Disruption this summer is also expected as a result of the threat of delays and cancellations amid a shortage of air traffic control (ATC) staff. Ryanair has already scrapped dozens of flights after a shortfall in controllers at a major Dutch ATC centre left planes out of position and unable to perform morning departures. Meanwhile,...
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Britain issues legal challenge to ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu
His decision that the ICC “has jurisdiction over Israeli, Palestinian or other nationals who committed crimes in Gaza or the West Bank” was supported by a panel of international legal experts, including several from the UK. In 2021, a deeply divided pre-trial chamber concluded that the court’s jurisdiction extended to Gaza. But the UK says...
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South Korea is running out of children – and Britain could be next
For South Korea’s kindergarten teachers, the national dearth of children due is already painfully evident and impacting their career prospects. The country’s record-low birth rates are projected to cause the closure of roughly one-third of daycare centres and kindergartens by 2028, a report by the Korea Institute of Child Care and Education warned in January....
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Japan condemns ‘intolerable’ US army after soldier charged with rape of teenager
Japan has condemned “intolerable” US troops stationed in the country after a soldier was charged with the sexual assault of a teenager. Prosecutors in Okinawa charged the US soldier in March, Yoshimasa Hayashi, a government spokesman, said. Local media said the 25-year-old man had been accused of assault, adding that he knew the girl was...
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Tommy Robinson arrested in Canada for ‘immigration offences’
Tommy Robinson has been arrested in Canada for suspected immigration offences. A video posted online shows the far-Right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, being handcuffed by two plain-clothed police officers. The 41-year-old is told he is the subject of “an outstanding immigration warrant” before being led away. Police did not immediately offer any...
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Russia withdraws troops from town near Kharkiv after becoming ‘bogged down’
The US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that Russia ordered the cross-border attack to draw Ukrainian soldiers away from the front line in the Donbas region, rather than actually take Kharkiv. “Some Ukrainian forces have redeployed units to the Kharkiv direction from Donetsk Oblast, so Russian forces may be exploiting this perceived...
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No Brexit renegotiation without free movement, warns Barnier
Mr Barnier, who negotiated Britain’s split from the EU and the future trade agreement, told The Telegraph that the bloc would welcome fresh talks but would not ease its previous red lines. He said: “It is one thing to say that we can revisit the relationship between the UK and the EU, and in the...
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Clubber’s phone footage shows Jay Slater ‘staggering around’ before he went missing
The man, 20, said: “It was a good atmosphere, it was hard dance music and everybody was having a good time vibing away. “I wanted to remember the moment so I started filming, then I saw a lad staggering around in front of me. “You could see him get up off the ground, everyone turned...
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Revealed: Britain’s best village shops of 2024
The village shop sells everything you could ever need, Robbie says, and a large amount of it is sourced from local suppliers. There’s bread, cakes, brownies and Portuguese tarts from three different village bakeries, beers brewed within three miles of the outlet and fish caught fresh on the Suffolk coast. Then there’s a “second-hand bookshop,...
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Why it’s too late to stop World War 3 – according to one of Britain’s greatest military historians
Perhaps, in attempting to forecast the outbreak of a future war, we should ask another question: Why do we make war at all? War has been a characteristic of almost the whole of recorded history, and warlike violence preceded the establishment of the first states. Why human beings have developed belligerency alongside their capacity for...
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‘Only one British applicant out of 200’: how the UK lost its work ethic
Battered by the financial crisis and pandemic, Britain has lost its culture of risk-taking. In the third of a special election series, The Telegraph examines how this has affected the economy and whether Labour can bring swashbuckling back to the City. When Stuart Forrester and his wife founded their business and marketing consultancy in 2006,...
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UK at loggerheads with US and Germany over Ukraine joining Nato
US officials are reportedly concerned that describing the path to joining the alliance as “irreversible” would be unacceptable to some members, including Hungary. However, some other members say that Ukraine has yet to meet the criteria for entry by reforming its government. Joe Biden, the US president, said earlier this month that he opposed the...