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New Zealand budget 2022: Ardern offers $1bn in sweeteners to tackle cost of living ‘storm’
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Weekly $27 cash payments, fuel discounts and half-price public transport are among the short-term sweeteners offered up by New Zealand’s government in its latest budget, as it tries to juggle the cost-of-living crisis...
‘Americans have a choice’: Biden offers alternative to ‘ultra-Maga’ inflation plans – video
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Joe Biden spoke about the differences between his government's plan to tacke inflation in the US to the ‘ultra-Maga’ plan put forward by congressional republicans.During the speech on inflation ahead of the midterm el...
South Korea’s new president offers North economic plan in return for denuclearisation
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South Korea’s new president, Yoon Suk-yeol, has offered North Korea “an audacious plan” to transform its creaking economy in return for abandoning its nuclear weapons programme. Speaking on the first day of his presid...
Channel 4 offers to sell London HQ under alternative plan to privatisation
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Channel 4 has said it could sell its £100m London headquarters and almost double the number of staff working outside the capital under plans to become “northern-based” that it hopes offer an attractive alternative to ...
Sicilian offers Elon Musk chance to buy a slice of Scala dei Turchi cliff
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Sicily’s famed cascading limestone cliff may not be the obvious choice for the next takeover bid by the world’s richest man, but one Italian man is hoping for such an eventuality. Part of the island’s Turkish Steps is...
Carolyn Chen: ‘The tech company offers the most efficient solution to providing a meaningful life’
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Carolyn Chen is a sociologist and UC Berkeley professor who researches religion, race and ethnicity. Her new book, Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley, features in-depth interviews with employ...
Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for more than $40bn
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Elon Musk has launched an audacious bid to buy Twitter for $43.4bn (£33bn), saying he wants to release its “extraordinary potential” to boost free speech and democracy across the world. The Tesla chief executive and w...
Rory McIlroy’s magical Masters finish offers reminder of his star quality
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Rory McIlroy has been dejected enough times when exiting on to Washington Road via Magnolia Lane that he is entitled to savour a sense of harmony after leaving Augusta National this year. If the latest staging of the ...
Ursula von der Leyen offers speedy response to Ukraine’s bid to join EU
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European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said the civilian deaths in the Ukrainian town of Bucha showed the “cruel face” of Russia’s army and pledged to try to speed Ukraine’s bid to become a member of the Europ...
Julia review – larger-than-life US cookery queen offers self-indulgent rhapsodising
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Here is a celebratory documentary that takes for granted throughout that its audience is already hugely invested in its subject: the American TV chef and larger-than-life personality Julia Child. She is sufficiently l...
‘Pedri, Pedri, Pedri’: Barcelona’s new hero offers familiar moment of magic
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First Pedri González put Ivan Rakitic on the floor, next he put Diego Carlos on the floor and then, allowing time to speed up again, he put Yassine Bono on the floor and 76,112 people on their feet. And that’s just th...
Six months in, Newcastle takeover still offers little cause for celebration
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While this week marks the six‑month anniversary of the Newcastle United takeover by a Saudi-led consortium fronted by the minority shareholders Amanda Staveley and Mehrdad Ghodoussi, it seems an awful lot longer since...
Gareth Southgate offers Harry Maguire ‘full backing’ but no guarantee of starts
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Gareth Southgate has emphasised that Harry Maguire retains his full support but knows he cannot give the beleaguered defender any guarantees over a starting place in his England team at the World Cup later this year. ...
Biden offers further military support to Ukraine as Russian troops falter
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Joe Biden has risked the wrath of Vladimir Putin by offering Ukraine extra military support as Russian troops appeared to struggle to hold even the territory it has secured since the invasion began. The US president’s...
Rishi Sunak offers no help and no hope to those who are worst off
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Rishi Sunak’s spring statement succeeds most brutally in resurrecting and reinforcing the historical divisions between the “deserving” and “undeserving” poor (UK’s most vulnerable face crunch as Rishi Sunak helps bett...
BuzzFeed offers buyouts to news division in effort to increase profitability
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BuzzFeed is shrinking and shifting the focus of its Pulitzer prize-winning news division as the digital media company, best known for its lighthearted lists and quizzes, strives to increase its profitability. The New ...