Tag: Business
Low-paid jobs at risk from Labour’s tax increases on businesses
Payments watchdog could be abolished in PM’s purge of regulators
Farage relinquishes majority control of Reform UK
More pressure to raise taxes or cut spending – despite record budget surplus
Parents must not pay mandatory extra charges to access free childcare, ministers say
Redundancies, poor results and fan fury: A look at Manchester United’s difficult year
Birkenstock sandals are not works of art, court rules
Trump’s Lebanon Agenda Is Regime Change on Fast-Forward
The Trump administration has been actively working to push Hezbollah out of Lebanese politics—a move that, by extension, seeks to marginalize the country’s Shia Muslim population. Such an effort risks not only dismantling what remains of Lebanon’s fragile democracy but also triggering a civil war. On February 13, Lebanese authorities blocked Iranian civilian airliners carrying …
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Pariah State: Israeli Soldiers Face Arrests and Travel Bans Worldwide
On January 5, 2025, Yuval Vagdani, an Israeli army reservist, fled Brazil while on vacation after a federal judge in the country opened a war crimes investigation into Vagdani over his alleged involvement in demolishing homes in the besieged Gaza Strip. The Brazilian judge used a legal tool called “universal jurisdiction” to pursue Vagdani. Universal …
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USAID Falls, Exposing a Giant Network of US-Funded “Independent” Media
The Trump administration’s decision to pause USAID funding has plunged hundreds of so-called “independent media” outlets into crisis, thereby exposing a worldwide network of thousands of journalists, all working to promote U.S. interests in their home countries. In late January, President Trump—along with help from the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk—began …
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