WORLD ROUNDUPEuro 2024 Security | Chiquita Brands Found Guilty of Funding Colombian Terrorist Group | Morality Is the Enemy of Peace, and more
· Nigel Farage Defends Reform UK Candidates Who Are ‘Friends’ with Fascist
Party leader claims it’s ‘cobblers’ that members have Nazi sympathies because they are connected to Gary Raikes on Facebook
· NATO to Confront Russian ‘Sabotage’ Attempts — Stoltenberg
The military alliance has reported an increasing number of “hostile activities against NATO allies.” All of which is designed to undermine support for Ukraine, according to NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg
· Euro 2024 Security: How Is Germany Combating Hooliganism and ‘Hot Red’ Terrorist Threat?
Germany is readying itself for a huge security operation as football fans prepare to visit for Euro 2024
· Chiquita Brands Found Guilty of Funding Colombian Terrorist Group
The case represents a monumental win, following 17 years of litigation that originally began in 2007
· Number of Global Displaced Hits Record High at 120 Million, U.N. Says
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi also characterized new U.S. restrictions on asylum as a possible violation of international humanitarian law
· The Taiwan Aid Bill Won’t Fix the Arms Backlog
To help Taipei, Washington needs to get smarter about weapons transfers
· Morality Is the Enemy of Peace
The conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine can only end with deals that don’t satisfy anyone completely
Nigel Farage Defends Reform UK Candidates Who Are ‘Friends’ with Fascist (Tom Witherow, The Times)
Nigel Farage has defended the 41 candidates found to be social media “friends” of fascist leader, saying: “I apologize that not all of our candidates have been to Eton.”
Close to one in ten candidates for the Reform UK party in England was found to be connected on Facebook with Gary Raikes, the British fascist leader, The Times found.
Raikes, a former organizer for the British National Party, founded the New British Union in the image of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists, and has called for a “fascist revolution” that would see parliamentary democracy replaced with a dictatorship.
The party’s candidate list has come under scrutiny after The Times revealed last week that its prospective MPs included a racist who referred to a group of black people as “baboons” and a magazine publisher who suggested that convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell did her teenage victims “a favor”.
One Reform candidate, Ian Gribbin, said that Britain should have accepted Hitler’s offer of neutrality before the Second World War.
NATO to Confront Russian ‘Sabotage’ Attempts — Stoltenberg (VOA News)
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday the alliance was looking into ways of countering Russian attempts to “sabotage” the alliance.
The NATO secretary general said defense ministers meeting in Brussels would discuss plans to counter a “Russian campaign of hostile activities against NATO allies,” adding that ministers would work on “response options.”
The alliance is keen to bolster closer intelligence sharing, increase protection of critical infrastructure, and deploy “tighter restrictions on Russian intelligence personnel across the alliance.”
Euro 2024 Security: How Is Germany Combating Hooliganism and ‘Hot Red’ Terrorist Threat? (Tom Burrows, The Athletic)
Germany is readying itself for a huge security operation as football fans prepare to visit for Euro 2024. From the hosts’ opener against Scotland tomorrow night (Friday) in Munich to the final on July 14 in Berlin, 2.7million fans will attend games across 10 stadiums, together with a further 12million in fan zones, as well as the 24 teams based across various locations. (Cont.)
