Watchdog says all parties, including trustees, patrons and chair Sophie Chandauka, should not have had row in public. The Charity Commission has criticised Prince Harry for allowing a row with the chair of his African charity to “play out publicly”, as the watchdog cleared him of racism. The prince was...
Miner Glencore keeps UK Base
Company, which has reported 37% drop in profits, says switch would not present value for shareholders Glencore said its first-half performance was an “overall solid result, against a macroeconomic environment that was heavily influenced by US tariff policy uncertainty and tensions in the Middle East”. Nagle described the company’s performance...
UK to bear transport costs of ‘one in, one out’ asylum seeker deal with France
Treaty can be ended by either side at a month’s notice and France can refuse returns on certain grounds. The UK will pay the costs of transporting asylum seekers to and from France under Keir Starmer’s “one in, one out” deal with Emmanuel Macron, it has emerged. The deal will...
Karol Nawrocki set to become Poland’s next president
'No to illegal migration, no to euro,' Nawrocki outlines his presidency in punchy speech. 42-year-old Nawrocki narrowly won the presidential election in June, defying the polls and beating the Oxford-educated liberal Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski who was widely regarded as the clear favourite to replace the conservative incumbent Andrzej Duda...
BP makes its biggest oil and gas discovery in 25 years off coast of Brazil
Company to carry out more tests on its Santos basin find as it continues shift from renewables back to fossil fuels. BP has made its largest oil and gas discovery of the past 25 years off the coast of Brazil as it continues to shift its focus away from renewables...
30 years after the Bosnian War
The efforts of international organizations, Bosnia and Herzegovina remains a deeply divided country, split between Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats. "This is where I found peace," said Zejnil Halilovic, standing in front of his former neighbors' abandoned house. The building was now just a concrete skeleton, slowly being swallowed by vegetation,...
Europe’s food giants turn a blind eye to deforestation in Argentina
multinationals are importing massive quantities of soy from the Chaco region, which is prone to deforestation. They are thus helping to destroy this biodiversity hotspot. In the first part of our report we saw how soy from deforestation-prone areas in Argentina continues to arrive in Europe, despite an EU ban...
Denmark has long been Euroskeptic
As Denmark takes over the presidency of the European Union, Danes are more strongly pro-European than at any time in the past two decades – a shift in sentiment that can at least partly be attributed to US President Donald Trump. An eye-opening survey published in March by Berlingske, a...
Russia’s Bankers Fight Inflation and the Kremlin’s War Addiction
After two years of fiscally-fueled growth and double-digit inflation, the Russian central bank is claiming a victory over galloping prices. But it’s come at a price. The Bank of Russia cut its base rate by a substantial 200 basis points to 18% on July 25, following a 100-point reduction the...
Russia targeting voters across EU, Moldova warns
Moscow is hoping pro-European Moldovans living abroad don’t go out to vote in September’s elections. Russia is ramping up efforts to influence Moldovans living abroad across Europe to try to sway critical elections next month, the EU candidate country’s security chief has warned. National Security Adviser Stanislav Secrieru “The campaign...