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A new report from the Excel Recruitment group shows that retailers on the Green Island are increasing base salaries to retain departing employees. This phenomenon has been reported mainly in the clothing and non-food trade industries.more

Almost 54 per cent of respondents in a United Surveys poll for RMF FM and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna support the idea of putting the President of the National Bank of Poland, Adam Glapiński, before the State Tribunal. Just over 30 per cent of respondents are opposed.more

Britain's new Home Secretary James Cleverly yesterday set out a five-point plan to significantly restrict legal immigration to the UK. His key points include raising the minimum wage required for a work visa and abolishing the ability of care workers to draw family members.more

The UK's ruling Conservative Party is primarily losing voters not to Labour, but to Reform UK - the party founded by leading Brexit advocate Nigel Farage. The reason is that the Conservatives are seen as too soft on stopping immigration.more

As part of a new agreement being finalised between the UK and Rwanda to return illegal migrants to the African country, British government lawyers could sit in Rwandan courts, the BBC and the 'Daily Telegraph' reported yesterday.more

The 10-year plan to purchase new weapons for the British armed forces has a budget hole of 16.9 billion pounds, resulting from the increase in equipment costs and inflation, and this is the largest such deficit, the National Audit Office said today.more

If Donald Trump wins the US presidential elections, Republika Srpska will announce secession from Bosnia and Herzegovina, said Milorad Dodik, the president of this majority-Serb autonomous unit of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The US presidential elections will take place in 2024.more

The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) assesses in its latest report that Russian troops are making progress in the fighting near Avdiivka in the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. Russian troops, including: they moved west of the railway line running north of the town of Stepowe.more

Sultan al-Jaber, chairman of the COP28 climate conference, argued that there is no scientific evidence indicating that abandoning fossil fuels is necessary to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C - revealed the British daily "The Guardian".more

In an article published in The Sunday Telegraph, the leader of the British opposition Labor Party, Keir Starmer, unexpectedly praised former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, hated by the British left, emphasizing that she had unleashed the "natural entrepreneurship of the British."more

The leader of Poland 2050 and the new Speaker of the Sejm, Szymon Holownia, currently enjoys the highest trust. In second place was the current leader of this classification, President Andrzej Duda. PSL leader Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz was promoted to third place, according to the November CBOS poll.more

Charities have criticised the "nonsensical" closure of migrant hotels after the BBC found many residents were being moved from one hotel to another. more

The UK yesterday announced the dispatch of the destroyer HMS Diamond to the Persian Gulf to help contain increasingly serious threats to shipping from Iran and Iran-backed groups in the wake of the war between the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas and Israel.more

More than a quarter of UK adults say they are likely to use buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) to help ease spending over the festive period, Citizens Advice has found. more

Sadiq Khan has urged the Government to take further action in tackling rogue landlords making tens of thousands of pounds a year from damp and mouldy properties. more

Former US Secretary of State, national security adviser and diplomat Henry Kissinger has died at the age of 100, his company Kissinger Associates announced.more

Sixteen activists of the Just Stop Oil group, which demands a halt to fossil fuel extraction, were arrested on the night from Wednesday to Thursday after a protest organized in front of the private home of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.more

A senior US State Department official assesses that Vladimir Putin will not make peace in Ukraine until the results of the US presidential election in November 2024 are known, Reuters reported. The assessment came during a meeting of NATO heads of diplomacy in Brussels.more

London and Athens have good relations despite a dispute over the cancellation of the Prime Ministers' meeting over Greek demands for the return of the Elgin marbles, located in the British Museum in London, sculptures from the Athenian Parthenon, according to Steve Barclay, UK environment minister, Sky News reported.more

Almost 60 per cent of those surveyed believe that commissions of inquiry are needed into the envelope election, the visa scandal and the Pegasus surveillance, while 32 per cent have the opposite view, according to a United Surveys poll for RMF FM and "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna".more

The dispute over restricting legal immigration to the UK no longer divides not only the Conservative Party, but even the government, with Deputy Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick increasingly openly expressing frustration at Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's lack of action, today's media point out.more

Polish Civic Coalition leader Donald Tusk is the most influential politician in Europe, the Politico portal has recognised in its annual ranking. "The security troika Poland-France-Germany will be able to get back to their duties," the Brussels portal points out.more

At the meeting of the Heads of Foreign Affairs, the Allies reaffirmed their determination to support Ukraine on its path to NATO and their unwavering support for Kiev, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday at the closing conference of the first day of the meeting of the Alliance's Heads of Diplomacy in Brussels.more

A dispute is escalating between the UK and Greece over the cancellation of a meeting between their prime ministers over Greek demands for the return of the Elgin marbles, the sculptures from the Parthenon of Athens in the British Museum in London. The two countries presented different versions of events yesterday.more

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak canceled today's meeting with the head of the Greek government, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who is currently visiting the UK. The decision is related to a dispute between the two countries over the sculptures from the Parthenon in the British Museum, known as the Elgin Marbles.more