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- Published When Perea stopped growing coca - the raw material used to make cocaine - he vowed never to plant it again. He uprooted the green bushes on his small farm in a remote corner of the province of Meta in Colombia, reachable only by river, and replaced them with legal crops like cassava and plantain. Perea was one of thousands who joined a government…
- Published Thousands more parents could receive £27 a week by remembering some paperwork shortly after their baby is born. Child benefit is an allowance that helps with the cost of bringing up children. It is currently worth £27.05 a week for the first child, and £17.90 a week for each subsequent child. Official data shows that parents of nearly a third of…
- Published Ravika was celebrating her birthday on holiday with her husband when she got an unusual alert from her fitness tracker. Her Oura ring flagged that her health score was poor. Her heart rate had gone up, her body temperature was elevated and her heart rate variability (HRV) had dropped. Yet Ravika felt completely fine. When the stats hadn't improve…
Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, rose more than 3 percent as trading resumed on Sunday, while S&P 500 futures remained essentially unchanged.
The BBC understands creditors would would pursue payment in full of the outstanding debts, in the multi-billions of pounds.
Le pays, qui a pris la présidence tournante du Conseil de l’UE au 1ᵉʳ juillet, doit se retirer des négociations sur la régulation numérique et les règles de fiscalité des entreprises, estime dans une tribune au « Monde » un collectif d’universitaires, dont les économistes Mariana Mazzucato, Joseph Stiglitz et Shoshana Zuboff.