenge' and 'Stick it up your bunker'
BBC
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June 22, 2025
ShareSave The Financial Times sums up the story dominating Monday's front pages: "Trump declares victory with massive air strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities." The paper carries the US administration's position that it is "not at war with Iran"...
Prof. Michael Clarke on Putin’s Endgame: Break NATO, Dominate Europe, Cement His Legacy
Georgia Today
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June 22, 2025
Interview by Vazha Tavberidze Peace through fear, because we have shown that fear works, — that was how Dmitry Medvedev recently summed up Russia’s foreign policy. And while Western leaders often brush off Medvedev’s tirades as the drunken...
Iconic former ITV presenter left 'traumatised' after being assaulted and robbed
The Docklands & East London Advertiser
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The 74-year-old former ITV News at Ten anchor revealed how she fought back during the terrifying incident last week. Scott said she was leaving a branch of Waterstones in central London when she was struck on the back of her knee, leaving her...
ITV legend brutally attacked and robbed by gang in London as she's left 'traumatised'
Daily Star
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June 22, 2025
TV legend Selina Scott said she was viciously attacked and mugged by a gang in broad daylight. The former ITN News at Ten anchor, 74, has revealed she was the victim of a vicious assault on Piccadilly in Central London last week. Scott said she's...
Former ITV presenter Selina Scott viciously attacked by gang in broad daylight
Metro
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June 22, 2025
The former ITV News at Ten anchor was targeted near a Waterstones bookshop in Piccadilly (Picture: Alamy Stock Photo) Broadcaster Selina Scott has been left ‘shattered and traumatised’ after being attacked by a gang in London last week. The former...
How to steal a radar from Hitler with 100 paratroopers and a lot of luck
El País
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June 22, 2025
Things weren’t going well. The Germans were advancing on all fronts, and Britain — stubbornly hunkered down on its island and behind its fleet — could do nothing but wait for the tide of the war to turn, which was bound to happen eventually....
The Turks and Caicos Islands attends Green Overseas Climate Change Resilience Community Regional Workshop on Coastal Hazards
Magnetic Media
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June 22, 2025
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND EMERGENCIES Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands – Wednesday, 18 June 2025: The Turks and Caicos Islands participated in The Green Overseas (GO) Climate Change Resilience Community...
Is this Scotland’s coolest farm stay?
The Times
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Mossy dry stone walls have an indescribable charm. Perhaps it’s their quiet defiance, the way these ancient feats of engineering have stood long enough to be claimed by nature. As you leave Kirkcaldy, driving up into the patchwork of ancient...
The MENA region: a Geopolitical Fault Line and Strategic Pivot in a Shifting Global Order
Morocco World News
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June 21, 2025
The MENA region is no longer simply the scene of rivalries between superpowers, it has become the field of a more complex battle, where global strategies – from Washington to Moscow, via Beijing – intersect with regional ambitions carried by...
This stunning post-apocalyptic drama is the one you should be watching
New Scientist
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Juan Salvo (Ricardo Darín) braves the killer snow in Buenos Aires Mariano Landet/Netflix The Eternaut Netflix To make good art, you must be specific. Perhaps that is too sweeping a statement – and so rather contradictory – but it is a fundamental...
Let’s call Palestine Action’s RAF attack what it is: sabotage
The Spectator
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June 21, 2025
It might be a little unfair to pick on Lisa Nandy – who was bounced on Radio 4’s Today programme yesterday morning and who, to be fair, did condemn unequivocally the actions of the Palestine Action cadres who attacked two of the 14 Voyager...
As Scotland gets warmer and wetter, these roses are a safer bet for gardeners
The Herald (Scotland)
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June 21, 2025
Can our Scottish roses cope year on year with the effects of climate change? Probably. Roses have grown in every kind of climate - hot, cold, wet or dry - for at least 35 million years and over the last two centuries breeders have developed many...
The North Wales estate where '99.9% of people would give you their last £1 if they could'
NorthWalesLive
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June 21, 2025
Wrexham is a county of contrasts with some of the most affluent areas in Wales, including Marford and Hoseley and Rossett. These two areas rank 1908 and 1805, respectively out of 1909 areas on the Wales Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD). These...
Mark Knopfler, 40 years after Dire Straits’ groundbreaking album: ‘I’m not good enough to improvise like a jazz musician’
El País
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June 21, 2025
Mark Knopfler wrote the lyrics for Money for Nothing half-hidden behind a stack of microwave ovens, sitting next to the window of an appliance store. He wanted to capture the bizarre scene he was witnessing: a delivery boy, taking a break — and...
Starmer should answer if Trump calls for help with Iran
The Times
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President Trump aboard Air Force One after leaving the G7 summit on Tuesday KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS The Anglo-American alliance has witnessed its fair share of ups and downs since it was forged in the furnace of the Second World War. Every so...
The west sees hope in the “hopeless continent”: thanks China
Zehabesha
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“G7 aims to raise $600 billion to counter China’s Belt and Road” By Mesfin Arega “Group of Seven leaders pledged on Sunday to raise $600 billion in private and public funds over five years to finance needed infrastructure in developing countries...