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French President Emmanuel Macron and Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin believe there is “a crucial window of opportunity to resolve” post-Brexit trade disputes with London over Northern Ireland, according to …
France and Ireland see ‘window’ to resolve post-Brexit dispute with UK Read More
A fund set up using British overseas aid cash still holds at least 20 investments in fossil fuel companies, two years after it pledged to stop backing dirty energy. Records …
UK overseas aid still invested in fossil fuels – two years after climate pledge Read More
The COP27 summit in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh made history when developing countries secured a new fund to support the victims of climate disasters. Yet this was …
COP27: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Sharm el-Sheikh Read More
When senior European and American officials gather in Washington next month, there’s a lot they’re likely to agree on — from vaccines to artificial intelligence. Just don’t bring up subsidies …
Trade war threatens to overshadow EU-US summit Read More
WASHINGTON — Central to Republicans pitch to voters in the midterm elections was a pledge to tackle high inflation and bolster the economy, but a GOP “civil war” is brewing over what …
Republicans pitched an economic solution. Now they’ll have to deliver. Read More
Amid soaring inflation, more families are having to turn to the kindness of strangers to shoulder the cost of dying. When Cerys Defis lost her mom, Tresi Davies, to bowel …
Too poor to die: the rise of crowdfunded funerals Read More
At first, Sylvain Burquier thought it was a joke. It was August 2019, and Burquier and his two children were at their home in Paris’s Ninth Arrondissement, off the right …
Can ‘the people’ solve climate change? France decided to find out. Read More
Pressure is mounting to downgrade GDP or improve it so economic growth is not the only game in town. The numbers are heading in the wrong direction. If the world …
GDP is getting a makeover Read More
WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) – The price cap on Russian oil exports to be imposed by G7 countries and Australia next month will apply only to seaborne cargoes through the …
G7 Russian oil price cap applies only to seaborne crude Read More
Nurses across the UK are set to strike in the first ever national action over a pay dispute. The strike ballot among more than 300,000 members of the Royal College …
Nurses set to strike in first ever national action – as patients braced for disruption Read More