A government bill centred on deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda has been sent back to MPs after peers rejected it. The Safety of Rwanda Bill had been debated in the House of Lords after their previous changes were dismissed by the Commons earlier this week. In the upper chamber, the government lost seven votes by
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Wood Group, the London-listed oil sector engineer, is cutting hundreds of jobs nearly a year after talks about a takeover collapsed. Sky News understands that the company is expected to announce next week alongside its full-year results that it has launched a new cost efficiency programme that sources said would affect white-collar workers globally. One
Four of ChargePoint’s EV charger models can now support Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) connector cables. The Campbell, California-based EV infrastructure company posted on Twitter that NACS cables for its Express 250 DC fast charger are now available for EV charging site owners to order. The NACS cables can be retrofitted onto existing DC
Ireland’s Leo Varadkar has announced he is stepping down as prime minister. In a statement delivered this afternoon in Dublin, Mr Varadkar said his reasons for leaving were “both personal and political”. He said he believed a new leader “will be better placed than me” to gain seats for his party Fine Gael in the
In this article INTC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT U.S. President Joe Biden listens to Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger as he attends the groundbreaking of the new Intel semiconductor manufacturing facility in New Albany, Ohio, U.S., September 9, 2022. Joshua Roberts | Reuters The White House said Intel has been awarded up to $8.5
The rate of inflation slowed sharply to an annual rate of 3.4% in February, according to official figures. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed an easing from the 4% rate recorded the previous month. It marks further progress in the battle against energy-led price growth that followed Russia’s war in Ukraine and
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Bitcoin. Nurphoto | Getty Images Bitcoin extended its slide on Tuesday, dropping more than $10,000 from its all-time high last week. The flagship cryptocurrency was last lower by 6% at $62,918.35, according to Coin Metrics. Last week it climbed to a record $73,679. The move helped drag other cryptocurrencies lower. Ether lost more than 5%
Police are investigating the death of a man who died near a rugby club in Cardiff. The man died near Llandaff Rugby Club on Western Avenue at around 3am on Monday. South Wales Police say they are continuing to investigate the “sudden and unexplained” death. The deceased has been identified as a 65-year-old local man.
Japan’s central bank has signalled progress in its efforts to boost the country’s economy by ending vast swathes of a massive stimulus programme. Policymakers in the country, which has struggled for decades to achieve price growth to bolster activity, took the decision eight years ago to impose a negative interest rate of -0.1%. The aim
Tesla has helped a cancer patient and Cybertruck reservation holder get his electric pickup sooner – going against its own policy. According to Elon Musk, Tesla has a strict policy of not giving people preferential treatment when it comes to delivering new models sooner or at a discount. That has been questioned lately as a
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Tory MPs trooped purposefully through the voting lobbies on Monday night to knock down all the Lords’ amendments which had threatened to rip the Rwanda bill to shreds. It was without the drama of the last vote in January, when three Tory figures resigned their posts and dozens signed amendments to toughen up the bill.
The House of Commons has rejected the House of Lords’ first attempt to amend the Safety of Rwanda Bill – with the legislation sent back to the upper chamber. A total of 10 amendments were put before MPs, but Conservatives voted each of them down. Among the changes proposed by peers was scrapping the government’s
US President Joe Biden and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu have held their first phone call in a month, amid warnings of an “imminent famine” in northern Gaza. It comes as a group of aid agencies warned that an estimated 70% of the population in northern Gaza faced catastrophic hunger, and that virtually everyone in
Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterMar 18, 2024, 12:06 PM Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Open Extended Reactions England scrum-half Danny Care will assess his international future over the coming days but has not
Britain’s car industry has insisted that an unprecedented 2,000% increase in vehicle exports to Azerbaijan has nothing to with Russia and is explained by the fact that the former Soviet state is a “flourishing market in its own right”. Sky analysis has found that the British car sector sent another £40m worth of cars to