Facebook Inc plans to launch a cryptocurrency called Libra next year as part of its wider efforts to expand beyond social networking into e-commerce and global payments. Facebook said it has linked with 28 partners to form Libra Association, a Geneva-based entity governing its new digital coin, which it will ...
a “declaration of war against the NGOs who are saving lives at sea”
Europe sought to increase the flow of money into businesses that tackle climate change on Tuesday with the publication of European Commission guidelines on what qualifies an investment as environmentally friendly. The European Union has agreed to substantial reductions of carbon emissions by 2030 and its executive wants the bloc ...
The majority of Conservative members would countenance the destruction of their own party if it meant Brexit was delivered. A new poll has revealed that exiting the European Union has become a priority for members, subverting traditional loyalties and reshaping political priorities. The majority (54 per cent) said they would ...
Michel Platini, the former head of European football association UEFA, was detained for questioning by French police on Tuesday over the awarding of the 2022 World Cup soccer tournament to Qatar, a judicial source told Reuters. Platini's lawyer William Bourdon was not immediately available for comment. The detention of the ...
Lord Alf Dubs was one of 10,000 children rescued from the Nazis by the Kindertransport. Today he will call for Theresa May to match pre-war Britain’s humanity by allowing 10,000 refugee children to come to the UK. Lord Dubs will be joined by council chiefs prepared to take more unaccompanied ...
But Dominic Raab says he isn't so sure about the leadership hopeful.
It’s a matter of faith among Brexit supporters that failing to obey the consultative referendum on EU membership is an assault on democracy. MPs who actively campaign to stay in the EU are betraying that democracy. Almost every day a Brexiteer or sympathetic news outlet rages against the ‘anti-democratic’ Remain ...
Scotland is about to be governed by a Prime Minister elected by 160,000 Tory members, of which only 9,000 are based in Scotland, from a party that hasn’t won a major election in Scotland in 64 years, to deliver a Brexit that 62 per cent of Scotland’s voters rejected.