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Hundreds of teens falling ill from heat at World Scout Jamboree
Hundreds of teenage boy and girl scouts have fallen ill at a global event in South Korea as a sweltering heat wave sweeps the country,…
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UK interest rates: crashing the economy is no way to bring down inflation
It won’t hurt a bit. Kevin CC The Bank of England (BoE) has raised interest rates once again to 5.25%, mirroring similar moves by the…
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Rishi Sunak’s green backtracking contrasts strongly with previous prime ministers’ efforts
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak appears to be wavering on “net zero by 2050” that Theresa May successfully passed through parliament with barely a cough…
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All the evidence against the UK’s plans to expand oil and gas drilling
StudioByTheSea/Shutterstock The UK will extract as much oil and gas from the North Sea as possible, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday as he…
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How austerity made the UK more vulnerable to COVID
SB Arts Media/Shutterstock The concept of austerity featured prominently in the first round of hearings of the UK’s COVID inquiry, which has recently come to…
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Celebrating African Creativity, Bellafricana is set to host the Summer Pop-Up Event in London
Bellafricana, a renowned tech-enabled community organization that celebrates and enables creative entrepreneurs, is thrilled to announce its highly anticipated Summer Pop-Up Event in Oxford Street,…
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The UK is still not prepared for extreme temperatures – here’s what it should do
Nm2003 / shutterstock While massive heatwaves are affecting southern Europe, China, the US and many other places, it’s rainy and not particularly warm in the…
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Horizon Europe: how the UK’s delay in rejoining EU funding scheme is damaging scientific research
Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock Horizon Europe is the largest and richest funding programme for scientific research in the world. Run by the European Union (EU), it…
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Politics
Tories take kicking in 2 UK by-elections — but hold on in Boris Johnson’s old seat
LONDON — Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives suffered hefty defeats in two parliamentary by-elections — but the U.K. prime minister can breath a sigh of relief after…
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Rwanda plan is in legal limbo, but history shows such migration deals are unlikely to disappear
The UK government is taking its controversial Rwanda asylum plan to the supreme court, after the court of appeal ruled that the proposal was illegal.…
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