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Burnham wants to offer access to free social care services in England. He'll put his plans before voters at the next general election.
The prime minister told the BBC that social care in England is "as unfair as American healthcare".
The prime minister told the BBC an early poll would throw the country into a "backward-looking process".
The Chinese leader’s visit to Washington appears to have done nothing to shift the stalemate in bilateral relations Within days, two high-profile Chinese visitors will arrive in the US – envoys of friendship, as Xi Jinping described them when he met Donald Trump at the White House this week. The giant pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, will be hosted at Atlanta zoo. Beijing dispatched the first panda pair to the US in 1972 following President Richard Nixon’s landmark visit to China. It uses the animals to indicate satisfaction or displeasure with other nations. But it also charges heftily for their lease: reportedly, around $1m a year per pair. Americans’ views of China have warmed from a pandemic nadir, but are unlikely to be shifted much by two animals, however charming. These days they are more of a token gesture than a striking symbol.It is telling that the announcement was one of the
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News that an automated AI agent hacked a government IT system raises big questions about regulating the tech.
Millions across England and Wales received a wildfire alert on their phones earlier this month, but it partly backfired.
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