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Lisa H. #NAFO #ProEU ๐๐๐ retweeted
Who in the name of all things holy decided that itโs imperative that we โget the welfare bill down?
The UK welfare bill is projected at ยฃ360+ billion (around 10.7% to 11% of GDP), remaining lower as a proportion of national income than it was 15 years ago or during the 1980s.
Lisa H. #NAFO #ProEU ๐๐๐ retweeted
๐จ20 AIRLINES HAVE NOW SUSPENDED FLIGHTS TO DUBAI โ SOME WONโT RETURN UNTIL 2027
Today Air France pushed its Dubai suspension to November 7.
Here is the FULL list of airlines not flying to Dubai (DXB) right now:
THE LIST โ๏ธ
๐ฌ๐ง British Airways (London) โ until Nov 3
๐ซ๐ท Air France (Paris) โ until Nov 7
๐ฉ๐ช Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich) โ until Nov 25
๐จ๐ญ SWISS (Zurich) โ until Nov 25
๐ฉ๐ช Eurowings โ until Nov 25
๐ฎ๐น ITA Airways (Rome) โ until Nov 30
๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore Airlines โ until Dec 1
๐ฆ๐น Austrian (Vienna) โ until Dec 12
๐ญ๐ฐ Cathay Pacific (Hong Kong) โ until Jan 31, 2027
๐ฑ๐บ Luxair โ Feb 2027 at the earliest
๐ณ๐ฑ KLM (Amsterdam) โ until Mar 27, 2027
๐ซ๐ฎ Finnair (Helsinki) โ whole winter, to Mar 2027
๐ญ๐บ Wizz Air โ back Mar 28, 2027
๐บ๐ธ United (Newark) โ March 2027
๐จ๐ฆ Air Canada (Toronto) โ end of March 2027
๐ฌ๐ง Virgin Atlantic โ 2027 at the earliest
๐ฑ๐ป airBaltic โ whole winter 2026/27
๐ฐ๐ท Korean Air (Seoul) โ until further notice
๐ณ๐ด Norwegian โ until further notice
๐น๐ท Pegasus โ suspended, no date
WHY IT IS HAPPENING
โ The USโIsrael war with Iran, since February 28
โ The UAE has intercepted 550+ ballistic missiles and 2,265 drones in this war
โ The UAE says it shot down another drone coming from Iran over its waters
โ EU aviation agency EASA: avoid the Persian Gulf airspace until Nov 16
โ The US told Gulf states to prepare for possible new strikes on Iran after the Nov 3 midterms
WHAT IT MEANS
โ Travellers: fewer seats, higher fares, longer routes around closed airspace
โ Expats: going home for the holidays gets harder and more expensive
โ Business: Dubai hotels lose the European winter rush they counted on
โ Oil + gold: every Gulf alarm puts a risk premium on both
STILL FLYING: ๐ฆ๐ช Emirates (91% of pre-war capacity), flydubai, Etihad, Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines.
IF YOU ARE IN OR FLYING TO DUBAI
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Check your exact flight with your airline today, not the airport board
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If your flight is cancelled, ask for a free rebooking or a full refund
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Check that your travel insurance covers war and airspace closure
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Keep your passport, visa and booking copies on your phone AND on paper
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Follow only official UAE authorities and your embassy
Save this. Share it with someone who flies to Dubai.
Follow me for live updates on this โ I post the moment it changes ๐
Lisa H. #NAFO #ProEU ๐๐๐ retweeted
Why was Mark Neville not charged under the terrorism act? He literally threw a petrol bomb into a hotel housing migrants!
Instead, he was allowed to plead guilty to attempted arson
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8jโฆ
Lisa H. #NAFO #ProEU ๐๐๐ retweeted
The Metropolitan Police has voluntarily referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct over its handling of a letter from Thomas Markleโs ex-wife, Roslyn Loveless, containing serious allegations that he had possessed images of child abuse.
The Met did not pass on the information or warnings to any other domestic or international law enforcement agencies.
Lisa H. #NAFO #ProEU ๐๐๐ retweeted
A warning to all lefties from Havant patriots if you don't agree with what we are doing I'll brandish you ๐คฃ๐
Lisa H. #NAFO #ProEU ๐๐๐ retweeted
South Florida is in the middle of the highest king tides ever recorded here. This morning reached the same major flood stage as Hurricane Wilma in 2005 sending water down streets from Miami to Fort Lauderdale and even flowed into some homes and businesses that weren't sandbagged.
Lisa H. #NAFO #ProEU ๐๐๐ retweeted
Sergey Nalobin, a Russian โdiplomatโ who launched the โConservative Friends of Russiaโ group has now been identified as a Russian intelligence officer involved in an attempted European disinformation campaign.
Nalobin called Boris Johnson a good friend and was quick to congratulate Vote Leave Chief Matthew Elliott on his engagement. Elliott was a founder member of the Conservative Friends of Russia, and in 2012 went on a 10-day trip to Moscow with all expenses paid by the Russian government.
The British authorities repeatedly refused to investigate Russian interference in the Brexit campaign and the UKโs broader politics. However, Nalobin was looking for a way to channel money into the Conservative Party in the early 2010s, and the Tories received many donations from Russian oligarchs resident in the UK. The article provides details of how Nalobin orchestrated Russian interference in Estonian politics, so it is very likely that he was playing the same role in the UK.
Putin wanted Brexit. The Tories delivered it, and unfortunately every British government since then has covered up the extent and nature of Russian interference in British politics.
Please repost if you demand that the government ends the conspiracy of silence and launches a full-scale investigation of Russian interference in British politics starting with the Conservative Friends of Russia and Farage's appearances on Russia Today.
bylinetimes.com/2026/10/26/tโฆ
Lisa H. #NAFO #ProEU ๐๐๐ retweeted
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Tommy has just added another six months on to his sentence
Lisa H. #NAFO #ProEU ๐๐๐ retweeted
In an ominous development, a new form of landslide - carrying blocks the size of two-storey houses - is hitting Canada as permafrost melts. Studies suggest they are connected with wildfires and that they could be unprecedented in 10,000 years.
livescience.com/planet-earthโฆ
Lisa H. #NAFO #ProEU ๐๐๐ retweeted
NEW Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - AKA Tommy Robinson - found guilty of harassing two journalists to the point where they feared violence.
Important court case - response from @CPSUK which brought the prosecution, here:
Lisa H. #NAFO #ProEU ๐๐๐ retweeted
๐จ๐บ Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodrรญguez confronted US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz at the podium and called him "a liar" during Tuesday's General Assembly debate on Washington's decades-long embargo of Cuba, as a US oil blockade strangles the island.
Since February, the US has intercepted tankers bound for Cuba, cutting off the fuel that runs its power plants, water pumps and hospitals. Blackouts have stretched to 22 hours a day. By June, food production had fallen about 60%, medicine supplies had dropped to roughly 30% of normal and infant mortality had risen significantly, according to the UN human rights office.
Waltz blamed Cuba's government for the crisis and accused Fidel Castro of sending gay people, Christians and Afro-Cubans to concentration camps, EFE reported. As the Cuban delegation banged on tables, Waltz shouted: "Back away! Do you understand who you're dealing with? This is the United States of America. Back up."
Rodrรญguez accused Waltz of "lying shamelessly" and attacking "the dignity of the Cuban people," as General Assembly President Khalilur Rahman threatened to suspend the session.
The Assembly is set to vote on its annual resolution condemning the U.S. embargo this week.
xitter.gq/CubaMINREX/status/2115โฆ
El gobierno de EEUU miente de forma grosera y permanente en la Asamblea General de @ONU_es.
Su Representante Permanente en Naciones Unidas, con su prepotencia y soberbia, olvida que se encuentra en Naciones Unidas, no estรก en el Consejo de Seguridad Nacional de EEUU ni en una unidad de boinas verdes ni en un grupo de Signal, donde ha mostrado reiteradamente su incompetencia e incapacidad.
El gobierno de EEUU, con sus burdas mentiras en la Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas, lanzรณ un nuevo intento desesperado por justificar la agresiรณn econรณmica contra Cuba y su criminal cerco energรฉtico. Sus declaraciones de hoy forman parte del circo mediรกtico, de amenazas y de campaรฑa electoral, al que el gobierno estadounidense dedica cuantiosos recursos econรณmicos y humanos.
No hay pretexto para sostener el acto de castigo colectivo al que someten al pueblo cubano.
#CubaNoEsUnaAmenaza El Bloqueo Sรญ
Lisa H. #NAFO #ProEU ๐๐๐ retweeted
Not a single news outlet has reviewed its coverage of Jason Arday, for accuracy or proportionality. Zero attempt has been made to conduct any inquiry into the mediaโs role in his death. Instead, the industry has moved into self-congratulatory mode. This isnโt just tone deaf, it betrays a systemic failure
Lisa H. #NAFO #ProEU ๐๐๐ retweeted
๐บ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฒ The confrontation inside Trump's Ukraine peace negotiations is now coming into focus.
Le Monde reports that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner spent nearly three hours pitching Ukraine's presidential chief of staff, Kyrylo Budanov, a postwar economic arrangement built around restoring Russian oil and gas flows to Europe through Ukrainian pipelines.
The meeting took place on October 9 at the Shell Bay golf club in Florida.
Witkoff presented the proposal as a regional prosperity plan: Ukraine would collect transit revenues, Europe would receive cheaper energy, and Russia would regain access to commercial routes disrupted by the war.
Budanov saw something fundamentally different. According to a witness cited by Le Monde, he objected that the arrangement would recreate Ukraine's dependence on Moscow.
โOur model is not Belarus, but Poland!โ he reportedly replied.
The meeting was interrupted, and Budanov called Zelensky.
When talks resumed, news arrived that Trump had announced a separate agreement with Putin involving Russian diesel. Le Monde reports that an irritated Witkoff then demanded that the Ukrainians accept the arrangement and stop striking Russian oil refineries, arguing that the attacks endangered the wider world.
A source familiar with the Ukrainian delegation described its members as exceptionally distressed by the encounter.
The account adds a revealing dimension to the commercial negotiations we have been tracking. The proposed Lukoil asset sale, Novatek's involvement in an Alaska LNG venture, the broader US-Russia list of business opportunities reported by the Financial Times, and now the proposed restoration of Russian energy transit through Ukraine all point to the prominence of energy deals in Washington's diplomatic approach.
These are separate proposals, with different participants and legal circumstances. But Le Monde's reporting exposes the strategic disagreement underlying them.
For Witkoff, restoring commercial flows appears to be part of the mechanism for producing a peace settlement. For Budanov, according to the account, those same flows threaten to restore Moscow's economic leverage over Ukraine.
The reported exchange also raises a question about sequencing: why was Kyiv being pressed to stop attacking Russian refineries while Russia continued striking Ukrainian energy infrastructure?
Le Monde's reconstruction relies on accounts of a private meeting. The reported exchanges have not been independently confirmed by the participants.
Source: Le Monde
Lisa H. #NAFO #ProEU ๐๐๐ retweeted
Today at the UN Security Council, China's representative delivered a sharp rebuke of US and European policy toward Iran, declaring that Washington's withdrawal from the JCPOA and subsequent maximum-pressure campaign were the "root cause" of the current nuclear crisis.
He also stated that US-Israeli military strikes on Iran's IAEA-safeguarded nuclear facilities were the "direct cause" of the agency's inability to conduct inspections at those sites.
Beijing further accused Britain, France, and Germany of failing to fulfill their own JCPOA commitments while joining Washington's sanctions campaign.
The Chinese representative described the E3's attempted snapback last year as legally and procedurally flawed, arguing that it had undermined the Security Council's unity and credibility.
The remarks came during today's Security Council meeting following the IAEA Board of Governors' September 9 vote to refer Iran's nuclear safeguards dossier to the Council, despite the US-Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Russia and China both opposed convening the meeting, arguing that the US and European governments were ignoring critical facts about the crisis, particularly the US withdrawal from the JCPOA and the military attacks on Iran.
The meeting nevertheless proceeded following a procedural vote of 11 in favor, 2 against (Russia and China), and 2 abstentions, with no veto applicable.
China also warned against another round of US military strikes, expressed concern over repeated missed opportunities for diplomacy, and called for an end to the fighting and renewed negotiations.
The central argument from Beijing: The US and European powers cannot disregard their own role in dismantling the nuclear agreement and attacking safeguarded facilities while demanding punitive international action over the resulting nuclear crisis.
Lisa H. #NAFO #ProEU ๐๐๐ retweeted
Trump's actions over the past 6 months have now ramped Putin's income to record highs. All will be allocated to war against Europe and tearing apart western society.
Lisa H. #NAFO #ProEU ๐๐๐ retweeted
Heatwaves in Antarctica opened up a vast hole in its ice in the depth of its winter. At 89,000 square kilometres, it was roughly the size of Portugal.
phys.org/news/2026-10-atmospโฆ
Lisa H. #NAFO #ProEU ๐๐๐ retweeted
PROJECT FORTRESS: The Pentagon is updating its domestic defense strategy to prepare military installations for severe multi-domain warfare scenarios, including widespread power grid outages, disrupted satellite networks, and crippled global supply chains.
Under a new defense initiative dubbed "FORTRESS," nearly 200 major military installations across the continental United States will be required to operate independently for up to 90 days. Documents obtained by Fox News detail plans for portable nuclear reactors, hardened backup power grids, jam-resistant communications, and domestic industrial readiness. @JenGriffinFNC reports on the multi-billion-dollar plan, European civilian preparedness warnings, and expert analysis on vulnerabilities facing civilian rail, port, and power infrastructure supporting defense mobility.
Lisa H. #NAFO #ProEU ๐๐๐ retweeted
๐จ EXCLUSIVE: The UAE, a close US and Israeli ally, is quietly helping Ansarallah (Houthis) fight Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces, four sources have told Drop Site. This comes after Riyadh forced the UAE out of Yemen last December following clashes between their rival Yemeni allies in the south.
Key findings:
โค UAE-aligned Yemeni forces have given Ansarallah targeting help while Abu Dhabi looked the other way. Two sources said the UAE has also shared intelligence directly.
โค The assistance is limited to targets inside Yemen, not Saudi Arabia, according to some sources. One source said a senior US official warned the UAE to stop, but sources indicated the assistance was ongoing.
โค Commanders in the Giants Brigades, a predominantly Salafi militia from the south, have repeatedly abandoned positions without a fight, while UAE-backed southern separatist commanders have refrained from fighting Ansarallah on key fronts, a Yemeni source said.
Senior Ansarallah official Mohammed al-Bukhaiti denied the assistance, citing UAE โneutrality,โ but said Riyadh could avoid โthe possibility of a future Yemeni-Emirati alliance against itโ by ending the war and lifting the blockade. The STC separatists denied contact with Ansarallah or unwillingness to fight it in the south. The UAE ambassador to Washington did not respond to requests for comment.
๐ Read the full report from Ryan Grim and Iona Craig below. โฌ๏ธ
๐จ New from @DropSiteNews: The UAE Is Secretly Helping Ansarallah Fight Saudi Arabia in Yemen
In an extraordinary move, the UAE has been covertly sharing targeting assistance with the Iranian-aligned Ansarallah in its conflict against Saudi-backed forces inside Yemen.
Story by @ryangrim and @ionacraig
dropsitenews.com/p/uae-yemenโฆ
Lisa H. #NAFO #ProEU ๐๐๐ retweeted
Breaking news: Trump considers dropping sanctions on Putinโs โslush fundโ
The move would be the latest U.S. concession to Moscow.
nytimes.com/2026/10/27/us/poโฆ
