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The UK operation of the Chinese online marketplace Temu doubled revenues and pre-tax profits last year, as British consumers snapped up products offered by the super-budget retailer.Temu UK reported revenues of $63.3m (£46.4m) last year, almost double the $32m in 2023, while pre-tax profits similarly surged from $2m to $3.9m, accounts show.However, at an operating level, the company, which files under the name Whaleco UK at Companies House, reported losses widening from $7.9m to $8.7m year-on-year. The company put most of its broadening operating loss down to “exchange losses”.Because of Temu’s small pre-tax profit, the company paid just $985,000 in…

A group of 95 members of Congress have written a letter to Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, condemning the arrest of protected immigrants known as Dreamers and demanding to know how many have been detained and deported in recent months.In a letter shared with the Guardian and submitted to Noem on Wednesday morning, Democratic representatives denounced the recent rise in the wrongful detention and deportation of immigrants residing in the US under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program.The representatives’ letter is also addressed to Todd Lyons, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), the federal…

Zdeněk Liška became one of the eastern bloc’s pioneers of electroacoustic music by accident. After breaking through making music for ads and animations, the revolutionary film-makers of the 1960s Czechoslovak new wave asked him to soundtrack their movies, which he took as his greatest inspirations. With the help of radio engineering enthusiasts at Czechoslovakia’s film powerhouse, Barrandov Studios, he could imitate the whoosh of a spaceship or birds chirping. He composed underwater electroacoustic symphonies and music to be played on typewriters. Despite his innovations, he famously proclaimed: “I only write music under the pictures.”Liška was as productive as he was…

Since its demise in the 17th century, the dodo has long been synonymous with extinction. But thousands of dodos could soon again populate Mauritius, the species’ former home, according to a “de-extinction” company that has announced a major breakthrough in its quest to resurrect the flightless bird.Colossal Biosciences said on Wednesday it has succeeded in growing pigeon primordial germ cells, precursor cells to sperm and eggs, for the first time. This is a “pivotal step” in bringing back the dodo, which was a type of pigeon, for the first time in more than 300 years, according to Colossal.The Texas-based company,…

48 Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has described President Bola Tinubu’s tax reforms as the most ambitious economic overhaul in Nigeria in recent history. He predicted that Tinubu would be remembered as one of the country’s greatest economic reformers because of the bold decisions he has taken to restructure Nigeria’s fiscal system. Dogara made the statement on Tuesday at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja while delivering the maiden edition of the Distinguished Parliamentarian Lecture. The event was organised by the House of Representatives Press Corps, and his lecture was titled “Navigating Tax Reform in Nigeria:…

Cape Town, South Africa – Gonda Perez remembers the day South Africa’s apartheid regime bombed a refugee camp in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, during an air raid.It was in the mid-1980s. Perez was working as a dentist at a local hospital at the time and saw about 10 victims brought in on trucks serving as makeshift ambulances. One of the victims is etched in her memory.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“I stood in casualty, and I watched people come in with wounds, horrible wounds,” said Perez, now 69. “One man that I remember had blood spurting … so…

The word genocide is no longer a matter of debate when it comes to Gaza. What was once dismissed as an exaggeration shouted at protests is now being echoed by some of the world’s leading human rights organisations, United Nations experts and genocide scholars. The International Association of Genocide Scholars, the UN Commission of Inquiry and countless local and international NGOs have all concluded that Israel’s assault on Gaza fulfils the definition of genocide under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the treaty that legally defines and prohibits genocide.This is not the view…

Thousands of Palestinians are continuing to flee Gaza City, as Israel’s major ground offensive aimed at occupying the city enters a second day. Amid large-scale bombardment overnight, Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said al-Ranitisi children’s hospital was targeted in three separate Israeli attacks, forcing half of its patients and their families to flee. The Israeli military said it was looking into the report. Other hospitals said at least 35 people had been killed by Israeli fire across Gaza so far on Wednesday, most of them in the north.Earlier, the Israeli military announced that it had struck more than 150 “terror targets”…

UN Commissioner Chris Sidoti says Israel’s “boring” replies on Gaza war crimes are predictable and avoid the evidence.

Another fire incident was recorded at Lagos Island hours after Afriland Tower, housing different companies and a bank, got engulfed by fire. This time around it was Emab Plaza, a four-storey building located behind Mandilas, that was affected. The blaze, reported to authorities at about 7:23 p.m., broke out on the fourth floor of the building located on Taiwo Street, Lagos Island. The fire reportedly spread to adjoining apartments, sending thick smoke billowing from the upper levels. Eyewitnesses said portions of neighbouring structures were also affected before firefighters were able to contain the flames. The Lagos State Fire and Rescue…