UK SHOPPERS ARE PAYING RECORD 10.6% MORE FOR FOOD THAN A YEAR AGO, DATA SHOWS

Wed 28 September 2022: The war in Ukraine has driven up the cost of commodities like animal feed, fertilizer, and vegetable oil, which has caused food price inflation to soar past last month’s 9.3 percent to 10.6 percent in the UK. In September, overall shop price inflation increased to 5.7% from 5.1% in August, according […]

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EU DRAFT WILL MAKE IT EASIER TO SUE DRONE MAKERS AND AI SYSTEMS

Wed 28 September 2022: According to proposed EU regulations, it will be simpler for people and businesses to file lawsuits for damages when drones, robots, and other products or services with artificial intelligence software cause them harm. The European Commission will present the AI Liability Directive on Wednesday. Its goal is to address the inconsistent […]

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IMF WARNS UK ITS BUDGET CUTS WILL ‘LIKELY INCREASE INEQUALITY’

Wed 28 September 2022: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has taken aim at new British financial plans that have roiled markets, warning that “large and untargeted fiscal packages” would likely increase inequality in the United Kingdom and could undermine monetary policy. In its first comments on Tuesday on plans by the UK’s new finance minister Kwasi […]

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EXCAVATIONS IN EPIPHANEIA ANCIENT CITY UNEARTH CALENDAR MOSAICS IN TURKIYE (VIDEO)

Wed 28 September 2022: Depicting rural activities, calendar mosaics with personifications of months have been discovered in southern Turkiye during ongoing excavations in the ancient city of Epiphaneia, Anadolu News Agency reports. Digging started in Epiphaneia, also known as the ruins of Issos, in 2006 as rescue excavation, and has been going on since then. “We have […]

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RUSSIA’S PUTIN FAULTS WEST’S ‘PREDATORY POLICIES’ FOR GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS

Tue 27 September 2022: The global food crisis is a result of the West’s “predatory policies,” Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, said on Tuesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. “The West is provoking a global food crisis … The cost of food on the world market has returned to the levels of the beginning of the year, but it […]

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NORD STREAM 1 AND 2 PIPELINES LEAK GAS INTO BALTIC, RAISING FEARS OF SABOTAGE

Tue 27 September 2022: Member states of the European Union are racing to investigate sudden and unexplained leaks in two Russian gas pipelines beneath the Baltic Sea, infrastructure at the heart of a dispute between Moscow and the EU. Sweden’s Maritime Authority issued a warning on Tuesday about two leaks in the Nord Stream 1 […]

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