Former Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson was in the chamber as a fellow backbencher asked about his successor Penny Mordaunt. Richard Drax said she must “gain the respect” of the armed forces and get to know them”. Theresa May “commended” Mr Williamson, whom she sacked last week over claims of a leak, before speaking about the […]
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“It’s unfair,” he said of the public offering. “The bosses are getting billions in their pockets while drivers are living on poverty wages.” The strikes were set to be replicated in other cities, including New York, Washington, Chicago and Los Angeles, and in front of Uber headquarters in San Francisco by the end of Wednesday.
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Image copyright PA Food outlets should list all ingredients in order to protect customers with allergies, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has proposed. The FSA has recommended ministers adopt strict new rules, which include highlighting the 14 major allergens. The proposals follow the death in 2016 of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, who had eaten a sandwich from
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Quirky metal sculptures have been appearing around the town of Stonehaven for years, but the identity of their creator has always remained a secret. Only those closest to the sculptor knew who he was, and would leave scrap metal at his door for his creations. Now Jim Malcolm, 68, has spoken to BBC Scotland’s arts
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Ivana and Donald Trump in 1989 when his businesses were losing millions every year President Trump has said the losses his business made in the eighties and nineties were “for tax purposes”. He was tweeting in reply to a New York Times article that claimed that from 1985-95 he
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HONG KONG — Three stories of billboards alongside the Sunbeam Theater in Hong Kong were filled with images of performers in heavily painted faces and ornate headdresses. But one, with an overly long red tie and a cloud of shiny yellow hair, was not like the others. You may have seen him before — on
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Uber drivers in Australia briefly went on strike on Wednesday, the beginning of a planned series of protests in more than a dozen cities around the world ahead of the ride-hailing giant’s blockbuster initial public offering this week. More than 30 protesters gathered near an Uber facility in Melbourne, holding signs that said “on-demand workers
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The Tokyo Olympics are caught between the proverbial rock and hard place. Tokyo organizers are trying to cut spending, under pressure from the International Olympic Committee, which has been widely criticized for pushing host cities to build “white elephant” venues — often at the taxpayer’s expense. That’s the rock. And here’s the hard place. Some
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When the United States said this week that American forces in Iraq faced threats from Iranian “proxies,” it was referring to the armed groups that helped fight the Islamic State and have bedeviled Iraq ever since. The Iraqi armed groups, some with ties to Iran, have a footprint in every Iraqi province. Whether they function
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Marathon Petroleum Corp. is merging two of its oil and gas pipeline, transportation and storage operations for $9 billion. MPLX and Andeavor Logistics are both master limited partnerships majority owned by Marathon, which raised the possibility that it might combine the two late last year. Andeavor unitholders will receive 1.135 MPLX common units for each
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