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UK falls down global ranks for life expectancy - how do we compare to other countries?

Over the past seven decades, the UK has performed worse than all G7 countries bar the US

The Independent UK

UK used to have seventh longest life expectancy in the world, today it is 29th

The rankings show that the only G7 country to do worse than the UK is the USA

Wales Online

UK life expectancy growing at slower rate than rest of G7, research shows

Widening inequality blamed for UK lagging behind all other countries in G7 except the US

The Guardian - UK

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UK falls down global ranks for life expectancy – analysis

Academics examined life expectancies around the world from 1952 to 2021.

The Independent UK

S. Korean leader eager to strengthen ties with Japan, G7

SEOUL -- South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has expressed his desire to resume periodic reciprocal visits between Japanese and South Korean leaders, in an exclusive interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Spring budget 2023: experts react to UK government's plan to get the economy moving

Jeremy Hunt’s 2023 spring budget covers employment, energy, enterprise and much more besides. The plan has already been dubbed his “back to work budget”, although he has called it a “budget for growth”.

The Conversation

Starmer and Sunak are both haunted by the spectres of election defeats past

Labour is spooked by its defeat in 1992, while the Tories fear a repeat of what happened to them in 1997

The Guardian - UK

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Amazon still seems hell bent on turning workers into robots – here's a better way forward

The strikes by hundreds of Amazon workers at the company’s Coventry warehouse in the English Midlands have brought into relief some of the problems of work in today’s high-tech society.

The Conversation

Labour’s messaging on business tax is right. Just don’t leave a long-term plan until the last minute

The shadow chancellor has read the room on the need for a stable tax regime, but the ‘to-be-decided’ list is long

The Guardian - UK

Shadow chancellor says Tories ‘squandering’ economic potential as cost-of-living crisis ‘number one concern’

Rachel Reeves said the UK is the ‘only G7 economy that’s still smaller than it was before the pandemic’

The Independent UK

Shadow chancellor accuses Tories of ‘squandering’ UK’s economic potential

Rachel Reeves said the UK is the ‘only G7 economy that’s still smaller than it was before the pandemic’.

The Independent UK

Russia is getting around sanctions to secure supply of key chips for war

Russia looks to be successfully working around European Union and Group of Seven sanctions to secure crucial semiconductors and other technologies for its war in Ukraine, according to a senior European diplomat.

Tribune News Service

The Andrew RT Davies interview: Liz Truss, Brexit and my Twitter account

The Andrew RT Davies Twitter account has become a focal point in its own right given what appears on it — but the leader of the Welsh Conservatives stands by it

Wales Online

Europe leaps towards energy autonomy as sanctions undercut Russia

Moscow has waged an energy war against the EU over the past year, but the bloc appears to be holding firm.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Chirac Warned Bush against Overthrowing Saddam

French Diplomat Maurice Gourdault-Montagne's memoirs are unlike those of any regular ambassador that fill French libraries year after year. The author of “The Others Don’t Think Like Us” is no ordinary ambassador. Now retired, his long diplomatic career took him to Tokyo, Beijing, Berlin and London. He was France’s sherpa…

Tribune News Service

Japan’s top diplomat set to skip G-20 meeting, snubbing India

TOKYO — Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi is unlikely to attend a meeting of G-20 foreign ministers in India on Wednesday, instead prioritizing parliamentary business, according to a government official.

Daily Mirror

More to fixing UK economy than just Brexit, Keir Starmer tells business chiefs

The Labour leader made a speech setting out his 'mission' to give Britain the fastest, sustained growth in the G7 group of industrialised nations

Manchester Evening News

UK will be poorer than eastern Europe if Tory ‘low wage doom-loop’ continues, warns Keir Starmer

According to Labour's analysis of World Bank data, it predicts that wealth prospects in Britain are set to be surpassed within the next 20 years by eastern European rivals

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The Independent UK

UK on course to be ‘poorer than Poland’ by 2030, claims Labour

Keir Starmer says his vision is the ‘only show in town’ that can boost economic growth

Asharq Al-Awsat

G20 Warns War Repercussions Exacerbate Global Economy Fragility

Finance ministers of the world's largest economies on Saturday strongly condemned Moscow's war on Ukraine, with only China and Russia refusing to sign a joint statement. India, the current chair of the Group of Twenty (G20), was reluctant to raise the issue of the war, but Western countries insisted they…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

G7 calls on other countries to cease support for Russia

The leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized countries reaffirmed their enhanced sanctions against Russia and their continued support for Ukraine during an online summit meeting held from late Friday night Japan time.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Confined militarily, Japan intends to step up civilian aid to Ukraine

The government is poised to boost support for Ukraine as the Russian invasion enters its second year.

Asharq Al-Awsat

G20 Finance Chiefs Differ on Debt, Russia-Ukraine War

Finance leaders of the world's biggest economies were entangled in differences on Saturday over the war in Ukraine and on resolving the debt burden of distressed developing nations, participants said. The meeting of finance ministers and central bank chiefs of the Group of 20 (G20), hosted by India, was likely…

Reuters

Most G20 nations condemn Russia for war, China silent

Finance chiefs of the world's largest economies strongly condemned Moscow for its war on Ukraine on Saturday, with only China and Russia itself declining to sign a joint statement.

The Guardian - AU

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

Volodymyr Zelenskiy gives defiant speech on one-year anniversary of invasion; Joe Biden’s daring Kyiv trip; the muted Russian protests against war

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