Government ‘has thrown landlords under the bus’, ministers hear
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Landlords had lobbied for tax incentives to help them stay in the rental market.

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary describes UK tax plans as ‘nuts’
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The airline chief said the move could potentially bankrupt the UK economy in the coming years.

Central Bank to issue Bank of Ireland with major fine over tracker mortgage scandal
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There are no details yet as to how large the fine will be but Bank of Ireland has set aside €120 million in its accounts to settle the remaining tracker issues.

Tax credit for renters criticised as ‘inadequate and flawed’ by Sinn Féin
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Taoiseach Micheal Martin defended the measure, saying people will be able to claim tax credit back on rent paid this year.

Russia-installed administrators in occupied regions ask Putin to hastily incorporate them
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Following hurriedly organised referendums that Ukraine and the West blasted as fraudulent, the Russian-installed administrators of Ukraine's Luhans

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Ukraine: Through stage-managed referendums, the history is repeating itself
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The outcome of the stage-managed referendums in three eastern provinces of Ukraine (Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia) and Kherson towards the south c

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'Men are from Mars, women are from Venus', which planet should humans visit first?
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While Mars is the intended target for humanity's first crewed mission to another planet, a group of experts is now advocating for Earth's sister pl

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Poland, Bulgaria urge citizens to leave Russia
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In the wake of exodus of Russians fleeing the country to escape military mobilisation, Poland and Bulgaria on Tuesday (September 28) urged their ci

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Three big central banks financing deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon forest: Report
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Three of the world’s largest central banks have been accused of financing agri-business giants that are engaged in the destruction of the climate c

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NATO member wants ‘devastating’ retaliation against Russia
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The bloc’s response to any use of WMDs by Moscow in Ukraine must not be nuclear, but still massive, Poland’s foreign minister says

NATO’s response to any use of tactical nuclear weapons by Russia in Ukraine must be “devastating” but only employ conventional arms, as Moscow’s threat is not directed at the bloc, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau has said.

“To the best of our knowledge, Putin is threatening to use tactical nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil, not to attack NATO, which means that NATO should respond in a conventional way,” Rau claimed during his Wednesday’s appearance on NBC News program Meet the...

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Major airline allows male staff to wear skirts
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Virgin Atlantic is permitting its personnel to wear any uniform in which they feel comfortable

In a bid to become “the most inclusive airline in the skies,” British Virgin Atlantic scrapped rules on Wednesday requiring its staff to wear gender-specific uniforms. This means male personnel may now wear red skirt suits to work.

The company, which is owned by billionaire Richard Branson, announced that it would update its gender identity policies to “champion individuality,” enabling its employees to wear clothing that “expresses how they identify.”

According to the airline’s press release, personnel are now...

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Nord Stream damage might be irreparable – media
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The Russian gas pipelines earlier suffered a suspected sabotage attack

What is being touted as potential sabotage on the Russian Nord Stream gas pipelines might have dealt them irreparable damage, Germany’s Tagesspiegel reported on Wednesday, citing “government circles.”  The two pipelines were seriously damaged earlier this week.

If the damage is not repaired quickly enough, too much salty sea water could run into the pipes lying at the bottom of the Baltic Sea and irreversibly corrode them, German officials have warned, according to the news media outlet. Denmark said on Wednesday that its authorities would...

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Childcare provisions in Budget ‘almost totally exclude’ stay-at-home parents

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Full Time Carer says Government cares more about those who ‘don’t want to work’.

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How Britain’s Labour Party Became a Criminal Conspiracy Against its Members
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For many years, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters have claimed that he, and they, were targeted in a coordinated attack from the right of the party, comprising a majority of Labour MPs as well as senior party staff. The aim was to sabotage Corbyn’s chances of taking power.

Those allegations were dismissed as a wild conspiracy theory by the British media. But the first independent verification came as early as April 2020, shortly after Corbyn stepped down as leader, with the leak of a cache of internal Labour Party documents. They showed that Labour bureaucrats, responsible to the party’s general secretary Iain McNicol rather than to Corbyn,...

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Ex-U.S. Special Envoy to Haiti Dan Foote: Send Special Forces to Haiti or 25,000 troops
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On September 19, activists gathered outside the White House to commemorate one year since the mass deportation of Haitian asylum seekers in Del Rio, Texas.

The commemoration came as a popular uprising in Haiti entered its third week, sparked by International Monetary Fund-imposed fuel price hikes amid spiraling inflation and a state of total insecurity.

Interim Prime Minister Ariel Henry has sought to avoid blame, telling citizens that,

We will have to readjust the price of gas. I know there are people who will try to heat up your heads, tell you to take to the streets so that gas does not come back to its normal price… Violence has no place. Violence won’t get us anywhere. I put out a call for calm to everyone.”

The U.S. and its junior partners, however, have sought to shift blame for the unrest onto local economic interests and so-called “gangs.”

U.S. President Joe Biden told the United Nations General Assembly, “We continue to stand with our neighbor in Haiti as it faces political-fueled gang violence, and an enormous human crisis, and we call on the world to do the same,” adding that, “we have more to do.”

“If you look at the protests that are taking place as a result of the end of fuel subsidies, they are financed by economic actors,” top Biden advisor and National Security Council Director Juan Gonzales commented.

In attendance at the White House protest was former U.S. Special Envoy for Haiti Daniel Foote, who warned that if Washington does not train a Haitian National Police unit to crush Haiti’s so-called “gangs”, it will launch a full scale invasion.

“The U.S. has two choices: Either reinforce the police now, probably using military trainers, so send a company of special forces trainers to teach the police and set up an anti-gang task force, or send 25,000 troops at some undetermined but imminent period in the future,” Foote declared.

Foote resigned from his post in September 2021, citing the inhumane treatment of Haitians at the border as the breaking point.

“I realized I could no longer have the positive impact and push Haiti towards where it needs to go in my role as special envoy because of the guy in that building right there,” he told the crowd, pointing at the White House.

The resignation earned him praise from prominent intellectuals including filmmaker Raoul Peck, who called Foote’s congressional testimony “shattering and redemptive,” saying that it “restored some measure of honor to decades of shameless American intervention.”

Since his resignation, Foote has been vocally opposed to continued U.S. support for Haitian Interim Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who remains in office despite being implicated in the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise.

Rather than withdrawing support for Henry, Washington has sought to unite him with his principal rival, a coalition of traditional political parties and dozens of so-called civil society groups, known as the Montana Accord.

Described as a “Haitian-led” alternative to Henry, the Montana coalition proposes a two-year transitional government leading to elections.

This Accord is headed by Magali Comeau Denis, who, like Ariel Henry, was a key figure in the 2004 U.S.-orche...

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