Norway, now Europe’s biggest gas supplier, will tighten security around its oil facilities, it said after allegations of sabotage at Nord Stream’s Baltic Sea pipelines. “The government has decided to put measures in place to increase security at infrastructure sites, land terminals and platforms on the Norwegian continental shelf,” Norwegian Energy Minister Terje Aasland said …
From reminding potty-trained kids to go to the bathroom to telling bedtime stories and being used as a “conversation partner,” voice-activated smart devices are being used to help parenting children almost from the day they are born. But the rapid rise of voice assistants, including Google Home, Amazon Alexa and Apple’s Siri, researchers suggest, could …
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Demonstrators against mobilization in Russia shout “we are not meat” The Kremlin has called claims that Russia is behind the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines “stupid and absurd”. “It is quite predictable and also predictably stupid to give voice to these kinds of predictably stupid and absurd narratives,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters …
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US to report ‘mock referendums’ to UN Security Council The United States will submit a resolution to the UN Security Council asking member states not to recognize any changes in Ukraine and forcing Russia to withdraw its troops, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said. We present a resolution of the Security Council to: – condemn Russia’s …
The Bank of England “will not hesitate” to raise interest rates amid market turmoil The International Monetary Fund’s warning over Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s tax cuts for the rich is “very serious” and shows “what a mess the government has made of the economy”, Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer said while the pound fell in …
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Florida preparing for Hurricane Ian Two people have died and electricity has been cut across Cuba’s population of 11 million after Hurricane Ian knocked out one of the island’s main power plants. The hurricane is gathering strength and bearing down on Florida as the state races to prepare for a storm expected to pass over …
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Florida preparing for Hurricane Ian Two people have died and electricity has been cut across Cuba’s population of 11 million after Hurricane Ian knocked out one of the island’s main power plants. The hurricane is gathering strength and bearing down on Florida as the state races to prepare for a storm expected to pass over …
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Figures show shoppers are paying 10.6% more for food than a year ago. Overall store price inflation accelerated to 5.7% in September from 5.1% in August, another record high since the British Retail Consortium-Nielson IQ index began in 2005. Food price inflation soared from 9.3% to 10.6% last month, boosted by the war in Ukraine, …
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Economy The turmoil sparked condemnation in the US, bitter memories in Greece and interest among tourists in Singapore Tuesday 27 September 2022 16.13 BST The international reaction to the turmoil in financial markets that saw the pound fall to its lowest level against the dollar is devastating in its condemnation of the new government’s policies, …
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Sussex Police has apologized for telling people not to make “hateful comments” about a sex offender’s gender identity, after the Home Secretary told the force that ” they focus on catching criminals’ rather than ‘denying biology’. The row erupted when some people on Twitter objected to the force referring to Sally Ann Dixon, who was …