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Rachel Reeves summons regulator chiefs to Downing Street to push growth agenda
Rachel Reeves is expected to pile pressure on UK regulators to do more to support growth when she summons bosses to No 11 on Thursday.
The chief executives of watchdogs including the Competition and Markets Authority, communications regulator Ofcom, water regulator Ofwat, and the energy regulator Ofgem, are due to …
Thursday briefing: What we know about the Gaza ceasefire deal
Emma Raducanu sets up Iga Swiatek test with win over close friend Anisimova
Slowed down by a sore back, swirling wind and a supremely talented ball-striker who robbed her of rhythm, all Emma Raducanu could do was fight with all the energy, intelligence and conviction she could rouse as her presence at the Australian Open hung in the balance.
Across two testing, uncomfortable …
Fall in UK trade with EU should spur rewrite of post-Brexit rules, says IPPR
A slump in trade with the EU should spur ministers to negotiate a fundamental rewrite of post-Brexit rules to more closely align the UK with Brussels, a leading left-of-centre thinktank has said.
Donald Trump’s arrival in the White House next week should also encourage the government to get on the …
Keir Starmer hails ‘closer than ever’ partnership with Ukraine on Kyiv visit
Keir Starmer has travelled to Ukraine to meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the first time since he entered Downing Street, hailing a “closer than ever” partnership days before Donald Trump returns to the White House.
The two countries will sign a partnership deal to deepen the existing defence relationship, with further …
‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?
The British Museum is everybody’s idea of a museum, but at the same time, it is hardly like a museum at all. It is more like a little state. The rooms you visit on a day out are the least of it: the museum is not the contents of its …
Vanuatu holds election amid earthquake devastation
Polls have opened in Vanuatu , a Pacific nation grappling with political instability and the logistics of holding a snap election in the
aftermath of a 7.3-magnitude earthquake
that killed at least 14 people and displaced thousands.As downtown Port Vila remained shuttered, with multiple buildings earmarked …
A ceasefire deal is here. For Gaza, the Middle East and the world, the future remains unknown
Australia’s unemployment rate rises to 4% but uncertainty now lingers over expected RBA cut
The unemployment rate increased in December, while job creation also rose, in a sign of a resilient labour market that creates uncertainty over an expected interest rate cut next month.
Australia’s jobless rate lifted to 4% in December, the Australian Bureau of Statistics data revealed on Thursday. At the same …
Key mediator Qatar said that 33 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza would be released in
the first stage of a ceasefire deal aimed at ending the war in the Palestinian territory.
Israel earlier said it would release about 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in the first stage …