Portugal launches new $2.22-billion package to counter housing crisis
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePortugal’s government launched on Friday a new spending package worth 2 billion euros ($2.22 billion) to build around 33,000 homes by 2030…
British plumber among 37 people sentenced to death over Congo coup plot
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A British plumber and three Americans are among 37 people sentenced to death on charges of taking part in a murky coup plot…
The early release of prisoners was unavoidable, but too many women in the UK are now living in fear
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Reading Time: < 1 minutedarkness falls, it’s time to bolt the doors. Check the windows, test the locks; circle the house, then anxiously check all over…
Labour update on free NHS prescriptions 'review' as these 5 groups don't need to pay
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePeople have been urged to check if they qualify for free NHS prescriptions as the Government has responded to calls for a…
Primary school teacher who smuggled girl, 14, into Britain to act as a 'slave' is banned from the classroom after her shocking crime was exposed
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA ‘God-loving’ teacher has been banned from classroom for life after it emerged she helped smuggle a 14-year-old African child into Britain…
Prison population down 2% in a week as hundreds of inmates freed early
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe adult prison population dropped by more than 2,000 in the week the Government freed hundreds of inmates early. Read More
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….
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,…
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…