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    For the third straight year, the U.K. announced on January 23, 2023 that it will permit the use of sugar beet seeds coated with a banned neonicotinoid pesticide lethal to bees.

    'Shameful': UK Approves 'Emergency' Use of Banned Bee-Killing Pesticide

    "The real 'emergency' here is our declining biodiversity," said one campaigner. "It's time farmers got support for alternatives, not a green light for using toxic chemicals."

    Kenny Stancil
    Jan 24, 2023

    Biodiversity defenders have sounded the alarm about the United Kingdom government's Monday decision to provide another so-called "emergency" exception for the use of an outlawed neonicotinoid pesticide lethal to bees.

    "Bad news again for bees as the U.K. government allows banned neonicotinoids in our fields against the advice of its own experts," Friends of the Earth campaigner Sandra Bell tweeted. "The real 'emergency' here is our declining biodiversity—it's time farmers got support for alternatives, not a green light for using toxic chemicals."

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    Protesters hold bees killed by pesticides

    'Good News for Bees' as Top EU Court Closes Pesticide Loophole

    "Derogations with neonicotinoid-treated seeds are now definitely banned," said one advocate. "This ruling is relieving and shows the environment counts more than profits from some sugar and pesticide companies!"

    Kenny Stancil
    Jan 20, 2023

    The European Union's highest court ruled Thursday that member states must stop authorizing the use of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides.

    Neonicotinoids are prohibited under E.U. law, but a loophole has enabled governments to grant emergency derogations temporarily permitting the use of seeds coated with these and other banned toxic insecticides.

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    ​Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's security council, arrives for a meeting at the Kremlin on November 18, 2022.

    Medvedev Threatens Nuclear War If Russia Loses in Ukraine

    "Russia's attempt to cover for its illegal behavior by threatening nuclear war must be condemned," said one peace group. "We can't respond to the use of nuclear weapons, we need to eliminate them now."

    Kenny Stancil
    Jan 19, 2023

    Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, an ally of current Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, warned the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Thursday that a Russian loss in Ukraine could lead to nuclear war.

    "The defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war may trigger a nuclear war," Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's security council, said in a post on the Telegram messaging app. "Nuclear powers have never lost major conflicts on which their fate depends."

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