Beijing to increase business lending and build more affordable housing as post-Covid recovery falters China’s politburo has signalled measures to kickstart the faltering economy as the crisis gripping the country’s debt-laden property sector continued to play havoc with growth forecasts. Amid a warning from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that […]
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Ex-chief aide to Boris Johnson also alleges some journalists are trying to play down coverage of 2020 events Dominic Cummings has said it would be “very unwise for No 10 to lie” about social events that allegedly took place during lockdown last Christmas, after the prime minister’s spokesman insisted that […]
Health secretary says cocaine trade causes ‘suffering, violence and exploitation at every stage’ Our strategy will reduce the misery of drugs | Sajid Javid Which top UK politicians have admitted to drug use? Sajid Javid has said recreational drug users are fuelling an international criminal enterprise, as the government announced […]
Prof Dame Sarah Gilbert says this will not be the last time a virus threatens our lives and our livelihoods Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The coronavirus pandemic that has so far killed more than 5 million people worldwide is far from over and the next […]
Éric Zemmour formally declared his candidacy on Tuesday, highlighting his anti-migrant and anti-Islam views The far-right French presidential candidate Éric Zemmour appeared to be put in a headlock by a protester at his first campaign, a few days after he formally declared his candidacy in a video highlighting his anti-migrant […]
Study finds over half of teenagers sent non-consensual sexual images via social media apps reported it Schools and parents should do more to support students who are being sexually harassed through platforms such as Snapchat and Instagram, while the tech companies need to clamp down on non-consensual sexual images being […]
Campaigners say government going backwards by targeting ‘lifestyle’ users of class A drugs with tough criminal sanctions Middle-class drug users are to be targeted as part of a 10-year strategy to be announced by Boris Johnson’s government with a heavy focus on war-on-drugs-era punishment. So-called “lifestyle” users of class A […]
Military calls in air and ground support to force attackers to retreat after being overwhelmed by their numbers, government says At least 12 soldiers and “dozens of terrorists” have been killed in a battle in western Niger, the defence ministry says, in the conflict-wracked “three borders” zone. Another eight soldiers […]
Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome Trust, suggests emergence of Omicron variant means pandemic is far from over Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The emergence of the Omicron variant shows that the world is “closer to the start of the pandemic than the end”, one of […]
Attorney general to consider whether jail terms for Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes are long enough The jail sentences given to the couple who killed six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes are to be reviewed to “determine whether they were too low”, the attorney general has announced. Arthur was left with an unsurvivable […]