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The government could be forced to pay police millions of pounds to cover security operations around Rishi Sunak's asylum barges and military bases, The Independent can reveal.Police have calculated they need hundreds of thousands of pounds for each new ship or site to cover additional patrols, and deal with anticipated protests by anti-refugee groups and extremists.

CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING - Someone other than Vladimir Putin will likely be running Russia in as little as three years.But the bigger concern, even for Europe, may lay further to the east.That is the analysis of former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, speaking on the eve of an expected Ukrainian counter-offensive and during the Ash Carter Exchange on Innovation and National Security in Washington D.C.
"I suspect that Putin is not going to be around in three to five years," Panetta said, noting that he does not believe "Putin or his successor is going to be much of an issue in terms of impacting long-term Europe."

An exterior view of the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome where Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenskyy is expected to meet with Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Saturday.Riccardo De Luca/AP ROME Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy arrived in Rome on Saturday for talks with Italian officials and Pope Francis, who has said the Vatican has launched a behind-the-scenes initiative to try to end the war launched last year by Russia.

For all that some pundits have tried to present Labour's local elections as middling, Shabana Mahmood is having none of it.Asked how she would have viewed such results for 2023 when she became national campaigns coordinator two years earlier, the response is adamant.I'd have bitten your arm off, the Birmingham Ladywood MP says without hesitation.

Rishi Sunak read from the Bible at the coronation service just days after a prominent historian claimed the Prime Minister has been invisible in the preparations for the event.The Prime Minister, who is a Hindu, had a prominent role in Westminster Abbey with a reading from the Epistle to the Colossians.

Le Duc is an institution and one of the best places in Paris to enjoy seafood.The interior, with its gleaming wood-paneled walls evoking a yacht's interior, is truly one of a kind.Wes Anderson is rumored to be a regular customer, and that makes a lot of sense.Sole meunière is the thing to order here - the fish is presented whole before being filleted and plated table-side (most of the servers used to work as fishermen).

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U.S. Soccer's search for a men's national team manager ended Friday exactly where it began six months ago, with Gregg Berhalter in charge of preparations for the 2026 World Cup.The federation announced Berhalter's re-signing Friday after its board approved the decision Thursday.

Allies of former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey have formed a super PAC to support him in the nascent Republican primary, as he makes preparations for a likely campaign kickoff in the next two weeks, according to an official with the group and others briefed on the matter.Mr. Christie's candidacy is likely to to focus in part on drawing a stark contrast with former President Donald J. Trump.

"It is a little different, without a doubt," said Nationals designated hitter Joey Meneses.(John McDonnell/The Washington Post) For Joey Meneses, the hardest part about being the designated hitter for the Washington Nationals has been the part in which nothing is happening at all.When he's on the bench, with only his thoughts.

Chilly raindrops were falling early this May when Jeff Corcoran walked Oak Hill Country Club's East Course in Pittsford, N.Y., near Rochester.Corcoran, Oak Hill's manager of golf courses and grounds for about the last 20 years, was cautiously confident in its lustrous condition.An unusually warm Western New York winter only 50 inches of snow fell in the Rochester area instead of what is usually around 100 was fortuitous for Oak Hill.

For a decade now, Max Homa has had regrets.A gettable birdie on the Los Angeles Country Club's sixth hole had eluded him.On No. 8, it took him three putts to find the cup.He finished that round in 2013 with a course-record 61.In his mind, his scorecard could have read should have read 59.The U.S. Open, which began Thursday at the course that still haunts one of its one-round masters a little, could allow him to cast just about all of that aside by Sunday night.

All told, there were around a dozen offers for officials at Argentina's national soccer federation to contemplate.They came, largely, from the game's commercially lucrative emerging markets: the United States, China, Australia, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates.The only outlier, really, was an unlikely bid from Bangladesh.

Jon Rahm was at home last Tuesday, preparing coffee with his children underfoot, when the news arrived in a flood of text messages.Collin Morikawa glanced at Twitter and saw the word there.During breakfast at Michael Jordan's private club in Florida, Brooks Koepka peered at a television and glimpsed a headline.

The Mayor said his London Climate Resilience Review' will examine how technology - including AI - can be harnessed to future-proof the capital against the devastating impacts of extreme temperatures and flash-flooding.Mr Khan made the announcement in a speech to mark the start of London Tech Week, in which he said the review would be led by Emma Howard Boyd CBE, chair of the Green Finance Institute and UN Global Ambassador for Race to Resilience and Race to Zero.

Germany on Saturday announced its largest weapons package yet for Ukraine, promising more tanks, armored vehicles and substantial air defense systems as a widely anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive looms.The 2.7 billion euro package, or about $2.95 billion, amounts to roughly as much as the entirety of Germany's military aid contribution to date and was announced as Ukrainian officials have said they are in the final stages of preparations for a counteroffensive.

Germany is preparing a new weapons package for Ukraine worth 2.7 billion euros, reportedly Berlin's largest since Russia invaded last year, the defence ministry said Saturday.Published: 13 May 2023 11:56 CEST German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius arrives for a weekly meeting of the German cabinet at the chancellery in Berlin on May 3rd, 2023.

Germany will provide Ukraine with additional military aid worth more than 2.7 billion euros ($3 billion), including tanks, anti-aircraft systems and ammunition, the government said Saturday.The announcement came as preparations were underway in Berlin for a possible first visit to Germany by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy since Russia invaded his country last year.

Donald Trump will appear in a federal courthouse in Miami Tuesday afternoon for an unprecedented and historic court appearance as the first former president to face federal charges in US history.Trump is expected to be taken into custody and placed under arrest by US Marshals and arraigned during a 3 p.m. ET court hearing before a magistrate judge.

The Prince of Wales reviewed his troops on horseback on Saturday as at least three soldiers fainted in sweltering London temperatures.Thousands gathered at Horse Guards Parade in St James's Park to witness The Colonel's Review ahead of Trooping the Colour during the King's Birthday Parade next week.

A sports commentator is to run and cycle from John O'Groats to Land's End to commemorate the lives of four friends who all died within the last two years.Olympic broadcaster and snooker announcer Rob Walker, 48, is set to travel over 1,000 miles in 19 days from June 5 to 23 in what he is calling The Absent Friends Tour to raise money for two charities The Brain Tumour Charity and Jessie May Children's Hospice at Home.

A 21-year-old terrorist has admitted plotting a gun attack in London's Hyde Park.Edward Little planned to buy a gun to kill a Christian preacher and her camera crew at Speakers' Corner as well as any police or soldiers in the area at the time, it was alleged.He was on his way into London in a taxi with thousands of pounds in cash when he was stopped and arrested last September 23.

Pay demands from junior doctors are simply unaffordable despite the threat of industrial action, Scotland's Health Secretary has said.The British Medical Association (BMA) Scotland has asked for a 23.5% increase on top of inflation taking the total rise to around 35%.However, Michael Matheson told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show programme that a pay rise of that scale would result in significant cuts to the NHS budget.

The Princess of Wales has described the King's coronation as a great moment for celebration as the Prince praised The Mall's party atmosphere.William and Kate joined the King for a surprise walkabout in The Mall meeting royalists who have staked their spot on the famous London thoroughfare.With Prince George set to play a starring role in the coronation and Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis expected to attend the historic event, the princess revealed her children were a bit nervous and excited and could not wait for the day.

A t least three soldiers fainted in sweltering London temperatures during the Trooping the Colour rehearsal at Horse Guards Parade.Thousands gathered at St James's Park to witness The Colonel's Review ahead of the King's Birthday Parade next week.But with temperatures approaching 30C, the baking heat proved too much for some, and the prince later tweeted his thanks to those who had taken part.

T he legal case against Sadiq Khan's expansion of the Ultra low emission zone (Ulez) took another step forward on Friday, after the High Court accepted two further grounds for challenging it.Five Conservative councils had in February launched legal action against the expansion, putting forward five grounds claiming that it is unlawful.

T he King's coronation is an event momentous enough to bring the country to a metaphorical standstill - but road closures mean in London this is literally the case.Charles III will be crowned on Saturday morning but preparations will begin Friday night and the City of Westminster has a plan to ensure the safe running of the event.

Ahead of the Coronation weekend, Kate, 40, and William, 41, boarded the Lizzie line at Acton heading towards Tottenham Court Road.While on the Tube, the pair spoke to Transport for London workers about how they're preparing for the busy weekend.The couple then exited via Dean Street where they walked to the Dog and Duck pub in Soho to enjoy a pint with locals.

Travel chaos in southern Sweden on Tuesday A strike threat was averted at the eleventh hour on Monday, but train travellers should nonetheless expect disruptions on Tuesday, after a switch failure halted all trains between Malmo and Copenhagen for several hours in the hours before rush hour.The problems started at around 4.40am and had been fixed by 7am, but southern Swedish transport operator Skanetrafiken warned of knock-on delays and cancellations.

Ukraine's leadership has been privately warned by Petr Pavel, the president of the Czech republic - a decorated retired general who was previously Nato's principal military adviser against the disaster of a rushed counteroffensive.In recent meetings in Kyiv between President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Ukraine's prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, Pavel had cautioned they no longer had the element of surprise that had aided successful assaults on the eastern city of Kharkiv and southern region of Kherson last year.

Manchester United and Portugal right back Diogo Dalot signed a five-year contract extension with the Reds on Wednesday, agreeing a deal to stay with the club through 2028.Dalot was an important player for United for much of the season, splitting time with Aaron Wan-Bissaka in the process, and has continued to show the value he brings going forward.

England manager Sarina Wiegman says former captain Steph Houghton was "in our conversations" despite being left out of the World Cup squad.Houghton, 35, has not played for England since 2021 and never under Wiegman.The absence of senior players Leah Williamson and Fran Kirby due to injury had led to calls for Houghton's return.

Republic of Ireland manager Stephen Kenny has named a 22-man squad for a four-day training camp in at the Robins High Performance Centre in Bristol ahead of June's Euro 2024 qualifiers.The Republic will travel to Greece on 16 June and host Gibraltar three days later in Dublin.The squad for the training camp is made up of players from the English Football League and League of Ireland.

Accrington's five-year stay in League One came to an end despite a 2-1 comeback win at Oxford.Although Korede Adedoyin and Aaron Pressley scored second half goals to cancel out Billy Bodin's early opener, the visitors finished second-bottom.Oxford finished two places and two points outside the relegation zone.

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Nurses working at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital delivered a strike notice to hospital administrators on May 29 following several days of unsuccessful negotiations.

The thing about playing in the weak AL Central is you can be bad and still be good enough to be in contention.The same thing goes for self evaluation as the Aug. 1 trade deadline becomes something to consider, usually around the time Memorial Day rolls around.The Sox are trending in a better direction with eight wins in the last 13 games entering Monday night's game against the Twins, a better look than their "unbearable" 7-21 start.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - It's only mid-May, and every game feels crucial.Every loss cuts deeper.It's not supposed to be like this during the marathon nature of a 162-game season, but such is life for the team that opens with a dreadful 13-25 record."We dug ourselves a hole," White Sox manager Pedro Grifol has said over and again during a recent mini-revival that saw his team win six of 10 games and provide glimmers of guarded optimism.

There comes a moment near the start of most Succession episodes when a faint beat enters the scene, right before some punchline or turn of the screw.Then the show's theme music kicks in.Over snippets of vintage family videos, a piano fantasia as grainy as the footage unfurls like a sample for swaggering hip-hop alongside courtly, imperious strings.

More than 150 trainee doctors went on strike Monday morning at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, the first physician strike at a hospital in New York City in more than 30 years.Chief among their grievances is the fact that they are generally paid less working at a public hospital in Queens, where they care for poor patients, than their counterparts are paid at wealthier Manhattan institutions.

Good morning.We'll look at a necklace that was made for Diana, Princess of Wales, shortly before she died.It will be sold in New York next month.We'll also look at a survey that says one in four New Yorkers lost at least one person they were close to during the early part of the pandemic.Credit...Jacqueline Arzt/Associated Press In London, the preparations for the coronation of King Charles III are all but complete.

Russia's defense minister has visited troops near the front line in the partly occupied Zaporizhzhia area of southern Ukraine, according to a statement issued on Friday by the Russian Defense Ministry.The Zaporizhzhia region, roughly half of which is occupied by Russian forces, is considered a likely focus of Ukraine's looming counteroffensive.

After Russia had amassed 100,000 troops by Ukraine's borders in what appeared to be preparations for an invasion, the Biden administration sent one of its top diplomats to talk with her Russian counterpart to try to dissuade Moscow from a full-scale war.Wendy R. Sherman, the deputy secretary of state, met with Sergei A. Ryabkov in the U.S. mission in Geneva in January 2022.

The threat of the mountain above the tiny Swiss village of Brienz has loomed for centuries.But state geologists and engineers warned on Tuesday that parts of the mountain were dangerously close to collapse.And the roughly 85 people who live in Brienz and in the path of a possible landslide or mountain collapse were told to evacuate by Friday night.

Award-winning, plant-based hospitality group Overthrow Hospitality recently opened &Beer, and if you're into beer and shrooms (no, not the psychedelic kind), it's safe to say your interest should be piqued.&Beer is a 14-seat counter restaurant that will serve as the hospitality group's "concept incubator," hosting a rotation of limited-time pop-ups throughout the year.

Bin crews could soon be putting their feet up on a Monday as the wave of four-day-week trials spreading across the UK finally reaches frontline public services.South Cambridgeshire district council has agreed to test a 32-hour working week for 150 refuse loaders and drivers this summer after successful experiments with reduced working hours with office- and laptop-based staff.

A tumultuous year of fighting has passed since Vladimir Putin last addressed Russian soldiers on Red Square in Moscow to mark the country's victory over the Nazis.But the Russian leader's Victory Day message to the nation on Tuesday was nearly identical to that of last year as he cast the war in Ukraine as an existential battle against an aggressive, Russophobic and woke west.

When Vladimir Putin takes to the stage on Tuesday to commemorate the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, his speech on Red Square will have been preceded by a turbulent week in which drones attacked the Kremlin and one of his top war leaders threatened mutiny.The dramatic footage early last Wednesday of two drones flying over the walls of the Kremlin, its historical seat of power, exposed vulnerabilities in the heart of the Russian capital, putting Moscow on edge.

Former US president Donald Trump is expected to follow President Joe Biden, his successor at the White House, by visiting Ireland on Wednesday.Preparations were underway and security increased on Tuesday at Trump International Golf Links and Hotel just outside the town of Doonbeg in Co Clare, although staff remained tight-lipped about the proposed visit.

A British pub in California will be the place to be for expats wanting to celebrate the King's coronation this weekend, its manager has said.Preparations have begun at Ye Olde King's Head pub in Santa Monica, California, in anticipation of the big event on May 6.The pub often marks significant royal events and celebrations, having put on events for the Platinum Jubilee and funeral of the Queen.

Historian David Starkey has denied his remarks about Rishi Sunak not being fully grounded in our culture were racist, saying he was referring to the Prime Minister being a typical international liberal with no interest in British values.The academic was accused of making derogatory references to Mr Sunak's British Indian descent and Hindu faith when he made the initial comment on Thursday.

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In early April, students in Planada, Calif., finally returned to their classrooms.It had been three months since the early January flood that sent putrid brown water - filled with floating rodents and sewage - crashing into Planada Elementary School, destroying 27 classrooms, ruining thousands of books, and causing more than $12 million in damage.

Berlin police launched an investigation into how details about a possible visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the German capital reached the media.Police in the German capital said on Thursday they would open an investigation after details of a possible trip by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Germany appeared in the media.

L ondon will be full to bursting over the Coronation weekend as a huge influx of tourists, combined with celebratory spending by residents, gives an estimated 450 million boost to the capital's retail and hospitality sectors.Experts estimate that more than 30,000 extra foreign visitors equivalent to the population of a town the size of Windsor on top of what would normally be expected will enjoy Coronation treat visits to London.

This article is part of our Design special section about making the environment a creative partner in the design of beautiful homes.The fairy tale castle that Alice Stori Liechtenstein and her family inhabit in the hilly countryside of southern Austria is far from the hotbeds of contemporary design distant both geographically (it's a six-hour drive from Milan, for example) and stylistically (built in medieval times, with later Baroque and Rococo additions).

Footage of a drone exploding over the Kremlin the centre of Russian power and the symbolic heart of the country has triggered a wave of accusations that stretch from Moscow to Washington, igniting social media-fuelled conspiracy theories and confounding experts around the world.Russia accuses Ukraine of carrying out a daring assassination attempt on president Vladimir Putin.

Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature More on this morning's drone strikes, from Reuters: Ukrainian air defences said they downed 18 out of 24 kamikaze drones that Russia launched in a pre-dawn attack on Thursday.In a statement, Kyiv city administration said that all missiles and drones targeting the Ukrainian capital for the third time in four days, have been destroyed.The Russians have attacked Kyiv using Shahed loitering munitions and missiles, likely the ballistic type, the administration said.Out of 15 Shahed kamikaze drones fired at the Black Sea coastal city of Odesa, air defences destroyed 12, while three struck a university compound.

Russia launched a drone attack on Kyiv overnight on Tuesday, though all drones were shot down, Ukrainian officials say.Russia's defence minister has urged a state company to double its production of missiles as an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive looms and both Moscow's and Kyiv's forces are reportedly experiencing ammunition constraints.

The first glimpses of the Coronation have been revealed as rehearsals took place in central London in the early hours of Wednesday morning.Hundreds of soldiers, many on horseback, marched down from Buckingham Palace past Trafalgar Square and Downing Street to Westminster Abbey.The Diamond Jubilee State Coach and Gold State Coach were marched down the Mall as part of the preparations for the full event on May 6.

Ukraine has formed eight new storm brigades to take part in a future counteroffensive amid growing speculation about its timing and whether it can inflict serious defeats on Russia.The Ukrainian interior ministry said it had fully formed initial brigades comprising up to 40,000 troops, but they would need further training before being ready to fight.

It is ludicrous to say Ukraine's Nato membership is provocative to Russia and the UK Government should support an application from Kyiv, former prime minister Boris Johnson has said.He told MPs the next meeting of Nato heads in Vilnius, Lithuania, in July will be an important test of the military alliance's willingness to fulfil its long-standing promises to Ukraine.

One of DC's most hotly anticipated openings is finally here.High-end Japanese food hall Love, Makoto opens today in the Capital Crossing development between Chinatown and Union Station.It contains three initial restaurants: Dear Sushi featuring new- and old-school omakase; Beloved BBQ, a Japanese-style steakhouse with tabletop grills; and Hiya Izakaya, which specializes in grilled skewers and highballs.