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POLAND: About 200 coal-miners began blocking railway tracks on the Russian border yesterday in protest at cheap coal imports which they consider a threat to their jobs.
In response, the country’s centre-left opposition called on new Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz to hold an urgent debate on the mining industry.
Poland is committed to coal, but falling exports and cheaper imports from Russia’s Kaliningrad pose economic difficulties.
MARK HAZELDEN criticises the Western narrative that the incident was an escalation of Russia’s confrontation with the West, given that Belarus, a Russian ally, warned Poland of off-course drones, and the drones were unarmed, cheap wooden decoys
From nuclear bomb storage in the 1950s to surveillance flights over Gaza today, the Cyprus base has enabled seven decades of machinations so heinous that Starmer once blurted out ‘we can’t tell the world’ what goes on there, writes NUVPREET KALRA