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Weeks of lockdown combined with a banking collapse have plunged almost half the population of Lebanon into poverty.
Home ownership rates have increased in recent years, but are still well below where they were 20 years ago.
Gary Gibbon
Good morning from Buenos Aires where Theresa May has arrived overnight ready for two days of talks at the G20. She wont have had to time to listen to her International Trade Secretary defending her deal on Radio 4 this morning but if she had she might have thought it was someone speaking from a…
Jon Snow
Chicago O’Hare Airport. Mile upon mile of concrete runways with tiny quadrants of grass, and slow moving aircraft traffic criss-crossing ahead of us. We are in America. The eternal passport control awaits us, and thence to the open road. Five lanes in each direction, massive ten wheeler wagons belching un-green gases along in all but the not…
The Government’s contingency plans for a no deal brexit amount to a torrent of details from stock piles of medical supplies, to warnings that Britons living elsewhere in Europe could lose access to UK banking and pension services. Brexit secretary Dominic Raab described it as “practical and proportionate advice” – but Labour said it showed…
Gary Gibbon
Nigel Farage says “the Tory posh boys” sang his song on immigration in the latter stages of the referendum campaign and are now running away from the issue and talking of a “liberal Brexit”.
In our latest ‘So What’ video, we explain the issues and talk to experts to try to get to the bottom of it.
Despite the to-ing and fro-ing, there’s not much of interest in today’s Brexit papers. Here’s what you should read instead.
Robert Mugabe has reportedly said he wants to spend his last days in Africa but he has had medical treatment in Singapore. He also is thought to have used Singapore’s secretive banking laws to hide his assets there. We followed the Mugabe trail.
The popular quiz show host Noel Edmonds has turned into something of an anti-banks campaigner after he claims he lost millions through his dealings with HBOS. He’s now involved in a £300m compensation battle with Lloyds Banking group, to cover losses relating to the collapse of his entertainment firm a decade ago and what he…
Helia Ebrahimi
The BNP Paribas announcement turned out to be the starting gun to the global financial crisis.
Gary Gibbon
Seeing the leaders arrive here at the European Council you’re struck by the buoyant mood.
Siobhan Kennedy
It’s difficult to overstate the significance of the Serious Fraud Office’s charges against Barclays PLC and the four senior Barclays bankers- including John Varley, its former boss and one of the most high profile names in the City.
The Government has sold its remaining shares in Lloyds Banking Group, returning the bank fully into private hands. Lloyds received a £20bn taxpayer bailout at the height of the financial crash eight years ago. The bank says that has now been repaid in full, but not everyone is happy. Channel 4 News has been talking…
The government sold its remaining shares in Lloyds today, with the bank declaring that the sale returned “more than £21.2 billion to the British taxpayer, repaying £894 million more than the original investment”.