UK government resumes funding for UNRWA in Gaza

The new Labour government has overturned a suspension in UK funding for relief agency UNRWA in Gaza and will provide £21 million in new support.Funding was frozen in January after Israel claimed 12 UNRWA staff were involved in the […]

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Julian Assange freed from UK prison

WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange has been released from the UK's Belmarsh high security prison and is back home free in Australia after making a plea deal with the United States justice department.He pleaded guilty in a US court in […]

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Russian missile attack on Kyiv – photo courtesy Sergiy Tomilenko, Secretary National Union of Journalists of Ukraine

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The AEJ UK is part of a professional network of journalists and specialists active across Europe, independent of any institutional or political group and recognised by the Council of Europe, the OSCE and UNESCO. We connect the newsmakers who shape our political and economic world with journalists, broadcasters and writers on European affairs. Meetings are open to journalists, academics and Europe specialists […]

Putin’s war in Ukraine – and at home

Vranyo – Russian for I’m telling lies and you know I’m telling lies but I’m going to tell them anyway.That was veteran Russia watcher Mark Galeotti's judgment on the recent Russian election in which […]

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Gaza journalists win world press freedom prize

UNESCO has recognised the unique suffering and fearless reporting of journalists in Gaza by awarding them the annual Guillermo-Cano World Press Freedom Prize. UNESCO says more than 100 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza since 7 October, and nearly all the rest have been injured, displaced or bereaved.From the start […]

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