Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Saudi Arabia to disclose who gave the order to kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as well the location of his body, saying Turkey had more information about the case than it has shared so far. |
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Royal Bank of Scotland has set an extra 100 million pounds aside to account for possible bad loans as a result of Brexit uncertainty, in the first concrete sign this is clouding the outlook of a big British bank. |
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Commentary: Brexit rubs salt in Britain’s economic wound, writes Paul Wallace, former European economics editor of The Economist and author of “The Euro Experiment.” By stopping the free movement of people from the EU, it limits the scope for migration to offset the demographic brake. And by harming Britain’s main trading relationship, it inflicts further economic costs. The inconvenient truth is that as Britain leaves the EU, taxation will have to rise, shifting the British state closer towards the high-tax European model. |
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