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Two years ago, the British government decided to spend big to outsource a migration problem. To deter migrants seeking asylum from illegally entering the country, it announced a radical plan: Those smuggled on makeshift dinghies to British shores would be sent to Rwanda, a small country in central Africa, where they would remain. The U.K.

liquified natural gas export plant on British Columbia’s coast is poised to go ahead.On Tuesday, the Hasila Nation and its partner Pembina Pipeline Corporation announced a green light with their final investment decision in the Cedar LNG plant.The $US3.4 billion project will see the construction of a floating LNG facility in Haisla territory in Kitimat.The nation is a majority owner in the project with a 50.1 per cent stake.“With Cedar LNG, we have proven that Indigenous communities can successfully forge a path to economic independence and generational prosperity,” Haisla Chief Councillor Crystal Smith said in a statement.“We have created a model for how sustainable energy development should be done, with Indigenous Nations as owners, balancing environmental interests with global demand for cleaner energy.”The project has already secured all major regulator approvals and has signed an agreement with the Coastal GasLink Pipeline for the delivery of 400 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, once it is up and running.Cedar LNG estimates the project will be in service by late 2028.B.C.

Paul Graham of Y Combinator recently shared an anecdote that perfectly encapsulates the challenge of regulating artificial intelligence (AI). When he asked someone helping the British government with it what they would regulate, the response was a refreshingly honest, “I’m not sure yet." As Graham noted, this might be the most intelligent thing anyone has said about AI regulation thus far. AI creates a “pacing problem," first explained in Larry Downes’ book The Laws of Disruption.

Yemen's Houthi rebels early Wednesday targeted a ship in the Gulf of Aden and the southern Israeli port city of Eilat, authorities said. The attacks follow the departure of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower after an eight-month deployment in which the aircraft carrier led the American response to the Houthi assaults. Those attacks have reduced shipping drastically through the route crucial to Asian, Middle East and European markets in a campaign the Houthis say will continue as long as the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip rages. The ship attack happened off the coast of Aden, the British military's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has pleaded guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that secures his liberty and concludes a drawn-out legal saga that raised divisive questions about press freedom and national security. The plea was entered Wednesday morning in federal court in Saipan, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, an American commonwealth in the Pacific that is relatively close to Assange's native Australia and that accommodated his desire to avoid setting foot inside the continental United States.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was freed by a court on the U.S. Pacific island territory of Saipan on Wednesday after pleading guilty to violating U.S. espionage law, in a deal that will see him return home to Australia. During the three hour hearing, Assange pled guilty to one criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defence documents but said he had believed the Constitution's First Amendment, which protects free speech, shielded his activities.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is finally a free man. He walked out on bail from a UK jail after reaching a plea deal that will have him plead guilty in a US court on a single charge of conspiring to obtain and disclose national security secrets, in lieu of relief on other counts. He won’t have to face further jail time in the US, as he has already served longer than what the punishment entails.

Anil Agarwal's Vedanta Resources is likely to sell a minority stake in Vedanta Ltd this week through block deals, people aware of the development said. The promoter group is likely to sell a stake of about 2.5%, or 90 million shares, to raise ₹4,000 crore through the transactions, said one of the persons. The sale is likely to happen at a discount of around 8-10%, one of the persons said. It will help Vedanta Resources repay debt due for payment in the next few months, one of them said.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has issued a warning after more than 14 cases of meningococcal disease were detected in those who were returning from Saudi Arabia after undertaking the Umrah pilgrimage. The Travel Health Pro website which is supported by the FCO listed down these cases and revealed that as of June 21, a total of 5 such cases were reported from the US, four in France, three in the UK and one each in Norway and in the Netherlands. The situation is being monitored by the health authorities in the UK. Invasive meningococcal disease is a significant cause of meningitis and septicaemia. It is a bacterial infection which results in the death in one among ten cases.

Snapchat is introducing a suite of new safety tools designed to shield teenagers from the dangers of sextortion, enhancing the platform's commitment to user protection, as per a report on CNN. On Tuesday, Snapchat unveiled a series of new safety features, including enhanced warning pop-ups. These alerts will activate when a teenager receives a message from someone who is not a mutual friend or listed in their contacts, aiming to bolster user security.

More Canadians are getting help from family to buy their first home — and they’re getting substantially more money to do it than a few years ago, according to new research published by CIBC.

Studio Ghibli's latest film, "The Boy and the Heron," is now available for home viewing in the US. The UK release date is pending confirmation.

Following the 2007-2008financial crisis, central banks from 28 countries and bank regulators devised an international regulatory accord called Basel III. Published in 2010, it promised common standards for measuring, reporting and managing financial risk across all 28 jurisdictions by imposing new, higher capital charges — the money a bank holds in reserve to cover bad loans and losses from trading stocks, bonds, derivatives and other financial products.

Bitcoin payments app Strike has announced the launch of its operations in the United Kingdom.

In a stock exchange notice on Monday (24 June), the board of JPMorgan Claverhouse investment trust (JCH), which Meadon has managed for the last 12 years, said it had been notified of the imminent departure. Before his nearly three-decade stint at JPMAM, Meadon was head of UK specialist pension funds at Newton Investment Management and manager of the Schroder Income fund. He has 42 years' experience in the investment industry. TSMC and Infosys most frequent top ten holdings across JP Morgan AM trust stable Callum Abbot, who has been co-manager of JCH for the last six years, will rem...

According to a FE fundinfo survey of 103 UK asset managers with at least £1bn in assets under management, 79% of firms considered data intelligence increasingly important, with 48% planning to significantly invest in data management infrastructure, while 88% agreed that accurate and timely data is essential in the context of driving asset growth. In addition, 47% of respondents saw asset growth as a top challenge over the next three years, highlighting the pressure of rising costs and narrower margins on returns across the industry. TILLIT removes five funds from recommended list foll...

₹19.38 crore on Facebook and Instagram, and the Congress spent at least ₹10.88 crore. Similarly, the BJP spent at least ₹85.8 crore, and the Congress at least ₹45.4 crore on Google, including YouTube. The ad repositories of Google and Meta, which are not as transparent as they should be, and only tell part of the story, show that the two companies earned 9-10 digit figures from just two major political parties between February and May 2024.

The move to drop the funds came on the back of a review launched by TILLIT's investment committee, which was automatically triggered after the manager departure announcements. AXA Framlington Biotech fund was the first fund removed, after fund manager Linden Thomson moved to Candriam in February. This was followed by JO Hambro UK Dynamic, which lost its spot after manager Alex Savvides was hired by Jupiter to manage the firm's UK Special Situations fund. The third fund removed was Allianz Strategic Bond fund, which sees Mike Riddell set to leave the company in July to run Fidelity's S...

In a stock exchange notice on Monday (24 June), the board of JPMorgan Claverhouse investment trust (JCH), which Meadon has managed for the last 12 years, said it had been notified of the imminent departure. Before his nearly three-decade stint at JPMAM, Meadon was head of UK specialist pension funds at Newton Investment Management and manager of the Schroder Income fund. He has 42 years' experience in the investment industry. TSMC and Infosys most frequent top ten holdings across JP Morgan AM trust stable Callum Abbot, who has been co-manager of JCH for the last six years, will rem...

logistics company Ecom Express is looking to raise Rs 1,424 crore (about $170 million) through a rights issue that is likely to be led by its existing investors Warburg Pincus, British International Investment (BII), and Switzerland-based Partners Group. The company’s shareholders have passed a resolution for the rights issue totalling 1.57 million compulsorily convertible preference shares at Rs 9,071 apiece – the same price at which Ecom Express did a rights issue in July last year, showed regulatory filings with the Registrar of Companies (RoC).

Mint. An email sent to Khaitan seeking comment went unanswered. Shareholders at other large Indian companies have also been voicing their displeasure in recent times, such as when Wipro sought to award former chief executive Thierry Delaporte a ₹36 crore cash severance last month.