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Sep 7, 2024 - World

Starmer to hold talks with Irish counterpart on first official visit of a British PM to country for five years Keir Starmer has said he believes there can be a “deep” reset of relations with Ireland after arriving in Dublin for his first official visit, with Northern Ireland, Brexit and joint international interests on the agenda.It is the first official visit of a British prime minister since Boris Johnson visited in 2019 to try to salvage a Brexit deal after years of strained relations. Continue reading...

Sep 7, 2024 - World

One driver says rates do not account for waiting times, traffic, and customers taking time to answer the door Deliveroo has been accused of ­paying drivers below a minimum pay floor the company agreed earlier this year as part of the first-ever union ­agreement to cover earnings in the gig economy.Analysis carried out by Rodeo, an app that helps gig economy workers track their payments, showed that of 531 food orders completed in the past four months, 278 fell below the rate of £12 an hour agreed with the GMB union in May. Continue reading...

Sep 7, 2024 - World

Bill Burns calls Vladimir Putin a ‘bully’ whose ‘sabre-rattling’ should not always be taken literallyWestern leaders should not be intimidated by Kremlin threats of nuclear escalation, the head of the CIA said on Saturday, amid a debate over whether Anglo-French Storm Shadow missiles should be used inside Russia.Bill Burns, on a visit to London alongside the head of MI6, said the US had brushed off a previous Russian nuclear scare in autumn 2022, demonstrating that threats from Moscow should not always be taken literally. Continue reading...

Sep 7, 2024 - World

Israelis have turned out for another large protest amid anger at the government over the failure to secure the return of remaining hostages in Gaza

Sep 7, 2024 - World

A few thousand supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have begun flooding Sao Paulo’s main boulevard for an Independence Day rally