Edward Troup, a former HM Revenue & Customs chief who has been advising shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, said the older generation must 'contribute'.

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The Meteorological Service of Jamaica says Hurricane Beryl is about to begin moving away from the island. However, it says a hurricane warning is still in effect as Beryl remains close to the southwestern tip of Jamaica. At 7 p.m. the centre of...

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RIYADH: Prince Turki bin Mohammed bin Fahd, Saudi minister of state and chairman of the board of directors of the Imam Turki bin Abdullah Royal Reserve Development Authority, inaugurated the main building of the authority in Riyadh, the state news agency SPA reported on Wednesday. During his tour of the building, he was briefed on its designs and offices, “which were compatible with environmental considerations and took into account energy efficiency,” SPA said.

RIYADH: As part of an official visit to Turkiye, Saudi Arabia’s minister of defense, Prince Khalid bin Salman, on Wednesday met in Istanbul with the president of the nation’s Defense Industry Agency, Haluk Gorgun, and the heads of leading Turkish companies. They reviewed opportunities for cooperation in the military and defense sectors, in line with the goals of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 plan for national development and diversification, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

RIYADH: The supervisor general of Saudi aid agency KSrelief, Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, on Tuesday visited the cities of Reyhanli and Kirikhan in Turkiye’s Hatay Province to inspect the work of volunteers taking part in the agency’s programs to help people affected by the earthquakes that hit parts of Turkiye and Syria in February last year.

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s National Center for Wildlife Development has launched a comprehensive survey plan to collect basic data on the crown-of-thorns starfish groups in the Red Sea, to be used in managing the outbreak of the organism in a timely manner, and thus protecting the health of coral reefs and biodiversity. The action plan is the culmination of a workshop held by the NCWD in late 2022, during which the threat of crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks on the Red Sea environment was discussed, a Saudi Press Agency report says.

RIYADH: At least 40 entities from the public and private sectors in the Kingdom have signed up with the newly organized Saudi Alliance for Agricultural and Food Technologies, with the aim of coming up with solutions to increase efficiency and abundance in agricultural and food products, and achieve safe and sustainable supply chains.  Deputy Minister Mansour bin Hilal Al-Mushaiti of the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA) led the launch on July 3, 2024 in Riyadh, according to a report of the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

«Our trio is among key cooperation instruments on the Eurasian continent,» the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergey Lavrov said

US President have to to allow a vigorous Democratic leader to beat Donald Trump at the elections, Reed Hastings said

Maxim Likhachev described it as a «long-awaited document.»

Hamas’ latest response will enable the two parties to enter «detailed negotiations» to reach an agreement, an Israeli source was quoted

Vladimir Putin and Tayyip Erdogan met on Wednesday on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Astana

Powerful Hurricane Beryl churned along Jamaica's southern coast on Wednesday, battering the island with dangerous winds and sea surge after leaving a trail of destruction and at least seven people dead in the Caribbean. The eye of the Category 4 hurricane has not yet breached the shore of Jamaica but could in the coming hours, and is expected to approach or even make landfall in the Cayman islands overnight before moving onward to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, the US National Hurricane Center said. The storm is the first since NHC records began to reach the Category 4 level in June and the earliest to reach Category 5 in July. Ahead of Beryl's arrival, people across Jamaica removed boats from the water and rushed to buy food, water, gasoline and other essentials. As of Wednesday afternoon the storm was packing maximum sustained winds of 140 mph (220 kph), said the NHC. Hurricane conditions are spreading through the island, it said. Prime Minister Andrew Holness declared a curfew from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm across the island of 2.8 million and urged Jamaicans to comply with evacuation orders. «If you live in a low lying area, an area historically prone to flooding and landslide or if you live on the banks of a river, I implore you to evacuate to a shelter, or to safer ground,» he said in a video posted to social media. Desmon Brown, manager of the National Stadium in Kingston, said his staff has scrambled to be ready. «We've taped up our windows, covered our equipment -- including computers, printers and that sort of thing. Apart from that, it's mainly concrete so there's not much we can do,» Brown told the Jamaica Observer newspaper. Mexican officials were meanwhile scrambling to prepare for Beryl, which is expected to hit somewhere between the well-known tourist hotspot of Tulum and the town of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, according to Civil Protection national coordinator Laura Velazquez. Beginning Thursday «we will have intense rains and wind gusts» she said, announcing the deployment of hundreds of military personnel, marines and electricity workers in anticipation of damage. The government has prepared 112 shelters with a capacity for some 20,000 people and suspended school in the state of Quintana Roo where Beryl will hit. - 'No communication' - Beryl has already left a trail of death with at least three people killed in Grenada, where the storm made landfall Monday, as well as one in St Vincent and the Grenadines and three in Venezuela. Grenada's Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell said the island of Carriacou, which was struck by the eye of the storm, has been all but cut off, with houses, telecommunications and fuel facilities there flattened. The 13.5-square mile (35-square kilometer) island is home to around 9,000 people. At least two people there died, Mitchell said, with a third killed on the country's main island of Grenada when a tree fell on a house. In St. Vincent and the Grenadines, one person on the island of Bequia was reported dead from the storm, while a man died in Venezuela's northeastern coastal state of Sucre when he was swept away by a flooded river, officials there said. - Climate change - It is extremely rare for such a powerful storm to form this early in the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from early June to late November. Warm ocean temperatures are key for hurricanes, and North Atlantic waters are currently between two and five degrees Fahrenheit (1-3 degrees Celsius) warmer than normal, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). UN climate chief Simon Stiell, who has family on the island of Carriacou, said climate change was «pushing disasters to record-breaking new levels of destruction.» «Disasters on a scale that used to be the stuff of science fiction are becoming meteorological facts, and the climate crisis is the chief culprit,» he said Monday, reporting that his parents' property was damaged. © Agence France-Presse

Britons head to the polls Thursday in a general election widely expected to emphatically return the opposition Labour party to power and end nearly a decade-and-a-half of Conservative rule. The country's first national ballot since Boris Johnson won a landslide for the Tories in 2019 follows Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's surprise call to hold it six months earlier than required. His gamble looks set to backfire spectacularly, with polls throughout the six-week campaign -- and for the last two years -- pointing to a heavy defeat for his right-wing party. That would almost certainly put Labour leader Keir Starmer, 61, in Downing Street, as leader of the largest party in parliament. Centre-left Labour is projected to win its first general election since 2005 by historic proportions, with a flurry of election-eve polls all forecasting its biggest-ever victory. But Starmer was taking nothing for granted as he urged voters not to stay at home. «Britain's future is on the ballot,» he said. «But change will only happen if you vote for it.» - Long night - Voting begins at 7:00 am in more than 40,000 polling stations across the country, from church halls, community centres and schools to more unusual venues such as pubs and even a ship. At 10:00 pm, broadcasters then announce exit polls, which typically provide an accurate picture of how the main parties have performed. Results from the UK's 650 constituencies trickle in overnight, with the winning party expected to hit 326 seats -- the threshold for a parliamentary majority -- as dawn breaks Friday. Polls suggest voters will punish the Tories after 14 years of often chaotic rule and could oust a string of government ministers, with talk that even Sunak himself might not be safe. That would make him the first sitting prime minister not to retain his seat in a general election. «I appreciate people have frustrations with our party,» he conceded on Wednesday. «But tomorrow's vote... is a vote about the future.» - Endorsements - Sunak, 44, is widely seen as having run a dismal campaign, with anger over his decision to leave D-Day commemorations in France early the standout moment. In new blows Wednesday, The Sun newspaper switched allegiance to Labour -- a key endorsement given the tabloid has backed the winner at every election for several decades. It follows the Financial Times, the Economist and The Sunday Times as well as traditionally left-leaning papers The Guardian and The Daily Mirror, also endorsing the party. Meanwhile, three large-scale surveys indicated Labour was on the brink of a record victory, with the Tories set for their worst-ever result and the centrist Liberal Democrats resurgent in third. YouGov, Focaldata and More in Common all projected Labour would secure at least 430 seats, topping the 418 under Tony Blair in 1997. The Conservatives could plunge to a record low of less than 127, the trio predicted. The Lib Dems were tipped to scoop dozens of seats -- up from their current tally of 15 -- while Nigel Farage's anti-immigrant Reform UK party was set to win a handful. YouGov and More in Common both forecast the Brexit figurehead would finally become an MP at the eighth time of asking. - 'National renewal' - If the predictions are accurate, Sunak will on Friday visit head of state King Charles III to tender his resignation as prime minister. Starmer will meet the monarch shortly after to take up his invitation to head the next government -- and become prime minister. The Labour leader will then travel to Downing Street -- the office and residence of British leaders -- where he would be expected to deliver a speech before making ministerial appointments. It would cap a remarkable political rise for the former human rights lawyer and chief prosecutor, first elected an MP in 2015. He has promised a «decade of national renewal» but faces a daunting task revitalising creaking public services and a flatlining economy. © Agence France-Presse

«Partir en Livre» revient à la mairie de Papeete les mercredi 3 et jeudi 4 juillet pour sa dixième édition. Organisée par le Centre national du livre (CNL) depuis 2015,  elle est la première manifestation destinée à promouvoir la lecture auprès de la jeunesse. Les livres sortent des étagères pour aller à la rencontre du jeune public sur ses lieux et temps de loisir. L'objectif : transmettre le goût de lire.

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Police search for Bhole Baba at charity trust; FIR includes BNS, 2023 sections. The stampede incident led to over 100 deaths, injuring several. Governor forms Judicial Inquiry Commission for probe. CM orders strict action to prevent future incidents. «There are 40-50 sevadars inside the ashram. He ('Bhole Baba') is not inside, neither he was yesterday nor he is today...» said DSP Mainpuri Sunil Kumar. Meanwhile, Aligarh BJP MP Satish Gautam Bagla met the victims of the Hathras stampede incident at the Combined District Hospital.

PM Modi's attacks on Congress, Constitution, and Ambedkar face criticism from Kharge in Rajya Sabha. RSS's opposition to the Constitution and Ambedkar in 1950 highlighted. Congress also accused the PM of losing an opportunity to send out a message of unity to Manipur by refusing to allow Outer Manipur MP Alfred Arthur to speak for a minute ahead of his speech in Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

Members of the Jamaica Defence Force and the Jamaica Fire Brigade are frantically searching for 20-year-old Alrick Moncrieffe, otherwise called 'Colanji' or 'Lala', who fell in a gully and was washed away by floodwaters this...

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