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.
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The chair, co-secretary, and a number of other members in Bristol West Labour have been suspended from the party and threatened with an investigation after it passed a motion criticising the treatment of former leader Jeremy Corbyn as a “politically motivated attack against the left of the Labour Party by the leadership”.
Blockchain is essentially digital information stored in a public database. This technology is gaining popularity among the luxury retail sector. For example, in 2019 it was announced that LVMH would be launching the first global blockchain, using the Aura platform to allow consumers to trace the origin and authenticity of products.
Due to the unpredictability of COVID-19, aviation experts do not expect aviation traffic to return to pre-pandemic levels until 2024. Nevertheless, when the aviation industry rebounds, it should work towards building a significantly more sustainable industry than the one we know today. This means putting the industry on a sounder financial footing and making flying less polluted.
The Holocaust is no secret to the world. Everyone, at some point, has read, heard, or watched examples the horrific treatment against the European Jewish community. To this day, there are survivors who are still recounting personal accounts of the horrific treatment they endured. The events that occurred have been labelled as ‘the worst crime in human history’, so why are they being replicated in 2020?
After ferocious reactions from people in India claiming that the advertisement promoted inter-faith marriages and was unnecessarily trying to show the Muslim community as warm and kind when in their opinion, it is not. The reactions also absurdly went on to convey that such inter-faith marriages were illegal in the Indian jurisdiction.
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In a recent interview, Government Chief Scientific Advisor Sir Patrick Vallance has claimed that the UK is predicted to be facing an increase of 50,000 cases per day in the following month if no further actions are taken into hand. Indeed, cases are already rising in thousands per day, which is causing a lot of stress within the NHS, leading to them being unable to accommodate those who are suffering from serious symptoms of COVID-19.
In a video published on the 27th August, the Home Office dangerously referred to immigration lawyers, who provide impartial legal advice to migrants, as “activist lawyers”. Captioning an animation of deportation flights leaving the UK, the message relayed by the Home Office read that such “activist lawyers” were delaying the removal of illegal migrants.
BARBRI, the largest US provider of crammer courses for American state bar exams, has released a report last month condemning the high costs incurred by students in the legal education pathway here in Britain. The research conducted by 'Hook Tangaza' consultants suggests that the existing GDL/LPC route could be costing students on average £25,000 to £38,000 more than a new SQE scheme which is set to come into effect next year
In the bleak times of COVID-19, contactless delivery through using drones can facilitate an effective way to deliver medical supplies, COVID-19 test samples and other medical equipment. Notably, China's Antwork drone delivery start-up already made deliveries of medical supplies to the People’s Hospital of Xingchang in Shaoxing, China. This was to help the hospital respond to the then developing coronavirus emergency in China.
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EasyJet has signalled to the government that it may require additional financial support. This comes after the company slashed its winter flight schedule due to plummeting passenger demand. EasyJet has already received a £360m loan from the government, cut 4500 jobs equating to almost a third of its staff and raised £608m from selling aircraft[
The UK government and car industry have teamed up to launch a new initiative researching, testing, and trialing driverless car technology within British cities. Dubbed ServCity, this Nissan-backed project forms part of the UK’s £100m ‘Intelligent Mobility’ fund and will run for two and a half years.
Covid-19 cases hit a new record of 19,724 on Wednesday creating split opinions on how to manage the virus. [1] SAGE, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, released a report stating that a two-week circuit breaker at the end of October could halve covid-19 deaths between now and the end of the year.
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Downing Street has been considering adopting an Australian offshore detention system. The Foreign Office revealed Downing Street has sought its advice on “negotiating an offshore asylum processing facility similar to the Australian model in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.” If this system is implemented it will raise a series of human rights violations.
In mid-August this year, Health Secretary Matt Hancock gave an executive order to disband Public Health England. The executive agency will be merged with the NHS Test and Trace programme to form the new National Institute for Health Protection (NIHP), promised for September. Now in October, the new institution is still “pending”, delayed until spring 2021
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8 years after the killing of Jyoti Singh Pandey, famously eulogised as ‘Nirbhaya’ (meaning “fearless”). Hundreds of people have once again gathered in New Delhi to denounce the rape and murder of a young woman in Uttar Pradesh. Sparking outrage in India, a 19-year old Dalit woman died in hospital, after being assaulted by four ‘upper Caste’ men.
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The London Interbank Offer Rate (LIBOR) is the interest rate that participating banks offer to other banks for loans on the London market. It is the most widely used benchmark for short-term interest rates globally. [1]
LIBOR is scheduled to be phased out by 2022. A suggested replacement rate is the Sterling Overnight Interbank Average Rate (SONIA) which measures the rate paid by banks on overnight funds. SONIA is calculated as a trimmed mean [2] of rates paid on overnight unsecured wholesale funds.
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The e-commerce sector in Mexico represents a huge investment opportunity for domestic and international firms. Currently, online shopping represents 2% of the country’s $203 billion in annual retail sales. COVID- 19 has accelerated the growth of e-commerce as Walmart de Mexico, the largest retailer in Mexico, e-commerce sales grew 68% in a single quarter.
