One of the thorniest questions facing Brexit negotiators — how to handle the U.K.'s new land border with Ireland — is suddenly looking even more difficult. The experienced James Brokenshire resigned as Northern Ireland Secretary for health reasons on Monday. His departure is a blow for Theresa May,
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A former Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc trader was fined 250,000 pounds ($338,000) and banned from working in the industry by the U.K. markets regulator for manipulating Libor, five years after the bank was penalized for its role in the scandal. The Financial Conduct Authority issued the penalty
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Republicans and Democrats in Congress are once again far apart on a government spending bill with just days to go before a partial shutdown. The next deadline is Jan. 19, and after Republican leaders met with President Donald Trump and cabinet officials over the weekend at Camp David there was
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The sight-loss charity the RNIB made a loss of £12.6m in the year to 31 March 2017, the charity's latest accounts show. The accounts, which were released on the Companies House website at the end of last week, show that RNIB's total income for the year was £119.2m, compared with expenditure of
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A cryptocurrency that was created as a parody and named after an internet meme now has a market value of more than $2 billion. Dogecoin crossed the $2 billion barrier on Sunday, around two weeks after it first touched the $1 billion level on Christmas …
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