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  • United Kingdom Q1 Jobless Rate Falls; Earnings Growth Remains Weak

    UNITED KINGDOM, 2017/05/17 The UK unemployment rate declined in the initial quarter despite a slowdown in economic increase, while earnings increase remained weak amid rising inflation. The ILO jobless rate eased to 4.6 % in the three months to March, the lowest since 1975, data from the Office for National Statistics showed Wednesday. The rate dropped from 5.1 % in the previous year and 4.7 % in the three months to February.

  • Britain's Osborne: from finance minister to editor

    UNITED KINGDOM, 2017/05/03 Former British Finance Minister George Osborne has started a new job as a journalist next his failed campaign to keep the UK in the European Union. Will he be additional successful as an editor? With a bundle of newspapers in his right hand, former British Chancellor George Osborne turned up Tuesday to start work as a journalist, following last month's announcement that he would take the reins of London's major daily paper.

  • PMI Indicates Slowdown In U.K. GDP Growth To 0.4% In First Quarter

    UNITED KINGDOM, 2017/03/06

  • Raoul Wallenberg is dead, a Swedish government agency declares

    SWEDEN, 2016/11/02 A Swedish government agency has declared Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazi gas chambers, as dead. The Swedish Tax Authority, which registers births and deaths in Sweden, confirmed to The Associated Press that a statement Monday in the Expressen newspaper that Wallenberg had been declared dead was accurate. The decision was made last week following a request for a ruling by the trustee of Wallenberg’s estate.

  • Who Are the Hazaras and What Are They Escaping?

    AFGHANISTAN, 2016/09/24 Hazaras are a mainly Shi'ite community, several thousand of whom have fled to Sweden in recent years to escape abuse and poverty in marginalized communities in Afghanistan and Iran. Often singled out because of their religion, Hazaras were persecuted by the Sunni Taliban during its 1996-2001 policy in Afghanistan. A lot of fled to Iran and Pakistan, where rights groups say they are still persecuted.

  • Europe's deal with Turkey fails to deter migrant attempts for now

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2016/03/10

  • PM Cameron outlines UK's conditions to remain in the EU

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2015/11/12 In a speech in London and a written letter of proposals for reform, Mr. Cameron called on fellow European leaders to grant him a series of concessions to help persuade wavering Britons to remain in a bloc that critics say has become a vast bureaucracy impinging on their national sovereignty and way of life. Mr. Cameron has promised to put the issue to a referendum by the end of 2017, and his aides suggest that he may do so as early as next June. Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday formally laid out Britain’s conditions for remaining in the European Union, seeking changes in his country’s relationship with Brussels that he is betting are substantial enough to win over a majority of British voters but modest enough for the rest of Europe to swallow. In his speech, Mr. Cameron told British voters that their decision would be crucial and the final say on the issue — a “once-in-a-generation choice.” He said, “You will hold this country’s destiny in your hands; this is a huge decision for our country, perhaps the biggest we will make in our lifetimes.” Prime Minister David Cameron outlined on Tuesday four demands central to Britain’s negotiations with the European Union over whether it will remain in the bloc. His demands include the following:

  • Many Greek islands lie just off the coast of Turkey

    GERMANY, 2015/09/14 A wooden boat carrying some 130 refugees sank off the southern Aegean island of Farmakonisi on Sunday, with at least 34 people drowned, according to Greek media. Part those killed were four babies and 11 young children, the Athens News agency reported. National radio, citing the Greek coastguard, said that rescue teams had saved 68 people from the waters, and that 29 refugees had managed to swim to shore. Eight of the victims were reported to have been found by coastguard divers in the boat's hold. The coast guard said it was almost certainly the worst such incident in the region since the refugee crisis began.

  • David Cameron vows crackdown on launderers of 'dirty money' in UK

    UNITED KINGDOM, 2015/07/28 Prime Minister David Cameron is set to announce fresh measures to tighten the screws on corrupt foreigners who launder "dirty money" in Britain. Cameron's major announcement will come at an anti-corruption address in Singapore which he is visiting on the second leg of his four-day Southeast Asia tour leading a business delegation. He will as well urge a world crackdown on the "cancer of corruption" to beat the image that the London property market is increasingly becoming a "safe haven" for money laundering.

  • Youth unemployment and a skills shortage cloud the blue skies of record UK jobs figures

    UNITED KINGDOM, 2015/05/14 Fortune seems to be favouring the newly instated Conservative government with the new employment figures showing an increase of 202,000 in the three months to March 2015, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed. This brings UK employment to a record high of 31.098 million - an employment rate of 73.5%. Moreover, the increase in employment was mainly of the full time variety (up 138,000). Unemployment benefit, an area Cameron's opponents are understandable touchy about, seems to have been righting itself. The number of people claiming Jobseekers Allowance reached at a record low of 763,800 in April 2015. In fact, April's drop of 12,600 in the number of claimants is the smallest fall since March 2013. This is hardly cause for alarm and suggests companies may have become additional cautious in employment ahead of the general election. This may as well have reflected softer economic increase in the early months of 2015.
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