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"Andrzej Duda told the BBC that the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which have not been used since 2022, "should be dismantled". This, he said, would mean the likes of Germany would not be tempted to restore Russian supplies to boost its own struggling economy. "I can only hope that European leaders will learn lessons from Russia's aggression against Ukraine and that they will push through a decision to never restore the pumping of gas through this pipeline," he said. The Polish president, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, insisted that economic sanctions against Russia were working and European...

VLADIMIR PUTIN'S threat to deploy nuclear weapons against Ukraine and the West has been swiftly debunked by an expert, who suggested that Moscow and St Petersburg would be "wiped out within 90 seconds" if he launched nukes. This comes as Putin repeatedly uses the threat of nuclear war to warn the West and NATO against intervening in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. M r Wright pointed to Russia's arsenal which includes over 2,000 nuclear warheads, adding the surprise success of the Ukraine military has "inflamed" the Russian leader. Mr Fox responded: "Nuclear blackmail is a very, very difficult game and I...

Qatar Airways has announced plans to launch the world’s longest direct flight: a 9,034-mile schlep from Doha to Auckland. Should the route get the green light, it would beat the current record holder – Qantas’s Dallas-Sydney service – by almost 500 miles. The journey time would be an estimated 18 hours and 34 minutes, according to the journey planning website travelmath.com.