Robert Firth

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[Robert Firth @robjfirth]

#Armenia is set to receive a support package worth more than €50 million ($58.2 million) from the European Union after #Russia, its largest trading partner, imposed restrictions on a range of Armenian exports, including flowers. 🌺

https://t.co/ITIeLn5TLe

[Robert Firth @robjfirth]

A video of the arrest of dying teenager Henry Nowak has triggered protests in Southampton.

Keir Starmer said the footage raised "serious questions" for the police, while Kemi Badenoch questioned if anti-racism training influenced officers’ response.
https://t.co/Dm0uY5NJbX

[Connor Gillies @ConnorGillies]

NEW: Sky News came to Ireland in an attempt to question Nicola Sturgeon about claims she shut down scrutiny of SNP finances at the same time her ex-husband Peter Murrell stole £400k from party.

She entered the kitchen to avoid questions with security pushing me away.

@SkyNews

[Robert Firth @robjfirth]

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https://t.co/UJ5Fil3ebG

[Robert Firth @robjfirth]

seems genuinely insane that the bbc have used a promo photo from this woman trying to flog her inspirational memoir from a few yrs bk when the story is about her being found guilty of scalding her step-daughter to death. ?????????

[Robert Firth @robjfirth]

Russian President Vladimir #Putin arrives in #Kazakhstan today for an unprecedented 2nd state visit to the country in 2 years. He will gift #Astana 4 Siberian tigers during the trip.
https://t.co/WOUByRiAg5

[Robert Firth @robjfirth]

At least 90 miners have died in a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern #China. The blast occurred on Friday at the #Liushenyu coal mine in #Shanxi province, according to Chinese state media.
https://t.co/8F3IAy8fHN

[Joshua Garfield @JoshuaGarfield]

How it’s started. How it’s going.

[Helen Lewis @helenlewis]

Bio bought four properties in Gambia since becoming first lady, and has use of the presidential palace. Meanwhile, there are 18,000 people on Southwark's housing waiting list. Someone is living in a B&B so this family can keep a pied a terre in London.
https://t.co/g2yWhEj85j

[Robert Firth @robjfirth]

"It is now clear that you will not lead the Labour Party into the next general election"

[Robert Firth @robjfirth]

British Prime Minister Keir #Starmer was fighting for his political survival on Thursday after Health Secretary Wes #Streeting resigned, saying he had “lost confidence” in Starmer’s leadership.

Read more as it happens below ))))

https://t.co/oiNb4fQhjn

[Robert Firth @robjfirth]

British Prime Minister Keir #Starmer was fighting for his political survival on Thursday after Health Secretary Wes #Streeting resigned, saying he had “lost confidence” in Starmer’s leadership.

Read more as it happens below ))))

https://t.co/oiNb4fQhjn

[Robert Firth @robjfirth]

Metropolitan #Shio elected 142nd Catholicos-Patriarch of #Georgia at a meeting of clergy in #Tbilisi following the death of following the death of long-time Patriarch Ilia II. He will be known as Shio III.
https://t.co/JNYhCCWdBw

[Robert Firth @robjfirth]

UK Local Elections: Is it over for Keir Starmer? https://t.co/QpIFVtQqjY

[Vicky Spratt @Victoria_Spratt]

IMO, we don't always talk enough about the impact of policy on local elections.

Housing is a key issue - both affordability and housebuilding.

Have been looking at places where Labour lost seats to Reform, as well as losing votes to the Green Party.

In Wandsworth, for instance, where the Labour-controlled council had been building council homes, the Conservatives gained control after the Greens split the left-wing vote. Here, Greens talked up rent controls.

Similarly, in Hackney, the Greens gained their first mayor and deputy mayor after years of Labour rule. In this part of the Capital, they also campaigned on rent control, which is not currently a national Labour Party policy, even though London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has called for the power to implement city-wide controls on rent.

In Labour Mayor Andy Burnham’s patch of Greater Manchester, the party of government lost a decades-long majority in Tameside, where one third of seats were up for election, with Reform winning 18 out of 19 seats.

In Wigan, Reform won 24 of the 25 seats available, and 13 of the 21 in Salford, but Labour held on to its majority.

In both places, the Greens secured hundreds of votes after attacking Britain’s Labour government’s plans to build new homes on green belt land (which can now be reclassified as ‘grey belt’ under certain circumstances).

The Liberal Democrats secured a majority in Stockport for the first time in 15 years after picking up two extra seats. The local Lib Dem party here criticised the new housing targets imposed on the area by Britain’s national Labour government.

[Robert Firth @robjfirth]

At least two killed in #Leipzig, #Germany after car drives into crowd.

Emergency services have declared "mass casualty incident," police say.

https://t.co/JvzYanWelL

[Robert Firth @robjfirth]

#Armenia and #Georgia will co-host the 2029 #FIFA U-20 World Cup, the sport’s global governing body announced on Wednesday (29 April), bringing the youth tournament to the South Caucasus for the second consecutive edition after the 2027 event.

https://t.co/vek0AxoSWY

[Robert Firth @robjfirth]

The Holy Synod of the Georgian Orthodox Church met yesterday to pick the candidates to succeed Ilia II as the new Patriarch.

A conservative who supports closer ties to the Russian Orthodox Church emerged as the frontrunner.

https://t.co/FcmlGPJ59R

[Robert Firth @robjfirth]

Militants have staged coordinated attacks in #Mali’s capital, #Bamako, and several locations across the country, the army said on Saturday (25 April), in an assault apparently involving jihadist and Tuareg-led groups.

https://t.co/NtpDXwVMcT

[Robert Firth @robjfirth]

#Argentina has reiterated its interest in resuming talks with the #UK over the #Falkland Islands, after an internal Pentagon email reportedly suggested reviewing Washington’s support for the UK’s claim.
https://t.co/krV9sgieUc

[Roberto Rios @peruvian_bull]

The future economy