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The British Ministry of Defense has launched an investigation after a typo in the address resulted in a number of e-mails containing confidential information being sent to Mali - a country that is now a Russian ally - instead of to the US military.more

The UK government is allowing Russian oligarchs to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars despite freezing their accounts, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing obtained documents and people familiar with the matter.more

Vladimir Putin was "paralyzed" and indecisive during the first several hours of Yevgeny Prigozhin's revolt, the Washington Post reported, citing Western and Ukrainian intelligence sources. The daily reported that Putin knew about the planned revolt at least two days before it erupted, but did nothing to stop it.more

Ireland will not offer condolences to Russia if Vladimir Putin dies, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has announced, quoted by the British daily "Independent".more

New rules ‘will be deferred a year from October 2024 to 2025’ in a bid to avoid supermarket price rises, officials confirmed after i revealed the delay.more

London mayor seeks funds to help pay for car scrappage scheme amid push to expand capital’s clean air zone.more

The British government has shown an "appalling lack of understanding" of the threat posed by the activities of Russia's mercenary Wagner Group, especially in Africa, MPs on the foreign affairs committee assessed in a report released today.more

The majority of people carry some cash when they leave their homes despite the increasing digitalisation of payments. more

The media's perception of Poland and Poles in the UK began to change several years ago, but the war in Ukraine and Warsaw's active role in helping the country definitely accelerated the process, noted Professor Aleks Szczerbiak, a political scientist at the University of Sussex.more

President Andrzej Duda, Mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski and President of PSL Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz are the leaders of the July ranking of politicians' trust. The respondents express the greatest distrust towards Jarosław Kaczyński, Zbigniew Ziobro and Donald Tusk.more

The organization of the next parliamentary elections in Spain is the most favorable scenario after the vote to the Cortes Generales, believes the Spanish political scientist Prof. José Luis Orella.more

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak assured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that his country is working with Turkey to restore the grain agreement that Russia did not extend, which allowed for the export of Ukrainian grain.more

The Netherlands is the axis of global tax avoidance, according to the latest report by the Tax Justice Network. Other countries lose $51 billion a year to the Netherlands, which is almost one-fifth of the total tax losses incurred, which amount to $472 billion. Great Britain was ranked first on the list of culprits.more

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is being urged by senior members of his Conservative Party to hold elections to the House of Commons in May, not autumn 2024, because then, according to party strategists, it is easiest to minimize losses, the Guardian reported.more

The scale of exports of products manufactured in the UK to EU countries is growing, according to the latest statistics published by the Make UK group. As it was emphasized, the phenomenon takes place despite numerous warnings that Brexit will lead to the freezing of trade relations with the Communitymore

47 percent of respondents count themselves among those opposed to the government of Mateusz Morawiecki; 30 percent of respondents are satisfied with the current cabinet, while 20 percent declare indifference, according to a July CBOS poll.more

Sadiq Khan remains "determined" to extend the ULEZ to the entire capital, despite speculation that he could soften the content of the controversial scheme. A team of mayor's representatives was to talk about this with the Labor Party authorities and defend the project - emphasizing, among other things, that only every 10th car in the capital currently does not meet strict emission requirements.more

Clashes erupted between opponents of the reform and police in front of the Israeli parliament today, the day of the vote on the first part of the controversial judicial reform. Officers used water cannons and detained more than a dozen people, including one of the leaders of the protest movement.more

The center-right People's Party (PP), led by Alberto Nunez Feijoo, won yesterday's parliamentary elections in Spain, according to data from the state electoral commission after counting all votes cast.more

When modernizing its armed forces, the United Kingdom should take an example from Poland, which does it not only much faster, but also at a lower cost, says Air Marshal Edward Stringer, former director of the British Defense Academy, on the website of the Daily Telegraph.more

Human spies will not be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI), even if machines make information "infinitely more accessible" - believes British MI6 intelligence chief Richard Moore.more

Anna Maria Cisint, mayor of Monfalcone, a town near Gorizia, has announced a ban on beachcombing and bathing in burqas, a Muslim women's outfit that covers the entire body. Ucoii (Union of Islamic Communities and Organizations in Italy) will take up a legal battle against the ban, according to Italian media, including the Donnamoderna website.more

British Transport Secretary Mark Harper recently gave the go-ahead for the controversial A303 road reconstruction project, which involves the construction of a tunnel in close proximity to the famous stone structure Stonehenge. Now, in response to this decision, UNESCO has threatened to strip the monument of its World Heritage Site status.more

The head of NatWest has apologised to Nigel Farage for what she called “deeply inappropriate comments” about the former Ukip leader in an internal report that led to the closure of his accounts at the group’s exclusive private bank, Coutts.more

Britain's ruling Conservative Party avoided total defeat in yesterday's triple by-elections to the House of Commons, but even so, the loss of two districts that were very safe until recently is intensifying the pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.more