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[JD 🇺🇦 🚜🌻🌻🌻🇺🇦 @Swissjack61]

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[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

Kyiv last night.

Under the sound of sirens, grandma and grandpa carried their little rabbit to the shelter.

Because when every life matters, no one gets left behind.

Respect to the people who stay human in hell.

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Even death does not bring peace

[tern @1goodtern]

Hey.
This is a cause close to my heart.

If you can follow and reshare and stuff, I'd really appreciate it.
❤️

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

13 new bathing sites have opened across England, including the first on the River Thames, as the official bathing season begins.

It means 464 sites on coasts, rivers and lakes will undergo regular water quality testing.

Six of the new sites are on rivers, but the Environment Agency currently advises against bathing at many of the existing inland river sites.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Ukraine's President says 24 people were killed when a missile strike hit an apartment block in Kyiv on Thursday, in Russia's biggest barrage since its all-out invasion.

Today, the Council of Europe agreed to establish a 'Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine', which has already been nicknamed 'Putin's Court'.

[Clive Wismayer 🇪🇺🥪 @CliveWismayer]

This in spades. FPTP is actually harmful as well as undemocratic.

[Andrew Parnall @dontbrexitfixit]

Labour's @UKLabour red lines are holding Britain back.

Don't hold back now Starmer @Keir_Starmer, stop the 'make Brexit work' magical thinking and drop the red lines without delay. Be a leader and lead.

[Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm]

PA : Labour's ruling body, the National Executive Committee, has given the Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham permission to stand in the candidate selection process for the upcoming Makerfield by-election, a party spokesman said.

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election.

I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics.

Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic.

Over the last decade, I have been challenging this failure from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the UK and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures.

However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people.

Millions are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better for them in its first two years. After this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place.

I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that.

Finally, I truly do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again.

ENDS

[tern @1goodtern]

Saying that Hantavirus is more forgiving than Covid...

You know what that means exactly?

IT MEANS THAT COVID IS NOT FORGIVING

[Patrick Maguire @patrickkmaguire]

Eight Makerfield wards voted last week. Results:

Reform: 50.4%
Labour: 22.7%
Green: 10.9%
Conservative: 9.9%
Lib Dem: 3.8%
Other: 2.2%

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Rachel Reeves has criticised a potential leadership challenge, saying "now is not the time to put our economic stability at risk", that'll come in November with her next budget

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Russia has hit Ukraine with almost continuous rounds of missiles and drones for a second day running.

Most of the attacks were on the capital Kyiv, where at least three people were killed and dozens more injured. Water supplies have been disrupted in the east of the city.

The scale and intensity of the attacks come a day after Donald Trump claimed that a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine was close.

[Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 @vivamjm]

Rejoining the EU would *guarantee* much greater access to & sales in the EU27. It would *guarantee* more economic growth (into the EU27) & prosperity. Thus more businesses & jobs. It would *guarantee* more widespread choice for less cost on UK supermarket shelves.
None of this possible anywhere else unless we remove the (highest of barriers to trade, prosperity & growth) regulatory & customs borders against another market to form a single market & customs union with them
..& even then it would need to be as big & as close as the EU.
This is what @Jonathan_Hinder should be educating himself & his constituents on.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Here's how Labour leadership elections work.

[JD 🇺🇦 🚜🌻🌻🌻🇺🇦 @Swissjack61]

@crimlawuk Totally agree. And what is his „arrangement“ with Palintir?

[Chris Daw KC @crimlawuk]

Burnham needs to stand up and make a stand right now.

Not death by a thousand cuts for Starmer.

Make a speech from Manchester, a boomtown with young people flocking to it from all over the world.

Under him.

Britain's greatest success story in 2026.

If Burnham can do this in Manchester, he has my support to take the reins for the whole country.

If he can turn this current disaster around and unite the country he will win the next election.

A coalition of the willing and the rational and the kind.

We are here and willing to support a Burnham premiership.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

President Trump has rejected Iran's response to a proposed US plan to end the war in Iran, driving up oil prices again.

After days of deliberation, Iran issued a response yesterday, which focused on ending the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, demanding compensation for war damage and emphasising Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.

The US President dismissed the demands as "totally unacceptable".

[JD 🇺🇦 🚜🌻🌻🌻🇺🇦 @Swissjack61]

@GavinBarwell @vivamjm A perfect example of an oxymoron.

[Yavuz Kartal @YavuzKartal03]

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Gazze'ye 70.000 ton bomba atıldı

Hiroşima'da sivil halkı avlamak için keskin nişancılar beklemedi

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