Jumat, 09 September 2022
King Charles III addresses the nation and the Commonwealth - Sky News
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Russian, Chinese and Saudi leaders send condolences | News - The Times
In countries where relations with the British government have often been strained, the tributes that poured in for Queen Elizabeth II have been no less effusive, speaking volumes to the deep respect and admiration felt for Britain’s longest serving monarch from all corners of the globe.
During her reign, Queen Elizabeth visited more than 100 countries across six continents and charmed numerous presidents and prime ministers in more than 150 state visits.
At a time of rising tensions with Moscow over the war in Ukraine, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin offered “sincere sympathy” to the UK and extended his condolences to King Charles for the “irreparable loss” of his mother.
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What are King Charles III’s views on the Middle East? - Al Jazeera English
The British royal family is constitutionally obliged to stay out of political issues, but Charles is known for his close Gulf ties.
King Charles III, as he is now known, automatically became the head of the monarchy the moment his mother Queen Elizabeth II died.
Aged 73, he is the longest-serving heir apparent in British history.
The British royal family are constitutionally obliged to stay out of political issues, but when it comes to the Middle East region, it is no secret that Charles has cultivated close relations with the ruling families of the Gulf states for decades.
He has also expressed sympathy for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation.
Here is what we know about his thoughts on the key issues in the region.
Role in promoting UK arms exports to Middle East
According to a report, Charles has played a crucial role in advancing 14.5 billion pounds ($16.8bn) worth of United Kingdom arms exports to monarchies in the last decade.
Since the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, Charles has held 95 meetings with eight Middle Eastern states whose power and control were briefly threatened by the protests.
However, according to a 300-page book titled Charles At Seventy: Thoughts, Hopes and Dreams, published in 2018, Charles allegedly told UK ministers that he no longer wants to use his Gulf connections to sell arms on behalf of British companies in the Middle East.
Sympathy for the Palestinian people
In his first official trip to the occupied West Bank in January 2020, Charles expressed his heartbreak over witnessing the “suffering” and “hardship” endured by the Palestinian population under Israeli occupation.
During his speech from Bethlehem, Charles said: “It is my dearest wish that the future will bring freedom, justice and equality to all Palestinians, enabling you to thrive and to prosper.”
Sky News TV at the time said the speech constituted “the biggest show of support that a member of the Royal family ever has [expressed] for the Palestinians”.
According to Jobson, Charles believes that the Israel-Palestine conflict is “the fundamental reason for the hostility and all the ‘pent-up poison’ throughout the Islamic world”.
Close relations with Gulf Arab states
Charles III’s important connections to Gulf states have been bolstered by decades of longstanding and respectful relationships between the British royal family and the Gulf ruling families.
But he has often found himself mired in controversy when it comes to accepting cash donations.
This year, it was revealed that between 2011-2015, he was personally given three million euro ($3m) in cash by former Qatari prime minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al-Thani, some of it in shopping bags.
Charles’ office said the money was handed over to one of his charities, which carried out appropriate governance and gave assurances that all the correct processes were followed.
However, at the time, a senior royal source also added that he would no longer accept large sums of cash for his charities.
Last year, an investigation by the London Metropolitan Police revealed that Charles’ closest aide Michael Fawcett had coordinated work to grant a royal honour and even British citizenship to Saudi billionaire Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz, who donated more than 1.5 million British pounds ($2m) to renovation projects of particular interest to the-then prince.
Opposition to 2003 Iraq war
The book, written by Robert Jobson in cooperation with Clarence House, Charles’ office, also contained a string of revelations when it came to the royal’s views on the 2003 Iraq war.
Jobson wrote that Charles was a passionate opponent of the 2003 United States-led invasion of Iraq and that he was “plunged in despair” by then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s support of the war and might have tried to argue against it had he been king.
“He told political figures and those in his trusted circle that he regarded the [President George] Bush administration as ‘terrifying’ and pilloried what he believes was Blair’s lack of perspicacity,” Jobson wrote. “He believed Blair had behaved like Bush’s ‘poodle’ and said so.”
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2022-09-09 12:57:32Z
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Priest pays tribute to siblings killed in Ireland as their coffins arrive at church ahead of funeral - Daily Mail
'We have been robbed of three young lives': Priest pays tribute to siblings killed in Ireland as their coffins arrive at church ahead of funeral today where huge crowds are expected
- Funeral mass for Lisa Cash and Christy and Chelsea Cawley will be held today
- Yesterday, their bodies were taken to the church in emotional scenes
- Father Paul O'Driscoll asked 'How could this happen?' at church service
- Crowds thronged the streets as horse-drawn carriages carried the coffins
- Older brother Andy Cash, 24, charged with murdering them on Sunday
A priest has paid tribute to the three siblings tragically killed in a horrific knife frenzy in Ireland ahead of their funeral today, where thousands are expected to attend.
Lisa Cash, 18, and eight-year-old twin siblings, Christy and Chelsea Cawley will be laid to rest at Bohernabreena Cemetery following their funeral mass at St Aidan's Church in Brookfield at 10am.
A large crowd of mourners, including their grief-stricken mother Margaret 'Twink' Cash McDonagh, 40, gathered yesterday to watch as the children's remains were brought to the church by a horse-drawn carriage.
She was consoled by friends and relatives as she broke down in tears as the bodies were taken to St Aidan's in Tallaght while a man played the bagpipes ahead of today's funeral.
In the church grounds, Lisa's coffin was taken first to the church door followed by Chelsea and Christy's in unison, The Irish Mirror reported.
Father Paul O'Driscoll bless their remains before a short service was held in which he said: 'We have been robbed of three young lives.'
Older brother Andy Cash, 24, has been charged with killing his three younger siblings in a horrific rampage in the early hours of Sunday morning at their home up the road in Rossfield Avenue, Tallaght.
Fr O'Driscoll said the children were 'cherished' by their mother, adding: 'Lisa, Chelsea and Christy will be forever loved and very sadly missed by their heartbroken family. We have been robbed of three young lives.
'Their genetic family, their family of faith, not only are they robbed of their lives but they have been robbed of all of their innocence, our sense of what is normal.
'People are stopping each other in the streets and the shops in disbelief, how could this happen?'
At about 9.20pm on Monday, Cash appeared before a special sitting of Dublin District Court, charged with three courts of murder.
Cash of Tallaght, south Dublin, stood when requested by Judge McNamara so she could formally identify him at the special sitting.
McNamara remanded Nash in custody. He will appear before Cloverhill district court at 10am on Friday via video link.
Cash allegedly stabbed Lisa when she tried to protect the twins, while their 14-year-old brother managed to escape through a window and call for help, the Irish Sun reported.
Lisa's body was found at the bottom of the stairs with apparent stab wounds.
It is believed that older sister Lisa was babysitting at the time they lost their lives.
Yesterday, three local schools united in grief, and together tried to find a way to explain the deaths of three young people to classmates and friends and minds too young to grasp what happened in that home.
Balloons were released into the air in their memory, while schoolchildren and friends broke down in tears as their parents struggled to find the words to comfort them.
The victims' 14-year-old brother was taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries, and their mother was released from hospital on Sunday and is being supported by her family.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has expressed his 'deepest sympathies' to their family, and said that the 'terrible tragedy' had 'left the nation shocked and very saddened', while Garda Commissioner Drew Harris described the deaths as 'dreadful and traumatic'.
Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris said: 'What we're all reading in the newspapers and hearing on television and on radio programmes is just beyond a horrifically tragic and devastating scenario.'
'Three young beautiful lives to be extinguished overnight... We think particularly of that community, but I think it's something that has shocked the entire country.
'Our hearts and thoughts and our prayers go to the family, to their poor mum and the 14-year-old boy, to all their neighbours, all their friends, to the schoolchildren going back to school today, where there'll be two empty desks where beautiful twins only returned to school in recent days.
'I think the whole nation holds all of them in our thoughts.'
Neighbours said they will never forget what they saw and heard in the early hours of Sunday.
One neighbour, who did not want to give his name, said he was watching TV when he was alerted to scenes outside.
'I went outside and could see gardaí with their weapons out. We couldn't make sense of what was happening. It was very traumatic to see it all happen.
'They were a lovely, beautiful family. Our granddaughter sometimes played with the kids out on the street.
'None of us slept that night. People will not get over this. The community is rocked badly, mentally and physically. The guards did really well that night. They should be given medals. And the paramedics fought and fought so hard to save them. Lisa was a beautiful young girl and she tried her best to save those kids.'
Outside the house are pictures of the three, showing Christy and Chelsea making their first Holy Communion, among the long row of floral tributes.
Another neighbour earlier told the Irish Daily Mail her daughter had only been playing with Christy and Chelsea two days previously.
'It was the first day that I let her out to play around the corner – just down the road from their house.'
Her young daughter continued the story: 'We played hide and seek down there. We had a good time. I can't believe it – that they are not here now.'
Another neighbour, who also asked not to be named, told the Mail: 'Their brother who was in the house went to get help. He is their hero. There are no words to describe what we saw and what happened.
'The whole community will need counselling now.'
Another neighbour, who also asked not to be named, told the Irish Daily Mail said: 'There are no words to describe what we saw and what happened. The whole community will need counselling now.'
The principal of St Aidan's school, Kevin Shortall, paid tribute to Lisa, saying she was 'a quiet, beautiful young girl, very diligent, hard-working, got on with her work, was a great support to her friends in times of trouble.
'She is remembered as one of the most honest, genuine young people, full of integrity and no fuss, no drama around her.
'I believe she was babysitting at the time, and that would have been something that she was just so good at.
'She was the kind of person you could trust. That's the person Lisa was.
'We are all just meeting each other and shaking our heads and giving each other hugs and things like that. It's a very difficult morning.'
Mr Shortall said he had liaised with the principal of the primary school that Christy and Chelsea had attended on how to respond to the 'unprecedented' tragedy.
On Sunday, the Brookfield Community Centre opened to allow people to gather and help them deal with the tragic news.
'It doesn't feel like real life,' said Fianna Fáil councillor Teresa Costello.
'We've lost three young, vibrant, beautiful lives out of our community, in the most unimaginable terms, and it's going to be a really difficult road ahead.
'People are numb. I think it's not sinking in, but it's there and it's so raw for people and it's something you never imagine is going to be on your doorstep.
'The scale of what's emerging in terms of the detail, you never imagine that's something to happen, particularly to children, and the wider community here are well aware of what happened because they saw it.
'They saw it from their own houses, from their gardens, from the road.
'It's important to remember the names Lisa, Chelsea and Christy. They're the three most important people right now.
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Live news updates: Tributes flow worldwide following death of Queen Elizabeth II - Financial Times
Chinese internet users reacted to the death of the Queen by expressing sympathy, with many lamenting “the end of an era” even as they turned to humour and political frustration with their own leadership.
“She had a legendary and glorious life,” one Weibo user commented. “Hope she can rest in peace.”
“In my memory, she was still a lovely grandma who always wore colourful suits and umbrellas,” another post read.
The Queen’s death has also offered Chinese internet users a chance to vent their political views.
“The empire on which the sun never sets finally saw the sun set. She was the last symbol of colonialism,” a Weibo user said.
Others called upon Chinese compatriots to commemorate Mao Zedong, who died on September 9 1976.
Not long after the news of the Queen’s death broke, hundreds of internet users posted a sentence reading “The one who should die hasn’t died,” an implicit criticism of Chinese president Xi Jinping.
Censors quickly deleted similar posts, including some mentioning a song by Malaysian singer Fish Leong named “It’s a shame that it’s not you”.
Netflix series The Crown, which follows the Queen’s life, was trending on Douban, a media database similar to film listing platform IMDb, ranking as the second most popular TV programme.
Hu Xijin, the former editor and columnist at nationalist tabloid Global Times, took to Twitter to pay his respects to the former monarch.
“I want to pay my respects to the late Queen Elizabeth. Wish her rest in peace. She is friendly to China, and in my opinion, she maintained Britain’s last dignity,” he wrote, adding that, to his memory, the Queen never “said or did anything to upset the Chinese”.
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Kamis, 08 September 2022
Biden to urge Americans to get updated coronavirus vaccine shots - The Washington Post
Today, following news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II in the United Kingdom, President Biden canceled planned remarks in which he was to urge Americans to get updated coronavirus shots. Biden was set to detail his administration’s plans to make the omicron-targeting boosters widely available this fall. It was not immediately clear when his remarks would be rescheduled.
In New York, Stephen K. Bannon, a former top official in Donald Trump’s White House, was charged at the state level with money laundering and conspiracy in connection with a “We Build the Wall” fundraising scheme. He received a presidential pardon during President Donald Trump’s final days in office in a federal case involving the same allegations.
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2022-09-08 14:01:00Z
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Ukrainians smash 50km past Russian frontlines, general says - POLITICO Europe
Ukrainian troops have advanced up to 50 kilometers into Russian-occupied territory in the northeastern Kharkiv region and recaptured more than 20 villages, Brigadier General Oleksiy Gromov said on Thursday.
Gromov’s statement is the first precise information provided by the Ukrainian authorities on a shock counteroffensive in the northeast that appears to have wrong-footed Russian troops, while attention was focused on a separate Ukrainian drive to claw back land around the southern port of Kherson and isolate Russian troops there.
Although the Kharkiv counteroffensive has been covered by Russian and Ukrainian bloggers and witnesses posting on social media in the past few days, the Ukrainian leadership and military command had refused to comment publicly. On Wednesday night, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said only: “This week we have good news from the Kharkiv region” but cautioned that “now is not the time to name the settlements to which the Ukrainian flag has returned.”
On Thursday, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in Germany that, while Russian forces continue “to cruelly bombard Ukrainian cities and civilians with missiles and artillery fire,” Ukrainian forces had “begun their counteroffensive in the south of their country.”
“The face of the war is changing,” he added, without providing any detailed assessment of the operation.
Russia’s defense ministry has avoided commenting on the situation regarding Ukraine’s northeastern counteroffensive. However, a key Russian protagonist in the 2014 Kremlin-backed insurgency in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, Igor Girkin, said on Thursday that Kyiv “has achieved operational success in the main direction of its attack,” referring to the Kharkiv operations.
The lightning advance of Ukrainian troops is underway northwest of Izyum, a town with a pre-war population of 46,000, which has strategic logistical importance for Russia’s operations in Donbas.
According to the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War think tank, Ukrainian forces in the Kharkiv region “are likely exploiting Russian force reallocation” to the south “to conduct an opportunistic yet highly effective counteroffensive”.
Meanwhile, top Ukrainian military officials published on Wednesday their long-term forecast for the war with Russia, including with possible future scenarios.
Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and Mykhailo Zabrodskyi, first deputy chairman of the National Security, Defense, and Intelligence Committee of Ukraine’s parliament, believe the war will continue into 2023.
According to their analysis, Russian troops are still hunting for openings to sweep across the south of country and seize the key ports of Odesa and Mykolaiv — effectively turning Ukraine into a landlocked country and robbing it of its ability to export across the Black Sea.
“Revisited plans to gain control of Kyiv and the threat of renewed invasion from the territory of the Republic of Belarus cannot be ruled out either,” Zaluzhnyi and Zabrodskyi said.
They argued that Ukraine’s strategic goal next year should be the liberation of Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, which “was and remains the basis for supply routes on the southern strategic flank of Russian aggression.”
“It is logical to assume planning for 2023 an operation or a series of operations to regain the peninsula,” they said, adding that such a push will require massive force. “Preparation of an offensive campaign demands that Ukraine sets up one or more operational (operational-strategic) groupings of forces consisting of 10 to 20 combined arms brigades, depending on the intent and ambitions of the Ukrainian command.”
With a close eye on the potential reaction from Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Ukrainians also sketched out a more alarming scenario of the Kremlin resorting to tactical nuclear weapons.
“It is hard to imagine that even nuclear strikes will allow Russia to break Ukraine’s will to resist. But the threat that will emerge for the whole of Europe cannot be ignored. The possibility of direct involvement of the world’s leading powers in a ‘limited’ nuclear conflict, bringing closer the prospect of World War 3, cannot be completely ruled out either,” the two wrote.
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