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What had struck Jürgen Klopp most vividly on Sunday when he finally watched a re-run of last season’s Champions League final defeat to Real Madrid was the streetwise conviction that the Spanish team showed; how they did not panic during the low moments, how they knew they would find a way. Madrid dug a hole for themselves here, shipping two early goals – the second after a terrible goalkeeping blunder by Thibaut Courtois. It felt as though this last 16, first-leg tie could be about to slip away from them. And yet they barely blinked. Instead, it was Liverpool who fell apart at the…

Proposed legislation aimed at curbing tactics used by protest groups has suffered eight defeats in the House of Lords. Peers rejected key measures of the controversial public order bill, including ditching a measure to let police exercise stop and search without suspicion to tackle disruptive demonstrations. In other setbacks for the government during the bill’s passage through the upper chamber, peers backed restrictions on the use of protest banning orders and removed a provision that would have allowed the sanction to be imposed against people who had not been convicted of any offence. A separate government attempt aimed at cracking down…

The U.S. government is asserting that it, not Moderna, should face a lawsuit that alleges the company committed patent infringement with its COVID-19 vaccine. The government said the court should allow it to “relieve Moderna of any liability for patent infringement resulting in performance of the ’-0100 contract and to transfer to the United States any liability for the manufacture or use of the inventions claimed in the patents-in-suit resulting from the authorized and consented acts.” Liability did not refer to an admission of patent infringement, the filing said, but “having legal responsibility for any acts that may constitute the alleged infringement.” Arbutus Biopharma…

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake and a second measuring 5.8 have hit Turkey’s southern province of Hatay, terrifying those left in a region devastated by twin earthquakes two weeks ago. Turkey’s interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, said that at least three people were killed and 213 wounded by the latest quakes, after a large government hospital in the city of İskenderun in the north of Hatay province declared it was evacuating patients. The quake was felt in neighbouring Syria, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported more than 500 injured in the north-west. One person was reported dead in the town of Samandag…

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…