Railway strikes in the UK have halted services throughout July and Augst 2022.
Sony, owners and creators of the gaming sensation PlayStation, have been hit with a lawsuit with a possible £5 billion pay out.
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The UK government has once again extended its trade sanctions with Russia.
The UK underwent a record-breaking heatwave in July with another hitting the country in August.
The UK has blocked a Chinese company from purchasing intellectual property from the University of Manchester using its powers under the National Security and Investment Act.
In recent years, online retailers such as ‘Missguided’ and ‘PrettyLittleThing’ can provide you with ‘wear once and throw away’ goods. They are cheap, cheerful and can be delivered to your doorstep within 24 hours of ordering. Yet, despite their benefits, cheaper on-trend garments come with consequences to those who are producing the goods.
Within the coming days, Ethiopia is to fill the $4.8bn Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERDP), which is set to become the largest on the continent. The ambitious reservoir has been deemed controversial by other nations, who view the mega-dam as a violation of historical water rights within the region.
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In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, oil companies around the world have been buffeted by decreased demand and mounting debt. As OPEC forecasts a 6.4 million barrel per day downtick in the global demand for oil, the route out of the crisis for oil producers appears to be a treacherous one.
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Gazprom have stated that they will sue Germany over the decision not to exempt their gas pipeline from EU competition standards under the EU Third Energy Package. The EU package prohibits energy monopolies and the supplier of gas from also owning the pipeline. This is intended to improve the functioning of the internal energy market and resolve certain structural problems.
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In 2016 two lawsuits were filed against singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran claiming copyright infringement on Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” by Ed Townsend’s heirs (co-writer), and a company called Structured Asset Sale who hold shares in the song’s copyright. Both claimed Sheeran lifted a number of musical elements from their song and placed them in his 2014 release “Thinking Out Loud”.
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SpaceX is the first private company to launch humans into orbit. Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley were the first to fly in the SpaceX Dragon Capsule on top of the Company's Falcon 9 rocket. The delayed launch on May 30th at 3.22 pm has provided the country a 'morale boost' since the past few months of unrest, the financial times reported.
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Lufthansa has accepted the €9billion bailout deal, as the latest EU’s approval on State aid after those to major European airlines such as Air France and SAS Scandinavian. Meanwhile, Ryanair CEO O'Leary has filed complaints to the EU about these discriminatory government support against competition rules.
