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Putin’s erasing of Ukraine’s distinct history reveals his imperial ambitions
Lenin may still have statues in Ukraine but he didn't invent the country, despite what Putin may say. Ferran Cornellà via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC Vladimir Putin has long insisted Ukraine is part of the country he rules. “Kiev is the mother of Russian cities. Ancient Rus is our commonContinue Reading
Atletico Madrid vs Man Utd: Live stream, TV channel, kick-off time and team news for TONIGHT’S Champions League fixture
‘One of the best teams in the world’ While the view from England is that Man Utd have failed to set the world alight this season, Diego Simeone has a different view. The Atletico Madrid boss said: “We’re facing one of the best teams in the world in the lastContinue Reading
North Devon Village Wins National Energy Efficiency Award
The heritage village of Clovelly in North Devon, famous for its cobbled streets and tiny fishing harbour, has won the National Landlord of the Year award for Energy Efficiency. Run by the Energy Efficiency Association, the awards were held at the NEC in Birmingham last Friday 18th February, at a dinner withContinue Reading
WEST CORNWALL HEALTHWATCH
Our response to the Health and Care Bill While the global COVID-19 pandemic is still affecting people around the world, and while we are learning to live with its consequences in the UK, the government is pushing through massive changes to the NHS. We believe that this is not theContinue Reading
Commenting on the Prime Minister’s Living With COVID strategy
Commenting on the Prime Minister’s Living With COVID strategy, Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP Luke Pollard said: “The Prime Minister promised a plan for living with COVID, but he has left us in chaos and disarray. “It is shocking that Boris Johnson is scrapping free testing for most people, endingContinue Reading
‘The hope is finished’: life in the Ukrainian separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk
Russia’s recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, and fears of a military attack on Ukraine, have once again drawn the world’s attention to these two rebel-held separatist regions. They have been outside Ukrainian government control since Russian-backed separatists fought Ukrainian forces to a standstill in 2014, a conflictContinue Reading
Russia evacuates Ukrainian embassy as region braces for further confrontation
Russia has started evacuating its embassy in Kyiv and Ukraine urged its citizens to leave Russia as the region braced for further confrontation after Vladimir Putin received authorisation to use military force outside his country and the West responded with sanctions. Hopes for a diplomatic way out of a potentiallyContinue Reading
Henry questions Chelsea’s Lukaku transfer and is alarmed by his game involvement
THIERRY HENRY has questioned Chelsea’s decision to bring flop striker Romelu Lukaku back to the club as they don’t fit well together. The goal-shy Belgian attacker returned to Chelsea from Inter Milan last summer for a club-record transfer fee of £97million after leaving Stamford Bridge initially in 2014. 3 HenryContinue Reading
Have hybrid coronaviruses already been made? We simply don’t know for sure, and that’s a problem
At the end of 2021, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) quietly added “chimeric viruses” – viruses that contain genetic material derived from two or more distinct viruses – to its list of most dangerous pathogens. The CDC designated this type of research as a “restricted experiment”Continue Reading
Ukraine: what’s really behind Putin’s deployment of ‘peacekeeping’ troops? Experts explain
Vladimir Putin’s recognition of the independence of the two breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk followed a surreal live broadcast of a security council meeting in the Kremlin. Sitting facing the 13-member council, Putin cajoled and argued as, one by one, his most senior officials – including Dmitry Medvedev, aContinue Reading