Labour will plough as much as £392m into its drive to deport more illegal migrantsamid accusations it is trying to ape Nigel Farage’s resurgent Reform party, The Independent can reveal. The Home Office is seeking a company to oversee the booking and oversight of flights deporting those with no right to remain in the UK. […]
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Polestar, the electric-car maker backed by China’s Geely, said it will seek new suppliers to get around a US government ban on Chinese software in new high tech vehicles. The ban threatens Polestar’s future in […]
Groww, India’s largest retail stockbroker, is preparing to file for an IPO in 10 to 12 months, seeking a valuation between $6 billion and $8 billion, sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The Bengaluru-headquartered’s listing would be the first IPO by a digital trading platform in India. The targeted valuation is more than double […]
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, is looking to expand the state’s involuntary commitment laws to allow hospitals to force more people with mental health problems into treatment. This comes in response to a series of violent crimes in the New York City subway system. Hochul said Friday she wants to introduce legislation during […]
A butterfly rests on the nose of assistant butterfly collector Edgar Emojong at the African Butterfly Research Institute (ABRI) in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Brian Inganga What began as a childhood hobby more than six decades ago has led to what might be Africa’s largest butterfly collection in a suburb of […]
The Ukrainian energy network has been so battered by Russian attacks that officials are seeking out new options to prevent a crisis, like renting floating power plants and scavenging scrapped ones from the region.
A puzzling flurry of apparent drone sightings along the US east coast is “nothing nefarious”, says President Joe Biden. The sightings in recent weeks have occurred in New Jersey and a number of neighbouring states, sometimes around air bases. The phenomenon has prompted a number of conspiracy theories about foreign involvement. Authorities have not given […]
Jay-Z’s attorney is looking to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the rapper of raping a 13-year-old girl after the Jane Doe acknowledged inconsistencies in her allegations in a new NBC News report. In the lawsuit, originally filed in October, a woman identified only as “Jane Doe” sued Sean “Diddy” Combs for allegedly raping her at a […]
Reuters Emmanuel Macron plans to use the reopening of the cathedral for a political boost A gravely weakened President Emmanuel Macron hopes to win a new lease of political life from Saturday’s ceremonial reopening of Notre Dame. Joined by US President-elect Donald Trump, Prince William and other international figures, he will seek to present the […]
