Helia Ebrahimi
Brink of collapse – how the global financial crisis began
The BNP Paribas announcement turned out to be the starting gun to the global financial crisis.
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Climate crisis up close: Journey to Greenland’s melting glaciers
The best place to hear, see and feel the effects of climate change is in the shadows of the shrinking glaciers of Greenland. The fast-melting ice has opened up new pathways for explorers to navigate and a small team of women, including polar adventurers, scientists and sustainability experts, have taken to the sea to experience…
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No indications that vaccine causes blood clots, EU medicines regulator clarifies
Millions have received the Oxford AstraZeneca jab. But despite successful trials and data showing high levels of effectiveness here in the UK, the vaccine has been dogged by public scepticism in Europe.
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FactCheck: Boris Johnson repeats claim that no country has a functioning Covid-19 tracing app
The Prime Minister says no country has a “functional” Covid-19 tracing app. But dozens of countries have launched apps designed to warn citizens of possible infection.
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Coronavirus: everything you need to know about food shopping
All your questions answered – from online deliveries, to the risk of getting coronavirus from food packaging.
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Cruise ship passenger becomes first British person to die from coronavirus
With news of the first British death and the first cases in Northern Ireland and Wales, Boris Johnson has said the coronavirus is the Government’s top priority.
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FactCheck: your Brexit day questions answered
We asked FactCheck readers what they wanted to know about Brexit day.
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No, plastic bag sales aren’t down 90%
The government says ‘sales of plastic bags by the seven biggest retailers in England have fallen by 90%’. But the figures don’t include ‘bags for life’ – which now account for a significant proportion of supermarket plastic bags.
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FactCheck: we can’t find evidence that Dominic Raab warned of no-deal Brexit
We can’t find an interview where Mr Raab warned explicitly about the possibility of a no-deal Brexit during the referendum campaign.
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FactCheck: Vote Leave’s “dark” Brexit ads
For the first time, we can see what kind of messages Vote Leave and others were targeting at key voters in a referendum campaign dominated by false statements and half-truths.
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The government’s rules for reporting gender pay gaps are toothless. Here’s why.
By midnight tonight, every employer with more than 250 staff will have published information on how much men and women in their organisations get paid. Or at least, that’s what the law requires. The firms that have published data so far reveal that 78 per cent pay men more than women, while 13 per cent…
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America’s long history of meddling in other countries’ elections
As the FBI investigates claims that Russian meddling helped Donald Trump become president, FactCheck looks at America’s own track record of interfering with democratic elections.
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FactCheck: what did we learn from Theresa May’s Brexit speech?
She wants a two(ish)-year “implementation period” The Prime Minister had already said she wanted some kind of transitional arrangement to continue after the current date when Britain is set to leave the EU – 29 March 2019. But this is the first time she has mentioned a specific timetable. Mrs May says she wants an…
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Helia Ebrahimi
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Jeremy Corbyn is wrong: you don’t have to be a member of the EU to be part of the single market
Jeremy Corbyn said on Sunday that a Labour government would leave the single market because remaining in it is ‘dependent on membership of the EU’. Commentators have been quick to point out that there are four countries in the single market that are not members of the EU. But is there more going on here…
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FactCheck: Britain’s “50bn exit bill” from the EU
Another week, another warning that UK taxpayers could be left paying into the EU for years after Brexit.
