The fishing row between the UK and France has been making waves again this week, after a British trawler was seized off Le Havre.
In further headaches for Downing Street, leaked documents revealed the hefty predicted cost of implementing Boris Johnson’s “Plan B” for tackling Covid-19 if infections rise over the coming months. And Rishi Sunak’s long-trailed “high tax, high spend” Budget divided Conservative MPs.
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- Jacinda Ardern admitted that New Zealand’s new Covid vaccination policy will result in the creation of a “two-tier society”.
- The UN World Food Programme warned that Afghanistan is facing a humanitarian “catastrophe” that could soon “eclipse crises in Yemen and Syria”.
- Japan’s Princess Mako, niece of Emperor Naruhito, renounced her royal status to marry her commoner boyfriend.
- Facebook whistle-blower Frances Haugen gave evidence to a joint committee of MPs following her testimony earlier this month to the US Congress.
- And civilian leaders were arrested in Sudan, in an apparent military coup.
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