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Calls to the UK financial watchdog related to investment scams have nearly tripled over the past five years, as fraudsters use inflationary pressures to better target victims. The data reflects the wider growth of so-called authorised push payment fraud, in which consumers are tricked into sending money to scammers who pose as trusted figures. “Scammers
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Friday marks the first anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, an event that shocked the world by bringing large-scale conflict to European soil. US president Joe Biden’s visit to Poland at the start of the week will serve as a show of strength to Ukrainian and Nato allies in the face of Russia’s long-expected
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The vocal that launches Caroline Polachek’s latest album sounds somewhere between a siren’s call and a primal scream. It’s alluring, eerie and tricky to pin down — a description that could be applied across Polachek’s prolific catalogue. Her credits as singer-songwriter present a giddy whirl, from her emergence in Brooklyn indie outfit Chairlift to numerous
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Management consultants are hopeful that tighter government spending this year will spark more work, as departments and local authorities seek help with cost-cutting and restructuring. The government spends around £300bn a year on public procurement — buying in goods, services and work — which is roughly one in every three pounds of public money. And
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Portugal has become the second EU country this week to scrap “golden visas” for wealthy non-Europeans, joining Ireland in abolishing a programme that helped pull in foreign investment but sparked controversy. António Costa, Portugal’s prime minister, on Thursday said his government would stop issuing new golden visas in order to “fight against price speculation in
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Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. World Bank president David Malpass will step down from his post at the end of June, US authorities have begun the year looking to further crack down on crypto companies, and Nicola Sturgeon announced her resignation
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It’s not easy to get changed outside for a swim in a Scottish loch. Especially when it’s January, the air temperature is hovering around -1C and you are trying to preserve some shred of modesty among the strangers who surround you. This bare-cheeked frozen misery marked the start of one of the best weekends of
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It used to be Sweden. People loved Sweden. Here was a land of superb public services and big-hearted welfare. Here was a culture without Anglo-American neuroses about sex. Name a statistic — female labour force participation — and Sweden scored well. Abroad, it wasn’t warlike. It dealt in things like diplomacy and soft power instead,
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Today’s top stories Governments and international organisations are stepping up financial support for Turkey and Syria as the death toll from this week’s earthquake surpassed 22,000 people, with millions expected to be displaced. Japan is expected to appoint Kazuo Ueda, a respected monetary policy expert, as its new central bank chief, ending speculation among global
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