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UK

Homelessness minister resigns over rent-hike claims

Britain’s minister for homelessness has resigned after claims that she evicted tenants from a property she owns and then increased the rent by hundreds of pounds. Rushanara Ali, a junior minister in the ministry of housing, said in her resignation letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer that she had followed all the legal requirements “at all times” but that continuing in her role would have distracted from the work of the government.

Reuters

Canada

World

Defence review makes case for sticking with F-35

Canadian defence officials have strongly made the case that Ottawa should stick to a plan to buy 88 Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets rather than splitting the order, two sources familiar with the matter said. The review stops short of making...

Reuters

Economy

Australia

GST plan must come with lower tax burden

A bid to strengthen the budget and improve productivity could increase the tax burden on Australians unless a balanced approach is taken, an economist warns. A push to lift the goods and services tax must form part of a broad reform package that...

AAP Newswire

Politics

New Zealand

Labour formulating new strategy

Labour MPs are gathering in Christchurch for a team ‘away day’, as the party inches closer to announcing its tax policy. Last year’s mid-winter retreat was held in Auckland to re-engage with ‘supercity’ residents, after the party’s bruising defeat...

RNZ

Lebanon

World

Shiite ministers walk out over plan to disarm Hezbollah

Shiite members of Lebanon’s cabinet walked out a government meeting in protest of a proposed plan to disarm the Hezbollah militant group and political organization. The rest of the cabinet then voted in favour of the US-backed plan to disarm the...

AP

Africa

World

Air ambulance crash kills 6

A plane belonging to an air ambulance service provider has crashed in a residential area just outside Kenya’s capital, killing at least six people, according to a local official and the aircraft’s owner. AMREF Flying Doctors said that the mid-size...

AP

Shooting

USA

Soldiers hailed as heroes

A half-dozen soldiers at a Georgia Army base are being hailed as heroes for tackling an armed assailant accused of shooting five people and then giving aid to their wounded colleagues. Sargent Quornelius Radford, 28, is accused of using a personal...

AP

France

Europe

Israeli airline office vandalized

Israeli airline El Al said that its Paris office was vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti, calling the act a “deeply disturbing” incident as tensions between France and Israel run high. El Al said the offices were unoccupied at the time of the...

AP

Russia

USA

Diplomatic efforts paved the way for Trump-Putin meet

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he hopes to meet US President Donald Trump in latest bid by the White House to broker an end to the 3-year-old war in Ukraine. Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said a meeting could take place as...

AP

Trade

Europe

Swiss hope for deal as crippling tariffs take effect

Switzerland will continue talks with the United States, its president said, after US President Donald Trump placed crippling import tariffs on Swiss goods, which threaten to inflict serious damage on its export-focused economy. The 39 per cent...

Reuters

Business

USA

Trump calls on tech exec to resign over China ties

US President Donald Trump has demanded the immediate resignation of new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, calling him “highly conflicted” due to his ties to Chinese firms and raising questions about plans to turn around the struggling American chip icon...

Reuters

Economy

UK

BoE cuts rates in narrow 5-4 vote

The Bank of England has cut interest rates but four of its nine policymakers – worried about high inflation – sought to keep borrowing costs on hold, suggesting the BoE’s run of rate cuts might be nearing an end. The contrasting views of the BoE’s top officials meant the Monetary Policy Committee held two votes for the first time since it was created in 1997 in order to reach a decision.

Reuters