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Robot packers and AI cameras: UK retail embraces automation to cut staff costs
Electronic shelf labels, returns machines, robot bag packers and yet more self-service tills – just some of the many technologies that UK retailers are embracing as they try to solve the problem of rising labour costs.
Investment in automation was a constant drumbeat amid the flurry of festive trading updates …
Indonesia mulls repatriation of alleged Bali bombings mastermind from Guantánamo Bay
Indonesia is exploring ways to repatriate a Guantánamo Bay detainee accused of involvement in a series of deadly terror attacks, including
, according to reports. , known as Hambali, was the former leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian …Calls for Home Office to protect asylum seekers after accommodation violence
NGOs are calling for improvements in UK government safeguarding policies after multiple acts of violence and race hate incidents in Home Office accommodation.
The incidents include 20 assaults of asylum seekers in one small area of Essex and a separate incident where another was attacked and threatened with a knife …
Food poisoning outbreak mars Indonesian president’s flagship free meal program
Dozens of Indonesian schoolchildren have suffered food poisoning after consuming free meals offered through a new flagship program of President Prabowo Subianto, his office has confirmed.
Rolled out this month, Prabowo’s multi-billion dollar policy was a centrepiece of the former general’s election campaign, with a pledge to reach 82.9 million …
Hospitality firms ‘to incur £1bn costs from employer NICs on 774,000 more workers’
The hospitality industry will incur an extra £1bn of costs for 774,000 of its workers who will be newly eligible for employer national insurance contributions from April, endangering jobs and businesses, a leading industry body has claimed.
UKHospitality, which represents thousands of restaurants, hotels, pubs, cafes and nightclubs, is calling …
Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally
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.“I just want to say thank you for making it happen,” the owner of SpaceX, Twitter/X and Tesla, the richest person on …
Donald Trump assumes office with promise to be the very bestest best
They came in dribs and drabs, the unwanted, the uninvited and the unloved. First to arrive in Washington was Liz Truss, wearing a red Maga hat and a bright blue coat looking like an extra in a Paddington Bear film.
Lizzie could be found standing on a street corner in …
Yvette Cooper announces public inquiry into Southport attack
Yvette Cooper has announced a public inquiry into the murder of three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance club in Southport after confirming the “extremely violent” killer was known to the authorities.
The home secretary said the inquiry would provide answers to the families of Axel Rudakubana, 18, who …
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UK ‘second most attractive country for investment’, survey finds
The UK is the second most attractive country for investment behind the US, signalling a climb up the rankings, according to an annual survey of global business leaders by the consultancy PwC.