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UK’s development investment arm spent £7mn on business class flights

Criticism of agency’s travel costs and big pay rises comes as pressure grows on aid budget

Financial Times
Feb 21, 2025
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Europe’s Moon plans at risk as Trump team reviews Nasa’s Artemis project

Programme aims to beat China in returning humans to lunar surface

Financial Times
Feb 21, 2025
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Hargreaves Lansdown chief warns against scrapping cash Isa

Removing tax breaks on the popular saving product would be ‘dangerous’, says Dan Olley

Financial Times
Feb 21, 2025
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The UK is snipping — rather than shredding — red tape

Regulation is needed, but too much of it puts a brake on growth and stifles innovation

Financial Times
Feb 21, 2025
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Investors call for shake-up of Europe’s ‘failed’ securitisation market

Fund managers and insurers say long-overdue reforms could unlock hundreds of billions of euros in financing

Financial Times
Feb 21, 2025
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Europe seeks to replace imported Russian fertilisers with local manure

Commission expected to approve greater use of Renure, a product based on dung, to lower costs and boost efficiency

Financial Times
Feb 21, 2025
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Three years after Russia’s invasion, Ukraine has to battle Trump

As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year, it appears to be a reaching tipping point.

Washington Post
Feb 21, 2025
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Defending Europe without the US

European capitals are attempting to fill the security gap

Financial Times
Feb 21, 2025
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Tens of thousands could be held in illegal scam compounds in Myanmar, Thai police general says

Head of anti-trafficking agency says dozens of Chinese criminal gangs were running the centresTens of thousands of peop…

The Guardian
Feb 21, 2025
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Guzman y Gomez struggling to break into US market despite offering bigger burritos

‘US sales aren’t growing as fast as we’d like … it takes time,’ founder says, while analyst notes target market ‘not ex…

The Guardian
Feb 21, 2025
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Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events – day 1,093

Here are the key developments on the 1,093rd day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Al Jazeera
Feb 21, 2025
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Hong Kong's main opposition party announces plan to dissolve

Once Hong Kong's largest opposition party, the Democratic Party has suffered since China's crackdown.

BBC
Feb 21, 2025
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