Month: June 2022

Britain Set for Biggest Rail Strike in Decades

Britain’s railway network this week faces its biggest strike action in more than three decades in a row over pay as soaring inflation erodes earnings.  Rail union the RMT has said that more than 50,000 workers will take part in a three-day national strike, coinciding with major events including the Glastonbury music festival.  Schools are warning that thousands of teenagers taking national exams will also be affected. The RMT argues that the strikes are necessary as wages have failed to keep pace with inflation, which has hit a 40-year high. Jobs are also at risk with passenger traffic yet to …

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Zelenskyy Expects Increase in Russian Hostility Ahead of EU Vote

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said “we should expect greater hostile activity from Russia” this week as European Union leaders consider whether to support candidate status for Ukraine in the EU. “And not only against Ukraine, but also against other European countries. We are preparing. We are ready. We are warning partners,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly address Sunday. The European Commission recommended last week that Ukraine receive candidate status. The 27 member states will discuss the issue and give their votes during a summit Thursday and Friday. If Ukraine does advance to candidate status, the process for joining the EU …

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French Voters Cast Ballots in Legislative Runoff   

France voted Sunday in the second-round runoff of legislative elections that saw a new left-wing alliance threatening President Emmanuel Macron’s majority in the National Assembly, the lower house of the country’s Parliament. Voters trickled out of Neuilly Plaisance’s city hall, shopping carts in tow. After casting their ballots, their next stops were the bakery and Sunday market to finish their errands. Gregory, an electrician in this eastern Paris suburb, had cast his ballot for France’s new leftist coalition, known as NUPES. He said French President Emmanuel Macron is breaking everything the country has worked for when it comes to social …

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Spain, Germany Battle Wildfires Amid Unusual Heat Wave 

Firefighters in Spain and Germany struggled to contain wildfires on Sunday amid an unusual heat wave in Western Europe for this time of year. The worst damage in Spain has been in the northwest province of Zamora where over 25,000 hectares (61,000 acres) have been consumed, regional authorities said, while German officials said that residents of three villages near Berlin were ordered to leave their homes because of an approaching wildfire Sunday. Spanish authorities said that after three days of high temperatures, high winds and low humidity, some respite came with dropping temperatures Sunday morning. That allowed for about 650 …

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Через мінометні обстріли на Сумщині постраждала цивільна жінка – прокуратура

«За процесуального керівництва Шосткинської окружної прокуратури проводиться досудове розслідування за фактом порушення законів та звичаїв війни (ч. 1 ст. 438 КК України)» …

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Irish PM Martin Urges Britain to Resume Talks With EU Over its N.Ireland Law 

Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin said on Sunday a new British law to change part of a Brexit deal to try to ease trade with Northern Ireland was “unilateralism of the worst kind” and urged the government to resume talks. The European Commission launched two new legal proceedings against Britain this month after London published plans to override some post-Brexit rules in the so-called Northern Ireland protocol which governs trade with the British province. London has proposed scrapping some checks on goods from the rest of the United Kingdom arriving in Northern Ireland and challenged the role of the European …

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Greek Rescuers Save More Than 100 Migrants in Aegean 

More than 100 migrants were rescued early Sunday off the island of Mykonos in the Aegean Sea and four are missing, the Greek coastguard said. Port police responded to a distress call sending three boats and a tug boat to help the stricken vessel which had come from Turkey, the coastguard told AFP. It said 108 people were saved and four were missing. The total number on board is unconfirmed due to contradictory information from those rescued, it added. Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi had earlier tweeted that eight migrants were missing and 104 had been rescued. He also called for …

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