The European Union is considering a targeted trade war on troublesome Brexiteer MPs and Tory ministers, sources told The Telegraph, as the bloc war-gamed its response to Boris Johnson’s plan to override the Northern Ireland Protocol. A senior diplomatic source said that Brussels has held talks over potential reprisals, including a plan to turn the … Read more
Wednesday, May 18th 2022, 10:15 am – Potential for record-setting strong winds that could impact ferry travel and also cause power outages through Wednesday in southern B.C. Batten down the hatches, B.C., it’s going to be a very bumpy ride on Wednesday. An unusually strong and fall-like storm is expected to unleash mighty winds that … Read more
ZORYA TRUDA, Ukraine (AP) — The countryside was in full bloom when Iuliia Loseva buried her husband in the village cemetery near her home. On her knees in the grass, she bowed her head over the open coffin and kissed him one last goodbye before they lowered him into his grave. There was a military … Read more
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Mariupol appeared on the verge of falling to the Russians on Tuesday as Ukraine moved to abandon the steel plant where hundreds of its fighters had held out for months under relentless bombardment in the last bastion of resistance in the devastated city. The capture of Mariupol would make it the … Read more
Critics have already described Nicola Sturgeon’s address on Nato membership to a US audience this week as “delusional”. But there is another epithet worth using with this opportunistic politician, whose enthusiasm for the Western alliance has only emerged since Vladimir Putin’s forces invaded Ukraine. And that is: two-faced. Her words were stunning in their hypocrisy, … Read more
