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      30 May

      Savers hit by shock £2BILLION tax raid: Up to 1million Britons face paying bills for dividends and capital gains after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt slashes allowances under new rules

      Up to a million savers not used to paying taxes on their nest eggs are facing a £2billion shock as new rules take effect, according to analysis by a leading accountancy firm. The changes are likely to punish savers with bills of up to £2,000 over two years – including penalties for those who inadvertently forget to comply, research from Azets estimates. Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said ordinary savers were being penalised while Baroness Altmann, a former pensions minister, said: ‘Savers haven’t been treated fairly for years.’ People with modest shareholdings are allowed to earn dividends tax-free if they are below a certain level. Similarly, they can sell those shares at a profit without being taxed if the…

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    • 30 May

      UAE announces mission to asteroid belt to seek clues to life’s origins

      The United Arab Emirates unveiled plans on Monday to send a spaceship to explore the solar system’s main asteroid belt, the latest space project by the oil-rich nation after it launched the successful Hope spacecraft to Mars in 2020. Dubbed the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt, the project aims to develop a spacecraft in the coming years and then launch it in 2028 to study various asteroids. “This mission is a follow-up and a follow-on to the Mars mission, where it was the first mission to Mars from the region,” said Mohsen Al Awadhi, programme director of the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt. “We’re creating the same thing with this mission. That is, the first mission ever to…

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    • 30 May

      ‘They should be embarrassed’: Ukraine’s Kostyuk calls out French Open crowd after boos

      Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk took issue with the French Open’s notoriously fickle crowd, and players’ silence over the war in her home country, after she was booed off the court on Sunday for declining to shake hands with her Belarusian opponent on an otherwise unremarkable opening day at Roland Garros. Kostyuk, the world number 39, had warned she would not shake hands with Russian and Belarusian players due to the ongoing war in Ukraine – a stance she and other Ukrainian athletes have stuck to since Moscow’s forces invaded their country last year, with support from Belarus. The 20-year-old from Kyiv duly avoided her opponent on Court Philippe Chatrier, the French Open’s showpiece arena, after losing 6-3 6-2 in a lopsided contest with world number two…

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    • 30 May

      Venice discovers famed canal turns bright green due to non-toxic fluorescein

      The spectacular transformation of a stretch of Venice’s Grand Canal to fluorescent green was due to fluorescein, a non-toxic substance used for testing wastewater networks, local authorities said on Monday. Residents noticed a stretch of Venice’s Grand Canal turned bright green Sunday, prompting police to investigate amid speculation it could be a stunt by environmentalists. But analysis showed “the presence of fluorescein in samples taken”, said the the Regional Agency for Environmental Prevention and Protection of Veneto (Arpav).   The results “have not shown the presence of toxic elements in the samples analysed”, the statement said, without specifying the origin of the substance.  The change in colour noticed by residents raised eyebrows, with police looking into whether Sunday’s development could be a…

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    • 30 May

      Novak Djokovic sparks controversy writing anti-Kosovo message on camera lens after French Open win

      Novak Djokovic sparked controversy at Roland Garros for writing a political statement appearing to deny Kosovo’s independence. Writing on the camera lens after his straight sets win over Aleksandar Kovacevic, Djokovic wrote: “Kosovo is the heart of Serbia. Stop violence.” Kosovo — a former province of Serbia, mainly populated by ethnic Albanians — has been NATO-backed since 1999 and declared independence in 2008. However Serbia has refused to recognise its statehood and tensions between the two regions have flared in recent days, with several injured in violent clashes between Kosovo’s police, NATO-led peacekeepers and local Serbs. After his match, Djokovic told Serbian newspaper Blic that he felt “responsible” to speak out. “I am not a politician and I have no…

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    • 30 May

      Israeli forces kill Palestinian officer in clashes

      JENIN/HOMESH, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed a Palestinian security officer during clashes in the occupied West Bank flashpoint city of Jenin on Monday, the Palestinian Fatah faction said in a statement. The Israeli military said its forces had come under heavy Palestinian fire while seeking the arrest of security suspects in Jenin and had returned fire at the gunmen. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party identified the officer as Ashraf Sheikh Ibrahim, saying he had died “as he confronted the aggression and the occupation’s storming of the city of Jenin”. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade militant group, associated with Fatah, claimed him as a member. In another part of the West Bank on Monday, Jewish settlers inaugurated a seminary in a…

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    • 29 May

      Explosions as Russia launches 15th air assault on Kyiv in May

      Overnight missile attack comes a day after Russia unleashed its largest ever drone assault on the Ukrainian capital. A firefighter works at the site of a tobacco factory damaged during Russian drone strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 28, 2023 [Pavlo Petrov/Press Service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout ] Several explosions have rocked the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, according to officials, in the 15th Russian air attack on the city this month and the second overnight attack in a row. “A missile shot down near Kyiv,” Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging channel in the early hours of Monday. “Air defence working!” He added that blasts were heard in several districts of the city, including Kyiv’s historic…

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    • 29 May

      China to send its first civilian astronaut into space

      Payload expert Gui Haichao will set off for the Tiangong space station as part of a three-person mission on Tuesday. Astronauts Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao attend a press conference before the Shenzhou-16 spaceflight mission [China Daily] China will send its first civilian astronaut into space as part of a crewed mission to the Tiangong space station on Tuesday, according to officials. Gui Haichao, a payload expert, will take off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Tuesday at 9:31am local time (01:31 GMT), the China Manned Space Agency said on Monday. Until now, all Chinese astronauts sent into space have been members of the People’s Liberation Army. A spokesman for the space agency told…

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    • 29 May

      Everest continues to attract climbers 70 years after first summit

      The first ascent brought Nepal to the world’s attention and its mountains have since captivated both adventurers and tourists. The eight-day trek to the Everest base camp is among the most popular hikes in Nepal [File: Tashi Sherpa] When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa first climbed Mount Everest 70 years ago, they paved the way for thousands of foreign climbers to try to follow in their footsteps. The eight-day trek to the Everest base camp is among the most popular multiday hikes in Nepal with tens of thousands of tourists making the journey every year. What were small farming villages when the British expedition passed through in 1953 have since been transformed into tourist hubs with hotels, tea houses and equipment…

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    • 29 May

      News|Israel-Palestine conflict

      Not just Ben-Gvir: A new Al-Aqsa provocation is building up The Israeli minister’s visits have deep roots in religious Zionism. But his approach is now finding new takers too. Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visiting the Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem’s Old City on May 21, 2023 [Temple Mount Administration/Handout ] Itamar Ben-Gvir’s second visit to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound as Israel’s national security minister on May 21 represents a dangerous mix of religion and politics. Ben-Gvir was seen standing and reading off his phone, apparently in prayer. Such an act would be forbidden under the current “status quo” governing Al-Aqsa, referred to as the Temple Mount or Har Habayit by Jews, even though a small group of Orthodox Jews…

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