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[celeste]

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An asylum seeker has told the Daily Express that migrants are increasingly faking conversion to Christianity to remain in Britain. The man says some are going as far as burning copies of the Koran. The Church of England says people do not take baptisms lightly, while the Home Office says conversions will not guarantee asylum.

"How did Kate's photo become a PR disaster?" asks the Daily Mail. The paper's lead story describes the Princess of Wales' admission that she altered an image of her and her children released on Mother's Day as an "extraordinary mea culpa". But the Sun calls on everyone to "lay off Kate" and says she has been very sad at the furore.

The Daily Mirror argues that publishing the original photo "might go some way to dampening wild speculation", while the Daily Star says her "heinous crime" was just "being pretty dodgy at Photoshop". And the Telegraph has a cartoon of a group wakeboarding behind the Loch Ness monster above a caption that reads: "Royals release photo of holiday in Scotland".

[celeste]

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photo  Michael Gove live on TV.

The government has provided extra funding to Jewish organisation CST and Islamic organisation Tell MAMA "to counter antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred", Gove says, and adds a new fund will be created to support grassroots organisations like these.

He says it's important that the government does not "unwittingly, or through ignorance", fund extremist organisations or individuals – this is one of the key elements of the new definition.
The 2011 definition of extremism, which the government has been using until now, has helped inform the prevent counter-terrorism work, but Gove says in a "considerable" number of cases, individuals and groups that are "clearly extreme" have nonetheless benefited from and exploited engagement with the state.

Gove says there's been a terrible increase in antisemitic and anti-Muslim hate, as well as a rise in radicalisation. He says that some Islamists, "extreme right-wing groups" and others are seeking to "tear society apart" by working together to maximise the reach of their message and causes.

Read more about these links.

[St Chads Lad]

Gove says in a "considerable" number of cases, individuals and groups that are "clearly extreme" have nonetheless benefited from and exploited engagement with the state.


A couple of things about this bulls hit,
I am 100% sure no 'right wing extremists' have benefitted from the government, and has anyone else heard of 'Tell MAMA?

[celeste]

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Rishi Sunak is under fresh pressure over his ties to Frank Hester - the party donor embroiled in a race row - amid reports his party received £5m more than previously declared.

The Conservative Party has not denied reports, first published by Tortoise Media[/size], that it received as-yet-undeclared funds from Mr Hester.

Party donations made after December are due to be published in June.

Labour and the Lib Dems have demanded the Tories hand back the money.

Electoral Commission records show Mr Hester has donated more than £10m to the Conservative Party in the past year - including gifting Mr Sunak a £16,000 helicopter journey.

But on Thursday, news website Tortoise Media reported that the Conservatives were "sitting on" an extra £5m cash donation from Mr Hester that had yet to be declared - taking the total to over £15m.

The total he donated to the Tories last year made up about a fifth of all donations to the party that year - £48m.

Cat Neilan, political editor at Tortoise Media, said the lag between party donations being received and declared feels "very old-fashioned" in a digital age where things "move at pace".

She said the Tories' 2019 general election spending was just over £16m - so the £15m reportedly received from Mr Hester "is very close to their total war chest from five years ago".

[celeste]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68581090

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The first ship towing a barge of humanitarian aid to Gaza has unloaded supplies on to the shore.

The Spanish ship Open Arms left Cyprus on Tuesday with 200 tonnes of food desperately needed for Gaza, which the UN says is on the brink of famine.

Videos posted online show a crane moving crates from the barge to lorries waiting on a purpose-built jetty.

It marks the start of a trial to see if sea deliveries are effective, after air and land deliveries proved difficult.

World Central Kitchen (WCK), which supplied the food, carried out the mission in co-operation with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to deliver the barge's cargo of rice, flour, legumes, canned vegetables and canned proteins.

Gaza has no functioning port, so a jetty stemming from the shoreline was built by WCK's team. How the food will be distributed in Gaza remains unclear.

WCK's founder, celebrity chef José Andrés, [size=inherit]wrote on X[/size] (formerly Twitter) that all the food aid from the barge had been loaded into 12 lorries.

"We did it!" he wrote, adding that this was a test to see if they could bring even more aid in the next shipment - up to "thousands of tons a week".

In a statement, Israel said the Open Arms vessel and its cargo were inspected in Cyprus, and that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops had been deployed to secure the shoreline.

[celeste]

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'He will come back’ - Israeli hostage families cling to hope, and demand a deal.

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Hersh Goldberg-Polin stands next to his mother Rachel. Hersh was last seen in a Hamas video after the 7 October attack.




By Orla Guerin

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-6859623




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As predictions go, a Putin landslide was the easy one.

No crystal ball or tea leaves required there.

After all, in Russia the Kremlin tightly controls the political system. Including elections.

But what will Vladimir Putin do with his 87%? What will a fifth Putin term look like?

Putin 5.0 may not be so different from Putin 4.0

Don't expect an "Abracadabra moment" where, with a wave of a magic wand, the hawk suddenly turns into a dove.

Chances are that President Putin will continue along his current path of conflict abroad and crackdown at home.

[celeste]

The Russians need a strong leader imo.

[Parky]

Man killed in beswick after trying to stop two men stealing his car , they’ve probably “ traveled “ far

[ExileSteve]

Celeste, please don’t be taken in by the absolute bulls hit excreting from the corporate media all over the Western world.


Vladimir Putin is an extremely popular figure among the Russian people. He is greatly admired for making his own country and his own people his number one priority. This is, of course, precisely the reason why he is demonised by the media, for Putin and Russia are the last remaining serious obstacles standing between the WEF and their Satanic ‘Great Reset’. Victor Orban in Hungary is demonised for the same reason although Hungary is nowhere near as troublesome for the psychos of Davos than Russia.


As for the protests that were supposed to have been raging all over Russia yesterday, in reality they amounted to a handful of anti-social delinquents having a bit of a hissy fit; apparently, a couple of them poured green paint over a ballot box and the rest showed their displeasure in a variety of other childish ways. The total number of these “dissidents” amounts to around forty or fifty, and so the pathological liars of the legacy media are not strictly telling lies when the claim that “dozens” were arrested throughout the country. Forty or so arrests does indeed technically count as “dozens”.


We should all be rooting for Russia with every inch of our hearts and our souls, unless we have a perverted desire to live in the New World Order envisaged by Schwab, Soros, Gates, and all the rest of those who wish to collapse Civilisation at every single level. Russia is not our enemy. Our enemies, those who sincerely wish to kill us, are an awful lot closer to home…….

[celeste]

I said 'Russians need a strong leader' - I meant him.

[celeste]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68578735


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Hamas leader Marwan Issa died in an Israeli air strike, White House official Jake Sullivan has said.

As deputy military commander, Mr Issa would be Hamas's most senior leader to die since the war began on 7 October.

The Palestinian group, which controls Gaza, has not officially commented on reports of his death.

Israeli media sources have reported that Mr Issa was killed in a strike on a tunnel complex under the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza last week.

The deputy commander of Hamas's military wing - the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, was considered one of Israel's most-wanted men. The European Union, which placed the Hamas leader on its terrorist blacklist, linked him directly to the 7 October attack led by the group which killed approximately 1,200 people.

[Parky]

 According to the guardian we are going to get 46c summers due to so called climate change , how can anyone write this garbage ?.

[lozflan]

All clickbait Parky," theres going to be a flood,storm,snowfall ,freeze". On and on.

[Parky]

True loz , but unfortunately a lot of gullible people especially  guardian readers will believe it , the non woke won’t