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Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

Gender identity or biological sex? The bathroom is the next battleground in national fight over transgender and LGBTQ+ rights in the workplace

Morrisons becomes first UK supermarket to delay net zero targets: Britain’s fifth-biggest grocers postpones goal by 15 years, to 2050, saying new ambitions cover whole supply chain Morrisons has become the first UK supermarket chain to postpone its net zero carbon emission targets, delayi...

The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.

Government says arrangement will bring in extra £400m on top of more than £15bn of existing annual trade with Korea The UK has signed a new trade deal with South Korea designed to increase exports of cars, Scottish salmon and Guinness canned in Britain. Keir Starmer described the deal, which replaces an existing agreement, as “a huge win for British business and working people”. It follows UK deals with India and the US, and the free trade agreement with the EU clinched this year. Continue reading...

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Karim Khan makes allegation in court submission while defending move to prosecute Israeli prime minister in 2024 The British government threatened to defund the international criminal court and leave the Rome statute that set it up if it pressed ahead with plans to issue an arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu, the ICC’s prosecutor, has claimed. Karim Khan made the allegation in a submission to the court defending his decision to prosecute Israel’s prime minister. Continue reading...

You’d think MPs would be lining up to decry the US president’s support for far-right nationalists. Instead, only backbenchers and a few junior ministers bothered to turn up

Move interpreted as escalation of US policy as Vladimir Putin ‘reaffirms’ support for South American dictator Diplomatic pressure on Nicolás Maduro has grown after the US interdicted a “dark fleet” tanker off the coast of Venezuela in a move that has been interpreted as an escalation of the Trump administration’s pressure on the South American dictator. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, called Maduro on Thursday following the rare seizure to “reaffirm” Russia’s support for the current Venezuelan government, despite calls from the Trump administration, other countries in the region and Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for him to step down. Continue reading...