Section: The United Kingdom
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Armed man detained after taking busload of passengers hostage for a day
An armed man has been detained after taking a busload of passengers hostage in Ukraine during a day-long standoff with police. …read more Source:: Sky...
Ukraine police storm bus and free gunman’s hostages
Ukraine stand-off ends as police storm bus and free all gunman’s hostages after hours of negotiations, officials say …read more Source::...
Ukraine gunman holds 20 hostages on bus
Police are negotiating with the man in the western city of Lutsk, officials have said. …read more Source::...
Armed man carrying explosives holds 20 people hostage after seizing a bus in Ukraine
Police have sealed off the centre of Lutsk, a city 250 miles west of Kiev. Pictured, Ukranian law enforcement officers lie on the ground behind a car near the bus. …read more Source:: Daily...
Putin orders snap Russian military drills on the border with Ukraine
Russia announced a ‘snap drill’ involving 150,000 troops, 400 aircraft and 100 naval vessels right on the Ukrainian border – just hours after Ukraine announced its own drills, due in September. …read more Source:: Daily...
Ukraine appoints central bank chief after IMF warning on crisis
Kyrylo Shevchenko to take helm after predecessor’s resignation over alleged political pressure …read more Source:: Financial...
In a new war of all against all, the UK needs a defence revolution
Rather than grandstanding as a global military power, Britain must respond to direct threats. Announced to fanfare last December, the government’s sweeping review of security, defence and foreign policy was put on hold in April – for the obvious reason that Covid-19 changes everything. In the meantime, the People’s Republic of China...
Philippe Sands on the Uighurs: “Why does it matter if we call it a genocide?”
The human rights lawyer on China’s abuses, defining genocide and challenging Aung San Suu Kyi in person. Philippe Sands, QC, can be biting. As one of the foremost scholars of genocide in international law, the University College London professor has no doubt been in close proximity to some fairly unsavoury figures in his time. One in...
The new wobbly world order
How Britain can make itself relevant in an age of uncertainty and intensifying great power rivalry. Shortly after I became foreign secretary in 2018, I met Madeleine Albright, the US secretary of state during Bill Clinton’s administration. Albright was the first woman ever to hold the role, and she told me never to forget what an honour...
IMF warns Ukraine over central bank’s independence
Comments send clear signal that $5bn programme agreed last month hangs on Kyiv’s handling of NBU crisis …read more Source:: Financial...
