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Banks and UK supermarkets charged with backing deforestation in Brazil
Jun 30, 2022 09:01An investigation said recently by funding and stocking products from Brazilian meat giant JBS, global financiers and UK supermarkets have supported land-grabbing and deforestation.
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US, UK military trainers arrive at southeast Yemen port with arms cache: Report
Jun 30, 2022 02:33A top-ranking Yemeni official says US and British military trainers have arrived at a port in the country’s southeastern province of al-Mahrah bordering Saudi Arabia and Oman on vessels loaded with munitions as well as military and logistical equipment.
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Tehran rejects G7’s anti-Iranian statement as baseless, one-sided, unfair
Jun 29, 2022 01:18Tehran has vehemently denounced as “baseless, one-sided, and unjust” an anti-Iranian statement by the Group of Seven industrialized states.
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Revealed: Dozens of vulnerable asylum seekers have died in UK Home Office housing since 2020
Jun 28, 2022 14:28New data obtained in a joint investigation by the Observer and Liberty Investigates has found at least 107 deaths of asylum seekers who were provided with Home Office housing between April 2016 and May 2022, far more than officially admitted, eighty-two have died since January 2020.
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British “watchdog” journalists unmasked as lap dogs for the security state
Jun 28, 2022 03:42Events of the past few days suggest British journalism – the so-called Fourth Estate – is not what it purports to be: a watchdog monitoring the centers of state power. It is quite the opposite.
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UK proceeds with changes to Brexit deal despite EU opposition
Jun 27, 2022 04:17British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government has decided to press on with legislation to unilaterally rip up Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading arrangements, inflaming tensions with Brussels.
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US, UK, Japan, Australia, New Zealand form Pacific group to counter China
Jun 26, 2022 02:00The US, the UK, Japan, Australia and New Zealand have launched an informal group aimed at expanding economic and diplomatic ties with tiny Pacific island nations in a move to challenge China’s regional influence.
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New nukes: US military grants ICBM contract worth $12bn to UK
Jun 26, 2022 01:27The US Defense Department has awarded top British weapons maker BAE Systems a contract worth $12 billion “to support” nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile systems (ICBM).
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UK rail strike: Union workers stage third walkout in week
Jun 25, 2022 10:23Tens of thousands of British rail workers have staged their third walkout this week, bringing the country's railway system to a virtual standstill in the biggest strike in 30 years.
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UK’s Johnson says Ukrainian refugees could be sent to Rwanda amid condemnation
Jun 25, 2022 01:21British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that Ukrainian asylum seekers face being deported to Rwanda forcefully if they travel to the UK without legal authorization, despite his previous promises that such deportations were “simply not going to happen.”