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A big Budget – for tax, borrowing and spending  BBC.com UK budget: 7 things to watch for as Labour hikes taxes  POLITICO Europe UK’s new finance minister Reeves lines up tax hikes and borrowing in first budget  Reuters UK ‘The rich need to pay more’: Britons’ hopes and fears for the budget  The Guardian …

Report: More Than a Third of Tree Species Are in Trouble  Newser One-Third of World’s Trees Face Extinction Risk, Report at COP16 Says  The New York Times More than 1 in 3 tree species are at risk of going extinct, new analysis shows  CNN Nearly 40 percent of world’s trees face extinction, new …

GANSU, China — The ground vibrates beneath us as soon as the countdown ends and the spacecraft takes to the skies. Flames shoot out of the rocket launcher lighting up the Gobi Desert, which is then filled with a deafening roar. The BBC was given rare access to Jiuquan Satellite …

Satellite Images Suggest Israel Struck a Major Iranian Missile Plant  The New York Times What visuals reveal about the impact of Israeli strikes on Iran  The Washington Post Israel’s strikes on Iran broke a 40-year taboo. Tehran faces tough choices about what to do next  CNN ‘Bitter, unimaginable consequences’: Iran warns of reprisal …

HONG KONG — The surging global popularity of TikTok has seen the co-founder of its parent company, ByteDance, become China’s richest person. According to a rich list produced by the Hurun Research Institute, Zhang Yiming is now worth $49.3bn (£38bn) — 43% more than in 2023. The 41-year-old stepped down …

The Dominican Republic’s Plan for Haitian Refugee Wave: Deport 10,000 a Week  The Wall Street Journal Dominican and Haitian New Yorkers Condemn DR’s Mass Deportation of Haitians  Democracy Now! Haiti – FLASH : 30,921 illegal Haitians (deported and repatriated) from the Dominican Republic in 20 days  HaitiLibre.com Open Letter to Dominican President Luis …

LONDON — The area of land surface affected by drought has trebled since the 1980s, a new report into the effects of climate change has revealed. Forty-eight percent of the Earth’s land surface had at least one month of extreme drought last year, according to an analysis by the Lancet …

A big Budget – for tax, borrowing and spending  BBC.com UK’s new finance minister Reeves lines up tax hikes and borrowing in first budget  Reuters UK ‘The rich need to pay more’: Britons’ hopes and fears for the budget  The Guardian Why ‘sin taxes’ could play a significant role in Britain’s high-stakes budget  CNBC …

KYIV — The Russian Defense Ministry claimed Tuesday it had taken the Ukrainian town of Selydove, southeast of the key city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region. Russian forces have been advancing on Selydove in the last several weeks, according to frontline reports. It’s part of Russia’s ongoing assault and …

Axel Rudakubana: Southport murders accused facing terror charge  BBC.com UK stabbing suspect in deaths of 3 girls found with ricin, al Qaeda material and charged under Terrorism Act  Fox News Newspaper headlines: Terror charge for Southport suspect and Reeves’ Budget  BBC.com Teen accused of girls’ murder at UK dance class faces terrorism charge  CNN …