En suite mania: homebuyers in Britain going ‘bonkers for bathrooms’
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Reading Time: < 1 minute“I don’t know about you, but we probably had one bathroom between five or six of us when I was growing up,”…
US backs 2 permanent seats for African nations on the UN Security Council
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe United States announced Thursday that it will support the addition of two new permanent seats for African countries on the powerful U.N….
Bankrupt and ravaged by student mental illness, Britain’s universities are badly in need of reform
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteForget the NHS for a minute – and look to Britain’s universities, another institution in urgent need of fixing. Read More
Hundreds of ‘dangerous’ lifejackets to be used in small boat crossings seized
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteHundreds of “dangerous” lifejackets to be used by organised crime groups to smuggle migrants across the English Channel in small boats have been seized,…
Bibby Stockholm in Dorset decommissioning process to start in November
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere will be no new arrivals on the Bibby Stockholm barge, as plans for its closure have been outlined. Read More
Pope Francis urges better pay for Singapore’s migrant workers
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePope Francis called on Singapore’s government to pay fair wages to over a million foreign workers as he arrived in the global financial hub…
After migrant boat tragedy, Senegal's president vows sanctions against people smugglers
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Reading Time: < 1 minute President Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal promised severe sanctions against people smugglers during his visit on Wednesday to the town of…
UN warns some 2.5 million Sudanese risk famine without more donations
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe World Food Program needs better access to people at risk of starvation in Sudan and more money from the crisis-weary West to…
MpMpox deaths rise by 107 in a week as Africa CDC calls the toll unacceptable
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfrican countries recorded more than 100 Mpox-related deaths in the past week, the continental health body said Thursday as it described the…
NHS meets four-hour A&E target for first time as overall wait list unchanged
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteNHS England has met its new four-hour A&E wait time target for the first time since it was brought in, new data…