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Mining exports could plunge $100bn over four years, slashing $36bn from federal revenue, Myefo suggests
Mining exports are set to plunge more than $100bn over the next four years and deliver an $8.5bn hit to company tax receipts, representing a $36bn reversal in forecast federal revenue compared with a year ago, this week’s mid year budget update will reveal.
Figures to be included in Wednesday’s …
‘Celebrating the unknown’: Syrian Alawites fear for future under rebel rule
To prepare
khubeiza
, the leaves of the kale-like plant must be roughly chopped and sauteed with onions, garlic and a dash of salt. Folklore says that the recipe originated among the Alawite communities who lived in Syria’s mountainous coastline where the fibrous, wild-growing plant can be found in abundance. …Spanish artwork seized by Franco regime returned to rightful owners
Spain’s culture ministry has begun to fulfil its promise to return
more than 5,000 works of art that were taken by the Franco regime
after restoring a painting seized by the dictatorship 84 years ago to its rightful owners.British Sikhs being asked about views on India at UK airports, says Labour MP
British Sikhs are being stopped at airports and questioned about their attitudes towards India, a Labour MP has said, raising concerns about Delhi’s influence over British security checks.
Preet Gill, one of the most prominent Sikhs in parliament, has written to the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, to voice her concern …
Northumberland line reopens, carrying its first rail passengers since 1964
A previously abandoned railway line between Newcastle and Ashington has reopened, with passengers able to use the service for the first time in 60 years.
The Northumberland line ran its first passenger service since 1964 on Sunday morning, leaving Newcastle at 7:57am, just after sunrise, stopping at Seaton Delaval and …
Small boat crossings would be ‘thousands higher’ under the Tories, Yvette Cooper says
Small boat crossings would be “thousands higher” under the Conservatives, the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has said, though they remain 20% higher than this time last year.
But Cooper declined to say when people could expect to see the number reduce, saying only that the government was making progress on …
‘A huge regression’: Walmart’s DEI rollback incites new racial equity push
South Korea’s president reportedly defies summons in martial law inquiry
South Korea’s conservative president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has reportedly failed to obey a summons from prosecutors investigating him on charges including insurrection as he faces impeachment after declaring martial law.
Yoon, who was sent a summons on Wednesday requesting him to appear for questioning at 10am local time on Sunday, …
‘If we don’t get off this mountain I don’t think I can do another night’: climber Fay Manners on surviving the odds
Fay Manners was 6,400m up a mountain in the Indian Himalayas when she heard her climbing partner, Michelle Dvorak, scream from below. The rope attaching her to the rock face snapped tight, but held firm. Fearing something terrible had happened, Manners looked down with dread – but thankfully Dvorak was …
Yvette Cooper admits ‘complex’ relations with China amid Prince Andrew spy claims
The UK home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has admitted the government has a “complex arrangement” with China because of the need for economic co-operation, against the backdrop of the exclusion of an alleged Chinese spy with links to Prince Andrew.
The man – who was banned from Britain by the government …