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Mobile phone customers can now switch providers with a single free text under new rules which have come into effect. At the moment, customers have to phone their mobile provider when they want to switch to a new firm. They are then given a porting authorisation code (PAC) to give to a new provider if they want to keep the same phone number. But watchdog Ofcom says the need to speak to a provider can be one of the main factors stopping people switching.

European Union leaders were locked in negotiations all night over the bloc’s top jobs, but as day broke on Monday there was still no deal on who should lead its executive as political groups jockeyed for influence. When the leaders of the EU’s 28 member-states gathered for the emergency summit on Sunday, Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans was in pole position to replace Jean-Claude Juncker as the next European Commission president, under a deal hatched on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan last week. However, the plan encountered stiff opposition from eastern European states as well as the centre-right…

Boris Johnson, the favourite to become Britain’s next prime minister, said on Monday during a visit to a garden centre in southern England was the impact of leaving the European Union without a deal would be “very, very small”, and added that he had a very carefully costed programme of spending plans. The former foreign minister repeated his message that he did not think Britain would leave the European Union without agreement, but that there were many ways to mitigate the effect of a no-deal Brexit and its impact would be “very, very small”. Both Hunt and Johnson have said…

The European Union’s push to bring Italy into line with the bloc’s fiscal rules intensified on Thursday (June 13) as top officials called for new measures to address budget shortfalls and raised concerns for the euro zone’s stability from Rome’s high debt. Eurogroup President Mario Centeno warned Italian authorities they must clarify how they will comply with EU debt rules ahead of a meeting of the eurozone finance ministers in Luxembourg, adding the stability of the euro zone is dependent on how Italy proceeds. Arriving for the same meeting, European Economic Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said the Commission was ready to…

Greeks go to the polls next Sunday in a snap election widely viewed as a two-horse race between incumbent leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and opposition conservative Kyriakos Mitsotakis, scion of a powerful political family. The conservatives are expected to ride a wave of anger over continuing austerity measures to seize power from Tsipras’s leftists. Syriza stormed to power in 2015 on the back of a popular backlash against painful economic reforms in the crisis-hit country, which has required billions in bailouts from foreign lenders since 2010, but shortly after gaining power on an anti-austerity platform, Tsipras, 44, was forced…

North Korea’s state-run television KRT broadcast video footage showing leader Kim Jong Un meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) that divides the two Koreas. The video showed Trump stepping briefly across the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) on Sunday (June 30) that divides the Korean Peninsula before bringing Kim into Freedom House on the southern side for an hour-long meeting. The drama was magnified by the choice of the Panmunjom truce village as the venue for his meeting with Kim, where 66 years ago Americans and North Koreans huddled to draw up the Military Demarcation Line…

European Union leaders were locked in negotiations all night over the bloc’s top jobs, but as day broke on Monday there was still no deal on who should lead its executive as political groups jockeyed for influence. When the leaders of the EU’s 28 member-states gathered for the emergency summit on Sunday, Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans was in pole position to replace Jean-Claude Juncker as the next European Commission president, under a deal hatched on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan last week. However, the plan encountered stiff opposition from eastern European states as well as the centre-right…

President Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin not to meddle in the U.S. elections, appearing to make light of a scandal that led to a two-year investigation into his campaign’s contact with the Kremlin during the 2016 elections. Trump then turned to Putin to give the directive twice while pointing at the Russian leader. Putin maintained a smile as the remark was interpreted for him. The two leaders were heading into talks on the sidelines of the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Japan’s western city of Osaka, their first formal face-to-face meeting since a controversial high-profile summit in…

The two MPs vying to be the next British prime minister vowed that they would be prepared to take Britain out of the European Union without a deal, although it was not their preferred option. Former foreign secretary and London mayor Boris Johnson faced off with Jeremy Hunt, the current foreign secretary, at Conservative party hustings in the southern English city of Bournemouth. No-deal means there would be no transition period so the exit would be abrupt, the nightmare scenario for many businesses and the dream of hard Brexiteers who want a decisive split. Some pro-EU British lawmakers have said…

The charity ship Sea-Watch remained outside the Italian port of Lampedusa with 42 migrants still aboard after defying an order from Rome to stay away and provoking the ire of Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. The captain of the German-owned boat, which flies the Dutch flag, decided to head to the island on Wednesday because the situation on board was “now more desperate than ever!” the group said in a statement. According to a decree approved in June, the Interior Ministry has the power to deny access to territorial waters to vessels that it considers are a risk to security or…