Here’s a quick summary of what has happened around the world over the last 24 hours, brought to you exclusively by British Herald.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed to make it more facile for first-time homebuyers to seek a mortgage. This comes as part of an effort to overturn “disgraceful” low rates of home ownership among the young population.
Britain will prioritise trying to salvage jobs over tax rises, said finance minister Rishi Sunak. Even as the COVID-19 pandemic affects the economy, he said that record borrowing and a $2.6 trillion debt pile cannot be sustained for ever.
A probe revealed that the Church of England failed to protect children from sexual predators in its hierarchy, allowing molesters to hide in a bid to protect its reputation.
Benefitting from calmer winds, firefighters made significant progress in battling the wildfire which is wreaking havoc in northern California wine country. The conflagration has scorched over 1 million acres.
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria blamed Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for triggering the clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus and accused Ankara of sending fighters to the troubled region.
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said he believed that it was Russia’s intelligence services that had poisoned him with a Novichok nerve agent. The reason, according to him, was the fact that authorities saw him as a threat ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections.
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