Governor announces plan as part of Earth Day celebration.
Right To Life UK spokesperson Catherine Robinson blasted the funding of overseas abortions as 'a form of neo-colonialism' and called for its immediate end.
Under the new plan, London wants to spend a cumulative extra of £75 billion ($93 billion) over the next six years, culminating in a 2030 annual defense budget of £87 billion ($108 billion), which would make it second in NATO only to the US in defense expenditure.
The UK prime minister said Tuesday the country is putting its defense industry on a “war footing” by increasing defense spending to 2.5% of GDP by the end of the decade, and pledged to send arms worth 500 million pounds ($620 million) to Ukraine. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described the
That’s exactly what has happened this month to residents in Greendykes and other parts of the city where they are part of a district heating scheme. People are angry, and with good reason. Out of the blue they found their heating account charges had suddenly gone up from five pence a unit to 26 pence, adding up to £200 a month to bills. No notice, no explanation, just an automatic adjustment to their online accounts. The Greendykes residents – some tenants, some owners - live in a new...
North Sea oil and gas producer Ithaca Energy said on Tuesday it would buy Eni's UK upstream oil and gas assets for about £754m in an all-stock deal.
A poll of 2,000 adults found 64 per cent were unaware tea typically comes from China – with 10 per cent believing the UK is its birthplace. Similarly, 71 per cent aren't aware of coffee's origins and 25 per cent don't know Champagne comes from France. More than a quarter (26 per cent) don’t know which country invented Coca-Cola and 29 per cent have no idea where sangria was created. The study was commissioned by Estrella Galicia, a Spanish beer brewed in Spain rather than the UK, to launch the...
A poll of 2,000 adults found 64 per cent were unaware tea typically comes from China – with 10 per cent believing the UK is its birthplace. Similarly, 71 per cent aren't aware of coffee's origins and 25 per cent don't know Champagne comes from France. More than a quarter (26 per cent) don’t know which country invented Coca-Cola and 29 per cent have no idea where sangria was created. The study was commissioned by Estrella Galicia, a Spanish beer brewed in Spain rather than the UK, to launch the...
Geneva, Apr 16 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations (UN) reported on Tuesday that donor countries pledged humanitarian aid to Ethiopia for over US$ 600 million to mitigate current crisis in the African nation. The post UN pledges some 600 million dollars to boost aid to Ethiopia first appeared on Prensa Latina.
BENGALURU: Tech-to-tractor conglomerate Mahindra Group will invest 12 billion rupees (about $144 million) to set up solar and wind energy projects of 150 megawatt (MW) hybrid capacity in India, it said on Monday. The projects will be developed by the group's renewable energy unit Mahindra Susten with Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board, one of Canada's largest pension funds, as its strategic partner. Mahindra & Mahindra will also acquire a 26% stake in its solar power generating unit Gelos...
Phoenix, Abrdn and Aviva had said they would consider supporting new nuclear plants and were thought to be in the running to back Sizewell C.
Global streamer Netflix has reaffirmed its US$1bn a year commitment to producing content in the UK’s regions and nations, with three shows currently filming in Scotland. Appearing at the Creative Cit