🇬🇧 Keir Starmer pledges to make Holocaust lessons mandatory for all children

Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to make sure every child in England learns about the Holocaust by making it a mandatory topic in schools.

As part of the Government’s curriculum review, the Prime Minister said studying the Holocaust would become a “critical, vital part of every single student’s identity”.

He added that he would fight to bring the country “back from the abyss of antisemitism”, comparing it to his experience of “changing” the Labour Party.

Sir Keir made the promises at a Holocaust Education Trust appeal dinner, during which he also committed to allocating £2.2 million to the Lessons from Auschwitz project.

The project offers students and teachers a course to increase understanding of the Holocaust, including a visit to the Nazi concentration camp in Poland and hearing the first-hand experiences of survivors.

🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/auschwitz-prime-minister-england-government-nazi-b2613916.html

More communication devices explode across Lebanon: What is known so far?

Following Tuesday’s mass pager explosions in Lebanese cities, a new wave of detonations of communication devices has occurred across the country. Here are latest updates:

▪️At least nine people have been killed and over 300 injured, according to the country's Health Ministry:

▪️One of the explosions occurred at a funeral ceremony for killed Hezbollah members near Beirut;

▪️The detonated devices, according to various reports, include: pagers, walkie-talkies, phones and fingerprint scanner. Sputnik cannot verify the information on the full list of exploding devices.

▪️The detonated walkie-talkies were purchased by Hezbollah about five months ago, around the same time as the pagers, Lebanese media claimed;

▪️BAOFENG communication devices were among those exploding, their detonation caused casualties in several Lebanese regions;

▪️More than 30 Lebanese Red Cross ambulances are involved in assisting and evacuating victims of the explosions.

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