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Instead, Jenrick floated using statutory instruments to make major fiscal changes such as slashing the civil service workforce by more than 100,000 to pre-Brexit levels “within days or weeks.” Reform dropped its plans to abolish the OBR when Jenrick was appointed Treasury spokesperson, which he said “wasn’t an easy decision,” and that the party “want to keep it, but reform it,” including by looking “at how the budget process works.” Jenrick added that the party would avoid “the mistakes that Rachel Reeves did” by being “prepared long in advance” with economic policies upon entering government.

Published on 03/09/2026 – 13:01 GMT+2 Belgium logged nearly 3,000 excess deaths during successive heatwaves since June, health authorities said on Thursday, days after this summer was confirmed as the hottest on record in the northern European nation. Some 365 excess deaths were observed between 28 July-16 August, when Belgium sweltered under its third heatwave of the season, which also saw the beginning of the country’s worst wildfire in modern history. That represented a “slight” uptick of 7% more deaths than normal, the Sciensano national public health institute said. The figure added to a grim tally racked up during the…

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Published on 03/09/2026 – 12:26 GMT+2 At the Africa Food Systems Forum in Kigali, one question is taking centre stage: how can Africa turn ambitious commitments to transform agriculture into financing that actually reaches the small and growing businesses feeding the continent? While billions of dollars are being mobilised for agricultural development, much of the capital continues to struggle to reach local agri-SMEs. The challenge is increasingly shifting from simply raising finance to building a stronger connection between policy, investors and the businesses that need funding to expand. Dr. Mallé Fofana, Deputy Executive Director and Head of the Directorate for…

Politicians in Sweden and the UK appear to be increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to help write parliamentary texts without disclosing it, according to a new study. Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and Edinburgh Napier University in the UK analysed 13,565 Swedish parliamentary motions and 4,209 UK parliamentary statements published between 2021 and April 2026 using AI detectors trained to distinguish between human and large language model-generated political writing. The researchers found that about 15% of UK parliamentary statements analysed in 2026 contained at least one paragraph classified as AI-generated. In Sweden, 9.4% of motions submitted during…

As the old adage goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Light, shadows, depth of field and colour can all be used to capture a sense of place and tell a destination’s story. Icelandair, however, decided to turn that theory on its head. And typically, when an airline launches a search for a new photographer, you’d expect a pristine portfolio to be part of the application. That was not the case with Blanche Mortemard, who had something rather different: a “camera roll of bad photos”, as described to Euronews Travel. Out of 127,642 people who came forward to share…

Published on 03/09/2026 – 12:43 GMT+2 Gloria Steinem, the celebrated author, feminist activist and one of the most famous voices of the US’ women’s movement, has died aged 92. She died on Wednesday at her home in New York City, according to her and her foundation’s social media pages. “Gloria’s near-century on earth were years well-lived, and she continued working for equality until the very end,” read the statement. “Gloria’s greatest gift was her ability to listen to others, to make others feel seen and heard. Her words, actions, and example gave people permission to be their truest selves. Gloria…

Sikorski called for restricting Russian diplomats’ freedom of movement to the countries where they are accredited, limiting the issuance of Schengen visas to Russian citizens, requiring biometric passes for Russians entering the EU, and capping the number of Russian diplomats stationed within the bloc. “We still have far too many Russian diplomats throughout the European Union. We estimate there are over 2,000, and we estimate that at least 40 percent of them are performing tasks that are inconsistent with their diplomatic status. They work for agencies that also carry out terrorist activities in our countries,” he said. “Therefore, in solidarity…

Published on 03/09/2026 – 12:09 GMT+2 Russia is “actively” preparing sabotage operations against Denmark, particularly its defence industry, Danish intelligence agency PET told the AFP news agency on Thursday. “The Russian intelligence services are actively preparing acts of sabotage targeting the defence industry in Denmark,” Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) said in a statement to AFP. They are recruiting “ordinary Danes” on social media to take photos that can be used in planning acts of sabotage, it said. Emil Graesholm, PET head of counterintelligence at the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, told newspaper Berlingske in an interview on Thursday…

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