Search results for ‘rich’
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori released from detention in Iran
After years of physical and mental stress, languishing in cockroach-ridden jails, toyed with by autocrats who seemed impervious to reason or empathy: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori are on a plane bound for Britain.
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Chelsea play first home game since Abramovich sanctions – against Saudi-owned Newcastle
Chelsea football club hosted Newcastle, but the London club have been placed in a financial straitjacket after owner Roman Abramovich was sanctioned for his links to Vladimir Putin.
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‘Golden visa’ Home Office ban is ‘political tokenism, says Moneyland author
We’re joined by writer Oliver Bullough whose book Moneyland claims that the UK immigration system favours the super rich.
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Oil company profits ‘disgusting’, say struggling families
We’ve been following the tough choices facing families in the Highlands, in the shadow of those north sea riches, where there’s higher fuel poverty than almost anywhere in the UK.
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Putin says ‘he is working in Russia’s interests… but it’s self deception’ – Mikhail Khodorkovsky
One man who knows President Vladimir Putin better than most is Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
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Holmes alone: the fall of Theranos
What the unravelling of a once Silicon superstar tells us about the world of start-ups and high-level investors.
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‘Silicon Valley can’t completely wash their hands of Elizabeth Holmes’, says Washington Post reporter
We spoke to Gerrit De Vynck, the Washington Post’s Technology Reporter, who’s been following the case of Elizabeth Holmes and began by asking how she was able to dupe so many rich business people.
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Elizabeth Holmes: Theranos founder guilty of fraud
She was once feted as the world’s youngest female self made billionaire who promised that her blood testing start-up would transform the future of healthcare but now Elizabeth Holmes has been found guilty of four counts of fraud – in a case which came to symbolise Silicon Valley’s ethos of hype and corporate greed.
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Safe-standing areas in football grounds welcomed by Hillsborough disaster survivor
We spoke to life-long Liverpool fan Richie Greaves. He survived the Hillsborough disaster standing in the pen c area of the old terracing. And he’s been on the Kop at Anfield before and since.
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MI6 chief says spies need tech help to combat Chinese espionage
Chinese secret services are mounting “large-scale” espionage operations against the UK, and the intelligence community must urgently seek new partnerships with tech.
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Covid: ‘More risk of mutation in poorly vaccinated areas’, says COVAX co-founder
We spoke to Dr Richard Hatchett, one of the founders of the global vaccine-sharing initiative, COVAX.
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Calls for Drax Hall to be opened to public as Barbados becomes a republic
Removing the Queen as head of state is seen as the final step for Barbados in cutting ties with its colonial past, a past haunted by nearly 200 years of brutal enslavement.
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Around 600 million birds lost in 40 years, RSPB study finds
Bird populations across Europe have fallen by around 600 million in the past 40 years, according to a report exclusively shared with Channel 4 News.
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COP26: Climate summit overruns as delegates haggle over deal
It was supposed to be done and dusted an hour ago. But delegates here are working beyond the scheduled end of COP26, still trying to hammer out a deal.
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COP26: How climate conference is out of reach for some indigenous groups
We have been watching as activists from around the world have converged on Scotland hoping to persuade the rich and powerful to hear their personal stories of climate degradation and vulnerability.