New car registrations fell 14%, marking the weakest March since 1998, as semiconductor shortages continued to affect car supply, although demand for electric cars reached all-time highs. Rising inflation in Britain, exacerbated by rising fuel prices, could also hurt demand for new cars, while the Russo-Ukrainian conflict could further reduce car supply chains, according to […]
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British Foreign Secretary says with confidence that the Russian army committed war crimes
British Foreign Secretary Liz Tras said today that it was “clear” that the Russian military had committed war crimes with civilian casualties in Ukraine. Yesterday Sunday, Reuters obtained images of corpses in the town of Butsa. In one shot, a dead man can be seen on the side of the road, with his hands tied […]
Britain: Russia could make an amphibious landing on the Black Sea but that would be costly
Russian naval forces continue to blockade Ukraine off the Black and Azov Seas, blocking supplies by sea, the British military said on Sunday, according to Reuters. Russia retains the ability to attempt an amphibious landing, but such an operation is likely to be increasingly dangerous because of the time Ukrainian forces had to prepare, the […]
Britain: Russia could make amphibious landing on the Black Sea but it would cost a lot
Russian naval forces continue to blockade Ukraine off the Black and Azov Seas, blocking supplies by sea, the British military said on Sunday, according to Reuters. Russia retains the ability to attempt an amphibious landing, but such an operation is likely to be increasingly dangerous because of the time Ukrainian forces had to prepare, the […]
Britain: 83 activists arrested for blocking oil terminals in protest of climate change
British police say 83 people have been arrested in the last 48 hours in Essex, east London, as protesters block climate oil terminals. Hundreds of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil activists blocked terminals across Britain on Friday. Some of them climbed on the oil tanks as part of their campaign to persuade the government […]
Britain: Airline passengers warned of long delays this Easter
Airline passengers in Britain today received a warning about the possibility of long delays at airports during this year’s Easter holidays, due to a chronic lack of check-in staff, as well as shortages of airport security staff. . “We expect there to be peak queues for the Easter season,” Karen Di, executive director of the […]
Blinken, Tras discuss additional steps in response to Russian invasion of Ukraine
LAST UPDATE: 21.55 Britain and the United States have agreed to work together to end their dependence on Russian energy, British Foreign Secretary Liz Tras said after a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. “We agreed that the pressure on Russia must continue and that we will work to eliminate our dependence […]
Gazprom abandons German arm and subsidiaries in Britain, Switzerland and Singapore
Russian energy giant Gazprom has announced that it has abandoned its arm in Germany, which owns several storage facilities across the country, as well as its commercial arm in the United Kingdom. The company is still leaving, as he said, its units from Switzerland to Singapore. The Russian state-owned company is no longer the owner […]
Record number of patients with Covid-19 in the UK
The number of people infected with the new coronavirus in the UK has reached record levels, according to estimates released today, the day on which the free test under the strategy aimed at coexisting with the virus ends. Based on a representative sample of the population, the National Statistics Office (ONS) estimates that 4.9 million […]
Western-Russian diplomatic bras de fer over India-China stance on Russia-Ukraine war
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to the biggest conflict in decades between Moscow and the West. Both sides are competing to persuade some of the world’s most powerful nations, namely China and India, to take a stand on the conflict. Both Russia and the United Kingdom sent their foreign ministers to India on Thursday, […]
