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The UK government is exaggerating the benefits of its landmark financial reforms and being “disingenuous” in describing it as a Brexit dividend, according to the Conservative chair of a key parliamentary watchdog. The landmark reform package was announced in Edinburgh last month by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who said that many of the changes were only possible because of “freedoms” gained from leaving the EU. “I thought that it was a bit disingenuous to package it all as stuff we could do as a result of Brexit freedoms,” Harriett Baldwin, a senior Tory, said of her party’s 30-point action plan of…

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It’s time for Sweden to join NATO because it has done what’s necessary to secure Turkey’s approval for membership, the military alliance’s secretary-general said Monday.”I have said that time has come to bring to an end the ratification process for Sweden,” Jens Stoltenberg told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet in an interview.In May, Sweden and neighboring Finland dropped their longstanding policies of military nonalignment and applied to join NATO following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The move requires the unanimous approval of the alliance members. Turkey has held up the process while pressing the two Nordic countries to crack down on groups it…

A cargo ship carrying corn that went aground early on Monday in the Suez Canal was refloated and traffic through the crucial waterway was restored, Egyptian authorities said.Adm. Ossama Rabei, head of the Suez Canal Authority, said the Marshall Islands-flagged MV Glory suffered a sudden technical failure while transiting through the canal, and the authority deployed four tugboats to help refloat it.The vessel, which is owned by Greek firm Primera Shipping Inc., was heading to China before it broke down at the 24 mile-mark of the canal, near the city of Qantara in the province of Ismailia, he said.SUEZ CANAL…

The 36-year-old, visiting Thailand for a month to go diving, said it was “very familiar to visit here, and the weather is good too”. Jiang, who booked her flight two weeks ago, said she had a last-minute panic about possible travel restrictions. “We worried the policies would be different from what we expected and we would be stopped from flying,” she said, adding that none of the ground staff at Xiamen airport had known the latest Thai policy. China is experiencing a surge in COVID-19 infections, with one official admitting on Monday that 90 per cent of people in Henan…

Fay Weldon, who died last week aged 91, was so much more than a revered novelist. She was a revered advertising copywriter for Ogilvy & Mather. Or, to quote a joke from another former Ogilvy’s copywriter, Salman Rushdie: “Her great legacy to the world of literature is the slogan ‘Go to work on an egg.’ After that, she wrote novels.” There’s an inbuilt contradiction between making up stories and earning money, and many gifted writers have solved it by producing adverts. For Raymond Chandler, advertising agencies were the acme of the “waste of human intelligence”. But the century-old tradition may…

Food standards experts say the milk products have been given to a small number of babies at seven hospitals, although the health risk is ‘likely to be low’Batches of human breast milk are being recalled over fears about the levels of lead some may contain. Bosses at the Food Standards Agency have launched a probe into the milk products made by NeoKare Nutrition Limited, which are understood to have higher than usual lead content. The products have been supplied to 13 NHS hospitals, with all now urgently recalled. Of the 13, seven are known to have used the products, including…

Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur dismissed the actions of rookie linebacker Quay Walker during Sunday night’s game against the Detroit Lions.Walker was penalized in the fourth quarter after he apparently pushed a member of the Lions training staff who was trying to tend to running back D’Andre Swift. Walker was ejected from the game. “That is unacceptable,” the Packers coach said, via Pro Football Talk. “I’ve got a much higher standard for our players than to do silly things like that. We’ve got a guy ejected twice. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that in my career. We’ve got…

The sister of one of the four University of Idaho students who was stabbed to death on Nov. 13 said it has been chilling to learn that suspect Bryan Kohberger, 28, appears to have been watching the Moscow home in the months prior to the murders. “We had no idea. She had no idea. I had no idea that true evil was genuinely watching them,” Alivea Goncalves, 26, sister of victim Kaylee Goncalves, 21, said in an interview with NewsNation on Sunday.Reading through the probable cause affidavit, which notes that Kohberger’s cell phone was in the vicinity of the crime scene “on…

For his first international foray of 2023, United States President Joe Biden has swung down to Mexico City to attend the latest iteration of the North American Leaders’ Summit, charmingly dubbed the “Three Amigos Summit”. The meeting is kicking off on January 9 with a bilateral encounter between Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known as AMLO. The third “amigo” is Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. One major topic for friendly discussion between Biden and AMLO will inevitably be migration, as the US continues to battle a “migrant crisis” of unprecedented proportions – a crisis that would…