Month: August 2025
A-level results: Top grades rise again as record number of students accepted into university
Hundreds of thousands of pupils across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland celebrate exam results, with many finding out if they will progress to university, an apprenticeship or work
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No immediate plans to change ‘unfair’ student loan interest, education secretary admits
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has said on Thursday, 11 August, that there are “no immediate plans” to change interest levels on student loan repayments.
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Riot police block protesters from approaching Israeli cruise ship in Greece
Riot police in Greece have cordoned off an area around an Israeli cruise ship at the port of Piraeus
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Trump’s new commercial spaceflight order could benefit Musk’s SpaceX
The executive order will streamline federal regulation governing commercial rocket launches
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Robert Jenrick claims migrants threw bottles at him during France camp visit
Robert Jenrick said that he had bottles thrown at him during a visit to a migrant camp near Calais.
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Trump’s foreign aid cuts have ‘strengthened tyranny’ in Myanmar, rights groups say
USAID funding cuts have given Myanmar’s military rulers ‘carte blanche’ to escalate human rights abuses
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Trump’s nominee for Bureau of Labor Statistics was Jan 6 ‘bystander’ outside Capitol, says White House
E.J. Antoni, tapped by President Trump to serve as the nation’s top economic data official, appears in Capitol Police surveillance footage from January 6, 2021
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The Department of Homeland Security is starting to annoy both brands and artists with its wild social media behavior
DHS attracting complaints from creatives for using their work online but insists it is ‘bypassing the mainstream media to give Americans the facts’
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Watch live: Starmer welcomes Zelensky to Downing Street ahead of Trump-Putin meeting
Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer welcomes Volodymyr Zelensky to 10 Downing Street on Thursday, 14 August, a day before Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are due to meet.
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Israel’s finance minister approves settlement to ‘bury the idea of a Palestinian state’
Israeli gunfire kills at least 25 in Gaza as Netanyahu says he will ‘allow Palestinians to leave’
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