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UK businesses cutting staff at fastest rate since 2021 after budget - The Guardian

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  1. UK businesses cutting staff at fastest rate since 2021 after budget  The Guardian
  2. UK private sector employment shrinks at fastest pace since 2021  Financial Times
  3. Hiring plunges after Reeves’s record tax raid  The Telegraph
  4. UK PMI Shows Businesses Slashed Jobs After Chancellor’s Tax Hike  Bloomberg
  5. UK employers cut staffing, turn more pessimistic as budget bites  Reuters

Vandal electrocuted while stealing cables in Abuja

The Punch 

A suspected cable vandal, Muktar Rabiu, has been electrocuted while attempting to steal high-voltage cables in the Federal Capital Territory. The incident occurred on November 28, 2024, just weeks after Rabiu had been apprehended and sentenced for a similar crime. This was revealed in a statement by the FCT Police Command Spokesperson, Josephine Adeh on

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Europe’s Starlink competitor is go

The Verge 

A Starlink terminal in the wild. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge

The EU has signed a deal for its IRIS² constellation of 290 communication satellites that will operate in both medium and low-earth orbit. The Starlink rival will provide secure connectivity to governmental users as well as private companies and European citizens, and bring high-speed internet to dead-zones. The public-private deal valued at €10.6 billion (about $11 billion), according to The Financial Times, is expected to come online by 2030. Читать дальше...

Bridging the Gap in Africa’s Surgical Care Crisis

Inter Press Service 

For decades, preventable deaths, lifelong disabilities, and disfigurements presented devastating consequences for over 90% of the population in Africa, where surgical care remains largely out of reach. Simple, affordable procedures like skin grafts for burns, bone fracture repair, and hernia procedures routinely go untreated, causing needless suffering and often driving families into abject poverty due […]