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UK GOVT CALLS FOR REDUCTION IN SUGAR FOR INFANT FOODS-Baby food manufacturers have been given 18 months to improve their quality  Baby food manufacturers have been given 18 months to improve the quality of their products in England, amid mounting concerns that leading brands are nutritionally poor. The new voluntary guidance from the government calls for a reduction in sugar and salt levels in food for infants and toddlers. It also requests clearer labelling of products to address misleading marketing claims that make baby foods seem healthier than they are. This will cover products with labels such as “contains no…

UK CLAMPSDOWN ON ABROAD CHILD BENEFIT CLAIMS- UK Govt says 2,600 people living abroad have been removed from the welfare system  Ministers have announced a clampdown on people who continually claim child benefit payments after moving abroad, in a bid to save £350m in five years. The UK government said 2,600 people who had left the UK but still claimed the benefit had already been removed from the welfare system. Tens of thousands more people who are fraudulently or erroneously claiming child benefit while living outside the UK now face having their payments stopped as part of the government’s crackdown.…

GCSE ENGLISH & MATHS RESITS MAY BE SCRAPPED – Education Secretary: Four in five white working-class children failing English & Maths The Government is considering scrapping compulsory English and maths resits at GCSE level.  Pupils who fail these subjects at GCSE, aged 16, are made to resit them if they stay on for sixth form, since most jobs require passes in the two subjects. But the pass rate for GCSEs in English and maths fell to its lowest level in a decade on Thursday, driven by a surge in the number of children forced to retake them after failing last…

PARKS UPSETS TOP SEED NAVARRO AT MONTERREY OPEN – Alycia Parks beat Emma Navarro 4-6 6-3 6-2 Alycia Parks knocked out top-seeded Emma Navarro 4-6 6-3 6-2 in an all-U.S. second-round match in Monterrey, Mexico. After dropping the first set,  American second seed Parks got the lone service break of the second set for a 2-0 lead. She added breaks on each of Navarro’s first three service games of the final set to pull away. Next up for Parks is Slovakia’s Rebecca Sramkova, who rallied past seventh-seeded Leylah Fernandez of Canada 2-6 6-3 6-2.

INTER MIAMI ADVANCE TO 2025 LEAGUES CUP SEMIS – Inter Miami beat Tigres UANL 2-1 in the Leagues Cup quarterfinals in Fort Lauderdale, Florida Luis Suarez scored twice from the penalty spot, including a dramatic 89th-minute winner, as Inter Miami beat Tigres UANL 2-1 in the Leagues Cup quarterfinals in Fort Lauderdale. Despite missing Lionel Messi and seeing manager Javier Mascherano sent off at halftime, Miami reached their second Leagues Cup semifinal in three years. Suarez’s late penalty came after a handball review, while Tigres’ Angel Correa had briefly equalised in the 67th minute. Ivan Lopez nearly levelled again in…

TRUMP CALLS ON FED GOVERNOR COOK TO RESIGN – She says she won’t be ‘bullied’ to quit over mortgage claim U.S. President Donald Trump called on Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to resign. U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte alleged in a post on X  that Cook had designated a condo in Atlanta as her primary residence after taking a loan on her home in Michigan, which she also declared as a primary residence. Loans for a primary residence can carry easier terms than for second homes or investment properties. Pulte said the loans date to mid-2021, before…

DELTA & UNITED HIT WITH LAWSUITS OVER ‘FAKE WINDOW SEATS’ – Passengers demand millions after paying premiums for wall views Delta and United Airlines are being sued by passengers who say they were tricked into paying more for “window seats” — only to find no window at all. The lawsuits, filed by legal firm Greenbaum Olbrantz, accuse both airlines of misleading advertising, claiming seats were marketed as windows even though they looked out onto a blank wall. The missing windows are due to aircraft design features like ducts and wiring, but passengers say they were never warned. Attorneys are seeking…

TAIWAN TO MASSIVELY HIKE 2026 DEFENCE BUDGET- Premier Cho Jung-tai says it would surpass 3% of gross domestic product Taiwan plans to boost defence spending by a fifth next year, surpassing 3% of gross domestic product, Taiwan Premier Cho Jung-tai told reporters at a news conference on Thursday (August 21). The island is planning to invest billions in new equipment to better face down China and convince the United States it takes seriously calls to bolster its military. The move comes as China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has ramped up military and political pressure over…

ITALY ARRESTS UKRAINE SUSPECT- Over Nord Stream Pipeline Attacks Italian  police have arrested a Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines, Germany’s prosecutor general said on Thursday (August 21), adding that he would be brought before a German judge after being transferred. Seen by both Russia and the West as an act of sabotage, no one has ever taken responsibility for explosions that severely damaged pipelines carrying gas from Russia to Europe in September 2022, marking a major escalation in the Ukraine conflict and ramping up an energy supply crisis on the continent. Europe blamed…

EUROPE TO SHOULDER ‘LION’S SHARE’ OF UKRAINE SECURITY – Says U.S President JD Vance U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that European countries will have to pay the “lion’s share” of costs for Ukraine’s security guarantees. President Donald Trump wants to strike a peace deal to end Russia’s 3-1/2-year-old war in Ukraine. One of Ukraine’s top priorities is to secure guarantees against Russian aggression. Trump has stated that he will not deploy U.S. troops on the ground, but could offer U.S. air support. European countries have formed a “coalition of the willing” that would commit forces to guarantee…