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Migration is derailing leaders from Biden to Macron. Who’s next? – POLITICO
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BRUSSELS — Western leaders are grappling with how to handle two era-defining wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine. But there’s another issue, one far closer to home, that’s derailing governments in Europe and America: migration.
In recent days, U.S. President Joe Biden, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak all hit trouble amid intense domestic pressure to tackle immigration; all three emerged weakened
What London’s mayor learned when he took on the cars – POLITICO
It looked like group therapy. One late summer day, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, sat with a group of faith leaders and clean-air campaigners in a small circle in the near-empty hall of a suburban church.
The moment was meant to be one of celebration, for Khan and for London. He was marking the creation of the largest clean air zone in the Western world through the expansion of restrictions on polluting cars to cover the entire British capital,
Around the world, the left is tearing itself apart over Israel – POLITICO
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When Hamas attackers killed 1,400 civilians in a series of horrifying raids on October 7, politicians across the West voiced their shock and pledged their backing for Israel.
But as the Gaza conflict has unfolded, with Israeli forces killing thousands of Palestinians, that political consensus has fractured. And across the West, it is politicians on the left of the political spectrum who are struggling the most.
In the U.S.,
Inside the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh – POLITICO
KORNIDZOR, Armenia — Many of the men waiting at the Armenian border have been there for days.
When news broke on Tuesday that Azerbaijan had launched a major attack into the ethnic-Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, dozens of them pulled on warm jackets and wooly hats and drove towards the checkpoint. Now they can only watch the road, once the sole highway cutting through the mountains to the breakaway region where their families live, hoping their relatives are able to get
Why London’s mayor just can’t scrap his clean air plan – POLITICO
LONDON — Sadiq Khan is under pressure to ditch a controversial plan to clean up London’s air after a bruising by-election for the mayor’s Labour colleagues. But scrapping the plan is no panacea — and critics will have to explain what replaces it.
London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) aims to reduce the U.K. capital’s emissions of nitrogen dioxide and nitrogen oxide (referred to together as NOx) by imposing a charge on polluting vehicles when they enter the zone. It’s
London’s Sadiq Khan moves to soften emissions scheme impact after backlash – POLITICO
LONDON — Mayor of London Sadiq Khan moved to soften the impact of a city-wide emissions reduction scheme after a voter backlash saw the Labour Party fail to make a gain at a crucial by-election.
The Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) — which costs drivers of polluting vehicles £12.50 a day to enter — is set to expand to cover the whole of London from 29 August in a bid to tackle the city’s air pollution problem.
Khan, Labour’s London
Russia blames Ukraine as drone hits Moscow skyscraper – POLITICO
A drone struck a business district in downtown Moscow overnight, the Russian defense ministry said Tuesday.
The drone “was suppressed by electronic warfare equipment and, having lost control, crashed on the territory of a complex of nonresidential buildings in Moscow city,” the ministry said in a statement.
Two other drones “were destroyed in the air by air defense means over the territory of the Odintsovo and Narofominsk districts of the Moscow region,” the ministry added, saying it held Ukraine responsible
Rishi Sunak wants review of local traffic-reduction schemes – POLITICO
LONDON — Local schemes to reduce traffic in some U.K. neighborhoods will be reviewed by the central government as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leans into concerns about the impact of pollution-cutting measures on motorists.
The U.K. government on Sunday announced that it would be reviewing so-called Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs), although added that it would only provide details of the review in “due course.”
Sunak told the Sunday Telegraph he would appraise low traffic schemes because the “vast majority” of
High Court rules London’s pollution-busting ULEZ expansion is lawful – POLITICO
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan can press on with a controversial expansion of the ultra low emissions zone (ULEZ) which penalizes high-polluting vehicles in the capital, a High Court judge ruled Friday.
Five Conservative councils brought a legal challenge against the Labour mayor’s plan, which has sparked a major political debate about green policies in the U.K. But the judicial review was dismissed Friday morning, meaning the scheme can now be extended to outer London areas, as planned, on August
Ukrainian troops liberate southern village, while Russia shoots down drone attack on Moscow – POLITICO
Ukrainian forces have recaptured a strategic village in the Russian-occupied southeast, as their troops continue a southbound advance in a summer counteroffensive.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that troops had reclaimed the village of Staromayorske in the Donetsk region. It is the first major gain in days. Battles are continuing around Bakhmut for the villages of Klishchiivka and Andriivka.
“The 35th brigade and the Ariy territorial defense unit have fulfilled their task and liberated the village of Staromayorske. Glory