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The amount of rubbish Hong Kong generates has peaked, the environment chief has said, a success he attributed to government efforts to promote recycling, half a year after the government shelved a pay-as-you-throw waste-charging scheme. The city also threw out nearly 2 billion fewer plastic bags last year compared with 2022, official figures showed. The […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature No ‘red lines’ when it comes to support for Ukraine, France’s foreign minister says Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the war in Ukraine. The French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, has told the BBC in an interview that […]
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Mali’s ruling junta on Thursday appointed spokesperson Abdoulaye Maiga as prime minister after firing Choguel Maiga, state television ORTM said on Thursday. Source link
Former deputy prime minister John Prescott has died aged 86 following a battle with Alzheimer’s, his family has announced. The former trade union activist and ex-merchant seaman died ‘peacefully’ and surrounded by relatives at his care home on Wednesday. His family said he had ‘spent his life trying to improve the lives of others, fighting […]
Taiwan’s foreign minister Lin Chia-lung met with European Parliament members this week in an unannounced stop in Brussels as part of his first visit to Europe to firm up ties. Taiwan has worked to strengthen ties with European countries as it faces an increasingly assertive China, which claims the self-ruled democratic island as part of its […]
Finance minister II Amir Hamzah Azizan said feedback from wealth management firms has been ‘very strong’. PETALING JAYA: The Forest City special financial zone (SFZ) in Johor will not directly compete with Singapore, says finance minister II Amir Hamzah Azizan. Amir said, instead, the SFZ aims to attract a different market segment by offering lower […]
PMQs – snap verdict That was very missable. Alex Burghart, who was standing in for Kemi Badenoch, started well, with a very short, direct question, but after that it rapidly got worse. He used his first three questions to focus on inflation, trying to make an argument about Labour letting price rises get out of […]
.A previous Deputy Governor of Imo State, Prof Placid Njoku, that functions as a member of the Presidential Board on Livestock Reforms, PCLR, has charged the new Administrator of Animals Advancement, Idi Mukhtar, to take practical actions and also create policies to prime the field. Source link
.A past Representant Governor of Imo Condition, Prof Placid Njoku, that doubles as a member of the Presidential Committee on Animals Reforms, PCLR, has charged the brand new Administrator of Animals Progression, Idi Mukhtar, to take pragmatic actions as well as bring in policies to prime the sector. Source link