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Joint Statement on Media Coverage Charges For Conservative Party Autumn Conference

Joint Statement on Media Coverage Charges For Conservative Party Autumn Conference

The News Media Association has issued a joint statement with other UK news media industry bodies objecting to media coverage charges for the Conservative Party Autumn Conference.

The statement, coordinated by the News Media Association, Society of Editors, Foreign Press Association, and the News Media Coalition, called for the “draconian” charges to be dropped, warning that they could set a “concerning precedent in a democratic society”

The statement reads: “A row has broken out between the Press and the Conservative Party over plans to charge for media attendance at the governing party’s annual conference.… Read the rest

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UN anti-drug agency warns there is no let-up in methamphetamine trade from Asia’s Golden Triangle

UN anti-drug agency warns there is no let-up in methamphetamine trade from Asia’s Golden Triangle

The United Nations anti-drug agency is warning that the huge trade in illegal drugs such as methamphetamine from Southeast Asia’s ‘Golden Triangle’ shows no signs of slowing down

Grant Peck

 

The huge trade in methamphetamine and other illegal drugs originating from a small corner of Southeast Asia shows no signs of slowing down, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime warned Friday.

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‘Extremely fierce’ fighting as Russian forces resist Ukrainian counteroffensive

‘Extremely fierce’ fighting as Russian forces resist Ukrainian counteroffensive

Kyiv and western sources issue downbeat assessment as Moscow targets supply lines in Odesa with deadly cruise missile strike

Daniel Boffey in Kyiv

Ukraine: Russian missile attack kills three in Odesa – video

Kyiv has said its troops are battling under Russian “air and artillery superiority” as cruise missiles targeting the supply lines of the Ukrainian counteroffensive killed three people working a nightshift in a warehouse in the southern city of Odesa.… Read the rest

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