Today we'll be discussing some bigger stories, including Meta's suppression of abortion pill posts and the trial of the surviving Paris attacker, as well as discussing NATO's new strategy, but first the UK's extra billion for Ukraine.

In an effort to ensure that Ukraine has the support it needs to fight the invading Russian forces, the UK government has today announced that they will be increasing their military support to Ukraine by almost 1 billion pounds, nearly doubling. In total, this brings the UK's contributions to Ukraine up to 2.3 billion pounds, with an additional 1.5 billion pounds in humanitarian and economic support. This new support is designed to pay for sophisticated air defense systems, drones, electronic warfare systems, and other vital kits. This support comes on the back of President Zelenskiy's claim that the monthly cost of the Ukrainian defense was about five billion dollars. The money will come from an underspent in some UK governmental departments. Additionally, 95 million pounds will come from the Scottish and Welsh governments' budgets. This places the United Kingdom second among countries that have contributed to Ukraine, with only the United States contributing more.

Salah Abdeslam, the remaining survivor of the jihadist group behind the 2015 Paris terror attacks which left 130 people dead, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a French court. The marathon trial was the biggest in modern French history, lasting more than nine months and involving hundreds of hearings and testimonies, including ones from victims and families as well as Francois Hollande, the French president at the time of the attack. Abdeslam was handed a rare full life sentence, which is France's most severe criminal sentence and means there's a slim chance of parole after 30 years. 19 other defendants were found guilty of their indirect involvement in the attacks and were handed punishments ranging from suspended sentences to life in prison.

Following the news about the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade, the company behind Facebook and Instagram has started to ban posts that mention abortion pills. This follows an explosion of content outlining how users can access abortion pills in the mail. An AP reporter on Monday tested exactly what content would be taken down by meta. They posted, "If you send me your address, I will mail you abortion pills." The post was taken down within a minute and the account was put on a warning status. The reporter tried the same post, replacing the words "abortion pill" with a gun and "weed" and nothing happened. A meta spokesperson, Andy Stone, said we've discovered some instances of incorrect enforcement and are correcting these.

New Zealand has designated the Proud Boys as a terrorist group, becoming the second country in the world to do so after Canada. The designation of the far-right American group was announced on the 27th of June and means that it is illegal for people to participate in recruiting or funding the group. Doing so risks prosecution under the Terrorism Suppression Act. Recently, US federal prosecutors charged top leaders from the group with sedition conspiracy by US federal prosecutors relating to the storming of the US capital on the 6th of January 2021. New Zealand authorities cited their role in the January 6 attack as one of the reasons for its terrorist designation, and said that the group's extreme right-wing ideology is founded on racist and fascist principles.

A North Korean hacking group is now suspected to have been behind a recent 100 million dollar cryptocurrency heist. A number of digital investigative firms have found that the Lazarus group is behind the theft of 100 million from the Horizon Bridge, a service operated by Harmony that allows cryptocurrency assets to be transferred to other blockchains. Chainalysis, which is working with Harmony to investigate the attack, has said that the style of the attack and the high velocity of structured payments is similar to previous attacks that were attributed to DPRK linked actors. The attack would constitute the eighth crypto attack by North Korea this year alone, with the regime amassing more than a billion in stolen assets. Harmony has offered one final opportunity for the actor to return stolen assets with anonymity, allowing the attacker to keep 10 million dollars and return the rest in exchange for Harmony ceasing its investigation.