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Pelosi’s ‘reckless’ Taiwan visit deepens US-China rupture – why did she go?
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Roy Blunt lived up his surname when he said this week: “So I’m about to use four words in a row that I haven’t used in this way before, and those four words are: ‘Speaker Pelosi was right.’” The Republican senator was...
China property sales could plunge by one-third, analysts say, as crisis deepens
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Property sales in China could fall by one-third this year, spelling more trouble for the country’s giant housing sector as people lose faith in the market and pressure increases on struggling developers to complete pr...
Twitter says it suspends 1m spam users a day as Elon Musk row deepens
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Twitter has revealed that it is suspending more than 1m spam accounts a day, as Elon Musk threatens to walk away from buying the business in a dispute over fake users. The new figure, confirmed by the social media pla...
South Carolina murder mystery deepens with body to be exhumed
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It is more than a year since the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh, the wife and son of Alex Murdaugh, the jailed South Carolina lawyer making headlines via a complex embezzlement case as hard to navigate as the sta...
Electricity trading suspended as energy supply crisis deepens across Australia’s east coast
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Australia’s main wholesale electricity market has been suspended by regulators in the latest sign that the crisis threatening the stability of energy supplies is deepening. The Australian Energy Market Operator said o...
Tesla investigation deepens after more than a dozen US ‘Autopilot’ crashes
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US federal regulators are deepening their investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot function after more than a dozen Tesla cars crashed into parked first-responder vehicles over a period of four years. The National Highway...
Canada plane crash mystery deepens with two murder suspects among dead
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A plane crash in the rugged hinterlands of Canada during seemingly calm weather has prompted a federal investigation into what could have brought down the small aircraft. But revelations that two of the passengers wer...
Sri Lanka: protesters try to storm president’s house as economic crisis deepens
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A protest by hundreds of people trying to storm the home of Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has turned violent, with at least one man critically wounded, as residents criticised the government’s handling of th...
UK consumer confidence nosedives as cost of living crisis deepens; retail sales fall – business live
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UK defence secretary cuts short holiday as Ukraine crisis deepens
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Ben Wallace, the UK defence secretary, has cut short a half-term holiday overseas with his family after one day because of concerns about a possible imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine. Wallace had been in continenta...
Australia politics news live updates: Peter Dutton hits out at Bob Carr over text message claims as row deepens
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Defence minister denies claims he was behind messages that branded the prime minister a ‘complete psycho’. Follow all the day’s news live
UK interest rate rise predicted as cost of living crisis deepens
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Britons are braced for the Bank of England to increase interest rates on Thursday as the central bank seeks to tackle price pressures that have pushed annual inflation to a 30-year high of 5.4%. Most City economists s...
Biden mulls options including troop deployments as Ukraine-Russia crisis deepens – live
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Stakes high for both sides as dispute over GP appointments deepens
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Talking to MPs recently, an effusive Sajid Javid lauded the vital role paid by “our fantastic GPs”. But his warm words are unlikely to have persuaded many of England’s family doctors that the new health secretary was ...
‘We are stranded’: man describes hardship on Poland-Belarus border as crisis deepens – video report
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A migrant man stranded on the Poland-Belarus border along with thousands of other people made a plea to authorities for help on Thursday. Speaking in Kurdish, the unidentified man described the problems migrants were ...
UK energy regulator to take ‘bold action’ over price cap as crisis deepens
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The UK energy industry regulator is poised to take “bold action” to overhaul the price cap protecting millions of households from rocketing bills as suppliers face a deepening energy crisis this winter. In an open let...