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Updated continuously- The GuardianUK losing up to £6.5bn a year in EU trade due to mismatched product rules
IPPR finds failure to align testing standards has forced companies to abandon exporting to EU and is costing costing 0.18% of national incomeThe UK is losing out on annual exports to the EU that could be worth as much as £6.5bn without a deal with Brussels that allows manufacturers to jettison duplicate product testing.In the latest attempt to calculate the loss of trade with the EU after Brexit, the IPPR thinktank said many companies have given up selling goods to the EU or set up subsidiaries inside the trade bloc after successive governments failed to secure a mutual recognition agreement that would avoid the extra administration costs.Motor vehicle and part exports would have been between £2.48bn and £3.42bn higher each year.Electronic exports could have been between £1.17bn and £1.67bn higher.Pharmaceutical exports would have had an estimated annual uplift of between £740m and £820m. Continue reading...
09/24/2026 - The GuardianAlan Jones welcomed prominent athlete to luxury home with ‘hug and slap on the bottom’, former butler tells court
Jones, 85, has pleaded not guilty to 21 charges of indecent assault and sexual touching, including two charges involving the athleteFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastListen to the podcast Alan Jones on TrialThe man who was Alan Jones’s butler for almost two decades has told a Sydney court his boss would welcome a prominent athlete to his luxury harbourside apartment with “a hug and a slap on the bottom” and would call him “champion”.The butler, David Allan, testified in the Downing Centre court that he worked at “the coalface” of the broadcaster’s domestic life as a household manager for 18 and a half years up until August 2019. He cooked, cleaned and ironed everything including his underpants and socks, while his employer “tried to exist on 2.5 hours [sleep] a day”. Continue reading...
09/24/2026 - Al JazeeraAustralia says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal
Canberra expressed extreme concern to Sam Altman after OpenAI took three months to report the breach.
09/24/2026 - The GuardianSenator confirms ‘eight suicide attempts’ by US navy personnel assigned to USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group – as it happened
Kirsten Gillibrand says acting US navy secretary told her of attempted suicides after carrier strike group’s lengthy deployment as part of US war in Iran. This blog is now closed.Sign up for US Breaking News emailsRubio also briefly addressed Trump’s meeting with Delcy Rodriguez, the interim Venezuelan president, who last night posed for a friendly photo with Trump at a Manhattan hotel only miles from where her predecessor, Nicolás Maduro, was incarcerated.“It was a short meeting, but it was a very important meeting,” Rubio said. Continue reading...
09/24/2026 - The GuardianBeau Lamarre-Condon sized up surfboard bag against friend before allegedly murdering Sydney couple, court told
Former NSW police officer has pleaded not guilty to murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies before concealing bodies in bags purchased from sports storeBeau Lamarre-Condon was seen sizing up a surfboard bag used to dispose of a victim days before the police officer murdered two men, prosectors have alleged in a Sydney court, with chilling CCTV footage shown to the jury.Lamarre-Condon has been accused of fatally shooting Sydney couple Jesse Baird, 26, and Luke Davies, 29, with his police service weapon at Baird’s Paddington home on 19 February 2024. Continue reading...
09/24/2026 - The GuardianWhy is Woodside sponsoring Fremantle’s AFL team – and will the climate crisis shift the relationship?
Dockers supporters cannot buy a barrel of Woodside oil – but the fossil fuel company hopes to buy into fans’ loyaltyFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen an oil and gas company buys logo space on an AFL jersey, it isn’t trying to convince fans to buy its products.Fremantle Dockers supporters cannot, for example, go to their local service station to buy a barrel of Woodside Energy oil or a canister of its liquefied natural gas. Continue reading...
09/24/2026 - Al JazeeraTrump welcomes Xi to Washington as US, China agree to extend trade truce
Trump takes rare step of meeting foreign leader at the airport, underscoring significance of US-China relationship.
09/23/2026 - The GuardianRFK Jr received $4m in book advances from Maha allies over past year
In 2024 ethics filing, US health secretary pledged to ‘not engage in writing, editing, marketing or promotional services for any of these books during government service’Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, received $4m over the last year in book advances from allies within the Make America Healthy Again movement, according to a new report.The advances were for upcoming books by Skyhorse Publishing, a publishing house belonging to Tony Lyons, a friend of Kennedy Jr who is also president of Maha Center, a non-profit that describes itself as “tackling America’s health crisis through education, investigation, innovation and action”. Continue reading...
09/23/2026 - The GuardianThree charged with assault after anti-migration protests in Hampshire
Hundreds gathered on Tuesday night in anticipation of a small boat arriving in GosportThree people have been charged in connection with anti-migrant protests that drew hundreds of demonstrators to a marina in Hampshire on Tuesday night.Six people were arrested by police, as anti-migrant activists who mistakenly believed a small boat was due to arrive at Gosport gathered in an attempt to disrupt the arrival of any asylum seekers. Continue reading...
09/23/2026 - The GuardianPupils to be offered vocational GCSEs in radical shake-up of system in England
Courses such as finance and construction form part of PM’s push for education ‘that offers a path for everybody’Teenagers are to be offered a range of new vocational GCSEs under a radical shake-up of the school system in England designed to tackle a crisis that has left nearly a million young people out of work or training.From 2029, pupils will be able to supplement compulsory GCSE subjects such as English, maths and sciences with courses such as construction, creative media production and child development, marking the biggest changes to the qualification for more than a decade. Continue reading...
09/23/2026 - BBCTrump's Board of Peace unveils $2.45bn plan to begin Gaza's reconstruction
The figure was announced during a meeting of the group's board at the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
09/23/2026 - Al JazeeraFBI investigates alleged theft of ‘very sensitive’ employee data
ShinyHunters hackers claim to have stolen data on thousands of FBI employees as the agency probes a portal breach.
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