Lammy announces exposure of 18 Russian spies after UK cyber-attacks

Foreign secretary says two agents were involved in planting spyware on a device used by poisoning victim Yulia Skripal

The UK has exposed 18 Russian spies and their units responsible for cyber-attacks in Britain and hacking one of the victims of the Salisbury poisonings, David Lammy, the foreign secretary, has said.

Announcing individual sanctions, Lammy said Russia had targeted media, telecoms providers, political and democratic institutions and energy infrastructure in the UK in recent years.

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UK sanctions Russian intelligence officers who targeted Mariupol theater and family of poisoned spy – AP News

  1. UK sanctions Russian intelligence officers who targeted Mariupol theater and family of poisoned spy  AP News
  2. UK sanctions Russian spies for malicious activity  BBC
  3. UK discovers Russian 'espionage tool', sanctions GRU officers over cyberattacks  Reuters
  4. Lammy announces exposure of 18 Russian spies after UK cyber-attacks  The Guardian
  5. Unmasked: The 18 Russian spies who mounted series of attacks on UK  Sky News
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Dramatic Drone Footage Of Iceland’s Latest Volcanic Eruption Shows An Epic Scene From Hell – IFLScience

  1. Dramatic Drone Footage Of Iceland's Latest Volcanic Eruption Shows An Epic Scene From Hell  IFLScience
  2. Volcano erupts in Iceland spewing lava from the ground  BBC
  3. Volcanic eruption in Iceland forces tourists to evacuate Blue Lagoon, as lava flows near town of Grindavik  CBS News
  4. Icelandic volcano erupts again, prompting evacuations at nearby town and Blue Lagoon  ABC News
  5. Lava erupts from gigantic fissure in Iceland following earthquake swarm — and the photos are epic  Live Science
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Catalogue of failures led to woman’s murder in Bristol care home, coroner finds

Managers described as ‘reckless’ over supervision of Melissa Mathieson’s killer, who had history of sexual violence

A “catalogue of failures” resulted in the murder of a vulnerable young woman who was strangled to death in a care home by a fellow resident with a history of sexual violence, a coroner has concluded.

Senior managers at the care home in Bristol where Melissa Mathieson, 18, died were described as “reckless” by the coroner for not effectively supervising her killer, Jason Conroy.

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Druze city of Sweida’s street filled with bodies and looted homes – The Jerusalem Post

  1. Druze city of Sweida's street filled with bodies and looted homes  The Jerusalem Post
  2. Bodies and looted homes: Syria's Druze reeling after Sweida bloodshed  Reuters
  3. In Syria, a cycle of revenge engulfs the Druze city of Sweida  Le Monde.fr
  4. Sweida hospital morgue full, received over 400 bodies since Monday, doctor says  The Times of Israel
  5. Syria to deploy troops to south; Druze say Sweida hospital has become a mass grave  Ynetnews
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Germany and EU allies push for asylum crackdown and more deportations – Reuters

  1. Germany and EU allies push for asylum crackdown and more deportations  Reuters
  2. Alpine Fortress  euractiv.com
  3. Germany and EU allies push for ‘tougher, stricter’ asylum rules  Al Jazeera
  4. EU ministers vow tougher migration policy within bloc  Myanmar International TV
  5. UPDATE: Poland and five EU nations press for asylum crackdown and deportations  TVP World
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Women who conceived in abusive relationships lose legal challenge over benefits ‘rape clause’

Justice Collins Rice says it is for politicians and not courts to change rules around two-child benefit cap

Two women who conceived their eldest children while they were in violent and controlling relationships have lost a legal challenge to the rules around the two-child benefit cap.

A high court judge said the accounts of the abuse the women faced when they were “vulnerable girls barely out of childhood” were “chilling”.

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Child killed in Minehead school coach crash was 10-year-old boy, police say

Twenty-one passengers were taken to hospital after coach overturned on way back from trip to zoo

Flowers have been left outside a school attended by a 10-year-old boy who died in a coach crash in Somerset on the way home from a trip to the zoo.

Twenty-one passengers were taken to hospital, some with serious injuries, when the coach flipped on to its roof and plunged 20ft down an embankment in Exmoor on Thursday afternoon on its way back to Minehead middle school.

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Netanyahu calls Pope Leo after uproar over Israeli attack on Gaza church – Financial Times

  1. Netanyahu calls Pope Leo after uproar over Israeli attack on Gaza church  Financial Times
  2. Christian leaders make rare visit to Gaza following deadly Israeli church attack  CNN
  3. Netanyahu calls Pope Leo XIV after deadly Israeli strike on Gazan church  ABC News
  4. Israeli strike hits Gaza church, killing 3 and wounding priest who was close to Pope Francis  AP News
  5. Israel apologizes for deadly strike on Gaza Catholic church after Trump call  Politico
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