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In January 2020, Sir Keir Starmer was asked by ITV News what he thought of Jeremy Corbyn, who was then the Labour party’s outgoing leader: “He’s a colleague and a friend,” he replied. The message Starmer offered in the leadership contest to replace Corbyn was clear: that he would offer a continuation of leftwing economic
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The US securities regulator requested a temporary freeze on assets linked to Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, one day after it sued the company on more than a dozen charges. In a filing late on Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission requested a temporary asset freeze on several Binance-linked entities, as well as repatriation
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The UK Cabinet Office will tell central government departments to remove all surveillance equipment made by Chinese companies including Dahua and Hikvision from sensitive sites in an attempt to limit potential intelligence-gathering by Beijing. Announcing the decision on Tuesday, the Cabinet Office said the government was “committing to publish a timeline for the removal of
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The owner of the Telegraph Media Group has been threatened with receivership by lender Lloyds Banking Group over a longstanding debt owed by the parent company controlled by the Barclay family. AlixPartners, the restructuring group, has been lined up to act as receivers of Press Acquisitions, which controls the Telegraph newspapers, if Lloyds decides to take
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The future is Asian, argues the respected analyst, Parag Khanna. But this piece of conventional wisdom needs unwrapping. Geographically, Asia is no more a continent than is Europe. “Asia” itself is not even an Asian idea: Europeans invented it. Asians did not conceive of themselves as being part of a single continental entity. The region
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Golf’s US-based PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabia-backed breakaway league LIV have agreed to join forces, ending a long-running feud. The PGA Tour and Riyadh’s Public Investment Fund have agreed to create a jointly managed entity to house their commercial operations, and intend to cease their pending litigation. The European Tour has also signed up
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The venture capital giant Sequoia Capital is splitting its China business into a separate entity amid rising tensions between Washington and Beijing. The renowned Silicon Valley firm, which made bets on fast-growing tech companies such as TikTok parent ByteDance and Alibaba, said on Tuesday it will run its Chinese business as a “completely independent” entity
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After weeks of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian territory and cross-border raids — a prelude to the long-awaited counter-offensive now gathering pace — it is Russia’s turn to distract and destabilise its enemy. The destruction of the Kakhovka dam over the Dnipro river is far more than a psychological game. It will have long-lasting humanitarian
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The Kakhovka dam spanning the Dnipro river in southern Ukraine was blown up on Tuesday, flooding swaths of territory ahead of an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive and threatening crucial water supplies to a nuclear plant. Russia and Ukraine blamed each other for the attack, which Kyiv warned would have “catastrophic consequences” and affect dozens of settlements,
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The romantic dream of becoming a “digital nomad” is almost as old as the internet itself. Steven K Roberts — a pioneer who rode across the US on a computerised bicycle more than 30 years ago — wrote back in 1994 about creating a “Virtual Technomadic Flotilla . . . of travellers all over the world” on the basis
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