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A senior Brexiter minister has urged colleagues to give Rishi Sunak “time and space” to finish negotiations with the EU over the Northern Ireland protocol, as warnings grew of potential ministerial resignations. Sunak has been told he is facing the possibility ministers may quit if his deal does not significantly rewrite the protocol or remove any powers for the European court of justice. The home secretary, Suella Braverman, a former chair of the European Research Group of hardline pro-Brexit, MPs, made a pointed intervention on Monday to urge Sunak not to drop a controversial bill that gives the UK potential powers to unilaterally override…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis weighed in on President Joe Biden’s unannounced visit to Ukraine on Feb. 20, criticizing the President’s “blank check” promise to the European nation and noting that the communist regime in China is greater threat to the values that the United States and its global allies uphold at this time. DeSantis was speaking to hosts of Fox News’s “Fox and Friends,” which aired around the time the governor spoke at a pro-law enforcement event held in a catering hall in Staten Island, New York, this morning. “They have effectively a blank-check policy with no clear, strategic objective identified,…

The UK government ran a surprise £5.4bn surplus in January, after bumper self-assessment income tax receipts, leaving some rooms for giveaways in the chancellor’s budget next month according to some economists. The surplus was £5bn higher than the government’s fiscal watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, had expected, although it was £7.1bn smaller than in January 2022, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. Analysts polled by Reuters were taken by surprise, having instead predicted that the government would have to borrow £7.8bn in January. Government coffers were boosted by £21.9bn of self-assessed income tax receipts, the highest January…

The White House notified the Kremlin of Joe Biden’s intention to visit Kyiv hours before he departed for Ukraine, as the details began to emerge of how the US president pulled off his high-profile diplomatic coup. Meticulously planned over several months by a tight circle of key advisers, Biden’s visit was described as “unprecedented in modern times” by his national security adviser, Jake Sullivan on the grounds that it was the first time a US president had visited “the capital of the country at war where the United States military does not control the critical infrastructure”. “We did notify the…

SEARCH AND RESCUE WORK NEAR COMPLETION – More than 460,000 people have been evacuated so far in Turkey The death toll from two major earthquakes that struck southeastern Türkiye on Feb 6 has risen to 41,020, the country’s disaster agency said Sunday. The search and rescue work in the earthquake zone except in Kahramanmaras and Hatay provinces has been completed, the agency said. The number of aftershocks in Türkiye has reached 6,040 after earthquakes hit the country on Feb 6. Yunus Sezer, head of the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), said cash aid of 10,000 Turkish liras (about 531…

WESTERN POLITICIANS EVADE NORD STREAM AT MSC – Latest Report involves exposing U.S. military involvement in the Nord Stream explosions Western politicians have been evasive on the latest report exposing U.S. military involvement in the Nord Stream explosions during the three-day Munich Security Conference that concluded on Sunday. In an article published by a British newspaper in early February, Seymour Hersh, an American investigative journalist, exposed that the Nord Stream pipelines transporting gas from Russia to Europe were blown up secretly by intelligence agencies and military personnel of the United States in September last year. He also claimed that the…

Republican lawmakers from Idaho have introduced a bill that will make it a crime to administer mRNA vaccines in the state, citing safety concerns, which would apply to COVID-19 vaccines manufactured by companies like Pfizer and Moderna. “Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person may not provide or administer a vaccine developed using messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology for use in an individual or any other mammal in this state. A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor,” according to House Bill 154 (pdf) presented to the state’s House Health and Welfare Committee on Feb. 15.…

Leeds are in talks with the former Watford and Valencia head coach Javi Gracia over their vacant manager’s job after defeat at Everton left the club in the Premier League’s relegation zone. Gracia is one of two candidates on Leeds’s latest shortlist. Two of their preferred candidates, West Brom’s Carlos Corberán and Rayo Vallecano’s Andoni Iraola, proved out of reach after Jesse Marsch was sacked a fortnight ago. They also held talks with other candidates including the former Ajax coach Alfred Schreuder before saying last Tuesday that Michael Skubala would continue as caretaker for the “upcoming fixtures”. One game later Leeds are trying to find a permanent…

Tens of thousands of junior doctors in England will strike for 72 hours next month in a dramatic escalation of the row between NHS staff and the government. The British Medical Association (BMA) confirmed industrial action would take place – only the second such action in the 74-year history of the NHS – after junior doctors voted overwhelmingly to strike. The Guardian understands the 72-hour action will begin in March, during which they will not provide emergency care. It comes amid an increasingly acrimonious row between health unions and ministers over pay, morale and staffing levels. Steve Barclay, the health secretary, is the first…

The DUP has warned Rishi Sunak that the party will not return to power-sharing if he leaves Northern Ireland “abandoned to the EU” under any new deal he has cut with Brussels over the Brexit trading arrangements for the region. Sammy Wilson, the MP for East Antrim, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the deal the prime minister is expect to share with Northern Ireland’s political parties in Belfast on Friday must meet the seven conditions it laid down before it returns to power-sharing. “What we want to hear from him most importantly, is where the negotiations have reached in removing the automatic…