22 h. ago 'Lumpy skin disease' outbreak sweeps across Europe as UK response explained

Lumpy skin disease outbreaks in France, Italy and Spain have prompted the UK government to ban certain unpasteurised dairy imports to protect British cattle as the disease spreads through Europe

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27 h. ago Horror 'lumpy skin disease' spreads across Europe as threat to Britain explained

Mass culls to stop the spread of lumpy skin disease have sparked clashes between farmers and police in France - the UK government has brought in a ban on cheeses to stop the virus crossing the Channel

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2 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Britain’s spy chief to warn of Russia’s ‘expansionist threat’ as Berlin talks enter second day

MI6 chief to deliver remarks on Monday warning ‘chaos is a feature not a bug in the Russian approach’; European leaders to join day two of talks in Berlin. What we know on day 1,391The head of Britain’s foreign spy service, known as MI6, will warn that Russia poses an “aggressive, expansionist, and revisionist” threat, in her first speech since taking office. Blaise Metreweli took over from Richard Moore in October, becoming the first female chief of MI6. “[Vladimir] Putin should be in no doubt, our support is enduring. The pressure we apply on Ukraine’s behalf will be sustained,” Metreweli will say on Monday, according to advance extracts of her remarks. “The export of chaos is a feature not a bug in the Russian approach to international engagement, and we should be ready for this to continue until Putin is forced to change his calculus,” she said, according to the extract.Separately, Richard Knighton, head of Britain’s armed forces, will also call in a separate speech on Monday fo...

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2 d. ago Britain’s new spy chief warns of acute threat to Europe from Vladimir Putin's 'aggressive' regime

Blaise Metreweli also says the ‘defining challenge’ of the 21st Century is not which nation has the most powerful technologies but who uses them with the ‘greatest wisdom’

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5 d. ago Donald Trump wants a Europe in chaos – a sure sign for Britain to shore up its democracy | Polly Toynbee

With the US threatening to support ‘patriotic’ parties here, we need better defences, starting with tough new rules about political donationsThe new threat is so dizzyingly bizarre that Europe, and especially Britain, is slow to believe it. The US declares itself our enemy. Europe emerges as its main adversary in the US national security strategy. Russia is its friend, not us. Everything that looked solid since the second world war is turned upside down; the land of the free becomes the destroyer of democratic values. Appeasement fails.He may ramble, but Donald Trump speaks plainly. He means what he says, and he hates everything European. Except its emerging “patriotic” parties, which he wants to support. His strategy warns of “civilizational erasure”, claiming Europe will soon “become majority non-European” and parroting the racist conspiracy known as the great replacement theory. Describing Europeans as “weak”, “decaying” and “destroying their countries”, with “real stupid” leader...

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8 d. ago Superflu spreads across Europe: UK hospitals declare critical incidents and schools shut, cases surge in France and demand for face mask and medicine skyrockets in Spain

Daniel Elkeles, boss of NHS Providers, said Britons should start wearing a face mask on public transport and in offices if they are coughing and sneezing but are well enough to go to work.

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8 d. ago Government warns schools grappling with 'superflu' should only close in extreme circumstances as mutant strain spreads across Europe and more UK hospitals declare critical incidents

Headteachers are being told to consider the impact on education and wellbeing before an emergency shutdown due to the 'superflu' outbreak and to do their best to minimise disruption.

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8 d. ago ‘Don’t pander to the tech giants!’ How a youth movement for digital justice is spreading across Europe

Gen z are the first generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are fighting backLate one night in April 2020, towards the start of the Covid lockdowns, Shanley Clémot McLaren was scrolling on her phone when she noticed a Snapchat post by her 16-year-old sister. “She’s basically filming herself from her bed, and she’s like: ‘Guys you shouldn’t be doing this. These fisha accounts are really not OK. Girls, please protect yourselves.’ And I’m like: ‘What is fisha?’ I was 21, but I felt old,” she says.She went into her sister’s bedroom, where her sibling showed her a Snapchat account named “fisha” plus the code of their Paris suburb. Fisha is French slang for publicly shaming someone – from the verb “afficher”, meaning to display or make public. The account contained intimate images of girls from her sister’s school and dozens of others, “along with the personal data of the victims – their names, p...

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9 d. ago UK will stay ahead of Putin to ‘secure the underwater battle space’, Royal Navy chief says

It comes days after the foreign secretary warned that Putin represents ‘an active threat to Britain’s citizens, our security and our prosperity’

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1 week ago Hamas terror plotters spread across Europe in fresh alert with UK streets at risk

As the terror group has been dismantled across the Gaza strip it is actively spreading its influence across Europe, where it has hidden weapons dumps and could even present a significant risk to the UK

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1 week ago Vladimir Putin ordered Skripal novichok poisonings in show of ‘Russian power’, Dawn Sturgess inquiry finds

The foreign secretary warned Putin is ‘an active threat’ to Britain’s citizens in wake of report

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1 week ago Britain and Norway to launch joint fleet of warships to hunt down Russian spy vessels amid growing concern over threat from Putin

The new defence pact between the two Nato member states is aimed at protecting critical undersea cables which are under increasing threat from Vladimir Putin 's forces.

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2 w. ago King Charles says Britain and Germany are united in bolstering Europe against threat of Putin

King Charles spoke of Britain and the UK’s ‘deep friendship’ during a state visit from German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier

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2 w. ago Fans of one of Britain's best loved crisps face shortages amid strike threat

The GMB says production of Hula-Hoops - as well as McCoy’s, Pom-Bears and Discos - could be hit by walk-outs by factory workers in row over pay

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2 w. ago Good Morning Britain viewers make Ofcom threat as they reel 'unacceptable'

On Thursday's instalment of Good Morning Britain, ITV viewers saw Ed Balls and Susanna Reid detail the latest headlines.

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3 w. ago Britain’s Budget woes illustrate the threat to Europe’s social contract

Many governments have not come clean with voters about the growing fiscal strains on the welfare state

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3 w. ago Deadly mpox variant Clade 1b spreads in Europe amid rush for vaccines

Mpox cases continue to rise in parts of Africa, three years after a major outbreak infected nearly 100,000 people

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4 w. ago Wall Street braces for fourth straight drop after stock rout spreads to Europe

Wall Street is set for more losses Tuesday as worries over sky-high AI stock prices spread worldwide.

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4 w. ago Alabama rot: Urgent warning for dog owners over deadly virus with 90% of cases reported in winter

The UK has seen a total of 330 confirmed cases of the skin-legion causing disease, which whilst rare can sometimes lead to fatal kidney failure

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