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UK FIRMS CONSIDER BIGGEST LAYOFFS IN 10 YEARS-Chancellor Reeves’ Tax Increase slated for April looms closer UK employers are reportedly bracing for the biggest layoffs in 10 years as firms anticipate tax increases from April that Rachel Reeves announced in her autumn budget. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), representing human resources professionals, stated that a survey of 2,000 employers showed redundancy intentions at their highest level in 10 years. Reeves has come under intense pressure after a series of weak economic data, undermining her plans to grow the economy. Official figures last week showed Britain narrowly avoided…

REAL CLOSE TO AGREEING A CONTRACT EXTENSION WITH VINICIUS JR – Amid interest from Saudi Arabia to sign FIFA’s Player of the Year Real Madrid is close to agreeing on a contract extension with Vinicius Jr after discussions began in January amid interest from Saudi Arabia to sign FIFA’s Player of the Year to a record-breaking deal. Despite the Brazil forward’s current contract running to the end of the 2026-27 season, the Spanish champions contacted the player’s agents last month to rework his deal and end the Saudi interest that has rumbled on for over a year. A source close…

TIKTOK RETURNS TO MAJOR AMERICAN APP STORES – Trump delayed the enforcement of the ban on the social media platform until April 5 TikTok has returned to Apple and Google’s U.S. app stores after President Donald Trump postponed a ban on the Chinese-owned social media platform. The app, used by nearly half of Americans, was briefly unavailable last month before a law took effect on January 19, requiring its parent company, ByteDance, to sell the platform over national security concerns or face a ban. However, Trump signed an executive order delaying enforcement by 75 days, allowing TikTok to continue operating…

US F-35 STEALTH FIGHTER PERFORMS AT INDIAN AIR SHOW – Trump says the US is to eventually provide F35s to India U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States will increase military sales to India starting in 2025 and will eventually provide F-35 fighter jets. Trump did not provide a timeline, but foreign military sales, especially for cutting-edge technology like the stealthy F-35 jet, typically take years to work through. Addressing a joint news conference after a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Trump also said the countries had struck an agreement that includes India importing more U.S. oil…

RUSSIA TO BE ‘REINTEGRATED’ INTO WORLD ECONOMY  – If War in Ukraine Ends, Says Victor Orban Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio, that Russia will be “reintegrated” into the world economy and the European energy system once a peace deal is achieved and the war ends. U.S. President Trump said both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed a desire for peace in separate phone calls with him on Wednesday, and he ordered top U.S. officials to begin talks on ending the war. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, Orban has emerged as a…

SUSPECT NAMED WITH AT LEAST 30 INJURED Ahead of Zelensky’s visit for a Security Conference A failed asylum-seeker in Germany has driven into crowds at a trade union demonstration, injuring at least 30 people, including young children. At least two of the wounded in Munich were fighting for their lives. Anti-terror police are investigating what authorities believe was a deliberate attack and a 24-year-old Afghan was arrested after officers shot at the car, police say. Prosecutors say the suspect has at least “indications of an extremist background”, German news site Zeit Online reports, and Der Spiegel says he is believed…

TRUMP UNVEILS TARIFFS PLAN – Trump says his reciprocal tariffs will level the playing field U.S. President Donald Trump tasked his economics team with devising a plan to impose reciprocal tariffs on every country that imposes duties on U.S. imports in a fresh salvo at American friends and foes ramping up prospects for a global trade war. Trump signed a memo ordering his team to start calculating reciprocal tariffs to match those charged by other countries and counteract non-tariff barriers. The president has been promising to introduce reciprocal tariffs, but Thursday’s directive stopped well short of that, instead kicking off…

STARMER SAYS UKRAINE MUST BE AT THE HEART OF ANY PEACE TALKS – Whether it’s in negotiations or continued fighting says the Prime Minister Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that Ukraine must be “at the heart” of any negotiations to end the conflict with Russia.  Starmer’s remarks come amid fears in Kyiv and its European allies that the U.S. might strike a peace deal without involving them. President Donald Trump spoke separately to both Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy by phone on Wednesday and said both had expressed a desire for peace. Starmer has been walking a…

CHRISTIAN SCHOOL WORKER WINS APPEAL OVER LGBTQ+ POSTS – The High Court rules her dismissal was unlawful A Christian school worker who was sacked after she shared Facebook posts raising concerns about lessons in LGBTQ+ relationships for primary school children has won her battle in the court of appeal. Kristie Higgs was dismissed from her role as a staff of Farmor’s, a secondary school in Fairford, Gloucestershire, in 2019 after an anonymous complaint from a parent at the school. Three Court of Appeal judges ruled in her favour on Wednesday describing the decision to sack her for gross misconduct as…

GRENADE EXPLOSION IN FRANCE BAR INJURES 12-Touret-de-Courcy says 2 are in critical condition Twelve people have sustained injuries from a grenade explosion at a bar in Grenoble, France. Prosecutor François Touret-de-Courcy stated that two people were in critical condition after the grenade explosion at the bar in the Olympic Village neighbourhood. Grenoble Mayor Eric Piolle in a statement on X said he condemned “in the strongest possible terms this criminal act of extraordinary violence” France’s Health Minister Yannick Neuder is due to visit victims and medical staff at Grenoble University Hospital this morning, and  Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau is also…