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Economic hardship looms over Ghana as country readies for polls
When the Ghanaian opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won the presidential election on his third attempt in 2016, many saw it as a turning point.
The first person to unseat an incumbent, his historic win captured his compatriots’ frustration. Alleged corruption had ballooned under his predecessor, John Mahama: in one instance, …
Share your views on electric hire bikes in the UK
We want to find out more about your views and experiences on electric hire bikes. Are you a regular cyclist with a bike of your own, who can’t stand electric hire bikes for a host of strongly-felt reasons?
Or are you an avid user ready to defend your kind, …
French government teeters on brink of collapse as no-confidence vote looms
France is staring into the unknown as the minority government of the prime minister, Michel Barnier, faces near-certain defeat in a no-confidence vote that could dramatically intensify the political crisis in one of the EU’s key member states.
If the vote on Wednesday is carried, Barnier’s administration, which took office …
‘Progressive except for Palestine’: how a tech charity imploded over a statement on Gaza
Miliaku Nwabueze, a senior program manager at Code for Science & Society, had been concerned for some time about the role of technology in state violence. Then, on 7 October of last year, Hamas entered Israel, killing and kidnapping about 1,400 people. Less than a week later, as Israel ordered …
Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies resigns after controversies
The leader of the Welsh Tories, Andrew RT Davies, has resigned after dismal UK general election results and concern over comments he has made on issues ranging from halal meat to the country’s divisive 20mph speed limit law.
Nine members of the Welsh parliament’s Tory group backed Davies, including himself, …
Syrian insurgents advance on Hama city after capturing Aleppo
Japan’s Nomura bank boss takes 30% voluntary pay cut after worker tries to kill customer
The boss of the Japanese bank Nomura has apologised and taken a voluntary pay cut after a former employee was charged with robbery and attempted murder of a customer.
Kentaro Okuda, who has led Nomura since 2020, will take a 30% pay cut over the next three months, with several …
British food exports to EU ‘have fallen £3bn a year since Brexit’
Exports of British food to the EU have dropped by nearly £3bn a year since Brexit, a trade thinktank has said, with new physical and documentary checks at the border complicating trade.
A report by the Centre of Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP) has found that the export of UK food …
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Welsh residents displaced by sinkhole fear they may not return by Christmas
People who have been evacuated from homes perched precariously close to a large – and growing – sinkhole in south Wales that appeared in the wake of Storm Bert fear they may not get back by Christmas.
The sinkhole opened up in a cul-de-sac in the village of Pant, Merthyr …