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Lisa O’Carroll
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Guardian correspondent covering international trade from EU persective, also post Brexit affairs and Ireland Former Brussels corr, Brexit corr + former media corr. Find me at lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com
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Why has Gazans’ hunger attained the status of ‘moral crisis’ when Israel’s genocidal slaughter did not asks this Irish Times columnist of The New York Times, Ursula Von der Leyen and Keir Starmer
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Why has Gazans’ hunger attained the status of ‘moral crisis’ when Israel’s genocidal slaughter did not?
No one understands the hollowness of its facilitators’ changed rhetoric better than the Israeli government
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NEW: Nick Clegg's wife Miriam González Durántes weighs up entering Spanish politics. By me and colleague in Spain Stephen Burgen www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Miriam González Durántez weighs up move to lead new Spanish liberal party
Wife of former British deputy PM Nick Clegg understood to have had talks with Renew grouping of parties in Europe
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BIG NEWS Germany, the most influential state in the EU in relation to Israel, has announced it is halting military exports to Israel that could be used in Gaza until further notice. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Ukraine conflict could be ‘frozen’ sooner rather than later, says Poland’s Tusk after talk with Zelenskyy – Europe live
Ukrainian president says ‘reliable peace essential for all’ after speaking to Polish PM on Friday morning, Trump’s deadline day for Russia to move towards a ceasefire
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Brown says that defence will not just prevent war but also destruction of economies
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Gordon Brown, former chancellor of UK, calls for Europe wide bonds to fund increase of defence spending to keep up with NATO commitments. Says Germany and France already looking outside fiscal rules/annual budgets, to raise money - BBC Radio 4.
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EXCLUSIVE: Israeli military intelligence aimed to surveill a million Palestinian calls a day, with intelligence sources audio files stored on Microsoft Azure cloud. Some Israeli military files, it is suggested, were stored in Ireland and the Netherlands
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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
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Tommy Robinson arrested over alleged assault at London station
Video posted online showed the far-right activist near a man lying on the ground at St Pancras station
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EU tariff = 15% UK tariff =- 13.8%
Why? EU 15% includes pre- Trump average most favoured nation tariff of 4.8%.
UK's 10% tariff is stacked on top of pre-Trump average, a spox for dept of biz and trade confirmed.
Pre-Trump UK average was 3.8% Reuters data ) www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Trump tariffs live: stock markets fall after US announces new rates on 92 countries
Donald Trump orders 10% tariffs on goods imported from all countries bar those from 92 nations subject to higher levies; Mark Carney says Canada will ‘diversify’ its export markets
New US tariffs dropped. Don't be Switzerland. Do be the EU that uniquely got a concession on tariff stacking, which should but won't silence the doomsters with no actual trade policy or geopolitical knowledge.
Better also for many developing countries. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Further Modifying the Reciprocal Tariff Rates
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency
