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Starmer: UK will be poorer than eastern Europe if Tory ‘doom-loop’ continues

Feb 27, 2023 0

Sir Keir Starmer will say that Britons could be poorer than those in Poland, Hungary and Romania without a future Labour government’s growth plan.The Labour leader will use a speech on…
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Dutch seismologist predicted Turkey Syria earthquake three days earlier

Feb 10, 2023 0

A Dutch seismologist correctly predicted that a powerful earthquake would happen imminently in Turkey, three days before the disaster that killed more than 21,000 people.Frank…
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Business

First woman to run major UK bank receives damehood

Dec 31, 2022 0

The first woman to run one of Britain’s biggest high street banks has been given a damehood in the New Year Honours list.Alison Rose, the chief executive of NatWest Group, joined the…
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COP27: UN chief Antonio Guterres’ climate change warning

Nov 7, 2022 0

Humanity is in “the fight of our lives” as climate change intensifies droughts, floods and heatwaves, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned world leaders at talks in Egypt on curbing global…
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Economic worries drag on FTSE as pound tumbles further

Sep 16, 2022 0

London’s markets sank into the red again and the pound tumbled as economic gloom descended on the City again ahead of central bank meetings next week.Expected rate rises and worries…
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Ukraine, La Nina, Negative Indian Ocean Dipole could make food shortage worse

Aug 31, 2022 0

The world is in the grip of a food security crisis, and Australians are not immune.An exclusive brief prepared for News Corp by Monash University’s Climate Change Communication Research…
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