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The cargo aircraft was carrying Serbian-made munitions to Bangladesh when it crashed, killing everyone on board

A Ukrainian cargo plane loaded with 11.5 tons of Serbian-made munitions crashed in Kavala in northern Greece en route to Bangladesh on Sunday, Serbian authorities have confirmed.

The Antonov An-12 plane, operated by Ukrainian airline Meridian, had reported engine trouble and requested an emergency landing not long before witnesses say it exploded in a corn field outside the city at around midnight local time.


The plane took off from Nis Airport in Serbia around 8:40pm local time. Greek media confirmed that aviation authorities had lost the aircraft’s signal shortly after the pilot requested to make an emergency landing at Kavala Airport, citing an engine problem.

Meridian General Director Denys Bogdanovych dismissed speculation that the weapons had been destined for either side of the conflict in Ukraine, telling Reuters that “this is not related to Ukraine or Russia.” The cargo was owned by Serbian arms trader Valir, according to Defense Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic. The airline and Serbian officials confirmed all eight members of the crew died in the accident.


A Jordanian source denied earlier rumors that the plane had been headed for that country, explaining to state media that it was merely set to refuel there. Stefanovic added that the plane was also scheduled to stop in Riyadh and Ahmedabad before reaching its final destination in Dhaka.

Those living within a 2km (1.2 mile) radius of the crash site were told to stay inside due to risk from potentially toxic cargo. While search teams and emergency vehicles were deployed to the location, they were not immediately permitted to approach the wreck.

Source: R T news

In a video shared by a Russian journalist, Mr Harding also says he would tell his daughter he wishes he had "spent more time with her" if he could speak to her one more time.

A British man who was captured by Russian forces in Ukraine appealed for help from Boris Johnson after being told he could be handed a death sentence.

John Harding, who is in his 50s and originally from Sunderland, is believed to have been captured while fighting with the Azov Regiment, part of the Ukrainian National Guard, while helping to defend the city of Mariupol in May.


In a video shared on the Telegram messaging app by Russian journalist Kim Marina on Friday, Mr Harding says: "I would say to Boris Johnson, if you can help, if you can influence President Zelenskyy, if you can influence the president of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), or if you can influence President Putin, then please do

People's lives are depending on this. So if you can, please help.

"Because otherwise I face the death penalty, my friends face the death penalty

Mr Harding's friends and family have confirmed to the BBC it is him in the video, and his relatives are being supported by the Foreign Office.

He had been fighting in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region since 2018 before he was captured

Later in the video, Ms Marina asks Mr Harding what his last words would be to his daughter Katherine if he was handed a death sentence.

Mr Harding replies: "Obviously, I would tell her that I wish I'd spent more time with her, but I didn't. I don't really know."

When he asked if he would tell her if her loves her, Mr Harding takes a puff on a cigarette before saying: "Of course. All fathers love their daughters."

The age of Mr Harding's daughter has not been reported.

Ms Marina writes in a post accompanying the video that the clip will be featured in a documentary she has made called "Nazi Punishers", and adds that "two Britons have already been sentenced to death" in the same cell.

She doesn't name the men, but British fighters Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48, who were both captured in Mariupol, were sentenced to death by a Russian proxy court in the DPR last month.

Mr Harding would therefore also be being held in the DPR if he has been sharing a cell with the two men.



Source: https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-british-man-john-harding-asks-boris-johnson-for-help-after-being-captured-by-russian-forces-12653796


Lalasticalala Seun Mynd44

Isreal will not like this….

Righteousness don start which one be God’s land again. Every land na God’s land na Abi

OsunOriginal:
What has changed in Osun that would make him win by landslide? Same voters same contestants.
The fact that electorates are probably poorer would work in favor of Adeleke - the money man.

you be mumu, who made em poorer? No be the incumbent governor…. Pot calling kettle black, shey apc no share money, see how Portable cast una the other day, I bet dem no see that coming, dem forget say that one, live for clout…see the wad of cash wey dem give am, and their ppl dey suffer….. just gtfoh….

Wow, this is commendable

RIP Grandma

Kingsnairaland:
Fake news.

dem never tired….dem be mumu

Fresh meme

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ken6488:
most you insult, Change what tide exactly

bro you suppose don ignore that bot

Seankhalifa:
Btc will still drop

Oloribu this current drop never do you, weyreh alaso…. If you no sabi Yoruba use google

I had to screenshot this comment, I saw it just now on Foxnews…ppl don Dey wake up gradually….

DerrickzB:
Hehehehehe!! Oboy I don laugh taya!!! U say them go do photoshoot Na so then collect missile!! Kikikikiki!!! Chooo, nothing Boris Johnson no go see for house of common!!

Abi nah, photoshoot gone wrong

ken6488:
can’t you argue without insults

That’s why they banned most ok your accounts Kevin, igjofam

bro ignore that kid, na troll….

okeysoninv:
Putin urchin, you're supposed to be in your Mama's kitchen washing plates.who brought you to international affairs.

simpleton!!!, click that moniker, I’m your father …. Your data go soon finish…. M0ron

Fvck off my mention kiddo!!!

I just did a quick scan on SKYNEWS and FOxNEWS front pages, there’s no news about the Ukraine/Russia crisis, i bet they already ran out of propagandas.

The other day Skynews was reporting how significant the “snake island” Is, the same island wey Russia evacuated out of good will, some ukroops soldiers went their for a quick photoshoot session for their masters, only to collect missiles, eventually some of em perished. I don laugh taya, it’s true that Russia never start yet cos if Russia unleash hell on Ukraine, there will be nothing left to rebuild.

Gradually, the WEST don dey forget Ukraine small small, most of em don dey get internal problems, Uk, USA, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Bulgaria and so on…. I’m looking forward to winter season, I really can’t wait.

okeysoninv:
Putin isafool and braggart, west are mines “miles” ahead of him. they used Ukraine as bait to catch thisidiot. the goal was to drag Russia till the exhaust themselves. there by depleting their own weapons. by the time main war with NATO starts Russia will be handicap. Putin have sense and stop this unnecessary war the main war is ahead. modern weapons are expensive if old Soviet weapons finishes how will you face NATO countries plus their allies

you’ll be alright, ASUU go call off their strike someday.

The executive arm of the European Union is blocking a 1.5 billion-euro ($1.5 billion) loan for Ukraine as caution prevails over the country’s urgent needs, according to officials.

The impasse amounts to a Catch-22 for Ukraine. The country is pushing for help to keep its economy afloat as it counters the Russian invasion, but has seen the proposed loan blocked by the European Commission’s budget unit because of concerns over its financial reliability, said the officials who declined to be named on a confidential issue.


The executive arm of the European Union is blocking a 1.5 billion-euro ($1.5 billion) loan for Ukraine as caution prevails over the country’s urgent needs, according to officials.

The impasse amounts to a Catch-22 for Ukraine. The country is pushing for help to keep its economy afloat as it counters the Russian invasion, but has seen the proposed loan blocked by the European Commission’s budget unit because of concerns over its financial reliability, said the officials who declined to be named on a confidential issue.


The European Investment Bank, the EU’s lending arm, offered the loan to Kyiv to support the war-torn nation as its faces mounting war costs and revenues collapse. The commission guarantees EIB loans for operations outside the EU, with provisions usually amounting to 9% of total funding.

But in this case, the commission wants provisions at 70% of the total, as it did with a previous proposal of 1 billion euros for Ukraine, the officials said. The commission is making the demand in case the country cannot repay the funds to the markets, they said.


A commission official said the EU needs to make sure that it can absorb losses in the event of a Ukrainian default. The commission is seeking alternative solutions, which rely on EU member states or on the EIB to share part of the additional risks associated with these loans, the official added.

The EU itself has been struggling to agree on short-term financing to Ukraine to pay salaries and other current expenditure. The EU has already had to temporarily downgrade the amount of emergency funding it’s sending Kyiv, with last week’s proposal of 1 billion euros stalled as Germany blocks a larger package of nearly 9 billion euros.

A number of the bloc’s allies privately criticized the EU at a donors conference in Lugano earlier this week for not delivering on its larger commitments of nearly 9 billion euros and called on it to do so urgently, the people said.


The Finance Ministry in Kyiv is running out of financing options as the war drags on, leaving the country increasingly reliant on outside help. Ukrainian officials are exploring the possibility of debt restructuring as a way to lighten its burden while remaining on good terms with international investors.

The commission has been pushing for weeks to get backing for the larger package to Ukraine, whose government is struggling to keep afloat financially as the Russian invasion destroys infrastructure and chokes the nation’s economy.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-07/eu-bureaucracy-seen-blocking-1-5-billion-euro-loan-to-ukraine?srnd=premium-africa

EKONGKING:
Power prices in Europe smashed through records as Russia’s tightening of energy supplies prompts government action to avoid shortages.

German plea | Germany’s vice chancellor is urging Canada to send back a Nord Stream turbine caught up in Russian sanctions before critical maintenance work on the pipeline begins next week. Robert Halbeck said in an interview that doing so would remove an excuse for Putin to keep the conduit closed, crippling Europe’s ability to stockpile gas ahead of winter.

How the mighty has crumbled AGAINST RUSSIA .

From western asslickers most trusted source

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-07-07/johnson-s-uk-meltdown-is-a-good-day-for-putin

they should bring Nord stream 2 back online, what a fvcking mor0n… this na self inflicted pain…. Simpletons!!!!

Spokesman of the Russian Defence Ministry Igor Konashenkov informed of a missile strike on the Snake Island in the Black Sea, as the Ukrainian forces "attempted to symbolically deliver the flag" to the area early on Thursday.

"Around 5 AM, several Ukrainian servicemen landed on the island from a motorboat and took pictures with the flag. A Russian Air Force aircraft immediately struck Snake Island with high-precision missiles, killing some of the Ukrainian servicemen", the spokesman said adding that survived soldiers 'fled' towards Primorske village in the coastal Odessa region.

Last Thursday, Konashenkov announced that Russia left the island 'as a gesture of goodwill', following the completion of established tasks.


Source: Russia MOD

Photoshop went wrong lmao - Op

Attempts to sow discord in Russia have failed, the Russian president has said


Russia is ready to engage in peace negotiations with Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has said on Thursday, warning that those who reject such prospects should realize that prolonging the ongoing conflict would only make such talks more difficult.

“We do not refuse negotiating peace, but those who refuse should know that the further they refuse, the more difficult it will be to negotiate,” Putin said, issuing a warning to those who might think Russia has already exhausted its capabilities amid the conflict.


“We hear today that they want us to be defeated on the battlefield. Well, what can I say? Let them try. We haven’t even really started anything yet.“ - President Putin

Putin also said that the West appears to actually be willing to “fight until the last Ukrainian,” which he said is a “tragedy” for the Ukrainian people.

The president blamed the ongoing conflict on the US-led NATO, stressing that Russia’s consistent efforts to create a fair international security system have been jeopardized.

“The initiatives to work together on missile defense have been rejected, warnings about the unacceptability of NATO expansion, especially at the expense of the former Soviet republics have been ignored,” Putin said.

If the West’s goal was to provoke a conflict between Russia and Ukraine, it has evidently succeeded in that, Putin admitted. On the strategic level, however, the West already lost when Moscow launched its military operation in Ukraine, Putin stated

“They should have realized that they had already lost from the very beginning of our special military operation, because its beginning also means the beginning of a complete breakdown of the American world order. “ - President Putin


The president added that the ongoing breakdown “cannot be stopped.

Source: Rt news

The political magician who won power and lost control.

His time in Number 10 was one of the most tumultuous of any prime minister. His rise to power demonstrated his mastery of the art of winning and surviving scandals against the odds. But as the crises grew, his luck finally ran out.


After his landslide general election victory in 2019, Boris Johnson looked unassailable as prime minister.

His majority of 80 marked the end of the parliamentary logjam over Brexit, the Labour Party had collapsed into bouts of infighting and critics within his own party were silenced.


The Conservatives had elected him leader months earlier, not because he had demonstrated a particular aptitude for government in his previous roles, but because they thought he could win where others could not - and he delivered in emphatic style.


He had wooed voters in parts of the country his party had never dreamt possible to win. The idea Mr Johnson could spend a decade or more in Downing Street was a real prospect.

But two and a half years on, it is all over.

A man whose career was defined by surviving scandal against the odds was brought down ingloriously.

When the moment came, his fall from power was as full of drama and controversy as his ascent.



*World king

Born in New York in 1964, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson spent the first years of his life moving between countries with his family, as his father Stanley pursued a varied international career. At the age of eight, it is said he declared his ambition was to become "world king".

Schooled at Eton, he went on to Oxford University in 1983 to study Classics at Balliol College. He became president of the Oxford Union debating society, as well as a member of the notorious Bullingdon Club.
While in Oxford he met his first wife, Allegra Mostyn-Owen.After graduating he began his career in journalism, joining The Times as a trainee before being sacked for making up a quote in a story.

At 25 he became The Daily Telegraph's Brussels correspondent, making his name as a writer with articles questioning and ridiculing laws and directives from the European Commission. There were tales of undersized condoms running afoul of European rules, wonky bananas and bans on prawn cocktail crisps.

Readers of the eurosceptic Telegraph lapped it up at a time when the governments of Margaret Thatcher and Sir John Major were grappling with the thorny issue of Europe. His articles may have stretched the truth, but they have since been credited with revitalising the cause of euroscepticism.

Brussels contemporaries say this period also saw the "Boris act" in full flow. Everything - including his clothes, car and flat - were a mess. But this persona disarmed his rivals, leaving them with their guards down.
"Boris was very clever at creating an image and downplaying expectations so that colleagues thought he was way off-beam, and didn't know what he was doing," The Times journalist Michael Binyon told Mr Johnson's biographer Sonia Purnell.
"He put rivals off the scent and then would then come up with a cracker of a story."
During his time in Brussels he married his second wife, Marina Wheeler.


*Finding fame

When he returned to London five years later, Mr Johnson became a regular Telegraph columnist and began writing for The Spectator.

He made a litany of offensive remarks in these columns that would attract scrutiny as he embarked on a political career.

Mr Johnson referred to "tank-topped bumboys" in one article, described citizens of the Commonwealth as "flag-waving piccaninnies" with "watermelon smiles", and described working-class men as likely to be "drunk, criminal, aimless, feckless and hopeless".

It was around this time that the future PM started appearing on the BBC's quiz show Have I Got News For You.

The appearances introduced him to a wider audience and is considered the beginning of the "Boris" persona in the minds of the wider public.

In 1999 he assumed the editorship of The Spectator, a role that was given to him by proprietor Conrad Black on the condition that he gave up efforts to enter Parliament.

But two years later he was elected MP for the safe Conservative seat of Henley in Oxfordshire.


*Entering the political fray

Despite his designs on higher office, Mr Johnson's early time in the Commons left him frustrated and disillusioned.

Labour prime minister Tony Blair had just recorded the second of his three election victories and his political fortunes had yet to be dented by the Iraq War.

The Conservatives were in the electoral wilderness and going through another leadership contest after the resignation of William Hague.

Mr Johnson craved power, but his party looked like it would be out of office for years to come.

He was made shadow arts minister in 2004 by Michael Howard, the leader at the time, his first frontbench role.

But not long afterwards, Mr Johnson was forced to go to Liverpool and apologise for an editorial in The Spectator that claimed the people of the city "wallow" in their "victim status" and incorrectly blamed "drunken fans" for the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.

He did not last long in the shadow cabinet. He was sacked before the year was out for lying about an affair with Petronella Wyatt, a columnist for The Spectator.

In 2005 Mr Johnson resigned as editor of The Spectator after being offered a return to the shadow front bench as higher education spokesman by the new Conservative leader, David Cameron.

He continued his work as a columnist for The Daily Telegraph.


*London calling

By 2007 Mr Johnson had set his sights on the capital, announcing he would run for the role of London mayor.

After winning the race to be the Tory candidate to take on Ken Livingstone in 2008, he triumphed in the mayoral contest with 53% of the vote.

The result showcased Mr Johnson's broad electoral appeal and caused many Conservatives to wonder: If he could beat Labour in London, what could he do across the rest of the country?

Throughout his time in City Hall, Mr Johnson was viewed as a "king over the water" and was a constant source of media fascination.

His first term saw the departures of several senior figures in his administration, while he was criticised for his response to the 2011 riots in the capital.

But he won re-election in 2012, further burnishing his reputation as a potential future occupant of Number 10.

The summer Olympics in the capital that year provided more publicity for Mr Johnson, which included getting stuck on a zip wire whilst waving a pair of Union Jacks.

With his attention turning back to Westminster, Mr Johnson opted not to seek a third term in 2016.

He left City Hall with his reputation intact - a YouGov poll at the end of his second term found more than half of voters thought Mr Johnson had done a good job.

To his legion of critics, Mr Johnson remained all style and no substance. A court jester who should be allowed nowhere near high office.

But that was exactly where the ambitious Mr Johnson was setting his sights.


*Take back control

His return to the Commons as MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip in the 2015 election sparked speculation he was coming for David Cameron's job.
Mr Cameron won the first outright Tory majority since 1992 in that year's election, but he was about to embark on a gamble that saw him out of office little more than a year later. Europe had been a headache for successive Conservative prime ministers.

Mr Cameron, who came to power in 2010, initially attempted to avoid getting bogged down in the issue.
But as the eurozone crisis raged, member states pushed for further integration and immigration increased, he came to the view that offering a public vote on Britain's membership of the EU was necessary.

It was a decision his allies have since argued was unavoidable, given the growing strength of UKIP under Nigel Farage, who had eurosceptics in the Conservative Party terrified.

His approach was to attempt a renegotiation of Britain's relationship with Brussels and then hold a referendum.NHe got his new deal in 2016 and the vote was set for 23 June that year.
One of the key questions was which side Mr Johnson would come out in favour of.
A declaration for Remain would almost certainly guarantee victory for the Stronger In campaign.

If he came out in favour of Vote Leave, however, all bets were off. Mr Johnson opted for the latter - a decision he is said to have agonised over extensively.
But plenty of aspersions were cast on the motivation of his final decision.
Many, including Mr Cameron himself, maintain to this day that Mr Johnson chose Brexit to help his career.

His critics point to the fact that he wrote two versions of his Daily Telegraph column explaining his decision: one in favour of remaining in the EU and another backing Vote Leave. Flanked by Michael Gove, Mr Johnson played a starring role in the ensuing campaign, urging people to vote for Brexit and "take back control".

At the start, the received wisdom was that Remain would win, but Vote Leave's message struck a chord.
A total of 52% of voters backed Brexit and a crestfallen Mr Cameron resigned.
As the spearhead of the successful campaign, Mr Johnson stood on the precipice of power.

*It cannot be me'

Among the list of contenders for the Tory crown, Mr Johnson was the clear frontrunner.Other candidates may have held cabinet positions - like Home Secretary Theresa May, or the former defence Secretary Liam Fox - but the fight to be David Cameron's successor was seen as his to lose. Hours before the formal nominations closed on 30 June 2016, Mr Johnson's campaign arranged a news conference.

Journalists and his MP supporters gathered in a London hotel reception room, anticipating a speech about how he intended to shape the UK's post-Brexit future. Nobody expected to hear what came next.

Read more: https://news sky com/story/the-rise-and-fall-of-boris-johnson-the-political-magician-who-won-power-but-lost-control-12519849


Lalasticalala Mynd44 Seun Mukina2 front page

Unless dem drag his a$$ out of No10, BoJO won’t resign, he’s a pathetic clown and a pathological liar. He loves attention, good riddance….

tonididdy:
If you think living in the USA is eldorado and will guarantee you 100yrs age.
Then you living in a fools paradise.
Naija bad but it doesn't have kids going on a shooting spree and trying to beat the last shooting kills record.

America is the last on my bucket list of countries to visit

You’re a mor0n, did I mention in my previous post say I Dey live in USA, you better find something good to do with your life, and fvck off my mention

CommonSense1967:
The suspect is Robert E Crimo, just another white Christian terrorist.
We are used to the daily shootings all over the US.

He’s just 22, another psycho somewhere dey plan another shooting right now… nah normal thing sha, news like this no dey move me again

Stay safe

xandy84:
Agreed. What do republicans expect when they only cares only about winning elections than fixing gun problem. Every LOSER has access to firearms even homeless people. Mass shooting is second nature here and you wonder if it will ever end.

the shooting happened in a Democrat State, not a Republican State, do you even read the news at all. Shootings like this na normal thing in America, there’s no need to blame one political party for the mess.

Just type RIP and face your Tinubu and Atiku

Normal level…..

jackslow:
why did moderator closed this your thread that you just opened today ?
Fuel Price Protesters Block Motorways Across Parts Of England And South Wales

Mynd na western bot…. Are you surprised?

tamdun:
U realise its a free world, the news is from guardian, u can contact them to stop carrying Russian news

don’t mind the kid, he didn’t check the source, he only read the headlines and concluded say na from RT…..

Eeya

Aiye ma ni ika o

topcatking:
He will be impeached soon.

Kamala go worse, unless dem wan impeach em both, even “owl-faced witch” Pelosi go worse pass, I think he’ll finish his tenure but won’t return as Dems candidate…. Republicans gonna take over the Congress this November, at least one chamber, I’m guessing the “House of Reps”