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👉 Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app 👈Beth’s at the Conservative party conference – talking to the shadow environment secretary Victoria Atkins. She says that Kemi Badenoch has shown resilience and character in her first year as party leader- but it’s taken time to find confidence and her 11 months of “listening” and “absorbing” has come with “political knocks”.She acknowledges that she is sorry about the Tory proposal to leave the ECHR – but says politicians have to deal with the politics of today.She also reveals how her parents met at a Tory conference and…

Syria is holding its first parliamentary election since autocratic former President Bashar Assad was ousted in December. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

AFTER a series of interviews, Nicole Becker was ecstatic to receive a job offer from a sportswear brand. But like many Americans navigating a tough job market, she was soon confronted with a sobering reality – the recruiter was a scammer.From fake job listings to fraudsters posing as real recruiters, employment scams are exploding online – fueled by a cooling labour market and a boom in generative AI that experts say has made these schemes more sophisticated than ever.In July, a purported Chinese brand offered Becker – a 37-year-old based in Oregon – a coveted role to lead global communications…

Washington — The Trump administration is considering a significant financial aid package for farmers, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. The package could include more than $10 billion in relief.The White House is focusing on soybean farmers, since they’ve been hard hit by the Chinese boycott on American soybeans. Discussions about the package are still in early stages, one of the sources said. The Treasury Department and Agriculture Department are involved in the talks. Top White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on CNBC Monday that “we’ve had numerous meetings over the last week or two” about “what we’re…

Even as the rich move money and citizenship abroad, Vietnam is trying to lure talent back home [HO CHI MINH CITY] After being detained for 30 months, Vietnamese property tycoon Nguyen Phuong Hang – famed for her livestream exposes of celebrities and businessmen – relocated to Cyprus, a jurisdiction that in the past decade has become known for granting citizenship and residency to global investors. Referring to her detention, the 54-year-old, who has repeatedly talked about emigration in the past year, said: “I no longer have any reason to live in Vietnam. It was the last straw.” “I’m leaving to…

Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons Senior cleric Ahmad Khatami’s thunderous declaration — “Death yes, humiliation never” — was not mere rhetoric. It was a defiant reaffirmation that uranium enrichment remains, in Tehran’s view, a nonnegotiable pillar of national sovereignty. Speaking during Friday prayers in Tehran, Khatami linked enrichment to civilian applications in medicine, agriculture, and environmental science, while underscoring its strategic role in deterrence. His warning to Israel — “These fools don’t know that we will plow Tel Aviv and Haifa” — equated nuclear power with missile power, showing that Iran’s deterrence strategy holds firm even as…

Matt Hasselbeck joins Colin Cowherd to discuss Baker Mayfield and Sam Darnold’s growth, along with why Dak Prescott is a legit MVP candidate. He then breaks down the Philadelphia Eagles’ offensive woes, Mike Vrabel’s impact on the New England Patriots and why there is a trend of players dropping the ball before the end zone.

Toymaker Mattel is partnering with OpenAI to test the ChatGPT maker’s artificial-intelligence video model Sora 2, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at the company’s Developer Day conference on Monday.”Mattel has been a great partner working with us to test Sora 2 in the API (application programming interface) and see what they can do to bring product ideas to life more quickly. So one of their designers can now start with a sketch and then turn these early concepts into something that you can see and share and react to,” Altman said. Monday’s moves are the latest in a stream of…

Thakral’s remaining TBTG shares will be worth £18.1 million (S$31.5 million) immediately upon listing[SINGAPORE] Singapore-listed Thakral Corp will receive S$13.1 million from a partial sale of its shares in The Beauty Tech Group (TBTG), its UK-based investee company that will list on the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday (Oct 8). The proceeds – from the divestment of 2.9 million TBTG shares – will strengthen Thakral’s financial position and “enhance its liquidity”, the group said in a bourse filing on Monday. Thakral plans to redeploy the capital into opportunities “that enhance earnings and long-term growth, whether in the form of equity…

Employees work on solar panels at the QCells solar energy manufacturing factory in Dalton, Georgia, March 2, 2023.Megan Varner | ReutersSeveral groups and nonprofit organizations filed a lawsuit Monday against the Environmental Protection Agency over the canceling of a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans.They say the Trump administration’s termination of the program was illegal and they want a federal judge to direct the EPA to reinstate it. The program is affiliated with another $20 billion in green funding also terminated under President Donald Trump that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin had characterized…