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...A new high-speed rail line will now only be built from London to Birmingham, with HS2’s custom-built trains shifting on to existing tracks the rest of the way to the north of England....
...The transport department said in a statement that HS2’s “governance [was] being strengthened to further increase the focus on cost control and increase government oversight”....
...Almost three-quarters of all seaborne Russian crude flows travelled without western insurance in August, a lever used to enforce the G7’s $60-a-barrel oil price cap, according to an analysis of shipping...
...Joydeep Mukherji of the credit rating agency S&P points out that the government has regained market access, which it is using to reprofile its debt....
...Reeling off a list of investments in higher education, hospitals, public transport and targeted welfare programmes, he added: “That’s the key to success because it helps us keep social peace.”...
...The title track takes its cue from an 1857 speech by Frederick Douglass in which the abolitionist contrasted the emancipation of the West Indies two decades earlier with the persistence of slavery in the...
...One body was found face down in the bed of a tap-tap, the colourfully painted pick-up trucks that serve as the city’s main forms of public transport, while others were left strewn on the streets....
...Inflation is converging to the Bank of Jamaica’s target band, though it was recently impacted by an increase in transport prices, whose effects are expected to dissipate towards the end of the year....
...The UN’s World Food Programme has suspended maritime transport operations around Haiti, which it said was “the only means of transporting food and medical supplies from Port-au-Prince to other parts of the...
...Meta, Facebook’s parent company, spent the most of any S&P 500 company for a chief executive’s personal air travel that year, reporting $2.3mn on private flights for Mark Zuckerberg....
...It produces no greenhouse gas emissions when used as a fuel and it can also be converted into ammonia, which is easier to store and transport....
...Professor Andrew McNaughton, former chief engineer of Network Rail and subsequently HS2’s technical director between its inception and 2017, addressed the capacity issue in a transport select committee hearing...
...Khosrowshahi was hired in 2017 from Expedia, where he was once the best-paid chief executive in the S&P 500....
...Dame Meg Hillier MP, the committee chair, said: “Here we are after over a decade of our warnings on HS2’s management and spiralling costs — locked into the costly completion of a curtailed rump of a project...
...Their research found that since the project was greenlighted in 2017 planning applications in a 1.5 mile radius of HS2’s new stations and depot in the West Midlands rose by 66 per cent compared with just...
...Sunak’s axing of HS2’s northern leg also has consequences for Northern Powerhouse Rail....
...In Bolton, Greater Manchester, high winds overnight caused the frontage of an M&S store to shatter inwards, while in Derbyshire a man was taken to hospital after his car was hit by a tree....
...show voters are deeply sceptical, particularly in the north-west and Yorkshire, about transport promises....
...It trades at a 45 per cent discount to the S&P 500 on forward earnings, partly because of its lack of large tech companies....
...Turkey is keen to emphasise its traditional role as a bridge between east and west, a history that dates back centuries to the silk roads....
...West Midlands mayor Andy Street, a vocal critic of the decision to axe the northern phase of HS2, is to receive a further £1bn for his transport budget....
...Cuba’s ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement on Monday night that it “is working to neutralise and dismantle a human trafficking network” operating in Russia that “incorporate[s] Cuban citizens...
...Louise Haigh, Labour’s shadow transport secretary, accused the government of mismanaging the project at a huge cost to taxpayers....
...The country that invented rail transport seems unable today to manage a project for a high-speed line between its capital and its second and third-largest cities....
...Cancelling the Manchester leg would leave HS2 as little more than a shuttle between a west London suburb and Birmingham. That would be a parody of its original purpose....
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