PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the Federal Security Services to step up surveillance of Russian society and the country’s borders to prevent risks from abroad and traitors at home. Speaking ahead of Tuesday’s Security Services Day — widely celebrated ...
WASHINGTON — When it comes to climate change, Bill Gates considers himself a realist — even if that means admitting the world has no chance limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Given “the overall scale of our industrial economy … ...
OAKLAND, Calif. — State agencies in Louisiana and West Virginia on Monday became the latest to ban the use of the popular social media service TikTok on government-managed devices over concern that China could use it to track Americans and ...
Planned hikes in alcohol duty have been put off until August, afterJeremy Hunt decided to extend the current freeze a further six months. The chancellor was due to increase duty on beer, wine, cider and spirits by the annual increase ...
Manufacturing output is falling at its fastest pace since the start of the pandemic, a new survey of businesses has found. The fall was mainly driven by a decline in production of food, drink, tobacco, paper and the mechanical engineering ...
Designs for bank notes featuring an image of King Charles III have been revealed by the Bank of England, with plans to enter circulation by mid-2024. Announcing the design for the first time in the run-up to the coronation in ...
An exodus of more than half a million people from the British workforce since the Covid pandemic is putting the economy at risk of weaker growth and persistently higher inflation, a Lords report has warned. The House of Lords economic ...
The government is extending the mortgage guarantee scheme, which helps buyers with small deposits get on the property ladder as higher borrowing costs threaten to put the brakes on the UK housing market in 2023. The scheme, launched in April ...
High street lender TSB has been slapped with a £48.65m by City watchdogs today for “widespread” failings during a 2018 IT update programme, which left millions of customers without access to banking services. In a statement this morning, the Financial ...
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