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UK BOOSTS BANK DEPOSIT PROTECTION – Deposit guarantee rises to £120k from December Customers in the UK will soon see stronger protection for their savings if a bank collapses. From December, the deposit guarantee will rise from £85,000 to £120,000, the biggest increase since 2017. The Prudential Regulation Authority says the move reflects inflation and aims to boost public confidence, with the Financial Services Compensation Scheme assuring customers they need to take no action. Temporary high-balance protection will also increase to £1.4 million for six months, covering major life events like house sales or insurance payouts.

CLOUDFLARE OUTAGE HITS GLOBAL INTERNET – Cloudflare outage halts access to X, ChatGPT A major outage at web-infrastructure firm Cloudflare has caused widespread disruption globally, making platforms like X (formerly Twitter) and ChatGPT inaccessible for thousands of users this morning. Cloudflare, which handles approximately one-fifth of all web traffic, began investigating the internal service degradation. The company stated the incident was triggered by a sudden spike in unusual traffic. The outage temporarily prevented access to several high-profile platforms, including Canva and the AI service ChatGPT. Outage-tracking tool Downdetector showed reports peaking at nearly 5,000, though the numbers have since dropped…

POLAND BLAMES PRO-RUSSIAN SABOTEURS – Ukrainian suspects linked to Russian intelligence Poland says it has identified two Ukrainians responsible for a railway explosion on a key route to Ukraine — and claims they were working with Russian intelligence. Prime Minister Donald Tusk told lawmakers on Tuesday that the suspects fled to Belarus after carrying out the attack on the Warsaw–Lublin line, a critical corridor connecting Poland to the Ukrainian border. The blast is the latest in a series of arson, sabotage and cyberattacks reported across Europe since the start of the war in Ukraine. Tusk said the pair crossed in…

TICKET TOUT RESALES BAN – Britain’s plans to ban the resale of tickets for music concerts, shows and sporting events  Britain’s plans to ban the resale of tickets for music concerts, shows and sporting events at inflated prices were welcomed by industry body UK Music as the government said it planned to tackle the use of technology by touts to snap up tickets for popular events. UK Music’s Dan Gumble pointed to the hugely inflated ticket prices on resale sites for British band Oasis’ reunion concert last summer as an example of fans facing “exorbitant prices” and added, “It out-prices…

UK FOREIGN MINISTER PLANS SANCTIONS – Cooper says Britain must act on human rights abuses in Sudan Britain is preparing to tighten pressure on warring factions in Sudan. Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper told Parliament on Tuesday that she has instructed officials to draw up new sanctions targeting individuals and entities involved in human rights violations in the conflict-torn nation. Cooper said the international community has “turned its back on Sudan for far too long,” and stressed the urgent need for a ceasefire as violence escalates. The war erupted in 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support…

HMRC’S SUSPENSION OF CHILD BENEFIT – MPs say child benefit checks were ‘cavalier’ The UK tax office is facing severe criticism after an MP committee called its handling of Child Benefit checks “cavalier,” resulting in payments being wrongly stopped for thousands of families. The problem arose after HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) ceased cross-checking claimants’ travel records with UK tax data, wrongly assuming people had permanently moved abroad. Treasury Select Committee Chair, Dame Meg Hillier, said HMRC made a “costly error.” HMRC boss John-Paul Marks has apologised, confirming over 3,600 claimants have already been confirmed as eligible after their payments…

MI5 SPY SERVICE NEW CHINA WARNING –  Attempts by Chinese agents to collect information and influence activity Britain’s MI5 security service today warned MPs about attempts by Chinese agents to collect information and influence activity, according to an email sent to lawmakers seen by Reuters, the latest spy threat to the nation’s parliament. The warning comes after prosecutors abandoned the trial of two British men charged with spying on members of parliament for China in September because, they said, the British government had not provided enough evidence to show that China was a threat to its national security. Lindsay Hoyle,…

ISRAEL SAYS NO TO PALASTINIAN STATE – Israel’s Netanyahu reaffirms opposition to a Palestinian state Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel remained opposed to a Palestinian state, after facing pressure from right-wing ministers who said a U.S.-backed statement indicates support for a pathway to a Palestinian state. Netanyahu made the comments at a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.  On Saturday (November 15), Israeli far-right ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich called on Netanyahu to denounce a Palestinian state, after the U.S. and many Muslim-majority nations endorsed a draft U.N. resolution backing President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, saying that the…

RUSSIAN MISSILE STRIKE ON BALAKLIIA KILLED THREE PEOPLE – Firefighters battle fire in Kharkiv buildings after Russian missile strike kills three Photos released by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine showed residential blocks in what is said to be the eastern city of Balakliia engulfed in flames. We were not able to independently verify the location or the date of when the images were taken. A Russian missile strike on Balakliia killed three people, with three teenagers among the 10 wounded, Kharkiv regional officials said on Monday.  The overnight attack damaged multi-story residence blocks and destroyed scores of cars in…

REPUBLICANS SET SIGHTS ON RUSSIA – Republicans drafting bill to sanction countries that trade with Russia President Donald Trump said that Republicans are working on legislation that will impose sanctions on any country doing business with Russia, and he said Iran may get added to that list. “As you know, I suggested it, so any country that does business with Russia will be very severely sanctioned,” Trump told reporters. “They may add Iran to that,” he added. Some U.S. senators are renewing a push to get a long-stalled bipartisan sanctions bill to Trump’s desk. The bill would slap tariffs on…