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Campaigners say 15% cut, which is smaller than had been feared, is serious setback in efforts to combat the diseasesUK politics live – latest updatesThe UK has cut by 15% its contribution to a leading aid fund combating preventable diseases, a decision that charities have said could lead to hundreds of thousands more otherwise preventable deaths.The UK will commit £850m to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria […]

Injuries are non-life-threatening after mobile lounge moving passengers between terminal and plane hit dockA vehicle transporting passengers at a Washington DC-area airport hit a dock at the building on Monday, sending 18 people to the hospital, according to officials.A mobile lounge, which transports passengers between the terminal and aircraft, struck the dock at an angle at about 4.30pm at Washington Dulles international airport as it was pulling up to the […]

The actor has over 250 screen credits, including Anna, The Way We Were and JFK, and collaborated with Andy WarholSally Kirkland, the Oscar-nominated actor and one-time member of Andy Warhol’s the Factory, has died at 84.The star of films including Anna, JFK and Bruce Almighty had entered hospice care two days before her death after a period of ill health. Last year, a GoFundMe page had been set up to […]

Christiana Figueres tells summit that decarbonisation of global economy is inevitable despite disruptive Trump presidency“Ciao, bambino!” That was the message Christiana Figueres, former executive secretary of the United Nations framework convention on climate change, had for the US upon its recent exit from the Paris Climate Agreement.The world’s largest historical emitter also chose not to send a delegation to the negotiations. “I think it actually is a good thing,” Figueres […]

Zhimin Qian cheated 128,000 victims in China through a Ponzi scheme before going on the run for six yearsA fraudster has been jailed over a scam that led to the UK’s largest ever cryptocurrency seizure of bitcoin worth more than £5.5bn.Zhimin Qian, 47, defrauded more than 128,000 victims in China through a Ponzi scheme before fleeing to the UK as an international fugitive. Continue reading...Source: www.theguardian.comRead full article

Country is one of world’s most repressive and corrupt, raising concerns over rights abuses of those deportedThe United States has sent $7.5m to the government of Equatorial Guinea, one of the world’s most repressive and corrupt regimes, to accept noncitizen deportees from the US to the west African nation, according to a leading congressional Democrat, current and former state department officials, and public government data.The money sent to Equatorial Guinea […]