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Yahoo
21-07-2025
- Yahoo
Travellers arrive at Birmingham park in 'greater numbers than ever before'
Travellers have arrived at a popular Birmingham park in 'greater numbers than every before.' A large group of caravans and other vehicles drove onto Swanshurst Park, on the border of Moseley and Billesley, on Sunday evening, July 20. It was said to be the fifth incursion this year and the council's Interim Head of Parks told a Moseley ward meeting the authority was looking to install extra barriers. READ MORE: Crowds at Birmingham New Street as trains north and south cancelled and delayed READ MORE: Birmingham city centre crackdown explained - affected streets and banned activities READ MORE: New security measures on the way for Birmingham park after Travellers set up camp multiple times It was said that travellers gained access this time by moving a large log and driving in past bike racks. The Friends of Swanshurst Park, a volunteer-run group, posted on Facebook on Sunday evening: "I'm sorry to say what some of you may already know - there are travellers on Swanshurst in greater numbers than ever before. Get breaking news on BirminghamLive WhatsApp, click the link to join "This was not because the council measures were inadequate. The new security measures are intact but they moved one of the large logs by the car park and drove in past the bike rack. "The eviction notice will be served tomorrow. It would really help if members of the public did not employ them. "Then they would not have an incentive to come here." The council said previously: "birmingham-city-council>Birmingham City Council is committed to actively protecting its land and will take steps to recover this land where unauthorised encampments encroach upon it.'The council has useable transit sites and plots for use by the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community – which is in line with Government policy – and details of the Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessment carried out and updated in 2019 can be found on our website."
Al Mayadeen
15-07-2025
- Politics
- Al Mayadeen
'Israel' deepens incursion in Syria's Quneitra region: Exclusive
Israeli occupation forces conducted a new incursion into Syrian territory on Monday, penetrating deep into the villages of Breika and Beer Ajam in the Quneitra countryside, according to a local Syrian source who spoke to Al Mayadeen. IOF reportedly began erecting earthen fortifications in the area, marking a significant escalation of ground activity near the occupied Golan Heights. The source indicated that the operation was accompanied by a series of overnight raids, during which occupation forces searched for "Syrians who had cooperated with Iran" under the previous Syrian government. According to the source, masked Syrian individuals, reportedly collaborating with the Israeli military, helped identify those alleged to have coordinated with the Iranian military during the Israeli war on Lebanon. The local source told Al Mayadeen that Israeli forces also transported prefabricated structures from the nearby town of al-Adnaniyah, placing them behind the newly constructed mounds. The fortifications reportedly reached a height of approximately seven meters, the source added. As part of the ongoing incursion, Israeli occupation soldiers arrested six individuals, including a child, from the Quneitra countryside. The incursion comes amid a widening pattern of Israeli military operations inside Syrian territory. On July 4, Israeli forces reportedly entered the village of Rakhleh in western rural Damascus near the Lebanese border. That same day, Al Mayadeen sources reported that a special Israeli unit conducted an airborne landing in the Yaafour area, approximately 10 kilometers from Damascus. The operation was reportedly supported by three helicopters flying over the region, signaling a high-level military deployment deep inside Syria. These actions form part of a broader pattern of Israeli violations across southern and western Syria, further intensifying tensions in the already volatile border regions. Read more: Syria demands 1/3 of Golan, Lebanese areas for 'Israel' normalization
Free Malaysia Today
15-07-2025
- Business
- Free Malaysia Today
Japan says China's military activities could ‘seriously impact' its security
A Chinese JH-7 fighter-bomber was sighted by the Japan Air Self-Defence Force over the East China Sea. (Japan Ministry of Defense/AP pic) TOKYO : Japan said Tuesday that China's intensifying military activities could 'seriously impact' its security, citing the first confirmed incursion by a Chinese military aircraft into its airspace in an annual threat assessment. The defence ministry said in its white paper that China was ramping up its activities in the entire region surrounding Japan. A Chinese military aircraft entered Japan's airspace in August last year, it said. Then in September, a Chinese aircraft carrier and two other naval ships sailed between two Japanese islands near Taiwan. Beijing's military 'created a situation that could seriously impact Japan's security,' the paper said, repeating earlier comments that China's actions were of 'grave concern'. It repeated its comment from last year's paper that China's military ambitions pose 'an unprecedented and (the) greatest strategic challenge' to Japan and the world. Tokyo said last week that Chinese fighter jets flew within 30m (100 feet) of a Japanese military patrol aircraft over the East China Sea. Last year, Chinese vessels sailed near the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands – known as the Diaoyu in China – a record 355 times, according to Tokyo. And last month Japan said that two Chinese aircraft carriers sailed in the Pacific simultaneously for the first time, including in Japan's economic waters. China called it 'routine training'. Beijing has also conducted joint drills with Russia which are 'clearly intended as a demonstration of force against Japan', the paper said. It repeated that North Korea's activities pose a 'more grave and imminent threat to Japan's national security than ever before'. The white paper was approved by the cabinet of prime minister Shigeru Ishiba on Tuesday morning. Japan is in a multi-year process of increasing its defence spending to the Nato standard of roughly 2% of gross domestic product (GDP). It is bolstering its military ties with Washington – and other regional US allies – to make US and Japanese forces nimbler in response to threats such as a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. The Pentagon is pressing Japan and Australia to make clear what role they would play if the US and China went to war over Taiwan, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. Elbridge Colby, US under-secretary of defence for policy, has been pushing the issue in meetings with Japanese and Australian defence officials in recent months, the FT said. Colby said on X that president Donald Trump's 'common sense agenda' included 'urging allies to step up their defence spending and other efforts related to our collective defence'. 'Of course, some among our allies might not welcome frank conversations,' Colby added. The issue also forms part of negotiations between Tokyo and Washington on a trade deal to avert 25% tariffs on Japanese imports due from Aug 1.
CNN
21-05-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Putin visits nuclear power plant in Kursk region
Video released by the Kremlin suggests that Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a power plant in the Kursk region on May 20. The visit comes after Moscow claimed to have completely recaptured the region following a surprise incursion by Ukrainian forces last year.
