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Greece says two expatriates killed in eastern Ukraine, urges all Greeks to leave 'immediately'Greece's foreign ministry said on Monday two Greek expatriates were killed and another two seriously injured in an incident involving Ukrainian soldiers in the country's east near the front line of the conflict with pro-Russian separatist forces.The Greek foreign ministry said in a statement that three Ukrainian soldiers were "responsible" for the deaths and injuries to the four Greeks in the village of Hranitne close to the "line of contact" with pro-Russian separatist forces, who seized a swathe of eastern Ukraine in 2014.It said the violence erupted after the Greeks and Ukrainian soldiers got into an argument "for an insignificant reason".It did not say what the Greeks were doing in the area but a Greek foreign ministry official said the incident had nothing to do with the ongoing conflict in the region.
John Bercow's 'Stunning' Boris Johnson Rant Wins Over Twitter
Wood burners emit more particle pollution than traffic, UK data showsWood burning in homes produces more small particle pollution than all road traffic in the UK, according to revised government data.The new data significantly cuts the estimated proportion of small particle pollution that comes from wood burners from 38% to 17%. But wood burning pollution remains a “major contributor” to particle pollution, another government report said. Road transport is responsible for 13% of particle pollution.
Google Chrome emergency update fixes zero-day exploited in attacksGoogle has released Chrome 98.0.4758.102 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, to fix a high-severity zero-day vulnerability used by threat actors in attacks.Google states that the Chrome update will roll out over the coming weeks. However, it is possible to install the update immediately simply by going into the Chrome menu > Help > About Google Chrome.The browser will also automatically check for new updates and install them the next time you close and relaunch Google Chrome.
Boris Johnson's new aide Tory MP Joy Morrissey once accused PM of undermining the UK on the world stage with foreign aid cuts - but now insists she only did it by MISTAKEBoris Johnson’s new aide sent a letter to a constituent accusing the Prime Minister of undermining Britain’s standing on the world stage – but insists she did so by mistake.Conservative MP Joy Morrissey was promoted to become the Prime Minister’s Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) in last week’s mini-reshuffle.The Daily Mail revealed on Saturday how the American-born politician starred as an actress in low budget films before she entered the Commons.One role included a racy bedroom scene in which her male co-star instructs her to ‘ride me like a donkey’.Now she is at the centre of an embarrassing row over a letter she sent to a constituent denouncing her new boss for breaking his promises by reducing the foreign aid budget.In an astonishing twist, when contacted by the Daily Mail Mrs Morrissey’s office initially suggested the letter – which includes her signature – was a fake.She now accepts it was genuine, but argues it does not represent her views. The MP says a template letter arguing against the cut had been used by mistake.
Activists convicted of ‘falsely accusing’ Greek bishop of hate speechHuman rights groups said the verdict was part of a troubling trend in Greece’s criminal justice systemAn Athens court has handed two prominent human rights defenders prison sentences, suspended for three years, after finding the pair guilty of “falsely accusing” a Greek Orthodox bishop of racist hate speech.The three-member tribunal sentenced the activists to 12-month jail terms after acquitting the bishop, Seraphim, the Metropolitan of Piraeus, of antisemitic rhetoric.The activists, who also include the Greek Helsinki Monitor’s spokesperson, Panayote Dimitras, had brought the complaint against Seraphim in April 2017. In it, they accused the bishop of public incitement to violence and hatred as well as abuse of ecclesiastical office for issuing a statement described by the country’s Central Board of Jewish Communities, KIS, as being replete with “well-known antisemitic stereotypes, conspiracy theories and traditional Jew-hating attitudes”.In 2015, he attributed new legislation giving same-sex couples expanded civil rights to the “international Zionist monster” controlling the leftist government then in power.Five years earlier, he told a local TV station that Jews had orchestrated the Holocaust and were to blame for Greece’s debilitating debt crisis – comments he subsequently said were his own opinions and not those of the church.Although Athens has recently forged excellent working relations with Israel, antisemitic attitudes are not uncommon in a society where the vandalism of Jewish memorials is also regularly reported.
NatWest to shut 32 branches across the UK - see the full list of areas affectedThe lender said the decision affects the NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland brands, 32 of which will close in England and Wales in the next 12 months under the restructuring
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