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Pressure mounts on Rishi Sunak to send jets to Ukraine as EU leaders 'ready'

The Ukrainian president pleaded with Rishi Sunak to urgently send fighter jets during a surprise visit to the UK yesterday. Volodymyr Zelensk visited Brussels today where he appealed to EU leaders to provide aircraft

Daily Mirror · Feb 9, 2023

Turkey-Syria earthquake: the risk of aftershocks and what can be done to protect rescuers

As the first United Nations aid convoy made it across the Turkish border into Syria, the regional death toll from the earthquakes four days earlier climbed steadily past 19,000. And it looks set to rise higher still. Quite a lot of these will be new deaths, caused by aftershocks and…

The Conversation · Feb 9, 2023

Pushing Stormont poll deadline back ‘legislating for further drift’ – Sinn Fein

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris announced on Thursday the Stormont parties have until January 13 2024 to form an executive.

The Independent UK · Feb 9, 2023

President Zelensky arrives at the EU Summit with Emmanuel Macron

Volodymyr Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron travelled together to Brussels to take part in an EU summit.

Evening Standard · Feb 9, 2023

Mercedes facing 330,000 legal claims over ‘defeat devices’ in diesel vehicles

The German manufacturer is alleged to have ‘deliberately misled’ customers over whether its cars complied with emissions standards.

The Independent UK · Feb 9, 2023

After Brexit, if Sunak really wants a ‘science superpower’, he must fix these three things

Science now has a cabinet seat, but Britain’s world-leading reputation is fading fast, says public health professor Devi Sridhar

The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2023

Zelenskyy says EU leaders 'ready' to give Ukraine combat aircraft, but no promises on bloc membership

Volodymyr Zelenskyy walks away from a meeting with EU leaders boasting of their "readiness" to provide fighter jets to Ukraine and a promise to crackdown on Russian misinformation online.

ABC News · Feb 9, 2023

Britain says it paid $2.8 billion to EU to settle Chinese import fraud case

Britain's finance ministry said on Thursday it had paid 2.6 billion euros ($2.8 billion) to the European Union, after an EU court ruled that the former EU member should pay billions of euros it failed to collect due to fraud on imports from China.

Reuters · Feb 9, 2023

What is the new European Super League plan, will it succeed and how are people reacting?

A22, the company formed to sponsor and assist with the creation of the league, revealed its new plans for the ESL earlier today.

Daily Record · Feb 9, 2023

Zelensky tells EU summit Ukraine needs more weapons, more quickly

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky was given a hero's welcome by EU heads of state at a summit in Brussels on Thursday as he lobbied the regional bloc to speed the delivery of modern weapons to halt a Russian offensive.

Radio France Internationale · Feb 9, 2023