12 kilos of herbal cannabis, worth €250,000 was discovered during searches on Monday.
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Emperor penguins show dramatic decline in one region of Antarctica, satellite photos show
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Moscow has stepped up drone and missile attacks despite U.S. pressure to work toward a cease-fire. The strikes have intensified after Ukrainian drones hit Russian air bases.
Trump already has broken decades of precedent by federalizing California’s National Guard without the state’s consent.
President Donald Trump has deployed 2,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles.
Two U.S. aircraft carriers—USS Nimitz and USS George Washington—are in different parts of waters in the western Pacific Ocean.
Energy secretary says government is ‘putting forward the money’ for new nuclear power station as Greens say money better spent on green energy
Good morning. As you will probably have heard already, Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, has announced plans to build a new nuclear power station in Suffolk, Sizewell C. Here is the Guardian story.
Oops. That is our story from 2009, when Gordon Brown was prime minister, Miliband was energy secretary for the first time, and Sizewell C was first getting the go-ahead from government.
We’re funding it. And that’s the big difference.
We’re actually putting put forward the money to make it happen.
This is the biggest investment in nuclear, new nuclear, in more than half a century in Britain. Sizewell C. Small modular reactors, Rolls-Royce, it was announced at 7am this morning, have won that competition. Nuclear fusion.
We’re doing this because we want energy security for the country, long-term energy security. Good jobs, 10,000 jobs, at Sizewell alone. And, frankly, something I care a lot about, to tackle the climate crisis, because we’ve got to get off insecure, volatile fossil fuels, both for security and for climate reasons.
Brazilian tribal leader among other guests at event with theme of repair, along with Ruth Jones and Nicola Sturgeon
The Edinburgh book festival is to champion the positive power of hope later this summer with events involving Hanif Kureishi, the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish and an exiled Brazilian tribal leader.
The core theme for this year’s festival will be the “expansive” concept of repair, and offering solutions and optimism at a time of crisis and conflict, said Jenny Niven, the event’s director.
The Edinburgh international book festival runs from 9 to 24 August. Tickets go on sale on 21 June.
Energy secretary says chancellor did not make mistake in initial decision to remove benefit from most pensioners
Rachel Reeves “deserves credit” for her U-turn on winter fuel allowance, Ed Miliband has said while denying that it was wrong to make the initial cut.
The Treasury announced on Monday that it would restore the allowance to all pensioners with an income of £35,000 or less a year, amid public outrage over cut that was the first act of the Labour government. Reeves had previously removed the benefit from all but the poorest pensioners – those on pension credit.