Today at 9:00 am, elections to the region's parliament began in Catalonia in the northeast of Spain. Recent polls indicated that two separatist groups and the socialists had a chance of winning.more
The US Senate has fallen short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict former President Donald Trump on a charge of incitement to insurrection over the Capitol riot on 6 January. A majority of senators - 57 to 43, including seven Republicans - voted to convict Mr Trump, 10 votes short of the 67 required for conviction.more
Russia is ready to sever relations with the European Union, "if it comes to it on the initiative of the EU," the Russian Foreign Ministry said, commenting on an earlier media statement by the head of diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov.more
The UK and the European Union confirmed their commitment to resolve issues related to the implementation of the Northern Ireland protocol yesterday, but a statement released after the meeting between Michael Gove and Marosz Szefczovicz suggests that divergences remain.more
Donald Trump was reportedly much more ill with Covid-19 in October than the White House publicly admitted at the time, with some officials concerned that he would need to be put on a ventilator.more
Britain's relationship with the European Union following the end of the post-Brexit transition period is "more than bumpy," said David Frost, former UK chief negotiator in talks with the EU and now Prime Minister Boris Johnson's EU advisor.more
A significant part of private media is protesting today in the joint action "Media without a choice", which is a response to the announcement of the government's announcement of the preparation of a bill, which will result in the introduction of a premium for internet and conventional advertising.more
The Georgia secretary of state’s office opened an investigation on Monday into Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results, according to a new report.
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Britons would prefer Boris Johnson rather than Keir Starmer to be in charge of the rest of the Covid-19 pandemic and also the subsequent economic recovery, an exclusive poll reveals today.more
The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, announced that the expulsion of Polish, Swedish and German diplomats from Russia was related to the actions taken by foreign representatives against illegal protests in Russia.more
'Six months on from the fraudulent Presidential election in Belarus, the UK stands in solidarity with those working towards democracy. The people of Belarus deserve a prosperous future, which they decided upon and can shape', writes Wendy Morton on her Twitter.more
Local council and mayoral elections in England and Wales will go ahead, the U.K. government said Friday, as it confirmed it expects its coronavirus vaccination program for first doses to have “reached” all over-50s by May.more
British foreign minister Dominic Raab called Russia’s expulsion of EU diplomats a “crude attempt” to distract from the country’s targeting of opposition leaders, saying on Friday that London stood in solidarity with its “European friends”.more
Russia has expelled three diplomats from Germany, Sweden and Poland for joining protests in support of opposition activist Alexei Navalny, who was jailed earlier this week.more
Great Britain left the EU and there were no regulations that we could invoke to persuade the British to do something about the Pole in coma in Plymouth hospital - explains the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Piotr Wawrzyk in "Nasz Dziennik". He adds that the ministry is working on regulations to facilitate action in such a situation.more
The Brexit agreement’s Northern Ireland protocol will not be scrapped, the Irish government and the EU have said in an escalating row over the new trade barriers down the Irish Sea.more
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was sentenced to two and a half years in prison over probation violation charges. The ruling comes two weeks after Navalny was arrested upon his return to Moscow from Germany, where he spent five months recovering from a nerve agent poisoning he blames on the Kremlinmore
Physical checks on animal goods from Great Britain were temporarily suspended in ports in Northern Ireland last night due to threats against officials carrying them out.more
Ireland extends the requirement to have a negative coronavirus test result on entry until March 5, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs service "Pole abroad" informed today.more
Britain called on Alyaksandr Lukashenka's regime to stop repressing political opponents. The head of British diplomacy, Dominic Raab, talked about the situation in Belarus with the leader of the Belarusian opposition, Sviatlana Cichanouska.more
An MP today asked police to investigate the distribution of a leaflet designed by Jeremy Corbyn’s brother that compares the Covid-19 vaccine programme with the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz.more
