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...According to the International Organization for Migration, 2,500 migrants drowned or went missing in the Central Mediterranean in 2023, up from 1,417 the previous year....
...This is the most visible element of what amounts to a military takeover: 1,500 troops were deployed to Mexico City’s Benito Juárez airport after populist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador drafted in...
...Across the eurozone, manufacturers are under pressure from rising costs — producer prices rose at an all-time high of 37.2 per cent in the year to April....
...Africa is a continent of 54 countries, 1.4bn people and between 1,000 and 2,000 languages....
...In 2017 through 2018, when they last measured, 16 per cent of US workers worked non-daytime hours....
...Prices range from $1,200 (Richard Armendariz at Ruiz-Healy Art) to $75,000 (Luis Jiménez at McClain Gallery) at cultureplace.com. Happy shopping!...
...The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet, by Michael E Mann, Scribe, RRP£16.99, 368 pages How To Avoid A Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need, by Bill Gates...
...The precursor to Junior Isas, up to £9,000 per child can be invested tax-free in CTFs or Jisas each year (the limit was raised from £4,368 in April)....
...A poll on March 2 in the Reforma newspaper suggested that the population disagrees....
...A Jisa can be opened on a child’s behalf until the age of 16 and they can withdraw the funds when they turn 18....
...Bookmaker William Hill ranks Diana as the favourite, at odds of 4/1, followed by Victoria at 7/1. If it’s a boy, Arthur is at 16/1, and they will give you 500/1 on Ginger....
...What A three-bedroom penthouse apartment with 2,600 sq ft of living space....
...stocks and shares Isa — which can take the remaining £16,000 of their total £20,000 Isa allowance....
...The value of fraud detected in the public sector fell to £368.5m last year, compared with £1.37bn in 2016. However, the 2016 number was distorted by a £1bn value added tax fraud case....
...Today Block 71 is a cluster of seven incubation buildings set on a 16,000 sq m piece of land....
...0.00 (0.00%) at 13,368 Currencies €/$ 1.20 (1.20) $/¥ 112.79 (113.05) £/$ 1.36 (1.36) €/£ 0.8825 (0.8817) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.31 at 68.09 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.42 at 62.15 100...
...) at 1,505 FTSE100 up +10.37 (+0.14%) at 7,368 CAC 40 up +5.20 (+0.10%) at 5,180 Dax up +16.55 (+0.13%) at 12,454 Currencies €/$ 1.13 (1.14) $/¥ 113.14 (113.25) £/$ 1.29 (1.29) €/£ 0.8756 (0.8775) Commodities...
...Hang Seng down -165.91 (-0.68%) at 24,135 US markets S&P 500 up +6.93 (+0.29%) at 2,368 DJIA up +69.17 (+0.33%) at 20,728 Nasdaq up +16.80 (+0.28%) at 5,914 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +6.97 (+0.47%...
...European markets Eurofirst 300 up +2.40 (+0.16%) at 1,459 FTSE100 up +10.44 (+0.14%) at 7,263 CAC 40 up +13.40 (+0.28%) at 4,859 Dax up +11.74 (+0.10%) at 11,834 Currencies €/$ 1.05 (1.06) $/¥ 113.56...
...More than 25,000 petitions have been filed on the site, with 368 having received a government response and 52 having been or waiting to be debated in parliament....
...) at 17,135 Topix down -24.75 (-1.78%) at 1,368 Hang Seng down -102.14 (-0.45%) at 22,708 US markets S&P 500 down -13.78 (-0.65%) at 2,098 DJIA down -77.46 (-0.43%) at 17,960 Nasdaq down -48.01 (-0.93%)...
...BP added 2.7 per cent to 368.4p and Royal Dutch Shell B was up 1.7 per cent to £17.12. But Cairn Energy eased 1.7 per cent to 192.7p....
...The S&P 500 rose 0.5 per cent to 2,021.94, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.6 per cent to 17,368.50 and the Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.4 per cent to 4,952.23....
...per cent above the base rate (so currently, 2.5 per cent)....
...Some 16 of the 20 Caparo Industries businesses, which employ 1,700, are in administration....
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