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China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers

...The stricter government procurement guidance also seeks to sideline Microsoft’s Windows operating system and foreign-made database software in favour of domestic options....

March 24, 2024

News updates from March 8: US adds 275,000 jobs in February; Bitcoin and gold touch new highs

Ex-Honduras president convicted of drug trafficking

...The jury found him guilty of three counts after prosecutors alleged he said he would “stuff the drugs right up the noses of the gringos”. Read more here...

March 8, 2024

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...— Firms with a higher share of intangible assets benefited more from globalisation (NBER) — Honduras ratchets up battle with crypto-libertarian investors, rejects World Bank court (The Intercept) — Russia...

March 21, 2024

Honduras

Honduras’s former president convicted of drug trafficking

...of the most powerful drug traffickers in Honduras”....

March 8, 2024

News updates from April 16: Powell says inflation fight will take ‘longer than expected’; China GDP jumps 5.3%

Venezuela to cut ties with Ecuador over embassy raid

...’s leftist governments....

April 16, 2024

News updates from April 17: UK inflation falls less than expected; Boeing engineer says safety concerns are ignored

Venezuela to cut ties with Ecuador over embassy raid

...Honduras announced on Tuesday it was recalling its ambassador to Ecuador....

April 16, 2024

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New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

Thames Water

Thames Water lenders face losses of up to 40% in event of nationalisation

...In 2014 Network Rail’s £30bn of debts were added to the government’s balance sheet after the ONS reclassified it as a public body....

April 18, 2024

News updates from June 21: FTC sues Amazon over Prime subscription service ‘trickery’, UK inflation stays flat at 8.7%

More than 40 killed in Honduras women’s prison

...At least 41 people were killed in a women’s prison in Honduras, local media reported on Tuesday, with the government blaming an attack by members of organised crime unhappy about crackdowns against them....

June 21, 2023

Ecuador

Ecuador condemned over late-night raid on Mexico’s embassy in Quito

...Leftwing leaders in Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela and Honduras also condemned Ecuador’s conduct, with Nicaragua following Mexico in breaking off diplomatic relations with Quito....

April 7, 2024

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The pursuit of happiness

...These drivers of fulfilment are a far better basis for policy. An equivalent approach is to see the role of government as reducing the causes of unhappiness....

March 22, 2024

UK defence spending

Sunak pledge to boost defence spending raises prospect of cuts elsewhere

...The government estimates that getting military spending to 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product from its current baseline of 2.3 per cent of GDP will cost an extra £4.5bn a year by 2028-29....

April 24, 2024

HS2

Lack of orders puts future of HS2 train factories in doubt

...Train companies are technically in charge of making rolling stock orders, but their budgets for these are set by the government....

March 23, 2024

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Record amounts of sewage flow into UK rivers

Data from Environment Agency prompts calls for government to declare national emergency

April 4, 2024

Post Office scandal

Campaigner Alan Bates accuses government of ‘vindictiveness’ in treatment of Post Office victims

...The role of Sir Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats and former postal affairs minister in the 2010 coalition government, has been under scrutiny since an ITV drama about the scandal in January sparked...

April 9, 2024

Paul Killik

Why buying company shares has gone out of fashion

...I believe successive British governments bear a good deal of responsibility for what has happened....

April 5, 2024

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UK Government

Former UK prime ministers call for reform of ‘centre’ of government

...The review, which will be launched by former Conservative and Labour prime ministers Major and Brown, is the result of a year-long “commission on the centre of government” convened by the IfG....

March 10, 2024

UK agriculture

Limits placed on removal of land from food production in England

...than the government intended....

March 25, 2024

UK immigration

House of Lords insists on further changes to Sunak’s Rwanda bill

...As a result of the government’s new immigration rules 40,000 people in the UK were “stuck in a Kafkaesque perma-backlog of inadmissible [asylum] cases”, he added....

April 17, 2024

Letter

Letter: Why Biden’s ratings should improve before US election

...Paul WhiteleyEmeritus Professor of Government,University of Essex, Boxford, Suffolk, UK...

March 29, 2024

Martin Wolf

The tree of debt must stop growing

...Overall, they note, debt sustainability depends upon four elements: primary balances, economic growth, real interest rates and debt: “Higher primary balances — the excess of government revenues over expenditures...

April 9, 2024

News in-depthHaiti

Haiti nears transitional government in stand-off with gangs

...During negotiations over the transitional administration, gangs have taken advantage of the lack of effective government to attack energy infrastructure, terrorise the streets and launch assaults on public...

March 22, 2024

Europe Express

What Bulgaria’s government collapse means for the rest of the EU Premium

...In February the Dutch government accused China of hacking into a military network last year....

March 27, 2024

News in-depthEnvironment

Welsh mines leak at least 500 tonnes of harmful metals each year

...The figures sparked calls for the UK government to take action to tackle the legacy of Britain’s mining past....

March 11, 2024

Irish economy

Ireland forecasts €8.6bn budget surplus this year

...The government believes as much as €11bn — nearly half of this year’s projected €24.5bn corporation tax haul — amounts to a “windfall” of exceptional profits paid by a small number of firms....

April 23, 2024

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Nigeria’s kidnapping racket is a symptom of a failing state

...The discovery of oil did not help, transforming the business of government into divvying up rent, not creating wealth....

March 12, 2024

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