Defeats in the House of Lords mean the government will need to make the case about why it should not be legally bound by international refugee conventions. The government suffered a series of setbacks on its Illegal Migration Bill in the House of Lords on Wednesday, amid fierce opposition from peers. One of the amendments
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In this article NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Gina Raimondo, US secretary of Commerce, from left, Antony Blinken, U.S. secretary of state, and Katherine Tai, US trade representative, at a discussion during the US-EU Trade and Technology Council meeting in College Park, Maryland, US, on Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Ting Shen | Bloomberg
The governor of the Bank of England, which has raised interest rates to a 15-year high, has said the UK labour market and not Brexit is to blame for stubbornly high inflation. Andrew Bailey said the tight jobs market – with near-record low unemployment, more than a million jobs vacancies and wage growth of 7.2%
The LIV Golf League hits the halfway point of its 2023 schedule at Real Club Valderrama in Spain this weekend. There are six regular season tournaments remaining, including one in London and four more in the U.S. The individual and team championships will take place in Saudi Arabia on Nov. 3-5. After that, no one
Madonna has postponed her tour after falling ill and staying several days in intensive care. A statement from her talent manager Guy Oseary said: “On Saturday June 24, Madonna developed a serious bacterial infection which lead to a several day stay in the ICU. “Her health is improving, however she is still under medical care.
Staff at a hotel where asylum seekers are set to be housed from next month are “in shock” after a redundancy announcement. Workers at Stradey Park Hotel & Spa in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, were told this week they face being made redundant on 10 July. Sky News understands around 100 staff are employed at the hotel.
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds have been forced to abandon a gig in the US just hours before the show due to issues with air quality. Concert promoter FPC Live said the event at Breese Stevens Field in Madison, Wisconsin, had been cancelled on Wednesday following local public health advice. Refunds will be available for
Thames Water has appointed industry veteran Sir Adrian Montague as chairman as the troubled utility provider seeks to shore up public and investor confidence. The former chairman of Anglian Water and insurance giant Aviva, Sir Adrian will replace current chairman Ian Marchant, who announced in April that he would stand down at the end of
Donald Trump is suing a woman he was found to have sexually abused – claiming she falsely accused him of rape. E. Jean Carroll won a civil case against the ex-president in May. Jurors found Mr Trump sexually assaulted and defamed Ms Carroll. However, they stopped short of finding that Mr Trump had raped her.
French explorer Paul-Henry Nargeolet is a former commander who served in the navy for 25 years in France. The 77-year-old is known as “Mr Titanic” for his expertise and has been on over 35 dives to the Titanic wreck site, according to the New York Times. Captain Jose Paulo Vieira da Silva, who previously worked
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Petronas sign against the backdrop of the Twin Towers. Goh Seng Chong | Bloomberg | Getty Images Asia needs to achieve net zero before the world can do so, according to the CEO of Malaysia’s state-owned oil and gas company Petronas. “The bulk of the emissions [that] are expected to emit will be produced in
The government said it is prepared for a range of scenarios amid fears Britain’s biggest water company could collapse. Sky News has learnt that ministers and Ofwat, the industry regulator, have started to hold discussions about the possibility of placing indebted Thames Water into temporary public ownership. Contingency plans are being drawn up amid growing
A Nvidia Corp. HGX H100 artificial intelligence supercomputing graphics processing unit (GPU) at the showroom of the company’s offices in Taipei, Taiwan, on Friday, June 2, 2023. I-Hwa Cheng | Bloomberg | Getty Images China’s artificial intelligence stocks fell Wednesday after the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. is planning to impose new curbs
A formal complaint has been made against London Conservative mayoral hopeful Daniel Korski following a groping allegation. TV producer and screenwriter Daisy Goodwin has made a formal complaint against the Tory London mayoral hopeful. Mr Korski has strenuously denied the claim against him. Ms Goodwin alleged in an article for The Times that she was
Andres Waters Jun 27, 2023, 05:02 PM ET We’re five weeks into “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 31, and for the fifth week in a row, Michael Chandler‘s team got a win over Conor McGregor‘s. Team Chandler’s Brad Katona used his ground game to control Team McGregor’s Carlos Vera and pick up a unanimous decision victory
The revelation that ministers are considering bringing Thames Water into temporary public ownership has reopened the fierce debate over the privatisation of the country’s water industry. The sudden resignation of the company’s chief executive and Sky’s exclusive report into government contingency plans for the firm’s potential collapse comes amid growing calls for change following a
Sky’s Europe correspondent Adam Parsons has given us an idea of the cramped conditions the passengers aboard Titan are experiencing. Reporting from inside a sub at the U-Boat Worx manufacturer in the Netherlands, he says he likely wouldn’t have enough space to sit upright if the hatch were to be closed. Though different from Titan