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Confidence among UK residents appears to have been shaken “without a piece of news that’s pushed them there”. “Which suggests it’s vibes,” says Ed Conway. “The vibes have gone against the UK.” From Brexit to the budget – it’s all contributing It’s not as if Britain is a massive outlier, he notes, with the cost…
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The leader of Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria has travelled to Moscow since the suspension of Russian gas deliveries via Ukraine, says Moldova’s president. Transnistria has suffered widespread power cuts since 1 January when Russia’s Gazprom suspended gas exports to the region over an alleged $709m (£582m) debt, a figure fiercely disputed by Moldova’s pro-Western…
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Luxury good company LVMH says it is “impossible” to control the final destination of its products sold by third-party distributors after a report said its champagne reached Russia. French investigative media La Lettre reported today that the group’s beverages branch Moet Hennessy worked with two third-party, duty-free distributors in the US on shipments ultimately headed…
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Despite speaking for nearly three hours, Russia’s foreign minister didn’t give too much away at his annual press conference. Sergei Lavrov took questions from an audience of both Russian and foreign media, but gave answers that frequently meandered away from what was asked, and he rarely addressed matters head-on. On the key issue of Donald…
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Ukraine’s military says its overnight attacks were the largest it has carried out on Russian military facilities. Reports from Moscow this morning said Russia had downed more than 200 Ukrainian drones and five US-made ATACMS ballistic missiles (see 7.22am post). Ukraine’s military said chemical plants, oil refineries and the Engels airbase’s ammunition depots were all…
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New Delhi’s foreign ministry says one Indian apparently recruited by the Russian army has been killed, while another is receiving treatment for injuries at a hospital in Moscow. It said Narendra Modi’s government has “strongly taken up” the matter with the authorities in Moscow and with the Russian embassy in New Delhi. The ministry also…
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Moscow says it has downed six US-made ATACMS and six UK-made Storm Shadow missiles fire by Ukraine. The Kremlin said the missiles were all aimed at the Bryansk region of Russia, but were all shot down successfully. “The actions of the Kyiv regime, supported by its Western curators, will not go unanswered,” the defence ministry…
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Following a speech on AI, Sir Keir Starmer has just been asked whether Rachel Reeves will still be chancellor at the next general election. The prime minister doesn’t explicitly answer. Instead, he says the UK’s fiscal rules are “absolutely central to what we do”. “The changes we’re bringing about… all of these are designed to…
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Private car park operators have said they will update their policy after a driver was hit with legal action for taking more than five minutes to pay for using a car park. In November last year, Rosey Hudson was taken to court by a private parking company for £1,906 after she repeatedly took more than…
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The UK, other major European powers and even Ukraine itself should not be involved in peace negotiations, according to an adviser to Vladimir Putin. Nikolai Patrushev said only the US and Russia should be involved in any ceasefire deal between Moscow and Kyiv. “I believe that negotiations on Ukraine should be conducted between Russia and…
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has held further discussions with Emmanuel Macron about the possibility of deploying Western troops to Ukraine to safeguard a potential peace deal with Russia. Speaking of the security guarantees required for such a peace to be implemented, Zelenskyy said: “As one of these guarantees, we discussed the French initiative to deploy…
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Russia’s foreign minster is asked a short and direct question about what Moscow expects from Donald Trump as president. Sergei Lavrov (Russia’s foreign minister) says during today’s conference that he expects the new president’s focus will be domestic for now, given the fires in California and his promises on massive migrant deportations. “He has first…
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Away from our updates on Sergei Lavrov’s news conference for a moment, NATO has announced it will launch a new mission to protect undersea cables in the Baltic Sea. Speaking in Helsinki, NATO chief Mark Rutte said there was reason for “great concern” that undersea infrastructure was under threat. Several incidents have taken place on…
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At an annual conference today, Moscow-based journalist and Sky News correspondent Ivor Bennett asked the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, about how Donald Trump will affect potential peace negotiations. Lavrov says the Kremlin will study any peace initiative for Ukraine put forward by Washington once the president-elect takes office next Monday. The Russian diplomat also…
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In the face of renewed sanctions placed on Russia by Joe Biden during his final days in office, Russian statesman, Sergei Lavrov says outgoing Democrats have a history of “spoiling the whole thing” at the end of their terms. He says this was the case at the end of Barack Obama’s presidency before the first…
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Good Morning, Mind-Set #1: Life is all about taking risks to get what you want. How will you know if it’s the right decision if you never take it? Knowing is not enough; you must make serious effort. Willingness is not enough, you must do it right, at the right time, and repeatedly if necessary…
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