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Horsemeat lasagne prompts further tests
Food Standards Agency (FSA) chiefs say they have no indication that there are any health concerns after it emerged some Findus beef lasagne contains up to 100 per cent horsemeat.
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Findus lasagnes may have contained horsemeat ‘since August’
Findus’s beef lasagne may have been contaminated with horsemeat since the summer, Labour MP Tom Watson says.
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‘Unprecedented’ tests in horsemeat scandal
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson insists “unprecedented” tests have been set up to tackle the horsemeat scandal and denies the FSA has failed consumers.
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Tunisia: unions call general strike as protests continue
Police in Tunis fire tear gas at protestors outside the Interior Ministry as unions call the first general strike since 1978 following the assassination of a secular opposition leader.
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Libor rate-fixing scandal – the key questions
RBS is the third bank to be fined for attempting to fix the benchmark lending rate for financial institutions. What did these banks do and why does it matter?
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Selfridges in court over raw milk sales
Supporters claim it is tastier and more nutritious – but the Food Standards Agency has taken Selfridges and a dairy farmer to court for selling raw milk at the London store.
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RBS fined for Libor rate fixing
Royal Bank of Scotland is fined almost £400m for its role in the Libor rate-fixing scandal, the third bank forced to pay a penalty by regulators in Britain and the US.
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Senior Barclays figures to retire
Barclays says finance director Chris Lucas, the only remaining top ranking executive at the bank following the Libor scandal, is to retire, along with group general counsel Mark Harding.
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Syrian refugees: ‘Tonight we died many deaths’
Channel 4 News Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller witnesses the dramatic late-night escape and rescue of a group of Syrian refugees, fleeing their homeland under fire and crossing into Jordan.
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Horse meat in contaminated burgers from Poland
The head of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) tells MPs that Irish authorities are sure “filler product” used in contaminated burgers was from Poland, as Tesco sacks its supplier.
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Terror prompts ‘alarming’ rise in Syrian refugees to Jordan
As thousands of Syrian refugees cross the Jordanian border fleeing extreme violence and bombing, Jordan’s foreign minister tells Channel 4 News there is a lack of funds to cope with the influx.
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Contaminated UK horse meat consumed in France
The Food Standards Agency has told Channel 4 News that UK horse meat contaminated with a toxic drug was consumed in France before it could be recalled.
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Syria – where medicine is a weapon of war
Healthcare professionals in Syria caring for the war-wounded are being deliberately targeted by Bashir al-Assad’s regime, says the International Rescue Committee.
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Tesco publishes horse meat burger apology
Tesco publishes full page apologies in a number of national newspapers after it emerged the supermarket had been selling beef burgers containing horse meat.
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Horse meat found in supermarket burgers
Tesco removes burgers from its shelves after one of its burger brands was found to contain 29 per cent horse meat in an investigation by a food safety watchdog.