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Furniture giant to pilot second-hand online market

Ikea is trialling its own second-hand online marketplace so that customers can sell to each other, rather than relying on buy-and-sell websites like eBay or Gumtree. Ikea Preowned is already up and running in Madrid and Oslo, with the Swedish furniture giant planning to roll out the site globally by December. It comes against the […]

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Germany’s Olaf Scholz vows crackdown on illegal migration

Irregular migration into Germany “must go down” after a Syrian man who came to Germany as an asylum seeker was charged with killing three people in an attack in the western town of Solingen last week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said. “This was terrorism, terrorism against us all,” Mr Scholz said during a visit […]

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It seems clear the UK has assisted Israel’s breaches of international law. Surely Labour can do better than deny it | Sam Fowles

Britain’s history of developing and upholding international law should be a source of pride. The UK was once at the forefront of prosecuting war crimes, enshrining international human rights and developing the Geneva conventions. Recent governments, however, treated international law with contempt: successive Conservative administrations legislated to break the EU trade agreement within months of […]

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Harris campaign says best hour of donations came right after her DNC acceptance speech : NPR

Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris waves as she arrives to speak on the fourth and last day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, on Aug. 22. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign reported raising […]

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What could Asda and Morrisons move away from self-checkout mean?

Getty Images Some supermarket chains have said they are refocusing on staffed checkouts After years of encouraging shoppers to scan their own groceries, some supermarkets are checking out a move back to traditional tills. Asda said it would put more staff on checkouts, while Morrisons admitted it might have “gone too far” with self-scan. Northern […]

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