Lindsey Hilsum
China: has there been an official cover-up?
The assumption in China these days is that officials lie and cover up whenever there’s an environmental catastrophe.
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‘Famine for millions’: fears over growing Yemen food crisis
Half a million Yemeni children are suffering from “severe malnutrition”, the UN’s World Food Programme warns, as fears grow the country is heading towards famine.
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Rail fares rise ‘three times faster’ than wages
Report by TUC union show rail fares rising faster than wages over the last five years as announcement is expected that fares for next year will rise just one per cent – the lowest rise since 2002
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Lindsey Hilsum
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Andy Burnham offers olive branch to Jeremy Corbyn
As the first votes in the Labour leadership contest are due to be cast, candidate Andy Burnham reaches out to favourite Jeremy Corbyn in a call for “unity”.
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Gordon Brown urges credible Labour leadership
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown warns that Labour will be powerless to help the poorest in society unless it can win the next election.
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Lord Janner has appeared in court for the first time
The 87-year-old peer appeared in person after the judge threatened to issue an arrest warrant. He was released on unconditional bail.
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Paul Mason
China: danger of an open currency war
China has stunned the world by devaluing its currency twice in two days. Or rather it has stunned that naive part of the world that believed China’s economy was okay.
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River pollution ‘an emergency’ for Colorado’s Navajo Nation
Leaders of the Native American Navajo community are planning to sue America’s Environmental Protection Agency after a toxic discharge from a disused mine pollutes the Animas and San Juan rivers.
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Karen Buckley: man admits murder of Irish student
Alexander Pacteau admits murdering Irish student Karen Buckley by strangling and repeatedly hitting her with a spanner.
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Miguel Angel Jimenez: reflections on a murdered Mexican activist
Miguel Angel Jimenez, an activist who was shot in the head at the weekend, was one of those guys you rarely meet in Mexico.
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Schoolboy who stabbed teacher given 11 years’ detention
The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, used an offensive racist term before stabbing supply teacher Vincent Uzomah in June
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Siobhan Kennedy
Was the Governor flip-flopping on interest rates?
Mark Carney is saying that in order to stop inflation overshooting the target, we might have to start raising rates more quickly or more steeply than yesterday’s report would imply.
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Lord Janner abuse claims: peer must appear in court
Lord Janner must attend a hearing over the 22 child sex abuse charges he faces, chief magistrate Howard Riddle rules.
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Why did Kids Company have to close?
There is still a lack of clarity about why Kids Company, the charity founded by Camila Batmanghelidjh 19 years ago to offer support for traumatised and abused children, has had to close.
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Siobhan Kennedy
MPC split 8-1 – but interest rates kept on hold at 0.5 per cent
At least one member of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee voted for an increase in interest rates in the August meeting, the minutes of the meeting reveal today.
