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Greens challenge Burnham over Sainsbury’s youth placements■US seeks stake in Venezuelan oil fields holding 65bn barrels■Workers face risk from AI market bets, Bank chief warns■Burnham excludes more offences from early prison release plan■Israeli militias committed war crimes against Gazans, testimony shows■Burnham drops political donations cap he promised to voters■Greens challenge Burnham over Sainsbury’s youth placements■US seeks stake in Venezuelan oil fields holding 65bn barrels■Workers face risk from AI market bets, Bank chief warns■Burnham excludes more offences from early prison release plan■Israeli militias committed war crimes against Gazans, testimony shows■Burnham drops political donations cap he promised to voters■

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, architect of US economic sanctions coercion doctrine, stands with Congressman Byron Donalds in a congressional hearing room, May 2025.

564,258 die yearly as Treasury calls it statecraft

Peer-reviewed research puts sanctions deaths at 564,258 a year; Scott Bessent gave the machine behind that toll a new…

Official 2026 portrait of Andy Burnham Labour leader wearing glasses and a dark suit with maroon tie.

Working people get no say on seventh PM

Burnham takes No 10 with no public vote as market pressure over Ed Miliband hands the Treasury to Shabana Mahmood.

Official cabinet portrait of Peter Kyle in a grey suit and maroon tie.

Kyle will force pension funds home

Peter Kyle threatens to force pension funds to invest in Britain, after 25 years in which £1.9trn of workers'…