8 h. ago Chinese company on US forced labour watchlist to buy Canadian gold mining firm

Zijin Gold’s parent company has been placed on US administration’s Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act Entity List

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10 h. ago China’s biggest sportswear brand to buy Puma stake for $1.8 billion

Anta Sports Products will buy a 29.06 per cent stake in Puma, the Chinese sportswear company has announced

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33 h. ago London midday: Stocks pare gains ahead of busy week; gold miners shine

London midday: Stocks pare gains ahead of busy week; gold miners shine  Vox Markets

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44 h. ago Fury as top private school forced to CLOSE after 106 years due to ‘ideological’ Labour VAT grab

A PRESTIGIOUS Cotswold private school is being forced to close due to Labour’s VAT hikes. Rendcomb College, open for 106 years, announced in a letter to parents its doors will be slammed shut this summer. The respected college – which holds 200 acres of land in Gloucestershire – addressed that the school would not be...

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4 d. ago Chery plan to use British JLR plants on agenda for Starmer’s Beijing trip

UK government has been courting Chinese company to build cars locally

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4 d. ago Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood blasted over 'day of shame' as first illegal immigrants arrive at new accommodation centre 'under cover of darkness'

Labour has been forced to come up with extra migrant sites after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer scrapped the previous government's Rwanda asylum deal as one of his first acts in office.

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4 d. ago Hellish life 'slave' trapped by mum in house of horrors – broom attacks and no teeth

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: A British mum-of-ten has been convicted of false imprisonment, assault and forced labour after holding a woman captive for 25 years in a horrific campaign of abuse

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5 d. ago Mum of 10 has three words for woman she beat and doused in bleach in 25

Amanda Wixon, 56, was found guilty of false imprisonment, forced labour and assault after keeping her friend's daughter at her Tewkesbury home from 1995 to 2021

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6 d. ago America accuses Britain of 'letting us down' by giving away Chagos islands as Reeves takes a jab at Trump in Davos

The US has accused Britain of 'letting us down' after the government pushed ahead with legislation to hand over the UK territory to Mauritius.

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6 d. ago Can Chagos giveaway REALLY go ahead amid Trump fury? Starmer forces through legislation despite US objection and Labour MPs rebelling

The government overturned efforts by peers to thwart the plan to hand over the UK territory to Mauritius and lease back Diego Garcia, which hosts a crucial US military base.

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1 week ago Got to pay the tax bill somehow! Angela Rayner picks up a second job as she signs with a speaking agency... despite having once blasted MPs who earn extra cash outside Parliament

The Labour MP, who was forced to quit her Government roles in September amid a furious tax row, is being paid by Chartwell Speakers.

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2 w. ago Workers at Chinese factory that produces Labubu toys are being exploited, says NGO

Exclusive: China Labor Watch says people aged 16-18 employed without required special protectionsA labour rights NGO says it has found evidence of worker exploitation in the supply chain of Labubus, the furry toys that took the world by storm last year and which are expected to continue to grow in popularity in 2026.Labubus, toothy gremlins made by the Chinese toy company Pop Mart, have become one of China’s hottest cultural exports. In the first half of 2025 alone, “the Monsters” line of toys, which includes Labubus, generated 4.8bn yuan (£511m) in sales for the Hong Kong-listed company. In August, Pop Mart’s chief executive, Wang Ning, said the company was on track to reach 20bn yuan in revenues in 2025. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago NIGEL FARAGE: Our Forces deserve better than Labour's bumbling platoon of no

NIGEL FARAGE: For years, I have argued that successive Conservative and Labour governments were spending nowhere near enough on defence to meet the challenges we face in the world.

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2 w. ago Pubs threaten shutting doors in tax hike protest 'before they close for good'

Pub landlords up and down the country are demanding a rethink of a Labour tax hike that could force many to close for good. It comes as many boozers have barredLabour MPs

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2 w. ago Starmer says MPs to get vote on deploying UK peacekeeping troops to Ukraine

Labour prime minister has signed historic deal to deploy armed forces to enforce any ceasefire with Russia – with Trump’s blessing

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2 w. ago Alleged scam kingpin Chen Zhi extradited to China after Cambodia arrest

Chen founded the Prince Group, a multinational conglomerate authorities allege served as a front for ‘one of Asia’s largest transnational criminal organisations’Chinese-born tycoon Chen Zhi, who was indicted by the US on fraud and money-laundering charges for running a multibillion-dollar online scam network from Cambodia, has been arrested there and extradited to China, Phnom Penh said.Chen allegedly directed operations of forced labour compounds across Cambodia, where trafficked workers were held in prison-like facilities surrounded by high walls and barbed wire, according to US prosecutors. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago MPs to get vote on deploying UK peacekeeping troops to Ukraine

Labour prime minister has signed historic deal to deploy armed forces to enforce any ceasefire with Russia – with Trump’s blessing

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2 w. ago Keir Starmer faces Labour revolt as Tories force vote TODAY on scrapping jury trials for swathe of cases

The Tories will force a vote in the House of Commons over the proposals announced by Justice Secretary David Lammylast year.

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3 w. ago More than 100 private schools forced to close after Labour's controversial tax raid on fees

The grim tally was revealed by independent schools' leader Julie Robinson on the first anniversary of the policy being introduced on January 1 last year.

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3 w. ago Police are facing ruin from Labour's 'soft justice crimewave': Forces set for £800million bill from plan to jail fewer criminals

Labour's soft justice reforms will unleash a crimewave, pushing some forces to the brink of bankruptcy, warn police chiefs.

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