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Russia says it's halted an unprecedented wartime deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger is a growing threat and high food prices have pushed more people into poverty

The shadow home secretary stressed Labour’s focus on fiscal restraint.

The Covid-19 pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis and the war in Ukraine have pushed 165 million people into poverty since 2020, the United Nations said on Thursday. The UN is calling for the world's wealthiest economies to pause debt repayments by developing countries to ease the burden.

AN ANALYSIS of the impact of the cost of living crisis has “painted an incredibly bleak picture” of life in the UK, the SNP have said.

Estimated 25 low-income countries spent more than 20% of their revenues on debt servicing last year

THE size of recent Scottish welfare reforms is “not really appreciated” and their impact will be “really quite significant”, a director at…

Strike action involving baggage handlers and check-in staff will “inevitably” cause severe delays, disruption and cancellations, Unite union says

Union Minister Gadkari expressed satisfaction at Andhra Pradesh's development efforts. Projects worth ₹2 lakh crore are in progress, doubling national highways from 4,193 km to 8,744 km. PM Modi's vision of poverty/unemployment eradication through infrastructure is being implemented. Projects worth ₹17,000 crore in Tirupati, inter-modal bus terminus, and Swastya hospital…

The policy was introduced in 2013 under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition to end the days of ‘blank cheque benefits’.