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AUSTRALIAN OPPOSITION LEADER BEGINS PM ELECTION CAMPAIGN- Dutton said cutting permanent migration by 25% will create more homes. Australian Opposition Leader Peter Dutton began his campaign to become the country’s next Prime Minister today, promising reduced energy costs, cuts to the fuel excise and the adoption of nuclear power. Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese earlier on Wednesday called a national election for May 3, launching a five-week campaign that is set to be dominated by cost-of-living pressures. Albanese’s Labor party won a majority at the last federal election in 2022 Dutton has campaigned on a housing crisis that he says…

ONS ADMITS TRANSGENDER CENSUS DATA WAS INACCURATE – It comes after the Sullivan Review found widespread conflation of sex and gender in official statistics The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has acknowledged that the number of transgender people recorded in the 2021 England and Wales census was inaccurate, marking the first official admission of errors in the data. The census initially reported 262,000 trans individuals, but ONS officials have now stated that this figure “should not be used” as an exact representation of the population. This follows a decision last year by the Office for Statistics Regulation to downgrade the…

RUBIO WARNS OF VISA REVOCATIONS FOR DISRUPTIVE ACTIONS –  Rubio said 300 revoked visas were a combination of student and visitor visas U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the State Department may have revoked more than 300 visas and warned that the Trump administration was looking every day for the perpetrators after Washington, earlier this week, detained and revoked the visa of a Turkish student at Tufts University. Rubio’s comments were in response to a question about Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student who was detained on Tuesday (March 25) evening in Somerville, Massachusetts, outside of Boston, by US agents…

CHELSEA BEAT MANCHESTER CITY 3-0 – In the Women’s Champions League Quarter-Finals Chelsea beat Manchester City 3-0 in the women’s Champions League quarter-finals, overturning a two-goal first-leg deficit to secure a place in the semis with a 3-2 aggregate victory. Chelsea took the lead in the 14th minute when Lucy Bronze’s shot hit the post before Sandy Baltimore pounced on the rebound to beat City goalkeeper Khiara Keating. Sonia Bompastor’s side doubled their lead in the 38th minute when Nathalie Bjorn headed home from Baltimore’s corner and Mayra Ramirez added a third five minutes later, finishing off Lauren James’s cross.…

US SUSPENDS FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO WTO – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration ramps up efforts to cut government spending The United States has paused contributions to the World Trade Organization, three trade sources revealed, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration ramps up efforts to cut government spending. The Trump administration is retreating from global institutions it sees as at odds with his “America First” economic policies. It plans to quit some, such as the World Health Organization, and has cut contributions to others as part of a broad review of federal spending. The WTO has already been hobbled by a…

WH SMITH SELLS HIGH STREET STORES  – The rebrand comes after 233 Years in retail After more than two centuries as a staple of the British high street, WH Smith’s presence in town centres is coming to an end following the sale of its entire high street store network to private equity firm Modella Capital. The £76 million deal includes all 480 high street stores but does not include the WH Smith name. Instead, the shops will be rebranded as TG Jones, a newly created name designed to evoke the heritage of WH Smith. The iconic retailer was originally founded…

TRUMP MAY GIVE CHINA REDUCTION IN TARIFFS IN TIKTOK DEAL – ByteDance has an April 5 deadline to find a non-Chinese buyer for TikTok or face a U.S. ban U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would be willing to reduce tariffs on China to get a deal done with TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the short video app used by 170 million Americans. ByteDance has an April 5 deadline to find a non-Chinese buyer for TikTok or face a U.S. ban on national security grounds that was supposed to have taken effect in January under a 2024…

U.S. HOMELAND SECRETARY VISITS EL SALVADOR HIGH SECURITY PRISON- Noem toured the CECOT with the El Salvador Minister of Justice  U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrived in El Salvador to visit a mega-prison holding the Venezuelans deported by the U.S. Noem toured the facilities of the “Terrorism Confinement Center” (CECOT) at Tecoluca along with El Salvador Minister of Justice and Public Security, Gustavo Villatoro Funes. The Salvadoran mega-prison is in the public eye after president Donald Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act on March 15 to swiftly deport alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, attempting to…

‘THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO GO IT ALONE,’ NATO’s Rutte tells U.S. and Europe NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned the United States and Europe on Wednesday (March 26) against any temptation to “go it alone” on security, amid increased tensions over the future of the transatlantic alliance. U.S. President Donald Trump recently cast doubt on Washington’s willingness to defend NATO allies it deemed were not paying enough for their own defence, triggering alarm among European leaders about the future of the Atlantic alliance as they face up to a more assertive Russia. Speaking at the Warsaw School of Economics,…

UK’S STARMER MEETS NATO’S RUTTE IN PARIS FOR UKRAINE TALKS – Presented the outcomes of a series of military planning talks for a possible peacekeeping force. Sir Keir Starmer is in Paris for a summit of Ukraine’s allies to accuse Vladimir Putin of making “hollow promises” in ceasefire talks. The Prime Minister is at the meeting of the so-called coalition of the willing hours after French President Emmanuel Macron suggested a European peacekeeping force could “respond” if attacked by Russia. Sir Keir, who held one-to-one talks with Nato chief Mark Rutte at the gathering, was presenting the outcomes of a…