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May Is Said to Tell Allies to Beware Russia: Expel Putin’s Spies
22Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

May Is Said to Tell Allies to Beware Russia: Expel Putin’s Spies

    The U.K. is sharing secret intelligence about the nerve agent attack on a former spy with key allies, in an effort to persuade them to expel Russian diplomats across Europe, people familiar with the matter said. Prime Minister Theresa May ordered 23 Russian operatives who she said were undeclared spies to leave Britain last week in retaliation for the attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, England. Now she wants other countries to follow Britain’s example, condemning Russia and taking action against Kremlin agents, according to the people, who asked not to be named discussing sensitive security matters. May stands outside The Mill pub in Salisbury on March 15. Whether or not May succeeds is being seen as a key test of her ability to influence the EU and d...
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How Prince Harry charmed Meghan Markle by winning round her friends
21Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

How Prince Harry charmed Meghan Markle by winning round her friends

    One of the reasons Meghan Markle fell in love with Prince Harry is how good he was with her friends, a new book about the couple’s path to marriage claims. In an excerpt from upcoming book Harry: Life, Loss, and Love, author Kate Nicholl explains how when the news of their relationship was made public, Harry and Meghan hid from the press by seeking refuge with Meghan’s close friends Ben and Jessica Mulroney. The Mulroneys live in Toronto with their three children: seven-year-old twins Brian and John, and four-year-old Isobel. As Harry and Meghan were in Toronto when the news broke, they hid from the paparazzi at the Mulroneys’, and this is where Harry made such an impact on Meghan. When Harry came to visit the family he brought a bag filled with gifts, a source to...
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20Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

How Brexit will hit your weekly shop

    Scrapping EU tariffs on foreign imports after Brexit would do little to cut the cost of a weekly shop in the UK, according to a report. In new research contradicting Brexiters claims that leaving the EU could lower the price of food on the shelves, the Institute for Fiscal Studies thinktank said consumers would see little benefit from the removal of trade tariffs, which are a form of tax applied on imported goods. Designed to protect domestic industry and agriculture although sometimes criticised for driving up the cost of consumer goods import tariffs on goods arriving in Britain are currently dictated by Brussels as part of the UK’s membership of the EU customs union. Leaving the EU gives the government an opportunity to set an independent trade policy and to cut...
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UK firms sent girls to swing elections
20Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

UK firms sent girls to swing elections

    The company at the centre of the Facebook data breach boasted of using honey traps, fake news campaigns and operations with ex-spies to swing election campaigns around the world, a new investigation reveals. Executives from Cambridge Analytica spoke to undercover reporters from Channel 4 News about the dark arts used by the company to help clients, which included entrapping rival candidates in fake bribery stings and hiring prostitutes to seduce them. In one exchange, the company chief executive, Alexander Nix, is recorded telling reporters: It sounds a dreadful thing to say, but these are things that don’t necessarily need to be true as long as they’re believed. The Channel 4 News investigation, broadcast on Monday, comes two days after the Observer reported Cambr...
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Putin not fooling anyone with absurd nerve agent attack denials: Boris Johnson
19Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Putin not fooling anyone with absurd nerve agent attack denials: Boris Johnson

    The Foreign Secretary has warned the Russian government that it is not fooling anyone with its increasingly absurd denials of culpability for use of a nerve agent on British soil. Arriving at a meeting with EU foreign affairs ministers in Brussels on Monday morning Boris Johnson said Vladimir Putin’s regime was trying to conceal the needle of truth in a haystack of lies and obfuscation. Mr Johnson will brief the 27 other EU foreign ministers on the 4 March incident, in a meeting which EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said would first and foremost focus on the Salisbury attack among other issues. The ministers are expected to issue a joint statement on the incident later this morning after discussions. Officials from the Organisation for the Prohibition ...
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Britain and allies plan next steps against Russia
18Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Britain and allies plan next steps against Russia

    Speaking at the Conservative spring forum on Saturday, Theresa May said Britain would never tolerate a threat to the life of its citizens, or others in the country, from the Russian government. This act of Russian aggression is the very antithesis of the liberal and democratic values that define the United Kingdom, she said. The pledge comes as 23 British diplomats based in Russia begin packing their bags as they are expelled from the country in retaliation for Russian representatives being told to leave the UK. It is thought most or all are intelligence officers. Russia has also shut down the offices of the British Council in Moscow a move the cultural organisation says is profoundly disappointing It is our view that when political or diplomatic relations become...
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UK on highest alert on threat of cyber reprisal grows
18Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

UK on highest alert on threat of cyber reprisal grows

    Banks, energy and water companies are on maximum alert over the threat of a serious cyber attack from Moscow as concern continues over the safety of Russian exiles in the UK. Fears that Russia will target Britain’s critical national infrastructure have prompted round-the-clock threat assessments by the UK’s financial sector, energy firms and GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence agency, along with the security services MI5 and MI6. The Bank of England, major financiers, including Lloyds, and organisations such as Water UK are working with the government’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to assess the next move from Moscow following the murder of Nikolai Glushkov, 68, and the Salisbury chemical attack. Scotland Yard on Saturday issued a renewed appeal for inform...
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UK won’t tolerate threat to life
17Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

UK won’t tolerate threat to life

    Theresa May has used her party conference speech to warn Russia that the UK will never tolerate a threat to the life of British citizens, as the crisis around the Salisbury nerve attack deepens. The Prime Minister said Moscow was in flagrant breach of international law over the incident which saw a Russian-made nerve agent release in the city. She said: Many Russians have made this country their home. And those who abide by our laws and make a contribution to our society will always be welcome. But we will never tolerate a threat to the life of British citizens and others on British soil from the Russian Government. Saying that she had anticipated the move, the Prime Minister went on: The rule of law. Freedom of speech. The toleration of dissenting and minority vi...
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Jam or cream first? Queen settles great scone debate
17Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Jam or cream first? Queen settles great scone debate

    few issues carry the contentions of the great scone debate: should the cream or the jam be spread first? Cream tea has been served in the UK since the 11th century and arguments surrounding the order of spreading the scone’s traditional toppings have ruminated ever since. While those in Devon typically spread the clotted cream first followed by jam, the Cornish tradition is to spread jam first followed by cream. Finally, we have some clarity on the issue, as it’s revealed how the Queen takes her scones. Jam first at Buckingham Palace garden parties Darren McGrady wrote on Twitter. The Queen always had homemade Balmoral jam first, the chef and author added in a subsequent tweet, with clotted cream on top at Buckingham Palace garden parties in the royal tea tent an...
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UK National Lottery online accounts hacked again
17Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

UK National Lottery online accounts hacked again

    Editorial Millions of National Lottery players were being told to change their passwords on Friday after accounts were hacked. Up to 150 accounts were attacked, with a handful falling victim to some limited activity, according to Lotto operator Camelot. The firm insisted no players had lost money. Cyber spooks were tonight probing the incident, which has been referred to the information watchdog. A Camelot spokesman said: ​​As part of our online security monitoring, we became aware of suspicious activity on a very small proportion of our players’ online National Lottery accounts. We reported this matter to the police and the Information Commissioner’s Office, and are liaising with the National Cyber Security Centre. We would like to make clear that there has been...
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