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RUSSIA BLAMES U.S. FOR NORD STREAM DESTRUCTION –  “Emerging” evidence suggested the U.S. was responsible. Russia pointed blame at the United States for the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions during a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council to mark the one year anniversary of the attacks. In his address to the council, Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, said “emerging” evidence suggested the U.S. was responsible. “More and more evidence is emerging in the expert community showing that Nord Stream explosion is the work of Washington, which stooped to committing this outrageous crime guided by a narrow, selfish desire…

META PAYS £149M TO SURRENDER LEASE ON LONDON OFFICE – British Land moves to brush off Meta’s decision  Meta has “surrendered” the lease on one of its London offices as tech firms continue efforts to slash costs. The parent firm of Facebook and Instagram let the space at 1 Triton Square from British Land, the FTSE 250 commercial property company, in 2021 but never moved in. Meta paid £149m to break the lease, which was understood by analysts at BNP Paribas to have 18 years left to run. British Land said that despite the payment, the company’s exit would reduce…

A couple who lost their newborn son are pleading for a review to “stop any more healthy babies from dying.” Preeti Joshi was lucky to survive a ruptured uterus during labour but baby Ansh suffered brain damage and died days later after what the couple describe as a catalogue of failures from Leicester’s maternity services. Preeti, and her husband Rishi, have spoken out after the health watchdog said that lives were at risk at two of Leicester’s maternity units, due to understaffing and delays. The couple had originally been planning a home birth for Ansh, their second child, but Preeti was taken…

Napoli striker Victor Osimhen is reserving “the right to take legal action” against his own club after his team posted a bizarre video to TikTok seemingly mocking the player. The odd video comes after Osimhen helped the Italian team secure a first league title, the club’s first in three decades. Despite Osimhen singlehandedly bolstering Napoli with 31 goals across all competitions, he became the target of a strange, now-deleted video, shared to the Serie A club’s official TikTok account. The Nigerian expects an apology from the Italian champions with the player and his management wanting the club to firmly distance themselves from the social…

Amazon.com said it will invest up to $4 billion in cash in the high-profile startup Anthropic, in its effort to compete with growing cloud rivals on artificial intelligence. Amazon’s employees and cloud customers will gain early access to technology from Anthropic as part of the deal, which they can infuse into their businesses. The San Francisco-based startup also committed to rely primarily on Amazon’s cloud services, including training its future AI models on large quantities of proprietary chips it would buy from the online retailing and computing giant. The news represents perhaps Amazon’s biggest answer yet to challenges from Microsoft…

OFWAT TO RETURN CUSTOMER MONEY AS WATER FIRMS UNDERPERFORMED Customers will receive £114m off their water bills next year Customers will receive £114m off their water bills next year as the regulator has said water companies fell short of standards. The majority of water and wastewater companies in England and Wales underperformed, Ofwat said as part of its water company performance report. As a result, all but five of the 17 utility providers will have to give back money to customers. The others can increase prices. Water firms were classed as leading, average or lagging in categories including pollution incidents,…

SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT WARNS THE NORTH OVER NUCLEAR THREAT Pledged to ramp up support for the military and the defence industry South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol warned North Korea against the use of nuclear weapons and pledged to ramp up support for the military and the defence industry. Addressing troops in the rain marking the 75th anniversary of Armed Forces Day, Yoon reiterated Seoul’s tough stance against North Korea, saying, “If North Korea uses nuclear weapons, its regime will be brought to an end by an overwhelming response from the ROK-U.S. alliance.” Tuesday’s event was the nation’s first large-scale…

RUSSIA AGAIN CALLS FOR PROBE INTO NORD STREAM PIPELINE EXPLOSIONS Explosion caused serious losses to Russia and Germany Russia has again called for an open and transparent investigation into the explosions of the Nord Stream pipelines which took place on Sept 26, 2022. Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergei Nechaev said that the countries concerned investigating the incident haven’t produced any concrete results. He said his country will continue to call for an open and transparent investigation into the incident, which has caused serious losses to Russia and Germany, so as to make sure that the truth is made public. The…

PRIME MINISTER SUNAK ‘COMMITTED TO LEVELLING UP’ However, he refuses to back the northern leg of HS2 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was non-committal on Monday (September 25) when asked about reports that his government plans to scrap the northern leg of Britain’s new high-speed rail due to rising costs. Newspaper reports have suggested that the Manchester to Birmingham leg of the HS2 line will no longer go ahead. When pressed on the issue during a visit to a community centre in Broxbourne in southern England, Sunak refused to comment but suggested he was committed to ‘levelling up.’ A move to…

EUROPEAN SHARES WEAKEN AT START OF QUARTER’S – Investors worried about interest rates staying higher European shares opened the last week of the quarter lower, as investors worried about interest rates staying higher for longer and weakness in China-exposed stocks weighed on the index. The pan-European STOXX 600 index slipped 0.4% by 0704 GMT on Monday. Germany’s DAX eased 0.3%, with concerns growing about the region’s largest economy after economy minister Robert Habeck said the government will put an indefinite hold on plans to require more stringent building insulation standards to help the ailing industry. German shares are the worst…