Ukraine counts losses from Polish border blockade

Truckers and farmers have blocked border crossings in protest against EU trade deals with Kiev Ukraine’s exports through Poland have sharply dropped since Polish truckers and farmers blocked border crossings in protest against the EU’s trade regulations with Kiev, the country’s Economy Ministry announced on Saturday.

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Give weapons-industry money to the hungry – Pope Francis

The pontiff also told the COP28 summit that ‘the destruction of the environment is an offense against God’ The Pope has called on world leaders to divert money being used to support conflicts across the globe into a fund to help eliminate world hunger, and also sounded the alarm about the impact of climate change,…

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German newspaper fires journalist for ‘love Russia’ book

Juergen Helfricht did not inform his employer, the tabloid BILD, that he had co-authored the 2018 publication Germany’s BILD newspaper has sacked reporter Juergen Helfricht after it emerged that he co-authored a book titled ‘To Learn to Love Russia’ in 2018 without informing the editors about the project. The media outlet claimed that the book “exalts”…

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