Link to Belgian article: https://www.rtl.be/actu/regions/liege/une-cargaison-militaire-interceptee-liege-airport-avant-son-depart-vers-israel/2026-04-10/article/785402

Cinderella Nonoo-Cohen, a serving member of the European Jewish Parliament, sent a series of comments about fellow doctor Roghieh Dehghan in a WhatsApp group, prompting a referral to the General Medical Council (GMC).

Nonoo-Cohen’s comments came after Dehghan shared a post asking her colleagues to “consider” signing a petition to oppose the UK Department of Health and Social Care’s decision to display the Israeli flag in support of Israel.

The north London doctor responded to Dehghan’s post on the group by saying, “You should not bring politics to this group. I’m disappointed in you as a doctor. Get your facts straight first. Typical of you Muslims to gaslight.”

Dehghan then messaged the admin of the WhatsApp group, labelling Nonoo-Cohen’s comments Islamophobic.

Nonoo-Cohen then responded in the WhatsApp Group by saying: “What?! Remove that Dr Dehghan is an antisemitic person and believes in the barbaric acts of beheading, murdering, and burning of civilians in Israel.

“And spreading lies about the hospital bomb, which Hamas inflicted on themselves” - referring to the al-Ahli hospital explosion in October 2023, where an Israeli strike led to the deaths of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in the hospital facility.

Keir Starmer’s claim that he is only letting Donald Trump use British bases for “defensive” airstrikes on Iran is a “fiction”, a former Royal Air Force officer has told Declassified.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the retired squadron leader said it was “glaringly obvious” that American bomber missions from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire were conducting offensive strikes on Iran.

“Keir Starmer’s insistence that the UK is not involved in the war, and that US aircraft at RAF Fairford are only carrying out defensive missions, is becoming increasingly unsustainable,” the veteran said, describing the policy as “deeply wrong”.

Here is the original report: Disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy

"The information environment is increasingly being weaponised by malign state actors such as Russia, China and Iran and non-state actors like Daesh to sow distrust, undermine cohesion, and erode confidence in democratic institutions and norms," UK lawmakers warn in a report.

"Although this threat is not a new phenomenon, the scale and sophistication of foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) is increasingly recognised as an existential threat to democratic societies."

The report presents particularly Russia as a clear threat for the UK and transatlantic security.

"Russia’s behaviour is that of a state at war against the West, and this will not change whilst Putin is in power. Therefore, it is vital that the Government ensures the UK and its allies harden their information ecosystems to make them an impenetrable and unattractive target of Russian interference."

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China is a multifaceted actor who is known to utilise a diverse toolkit including foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI), economic coercion, transnational repression, and cyber-attacks to conduct foreign interference. In comparison to Russia, the Chinese approach to FIMI is more institutionalised and heavily invested in information laundering official Chinese Communist Party narratives to achieve, as James Kynge Senior Research Fellow for China and the World at Chatham House explained, President Xi Jinping’s “telling China’s story well” mantra.36 This approach seeks to emphasise Chinese successes, diminish negative content, and push Beijing friendly framing of issues of concern.

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The report mentions, among others, disinformation campaigns like Russia's Doppelganger or China's Spamouflage.

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Social media companies, should be required to make algorithms transparent to the public for research and to produce annual reports on disinformation.

"We also considered evidence from social media companies, given their potential central role in limiting the dissemination of FIMI. We remain dissatisfied with their actions to combat foreign interference and the lack of transparency around algorithmic systems that can be exploited by malign actors. We call on the Government to amend the Online Safety Act 2023 to ensure social media companies are required to provide algorithmic transparency to safeguard against manipulation."

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Whilst lawmakers recognise the wider pressures on public spending, they call on the UK Government "to increase its coordination with European and other allies."

"We therefore call on the Government to enhance its public communications and establish a centralised National Counter Disinformation Centre to improve coordination and response. This approach would complement international examples from allies like Sweden’s Psychological Defence Agency, Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation and France’s Vigilance and Protection against Foreign Digital Interference service (VIGINUM)."

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Conviction of UK Civil Society Leaders Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham is a Warning Sign for Us All

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The two weeks of leave for a woman and her partner is paid at the statutory level of just more than £194 per week, or 90% of weekly pay if that's lower.

It can be taken as one continuous period, or as two separate weeks, within 56 weeks of miscarriage and parents do not have to provide medical evidence - they only have to tell their employer what happened.

Before the change, parents in Northern Ireland were only entitled to two weeks' paid bereavement leave following a stillbirth after at least 24 weeks of pregnancy, if they had been in their job for 26 weeks.

That remains the law in the rest of the UK.

However, the Westminster government is planning to bring in a change for England, Scotland and Wales in 2027 – to provide parents with a right to take unpaid leave for a minimum of one week following a miscarriage at any stage of pregnancy.

Across the UK, parents are also entitled to paid statutory maternity and paternity leave after a stillbirth at 24 weeks or later.