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Bank of England warns UK faces deepest recession for centuries
The UK is facing the deepest recession not just in living memory but for centuries, the Bank of England has warned
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New York hospitals under intense pressure as coronavirus epidemic grows in USA
The number of people claiming unemployment benefit in the United States has doubled in a week.
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The US government approves largest bailout in US history
The US government approves largest bailout in US history
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Coronavirus deaths reach 1,000 in US as New York struggles with outbreak
In the US things are continuing to deteriorate in New York and around the country as Covid-19 has claimed over 1,000 lives.
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FactCheck: are Labour right to criticise the government on inflation?
It’s not clear we can lay the credit or blame for the latest inflation figures at the government’s door.
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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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Death toll rises in Iraq street clashes
In Iraq, at least 18 people have been killed overnight in violent clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in Baghdad as anger escalates over government corruption and widespread unemployment. More than 100 people have lost their lives since the clashes began 6 days ago. The scale of the protests has shaken the Iraqi government,…
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Economist Joseph Stiglitz: ‘We need a green new deal’
Nobel Prize-winning economist and author Joseph Stiglitz’s new book advocates what he describes as a “progressive capitalism”.
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Modi declares victory in India election
India’s general election was supposed to be a close-run thing – but Prime Minister Narendra Modi has secured a landslide re-election.
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India election: the young people struggling to find work
We’ve travelled south to the capital of Karnataka, Bengaluru, better known perhaps by its old British Empire name of Bangalore.
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Prof Jayati Ghosh: ‘Modi promised he would deliver justice, he’s given the opposite’
We’ve been speaking to Jayati Ghosh, who is Professor of Economics at India’s elite Jawaharlal Nehru University. A well-known critic, she explained why she feels Narendra Modi’s government has failed. We then spoke to the BJP’s national spokesperson Nalin Kohli, and put it to him that the big failure of Mr Modi was unemployment.
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How May’s Brexit deal is viewed in Leave-voting Stoke
Theresa May gave her last-gasp speech in Stoke-on-Trent, where people voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU. We spent the day meeting residents to see what they thought of Mrs May’s plan.
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Brexit’s worst-case scenario economic costs
The pound will crash, unemployment and inflation will soar and the UK economy could shrink by 8% – a worst-case scenario from the Bank of England.
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FactCheck: Theresa May’s claims about Labour and the Conservatives
“The deficit is down by four-fifths” This is similar to a claim Theresa May made in 2017, when she said that since the Conservatives took office in 2010, “the deficit [had] fallen by three quarters as a share of GDP.” In her speech this week, the Prime Minister wasn’t quite so specific, but we’ll assume…
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FactCheck: Conservatives not telling the whole story on workers’ pay
The Conservatives tweeted about “better pay”. But they didn’t mention that real wages are lower now than in 2010.