The #UCLfinal kick-off at the Stade de France was delayed after painfully slow security checks caused a major bottleneck and widespread concern among fans trying to access the stadium
🎓 Graduates from the world’s top universities, including Harvard and Yale, will be eligible for visas to work in Britain under a new post-Brexit immigration drive to “put ability and talent first.
The Government will today launch its “high potential individual” route to attract the “brightest and best” graduates from the world’s most prestigious overseas universities to come and work in the UK at the beginning of their careers
Successful applicants with a bachelor’s or master’s degree, regardless of which country they were born in, will get a two-year work visa and will be permitted to bring their families.
➡️ Those who hold PhDs can apply to stay for three years
🔴 Russia's ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin, has claimed the Foreign Secretary wanted to "instigate the conflict" by pushing for the West to continue supplying Kyiv.
🇺🇦 Russian forces have ramped up attacks to capture Sievierodonetsk.
Ceaseless shelling has left Ukrainian forces defending ruins in Sievierodonetsk, but their refusal to withdraw is stalling a massive Russian offensive across the Donbas telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
Here is your Ukraine-Russia morning briefing ⤵️
🔴 Full takeover of the Donbas is Moscow's 'unconditional priority'
🔴 Zelensky fires Kharkiv security chief
🔴EU's Borrell hopeful of deal on Russian oil ban
🔴 Carrie Johnson faces grilling by MPs on ‘secret’ Boris birthday bash left out of Sue Gray report.
Mrs Johnson is alleged to have sent texts to an aide which indicate she hosted a gathering in Downing Street with friends during lockdown ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
Carrie Johnson faces being summoned before MPs to explain a secret gathering on the Prime Minister’s birthday that was left out of the Sue Gray report
➡️ Parliament’s privileges committee, which is investigating whether Boris Johnson knowingly misled the Commons over "partygate", is set to consider making a request to his wife for evidence
Nuclear fusion is seen by many as a panacea for the world’s energy crisis, as well as climate change, because it produces a huge amount of energy from a small amount of fuel and makes no greenhouse gas emissions
☢️ However, inside these reactors is a hot and radioactive environment which would kill a person, so any maintenance must be done by machines...
🔴 The military chief of the heavily-bombed eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk said troops were in a "tough defensive position" as Russia intensified its efforts to capture the city
🔴The Russian defence ministry has claimed that Russian missiles have destroyed a large arsenal of the Ukrainian army in the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine
Boris Johnson is declaring war on petrol stations that fail to pass on the Government’s fuel duty cut, pledging to name and shame those that refuse to drop their prices
🗣️ Three government sources said the Prime Minister had expressed fury that the 5p-a-litre cut to fuel duty announced in March was failing to materialise at many pumps