Jeremy Hunt has ditched plans for a 2p cut to income tax at next month’s Budget, reports have suggested. The Chancellor was possibly set to reduce the basic rate of income tax from 20 to 18 per cent, as well as looking
About 10,000 children are still fighting alongside armed groups in Central African Republic more than a decade after civil war broke out, the government said Monday. Marthe Kirima, the minister for family and gender, said in a statement that children are still
The brother of a 9-year-old boy who died from bird flu in Kratie province, Cambodia, has tested positive for the virus. The boy’s death was the first reported case of bird flu in Cambodia this year. He fell ill after eating a
Chinese coast guard vessels have been passing by Japanese-claimed waters for weeks in the East China Sea and China’s warships have been edging near Japan’s southwestern islands in recent days, Japanese officials said. A fleet of four Chinese coast guard vessels on
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president on Wednesday condemned media reports that the U.S. government launched an abortive investigation into claims that drug traffickers may have contributed money to his failed 2006 campaign. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador immediately interpreted the reports
Bangladesh reported on Monday its first fatality this year from the brain-damaging Nipah virus when a man died after drinking raw date juice. The virus, transmitted to humans through contact with bodily fluids of infected bats, pigs or other people, was first
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A rights group on Thursday reported dozens more home raids and arrests across Belarus in the latest intensification of a years-long crackdown on dissent in the country of 9.5 million people. The Viasna human rights center said it
But the figure of £102,650 fell from the record gross profit of £112,930 in 2022. Estate agent Hamptons looked at Land Registry data for sales in 2023 where the home had been purchased in the past 20 years. Some 93% sold for
Rwanda’s military on Tuesday said it had killed a Congolese soldier who crossed the border and allegedly fired at Rwandan army patrols, the latest incident in cross-border tensions between the neighbors. In a statement, the Rwanda Defense Force said it also arrested
Norway’s top body for international adoptions on Tuesday recommended a halt to all adoptions from abroad for a two-year period pending an investigation into several allegedly illegal cases, while Denmark’s sole overseas adoption agency announced it was stopping for the same concerns.