AstraZeneca cancels £450m Liverpool investment, blaming UK government funding cuts – business live

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Pharmaceutical company says that it will not go ahead with investment at Speke, near Liverpool

Donald Trump’s White House will invoke emergency powers to introduce tariffs on Canada and Mexico, Reuters reports:

Two sources familiar with the matter said that Trump was expected to invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) as the legal basis for the tariffs, declaring a national emergency over fentanyl overdoses that killed nearly 75,000 Americans in 2023 and illegal immigration.

The statute enacted in 1977 and modified after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 gives the president broad powers to impose economic sanctions in a crisis.

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Ex-Barclays CEO gears up for explosive trial over City regulator’s allegations on Jeffrey Epstein ties

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Court papers seen by the Guardian mean Jes Staley’s appeal against FCA ruling will demand answers on links to sex offender

The former chief executive of Barclays, Jes Staley, is gearing up for an explosive trial next month, that will force him to address evidence suggesting he hid the depth of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the sex offender he referred to as “family”.

Court documents seen by the Guardian reveal myriad allegations made by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), including that Epstein messaged Staley about sex, women and foreign holidays, while working behind the scenes to bolster Staley’s career by liaising with government officials, business leaders and royalty.

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Norway Seizes Russian-Crewed Ship Suspected of Cutting an Undersea Cable – The New York Times

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  1. Norway Seizes Russian-Crewed Ship Suspected of Cutting an Undersea Cable  The New York Times
  2. Baltic Sea Cable Incidents Pile Up—Who Is To Blame?  Forbes
  3. Europe’s undersea infrastructure keeps getting damaged. What’s going on?  CNN
  4. Norway stops a ship suspected of involvement in damage to a Baltic Sea cable  The Associated Press
  5. Second ship seized in Baltic Sea cable damage investigation  Sky News
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The Maga backlash against Trump’s crypto grab: ‘This is bad, and looks bad’

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Trump’s meme coin has some conservatives complaining over ‘most blatant ponzi scheme in history’

When Donald Trump announced – three days before assuming the presidency of the United States, and followed shortly by Melania Trump – that he was launching a self-named “meme coin” cryptocurrency, many in the crypto industry were quick to express frustration. Ethics experts were also alarmed.

Among Trump’s base, however, a similar backlash – smaller, more muted, but similarly anguished – has been taking hold.

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Britain’s favourite fish at risk of wipeout within decades, predicts report

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Brown trout unlikely to survive in most rivers at height of summer by 2080, says Environment Agency

It has been native to Britain for thousands of years and was heralded as the national fish on the BBC’s Springwatch, but a government report suggests the brown trout risks being wiped out in large parts of England within decades.

The first national temperature projections for English rivers by the Environment Agency forecasts that by 2080 the water will be too warm almost everywhere in England at the height of summer for the Salmo trutta species to feed and grow.

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AstraZeneca axes £450m vaccine plant in Liverpool, blaming state funding cut

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Days after Rachel Reeves highlighted life sciences as UK strength, firm decides against site expansion

AstraZeneca has cancelled plans for a £450m expansion of its manufacturing plant in Speke, Merseyside, blaming a cut in the funding on offer from the government.

Only two days after Rachel Reeves highlighted life sciences as a key UK strength, in a speech setting out her plans to kickstart economic growth, the company said it had decided to pull its investment.

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Pardoned January 6 attacker sentenced to 10 years for fatal drunk-driving crash

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Emily Hernandez, 24, killed Victoria Wilson, 32, and injured her husband in a 2022 Missouri wreck

One of the US Capitol attackers pardoned by Donald Trump at the start of his second presidency has been handed a 10-year prison sentence for killing a woman in a drunk-driving crash, according to authorities.

Emily Hernandez served 30 days in federal prison after she joined the mob of Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 and was photographed holding the broken nameplate of Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker at the time.

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WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of Israeli spyware

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Messaging app said it had ‘high confidence’ some users were targeted and ‘possibly compromised’ by Paragon Solutions spyware

Nearly 100 journalists and other members of civil society using WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by Meta, were targeted by spyware owned by Paragon Solutions, an Israeli maker of hacking software, the company alleged today.

The journalists and other civil society members were being alerted of a possible breach of their devices, with WhatsApp telling the Guardian it had “high confidence” that the users in question had been targeted and “possibly compromised”.

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North Korean troops pulled back from frontline after heavy losses, Ukrainian officials say – CNN

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  1. North Korean troops pulled back from frontline after heavy losses, Ukrainian officials say  CNN
  2. North Korean Troops in Russia Taken off Front Lines  The New York Times
  3. North Koreans 'blow themselves up with grenades rather than risk capture', say Ukraine soldiers  Sky News
  4. North Korean Troops Pulled From Kursk Front Line Amid Heavy Losses – NYT  The Moscow Times
  5. Ukraine special forces say N.Korean troops not seen at front in three weeks  Reuters
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York Minster congregation outraged over ‘deeply inappropriate’ concert

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Gig at cathedral by metal band Plague of Angels would be ‘outright insult’ to their faith, say parishioners

First there was a silent disco at Canterbury Cathedral. Then there was the “rave in the nave” in Peterborough.

But York Minster is taking it one step further by hosting a controversial metal band in what parishioners have called an “outright insult” to their faith.

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Surviving breast cancer was enough – Patsy didn’t want to undergo early menopause as well

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Study finds too few women are told chemotherapy can cause early menopause – or given the drug that can lessen that risk

When Patsy Mullen was diagnosed with breast cancer, she had no idea that chemotherapy treatment could lead to early onset menopause.

It was Mullen’s oncologist who mentioned the possibility, and offered the then 47-year-old the drug Goserelin, which reduces the risk by up to 70% compared with women receiving chemotherapy alone.

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Australia tried to influence other countries and Unesco to keep Great Barrier Reef off in-danger list

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Exclusive: Documents seen by Guardian Australia show a sustained strategy approved by environment minister Tanya Plibersek

The Australian government carried out an international lobbying campaign to keep the Great Barrier Reef off a list of world heritage sites in danger, including dispatching politicians and officials to Unesco’s Paris headquarters and asking diplomats to gather intelligence on countries that could influence the decision.

The campaign is revealed in documents released to the Greens after a parliamentary request and show how Australia sought to influence Unesco and members of the 21-country world heritage committee in the lead up to a crunch meeting in July last year.

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Belarus Weekly: Lukashenko gets himself reelected for 7th consecutive term – Kyiv Independent

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  1. Belarus Weekly: Lukashenko gets himself reelected for 7th consecutive term  Kyiv Independent
  2. 'Don't overdo it, Steve': BBC journalist in testy exchange with Belarus president  BBC.com
  3. After Lukashenko's latest sham election, exiled Belarusians reflect on their lost revolution  Kyiv Independent
  4. Teflon Lukashenko is elected again in Belarus. What now?  Responsible Statecraft
  5. Belarus president set to extend 30-year rule as critics slam ‘sham’ election  CNN
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