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Trade

UK

Superpowers meet for pivotal talks

Top US and Chinese officials were meeting in London to try and defuse a high-stakes trade dispute that has widened from tariffs to restrictions over rare earths, threatening a global supply chain shock and slower economic growth. On the first of...

Reuters

Government

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Labour restores winter fuel payments

Britain will make winter fuel payments to millions of older people this winter, in a major U-turn of deeply unpopular cuts after months of political pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer. After taking office in July Starmer’s Labour government cut winter fuel payments for all but the poorest pensioners in England and Wales as part of wider spending reductions that it said were necessary to fix a hole in the public finances left by the previous Conservative administration. The reversal will restore those payments to 9 million pensioners, excluding only 2 million who earn above £35,000 (US$47,495) from the £200-300 subsidy for heating bills in the colder months.

Reuters

Gaza

World

Israel intercepts rogue charity boat

Israeli forces have stopped a Gaza-bound aid boat and detained Greta Thunberg and other activists who were on board, enforcing a longstanding blockade of the Palestinian territory that has been tightened during the war with Hamas. The British-flagged yacht Madleen, operated by the pro-Palestinian Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) departed from Sicily on June 6 and had hoped to reach Gaza later in the day, when the interception occurred, the group said on its Telegram account.

AP/Reuters

POPULAR ARTICLES

Trade

UK

Superpowers meet for pivotal talks

Top US and Chinese officials were meeting in London to try and defuse a high-stakes trade dispute that has widened from tariffs to restrictions over rare earths, threatening a global supply chain shock and slower economic growth. On the first of...

Reuters

Government

frank

Labour restores winter fuel payments

Britain will make winter fuel payments to millions of older people this winter, in a major U-turn of deeply unpopular cuts after months of political pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer. After taking office in July Starmer’s Labour government cut winter fuel payments for all but the poorest pensioners in England and Wales as part of wider spending reductions that it said were necessary to fix a hole in the public finances left by the previous Conservative administration. The reversal will restore those payments to 9 million pensioners, excluding only 2 million who earn above £35,000 (US$47,495) from the £200-300 subsidy for heating bills in the colder months.

Reuters

Gaza

World

Israel intercepts rogue charity boat

Israeli forces have stopped a Gaza-bound aid boat and detained Greta Thunberg and other activists who were on board, enforcing a longstanding blockade of the Palestinian territory that has been tightened during the war with Hamas. The British-flagged yacht Madleen, operated by the pro-Palestinian Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) departed from Sicily on June 6 and had hoped to reach Gaza later in the day, when the interception occurred, the group said on its Telegram account.

AP/Reuters