SpaceX’s track record for orbital insertion definitely had something to do with that. When last I knew, N-G didn’t have its own launch facilities (that might’ve changed in the last few years but I doubt it).
The UK government would knowingly be in breach of the Good Friday Agreement if it withdrew from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), MPs have been told.The ECHR is a treaty which sets out the rights and freedoms people are entitled to in 46 signatory countries and is overseen by the European Court of Human Rights.The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee took evidence on the potential impact of ECHR withdrawal on NI.It has published a summary of that evidence in a letter to the secretary of state.The ECHR is separate to the European Union - so the UK remained part of it after Brexit.The committee acknowledges the government’s current position that the UK will remain a party to the ECHR.
However, the context for the letter is the call among some Conservative MPs to withdraw from the ECHR or hold a referendum on withdrawal.The committee said: "Given the convention is embedded in the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, written into the Northern Ireland Act 1998 and determines how the Northern Ireland Assembly legislates, we note that Northern Ireland is often overlooked whenever the prospect of ECHR withdrawal is raised.
"The evidence it heard from legal experts included analysis that withdrawal would affect cross-border collaboration in criminal investigations and have other practical implications for policing.The experts also said it is unlikely the UK could withdraw from the ECHR without triggering a review procedure built into the Good Friday Agreement.If so, the UK and Irish governments, as parties to the Agreement, would be required to conduct a review in consultation with the Northern Ireland Assembly.Committee chairman Sir Robert Buckland said: "Given the imminent Prorogation of Parliament, I wanted on behalf of my committee to put these points and concerns on the record.
“So this and the next administration, and others with an interest in human rights law in this country, might understand clearly the UK-wide context – the context of both Great Britain and Northern Ireland – in which the ECHR operates.”
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A British-registered ship attacked in the Red Sea has been damaged but has not sunk, BBC Verify has discovered.
BBC analysis shows the attacks have continued despite the US and UK launching strikes on Houthis in Yemen.
The BBC has also obtained an image from Wednesday (shown at the top of this article) apparently of the same vessel in a similar situation, still afloat but with its stern very low in the water.
The attacks have prompted many shipping companies to stop using the critical waterway, which accounts for about 12% of global seaborne trade.
The UK government has condemned the Houthi action as “completely unacceptable” and said it and its allies reserve the right to respond appropriately.
US and British forces began carrying out air strikes on military targets across Houthi-controlled western Yemen in response last month.
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Jesus Christ, my first reaction was That’s great news! They got something to eat!! I can’t believe I am happy to read someone is eating animal feed but I guess this is better than nothing at all. Ffs.
People living in the isolated north of Gaza have told the BBC that children are going without food for days, as aid convoys are increasingly denied permits to enter.
The BBC spoke to three people living in Gaza City and Beit Lahia, and viewed footage and interviews filmed by local journalists in Jabalia.
“We know there is a very serious risk of famine in Gaza if we don’t provide very significant volumes of food assistance on a regular basis,” said the WFP regional chief, Matt Hollingworth.
Duha al-Khalidi, a mother of four in Beit Lahia, told the BBC two weeks ago that she walked six miles (9.5km) to her sister’s house in Gaza City, in a desperate search for food, after her children had not eaten for three days.
Video filmed in the Jabalia neighbourhood north of Gaza City shows residents sitting among the rubble of bombed out streets, digging down into the earth to tap large underground water pipes.
As Israel bombs Rafah, ahead of a widely expected ground offensive there, leaders on both sides are under pressure to end the suffering of people trapped in Gaza - their enemy’s, and their own.
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The American had touted his sit-down with Putin as a triumph for free speech, asserting that he was heading where no Western news outlets dared to tread.
Carlson’s claim also ignored the fact that Russia’s president has spent the past two decades in power systematically stamping out free speech at home.
He talked about a Russian “patriot” who had “eliminated a bandit” in a European capital, seeming to confirm previous reports that Russia is demanding a prisoner swap with Vadim Krasikov.
It’s all part of how Putin justified his full-scale invasion, almost two years ago - along with “de-Nazifying” Ukraine, which he claimed is still a work in progress.
“Sooner or later this will end in agreement,” was Putin’s message, arguing that Nato was coming to realise that defeating Russia on the battlefield would be impossible.
The American did not push Putin at all on political repression at home, which includes locking up vocal opponents of the war in jail.
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