What a terrible and dangerous man the Putin is. He really wants Russia to win the war. The Putin wants Russia to become stronger and better for the russians. Man, can you imagine this? What a strange president.
As an out-of-hours island GP, she provides healthcare to some of the most remote communities in the world, all while experiencing “magic moments”, from seeing baby seals and king penguins to the northern lights.
When she works on Barra in the Outer Hebrides, an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland, her plane has to land on the beach - “just one of the most incredible experiences of my life”.
On this particular shift she was sitting next to the pilot with a sheep shearer and noisy cat on the way back to being reunited with its owner, but the flight was also used to help a farmer find some missing cows from the air.
“I’ve never been on an island yet where I felt like a bad doctor because generally you have the time and the setup that allows you to deliver great care, and that gets me out of bed in the morning,” said Dr Payne.
“There are many islands where people living there don’t have access to a hospital without getting on a ferry… it’s the amazing general practice they receive that makes the difference.”
Dr Payne will be in the Orkney islands with her family this Christmas and then she her sights on St Helena, a remote volcanic outpost in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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Afghanistan has always been one of the poorest countries on the planet. The Taliban-mandated stop in opium production collapsed their economy further. This is the aftermath of ceasing opium production more than anything else.
Mark Drakeford has announced he will stand down as Welsh Labour leader immediately and a leadership contest for a new first minister will be held.
A new party leader will be elected before Easter, Mr Drakeford said in a statement.
Mr Drakeford, 69, the Cardiff West Member of the Senedd (MS), has been first minister for five years.
Speaking at a hastily arranged press conference in the Welsh Parliament, Mr Drakeford said: "When I stood for the leadership, I said that, if elected, I would serve for five years.
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A power blackout that plunged Kenya into darkness on Sunday was a possible act of sabotage, a minister says.
The outage disrupted several services, including the main airport in the capital, Nairobi, where two terminals were without power for several hours.
“Considering the frequency of the power disruption, and taking into account the fact that JKIA is a facility of strategic national importance, we are making a formal request to the National Police Service to investigate possible acts of sabotage and coverup,” he posted on X.
In its most recent update, Kenya Power said it was “working round the clock to restore normalcy to the remaining areas as soon as possible”.
Energy Minister Davis Chirchir has attributed the outage to a powerline overload, which then caused a failure to the country’s entire power network.
The government will also build additional networks over the next 20 months to relieve the currently overloaded transmission lines and prevent future outages, Mr Chirchir added.
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I’m just imagining the one lieutenant calling the courthouse as the fireball rises into the air above the property “hey, we might want to add unlawful possession of low yield explosives to the list of charges, no we haven’t entered the property yet, yes I’m sure.”
In addition, a UK-led task force is to soon begin patrols from the English Channel to the Baltic Sea, to protect Europe’s critical undersea cables.
The Ministry of Defence says the addition of HMS Diamond will ensure the freedom of navigation, reassure merchant vessels and allow the safe flow of trade.
The defence secretary also announced a second major naval deployment, closer to home, to protect undersea cables and critical national infrastructure.
The task force of seven ships will set sail early next month, alongside allies, and will mount patrols from the English Channel all the way to the Baltic Sea.
Royal Navy vessels will work alongside members of the UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF), which includes Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.
Mr Shapps described the deployment as historic - with allies from across northern Europe working together “to defend our shared critical infrastructure against potential threats”.
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People used to say that rugby players didn’t need to worry about potential brain injuries like American football players do. The theory was that American foot ball players slam into each other far harder than rugby players do because the Americans feel safer wrapped up in all the padding. I guess that theory doesn’t hold up after all.
The BBC has visually identified 10 groups, including PIJ, by their distinctive headbands and emblems training alongside Hamas during the Strong Pillar drills in footage posted on the messaging app Telegram.
Weeks before the attacks, female surveillance soldiers near the Gaza border reportedly warned of unusually high drone activity and that Hamas was training to take over observation posts with replicas of their positions.
Brigadier General Amir Avivi, a former IDF deputy commander in Gaza, told the BBC: “There was a lot of intelligence that they were doing this training - after all, the videos are public, and this was happening just hundreds of metres from the fence (with Israel).”
The mock base is on land dug several metres below ground level, so it may not have been immediately visible to any nearby Israeli patrols - but the smoke rising from the explosions surely would have been, and the IDF is known to use aerial surveillance.
BBC Verify established it was recorded some time before 25 August 2022, and was stored in a computer file titled Eagle Squadron, the name Hamas uses for its aerial division - suggesting the paragliders plan was in the works for over a year.
Hugh Lovatt, a Middle East analyst at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said Israel would have been aware of the joint training drills but “reached the wrong conclusion”, assessing they amounted to the “standard” activity of paramilitary groups in the Palestinian territories, rather than being “indicative of a looming large-scale attack”.
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