'We're not giving up' on independence: Scottish external affairs secretary
The Cabinet Secretary added that "Brexit…is bad for Scotland and for the UK. It's damaging, it undermines our economic situation and our link with the rest of Europe".
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Brave NHS worker who told of little children being lined up and shot in war-ravaged Ukraine is set to return
A brave Greater Manchester NHS worker who told of little children being lined up and shot by Russian soldiers in war-ravaged Ukraine is planning to return for a second time to help train troops and hospital staff.
US President Joe Biden issues nuclear 'Armageddon' warning
US President Joe Biden has warned that the risk of nuclear Armageddon is at its highest level since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and that Vladimir Putin is "not joking" about using tactical nuclear weapons.
No longer the unthinkable? Putin repeats nuclear threat as Russia retreats in Ukraine
It is not just Putin. North Korea seems ready to think about the unthinkable. For the first time in five years, Pyongyang has conducted a ballistic missile test over Japan into the Pacific. How volatile is this moment in time?
Annexation Day, Trouble in the Baltic Sea, UK tax cuts, Brazil election
When Vladimir Putin says no going back, it comes in a week where it is all coming to a head: the referendum, mobilisation and the explosions that took out the currently-offline Nord Stream pipelines, pipelines hit by the equivalent of hundreds of kilos of TNT according to the Danes. All sides point to sabotage. In whose interest is it to blow up the natural gas link between Russia and Germany? On the day Germany rolled out a €200 billion energy subsidy plan for consumers and businesses. Here in France, there is talk of mandatory measures if the French do not watch their energy consumption this winter.
US, Canada call on players in Russia's KHL to leave the country
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Putin’s annexation of Ukrainian regions changes ‘nothing’, Ukraine’s FM says
The Ukrainian foreign minister said that the annexation by Russia of four regions – Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia – where so-called referendums were held this week changed "nothing" for his country and the world. He said that Russia did not even control all of those areas, adding that Ukrainian forces were actually "progressing well" in the Donetsk region, in particular around the railway hub of Lyman. He added that the annexation meant that talking to Vladimir Putin now made no sense.
Hybrid warfare? Baltic Sea pipeline sabotage raises energy security stakes
Coincidence of the calendar: this was the week the new Baltic Pipe link between Norway and Poland via Denmark was inaugurated. How vulnerable is Europe's energy infrastructure to attack?