"Lammy told the Commons he believed Israel’s actions broke international law
– a key test for whether the UK can continue to sell weapons to the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu has stopped food, fuel and medicine from entering Gaza in an effort to put pressure on Hamas during peace talks. Doctors in Gaza say hospitals are struggling to treat people injured in Monday night’s air attack as a result.
Netanyahu is already facing the threat of arrest should he travel to the UK, with Lammy having previously said the British government would act on an arrest warrant issued last November by the international criminal court.
Despite that arrest warrant, the government continues to sell some weapons to Israel, including engine parts for F-35 jets."
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German MPs approve €500bn spending boost to counter ‘Putin’s war of aggression’
"The French government is reportedly planning to send a “survival manual” to every household in the country with instructions on how to prepare for an “imminent threat” including armed conflict, a health crisis or a natural disaster.
If approved by François Bayrou, the prime minister, the 20-page booklet will be sent to households before the summer, French media reported."
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"The US has cancelled 83% of its foreign aid contracts and dismantled USAid, the agency responsible for coordinating most of them.
Many fell under the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar) programme, which has been the backbone of global efforts to tackle HIV and Aids, investing more than $110bn (£85bn) since it was founded in 2003 and credited with saving 26 million lives and preventing millions more new infections. In some African countries it covered almost all HIV spending."
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