The Daily Populous

Sunday February 23rd, 2025 day edition

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The United Kingdom is set to announce new sanctions against Russia on Monday, marking three years since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy said Sunday.

"This is also the time to turn the screws on [Vladimir] Putin's Russia," Lammy said in a statement.

"Tomorrow, I plan to announce the largest package of sanctions against Russia since the early days of the war — eroding their military machine and reducing revenues fuelling the fires of destruction in Ukraine," he added.

The UK has already imposed sanctions on 1,900 people and organisations with connections to Putin's government since Moscow invaded Ukraine in 2022.

UK sanctions come as Trump shifts US position.

The announcement of the new sanctions comes at a time when the US has taken charge of ending the war between Russia and Ukraine.

In addition to sanctions against Russia, Lammy's statement also included a pledge to provide £3 billion ($3.78 billion, €3.61 billion) annually to Kyiv and "being ready and willing to provide UK troops as part of peacekeeping forces if necessary.". »

Federal employees told to justify jobs in email or Musk says they face dismissal

Authored by edition.cnn.com

The email blast came on the heels of a social media post by Musk threatening the jobs of workers who do not comply.

Musk can’t force federal employees to resign, and attempting to do so would amount to an involuntary termination, Michael Fallings, a federal employment law expert and managing partner at Tully Rinckey, told CNN.

FBI Director Kash Patel told bureau employees Saturday not to immediately respond to the OPM email. »

New DNA evidence frees Hawaii man after 30 years in prison for murder

Authored by cbsnews.com

She ruled that new evidence, including DNA test results, would likely change the outcome of another trial against Gordon Cordeiro.

But he was later found guilty of murder, robbery and attempted murder and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.

The judge agreed that the new DNA evidence and new information about gunshot residue would change the results of a later trial. »

Thieves used a stolen card to buy a $523,000 lottery ticket. The victim wants to share the winnings

Authored by apnews.com

PARIS (AP) — Thieves used a stolen card to buy a winning French lottery ticket worth 500,000 euros ($523,000).

The man whose card was stolen, identified in police documents as Jean-David E., is offering to split the cash with the lucky winners.

At the shop, a vendor told him two apparently homeless men had used one of his cards to buy the winning scratch-off lottery ticket. »

Slavoj Zizek: Leftists falsify the choice that Ukrainians face during wartime

Authored by kyivindependent.com

The Kyiv Independent: The persistent threat of a Russian nuclear strike over the past three years has sharpened Ukrainians' dark humor, which often thrives in wartime.

Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek speaks at the opening of Phil.Cologne in Cologne, Germany, on June 6, 2023.

It worries me that they treat Ukrainians as some kind of idiots — they falsify the choice that Ukrainians face. »