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According to reports, Charles is planning a state visit to Ireland in Summer. Reportedly, the visit to northern and southern Ireland will be the first official visit of the monarch following his coronation on May 6, though he may be shortly visiting France and Germany as part of the uk prime minister’s efforts to further diplomatic relations following fraught post Brexit discussions.

According to a report, the president of the u.s.a., a supporter of the Belfast agreement is planning a visit for sometime after Easter. Reportedly, gardai involved in preparing security arrangements for state visits have been advised that former u.s. president Bill Clinton may be visiting Ireland around the time of the anniversary of the signing of the agreement on good Friday. According to the report, the late queen Elizabeth and president Obama both visited Ireland in May 2011. Reportedly, it was the biggest security operation in the history of the country, costing €30 million.

According to a report, the ukrainian deputy defence minister said that fighting in the Donestk city of Bakhmut has escalated as russian forces attempt to break through ukrainian defence lines. Reportedly, the latest uk intelligence report said that over the past four days the Wagner group took control of most of the eastern region of the city, while Ukraine who have destroyed key bridges crossing the Bakhmutta river hold the west.

According to the report, first hand accounts of conditions in the fields and trenches sugggest the ukrainian defence is hard to defend because of a concentration of russian troops amid conditions too muddy to use vehicles. Reportedly, Bakhmut has become a killing zone that is challenging for the russian mercenary group to continue their assault westward.

According to a report, Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations, and reopen embassies within two months after a meeting of two security officials in Beijing on Friday. Reportedly, Iranian and Saudi media said a statement by the two countries emphasised a respect for sovereignty and non interference in each others internal affairs. According to the report, they also agreed to activate a security cooperation agreement signed in 2001 as well as another accord on trade, economy and investment.

Reportedly, the two sunni and shi’ite muslim powers who have been estranged for years backed opposite sides in proxy wars in Yemen, Syria and elsewhere. According to the report, Arabia cut ties with Iran after its embassy in Iran was stormed following Saudi’s execution of shi’ite muslim cleric Nimre Baqir al Nimre in 2016. Reportedly, a critic of the Saudi government, he was beheaded amongst 47 others executed, including sunnis who had been convicted of involvment in terrorist attacks linked to al-qaeda.

According to the report, Iran’s foreign minister said that normalizing relations offered great prospects for both countries and for the middle east. Reportedly, he tweeted, ‘The neighbourhood policy, as the key access to the Iranian government’s foreign policy, is strongly moving in the right direction and the diplomatic apparatus is actively behind the preparation of more regional steps’.

According to a report, the uk prime minister visited the french president, Friday in what was the first french-uk summit since 2018. Reportedly, the prime minister travelled to France in an effort to mend relations following tensions created by the uk’s departure from the eu. According to the report, an issue was migrants reaching the uk on boats from northern France. Reportedly, Britain agreed to pay France over €500 million over the next three years for measures including a detention centre for migrants and extra patrols and police.

According to the report, over 45,000 people arrived in Britain by boat in 2022, up from 28,000 in 2021. Reportedly, the eu’s border agency, Frontex said a total of 5,600 channel crossings in January and February of this year constituted an 82% increase compared to the same period last year, the most common countries of origin were Afghanistan, Iraq and Eritrea. According to the report, this week the uk announced plans to detain and deport migrants arriving by boat either to their homeland or to a third country, but almost no countries have agreed to accept deportees.

Reportedly, France and the uk agreed to train ukrainian marines and to supply weapons to Kyiv. According to the report, the leaders also agreed to work towards a permanent presence in the Indo-Pacific, the vast area comprises the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the waters inbetween by deploying the Charles de Gaul, queen Elizabeth and prince of Wales aircraft carriers

According to reports, only six people died during an enormous rocket attack launched in Ukraine, Thursday which Russia said hit military and industrial targets as well as the energy facilities that supply them. Reportedly, the attacks knocked out power across the country leaving hundreds of thousands without electicity. According to the report, Moscow started targeting Ukraine’s power supply in October, Thursday’s attack was the largest major bombardment in three weeks. Reportedly, Russia launched 81 missiles and 8 exploding drones, 34 missiles and four drones were intercepted.

According to reports, the attack was said to be in retaliation for an alleged terrorist attack in the Bryansk region of western Russia when sabeteurs crossed the border and opened fire on two civilians before taking hostages in a shop, Ukraine deny this. Reportedly, the fsb security service say that ukrainian nationalists had been pushed back over the border. According to the report, one person died in the attack and a child was said to have been injured.

Reportedly, the Zaphorizhzia power plant, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant was affected. According to the report, it is the sixth time the plant has suffered blackouts since it was taken over by Russia, forcing it to run on diesel generators which can run the plant for ten days. Nuclear plants need constant power in order to avoid a meltdown. Reportedly, power supply can be restored in a day or two.

According to reports, the nord stream 1 and 2 pipelines are majority owned by the russian state run energy company, Gazprom. Nord stream 1 used to carry natural gas from Russia to europe via the Baltic Sea and Germany, it was completed in 2011. Reportedly, the project was opposed from the start by the west. Russia’s invasion of the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine in 2014 rendered an ethical argument.

Nord stream 2 was completed in 2021. According to a report, the u.s. waived sanctions against german entities involved in nord stream 2 after securing a pledge from Germany that it would allow backflows of gas into Ukraine and would act to shut it down should Russia use it to force political concessions.

Reportedly, Germany withdrew its permission for nord stream 2 following the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. According to the report, russian sanctions resulted in Gazprom halting the gas flow in nord stream 1. Reportedly, three weeks later nord stream 1 and 2 were hit by explosions in the Baltic Sea causing leaks of gas that were idle in the pipelines. According to the report, no entity has admitted responsibility, though the depth of the pipeline and the complexity of using under water explosives lent credance to the idea that only a state actor with the expertise to handle such an operation could be responsible.

According to a report, nearly 52,000 people lost their lives due to the earthquakes in an area bordering Syria and Turkey. Reportedly, the quakes on February 6 hit a region already battered by the Syrian war, including part of a semi autonomous region known as Kurdistan. According to a report, some families were already living in tents due to the Syrian conflict, which may have saved many lives. Reportedly, the quakes which demolished buildings and left others too dangerous to occupy has resulted in many more living in tents.

Kurdistan is unrecognised by Turkey who feel that kurds should integrate. According to a report, allegations that a wildfire in Turkey in 2021, destroying hundreds of square kilometres was started by a kurdish group has been denied by kurds. Political differences, particularly regarding Iraq and Syria may be due to a pro western approach and philosophy. The region that is homeland to kurds also encompasses Iraq, where mass graves containing the bodies of kurdish people who wanted to cross over the mountains from Iraq to Syria were found.

The region is built on a fault line, the site of many quakes but not of this magnitude. According to a report, the conflict has resulted in instances of the taking of clothes, blankets and food by militant groups. Reportedly, for some years Syria has been relying on unsafe water due to water contamination during the Syrian war. This may have been a Saudi tactic. According to a report, an added problem currently is water contaminated by cholera.

According to a report, a palestinian poll indicates a shift in the attitudes of east Jerusalem palestinians over the past 12 years. Reportedly, the poll which examines the change in attitudes since a poll in 2010 indicates that more palestinians are in support of israeli sovereignty.  According to the report, the poll was conducted in November by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR).

Reportedly, the poll indicates an increase in satisfaction with services provided by the east Jerusalem municipality in 21 different categories, satisfaction decreased in 4 categories. According to the report, the proportion of palestinians who didn’t think there was discrimination between israelis and arabs rose from 7% to 13%, don’t knows or not applicables rose from 6% to 9%. Reportedly, in case of a problem or for assistance more palestinians relied on family and offices of the israeli municipality than 12 years ago, 44% and 31% to 51% and 40% respectively. According to the report. palestinians who responded that delays and restrictions were created by the building of a wall in Jerusalem decreased.

Reportedly, the proportion of palestinians who thought there was a problem with corruption amongst israeli Jerusalem municipal officials decreased from 78% to 66%, palestinians who thought that there was a problem with corruption in the Palestinian Authority decreased from 69% to 66%. According to the report, in the vast majority of cases palestinians are more satisfied with israeli municipal services than they were 12 years ago, these include prompt ambulance and fire services. Reportedly, those satisfied with the standard of living rose from 35% to 56%.

According to the report, those satisfied with access to areas inside Samaria rose from 27% to 48%. Reportedly, satisfaction regarding interaction with israeli officials rose from 21% to 36%, yet satisfaction with regard to access to their employment and the supply of electricity decreased from 40% to 35% and 85% to 75% respectively. According to the report, the trend of warming attitudes towards Israel continued; asked, if a permanent two state solution is arrived at, would you prefer to become a citizen of Palestine or become a citizen of Israel? Reportedly, those who preferred to become a citizen of Israel rose from 24% to 37%, those who preferred palestinian citizenship dropped from 63% to 58%.

According to reports, the dup are setting up a nine person panel comprising of members with political, legal and business experience to gauge opinion on the new deal for post Brexit trading arrangements known as the Windsor framework. Reportedly, the group which will have a focused consultation will collect and combine information and feed it into government discussions. According to reports, the group is to comprise of sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the right honourable Peter Robinson, baroness Foster, lord Weir, Ross Reid obe, John McBurney and unionist party politicians Carla Lockhart, Brian Kingston and Deborah Erkskine.

Reportedly, lord Weir was appointed as a queen’s council in 2010 and a judge of the supreme courts in 2020. Ross Reid was a former member of the progressive conservative party of Canada and has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzogovina, Kosovo and Ukraine. Northern Ireland solicitor John McBurney is known to have defended the findings of the Smithwick report as nuanced and fair.

According to reports, a Belarusian court has sentenced the main opposition leader, Sviantiana Tsikhanouskaya to 15 years in prison, another prominent member of the opposition, former Belarusian culture minister Pavel Latushko to 18 years, and two others to 12 years, all in absentia. Reportedly, Ms Tsikhanouskaya, a former English teacher fled Belarus after running against president Alexander Lukashenko in the 2020 election. According to the report, she stood in the election when her husband, activist and presidential candidate Sergei Tikhanovski was taken into custody, he was given an 18 year prison sentence.

Reportedly, Ms Tsikhanouskaya claimed victory in the presidential election contrary to official results, which was followed by ten months of public protests, demonstrations and riots. According to a report, her charges included high treason and conspiracy to seize power. Reportedly, Viasna a Belarusian human rights organisation said there are 1,500 political prisoners currently being held in Belarus. According to the report, days ago Ales Bialiatski, an activist for Belarusian freedom known for his work with Viasna was given a ten year sentence for financing actions and groups that grossly violate public order.