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Lukashenko says UK should ‘choke’ on new sanctions
The authoritarian Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has accused his opponents of planning a coup and mocked the Olympic sprinter who fled to Poland.
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Belarus opposition leader says ‘nobody is safe’ after death of exile in Ukraine
Belarus’s opposition leader told Channel 4 News “nobody now is safe” after the “shock” death of a prominent exile in neighbouring Ukraine.
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Tokyo 2020: Belarus Olympian receives Polish visa after refusing to fly home
A sprinter from Belarus has been offered a humanitarian visa by Poland, after refusing an order to fly home early from the Tokyo Olympic Games. Krystina Timanovskaya is now under police protection in the Polish embassy, claiming she feared for her safety after she had criticised the Belarus team coaches on social media. Belarus claims…
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FactCheck Q&A: Boris Johnson’s offshore wind plans
The government has confirmed a previously-announced target to increase offshore wind capacity to 40GW by 2030.
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Belarus urged to hold free and fair elections on Sunday
Germany, France and Poland have issued a joint statement urging Belarus to ensure a free and fair election takes place on Sunday.
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Film director Agnieszka Holland on her new film ‘Mr Jones’ inspired by Welsh journalist Gareth Jones
Film director Agnieszka Holland on her new film ‘Mr Jones’ inspired by Welsh journalist Gareth Jones
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UK’s largest ever modern slavery gang jailed
They had trafficked hundreds of vulnerable people to Britain, enriching themselves in the process.
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FactCheck: is austerity reducing life expectancy?
Life expectancy in England is not growing at the rate that experts predicted before 2011. What’s going on?
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UN Climate Talks reach agreement
Negotiators at the UN climate talks in Poland have finally reached agreement on new rules to cut harmful carbon emissions and tackle climate change.
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Delegates at UN climate change conference yet to reach agreement
The UN climate conference in Poland has been billed as the most important summit on global climate change since the 2015 Paris deal. It opened last week with dire warnings from the TV naturalist David Attenborough, who said a lack of action could lead to the collapse of civilisation. But, with just hours left before the…
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Ministers from 130 countries warned ‘suicidal to fail’ to make lasting deal at climate conference
Delegates from almost 200 countries are at the 24th annual climate change conference in Poland, trying to increase efforts to curb pollution and tackle climate change.
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FactCheck: May isn’t telling the whole story on immigration
“We will take back control of our borders, by putting an end to the free movement of people once and for all. Instead of an immigration systems based on where a person comes from, we will build one based on the skills and talents a person has to offer” That’s what the Prime Minister wrote…
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Polish government accused of ‘cultural purge’ in World War museum row
The Polish Government has found itself accused of a ‘Cultural Purge’ after the boss of the country’s World War II Museum was sacked.
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FactCheck: Kate Hoey’s claims about the EU
Brexit-backing Labour MP Kate Hoey made three claims about the EU and trade. Two of them are wrong.
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Dominik Tarczynski, Law and Justice party: ‘It’s not about refugees, it’s about illegal immigrants’
German Green Party MEP Barbara Lochbihler and Dominik Tarczynski, an MP from Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice party, discuss migration.