UK Job Losses at P& O Ferries: A “Last-Resort” Corporate Decision with Tragic Human Consequences
Almost eight hundred UK-based seafarers and shore staff, around three-quarters of them working out of the Port of Dover, were informed by their…
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Almost eight hundred UK-based seafarers and shore staff, around three-quarters of them working out of the Port of Dover, were informed by their…
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia executed 81 men, including seven Yemenis and one Syrian, on Saturday 12 March 2022, citing their support for…
As of 8 March 2022, an estimated 2, 155, 271 refugees have crossed Ukraine’s western border and entered Schengen Area countries (Hungary, Poland,…
On 1 March 2022, Naveen Shekharappa Gyanagoudar, a 21-year-old fourth-year medical student at Kharkiv National Medical University in north-eastern Ukraine, left a bunker,…
Russia’s recent military intervention in Ukraine has unleashed a barrage of economic sanctions from various Western and allied nations, including the US, the…
President Vladimir Putin of Russia launched a “specialised military operation” in Ukraine on 24 February 2022. He vowed, during a 28-minute-long address to…
The sedate and normally unexciting city of Ottawa in southeast Ontario, national capital of Canada since 1857, made the international news headlines for…
On 10 February 2022, despite the Prime Minister’s “complete confidence” in her abilities, Dame Cressida Dick, first female and first openly gay Metropolitan…
The British economy is about to become enmired in a debilitating cost-of-living crisis, caused by rising inflation, increased costs of borrowing, and an…
According to Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates, as of 2 January 2022 around 1.3 million people in the UK, or 2.1 per…