It comes as President Vladimir Putin vowed to “punish” the West for giving Ukraine long-term missiles and a £40billion loan using frozen Russian assets. Kazan, a state-of the art Yasen-class submarine, was detected on June 5 after an RAF Poseidon P8 anti-submarine aircraft dropped sonar buoys used to detect subsurface activity at depth. An RAF...
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Britain celebrates King Charles’ birthday with the Trooping the Colour 2024: photos
Trooping the Colour 2024 marks the official birthday celebration of King Charles III. Catherine, Princess of Wales, attended the event despite being in the midst of her cancer treatment. The annual event features a grand military parade showcasing regiments of the British Army’s Household Division at Horse Guards Parade, near Buckingham Palace in London, England....
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Exceptional Heatwaves in Other Parts of the World Contrast with Britain’s Cool Start to June
Britain has had a notably cool first half of June, thanks to frequent northerly and north-westerly winds, with temperatures widely running about 2C below what we saw during May. Cooler-than-average temperatures are forecast to persist in most parts of Scotland this weekend. Still, elsewhere, temperatures will recover close to the long-term normal for this time...
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World’s most remote town that can only be reached by 6-day boat ride
A town on an island in the middle of the South Atlantic is one of the most remote in the world and can only be reached by taking a six-day boat ride. The settlement of Edinburgh of the High Seas is the single populated spot on the island of Tristan da Cunha, a tiny volcanic...
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Scottish historian credits ‘family, teachers, mentors and friends’ for honour
An award-winning Scottish historian who became a household name when he wrote and presented a landmark TV series has been knighted in the King’s Birthday Honours list. Professor Sir Niall Ferguson, whose 16 books include The Pity Of War and The Ascent Of Money: A Financial History Of The World, first came to the attention...
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Chinese MeToo activist arrested before flight to study in UK jailed for five years
A Chinese journalist who launched her country’s MeToo movement and was arrested the day before she was due to fly to Britain to study has been jailed for five years. Sophia Huang Xueqin was sentenced by a court in Guangzhou on Friday. According to documents obtained by a group of activists campaigning for her release,...
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Continued Paris Preparation at World Rowing Cup III
The 2024 World Rowing Cup series comes to an end this weekend in Poznan, Poland. Day 1 of World Rowing Cup III kicked off with plenty of tight racing between crews who are preparing for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and others making their senior international debuts. The day began with racing in...
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Final Olympic Qualifier: In form China to join Chinese Taipei, Great Britain and Malaysia in Paris
“We didn’t set the bar too high but honestly, we didn’t expect to get into the Olympics,” she said. “We’ve trained for this moment, and we’ve given our best.” Following Chinese Taipei’s 5-1 victory over Ukraine, it was set for all 12 quotas to head to Asia, but Great Britain had other ideas. Despite having...
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Migrant routes to UK and Europe laid bare as displaced people now at record-high
A revealing map has shown the most congested route taken by asylum seekers to reach their desired destinations in Europe and the US. The United Nations Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) figures show that, as of the end of 2023, there were approximately 117 million displaced people worldwide. Shockingly, an estimated 47 million (40 percent) of these...
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Britain appears poised to elect a ‘political robot’ as next PM. What to expect from Keir Starmer | CBC News
As he stood alone on stage in front of a live TV audience in northern England this week, the man who seems destined to become the U.K.’s next prime minister momentarily appeared at a loss for words. “You seem more like a political robot,” an audience member said to Labour Leader Keir Starmer. “How are you going to...
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Watch: Meloni gives Macron a withering look after they clash over abortion
The centrist and pro-EU Mr Macron was humiliated by the Eurosceptic National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s European Parliament elections. He then called the snap parliamentary election in France in a bid to stop the French flirting with the hard-Right but risks losing control of the National Assembly and becoming a lame-duck...
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U.S., Britain, Canada raise alarm over Russia meddling in Moldova’s election – UPI.com
President of Moldova Maia Sandu is seeking re-election in October. On Thursday, the United States, Canada and Britain accused Russia of attempting to influence the outcome of the upcoming contest. File Photo by Dumitru Doru/EPA-EFE June 14 (UPI) — The United States, Canada and Britain are raising the alarm over the Kremlin’s ongoing campaign to...