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Catch the latest Financial News EventsChina threatened to cancel key trade talks after UK minister’s Taiwan visit in June
Exclusive: diplomats had to scramble to contain fallout with Beijing after Douglas Alexander’s trip to TaipeiChina threatened to cancel high-level trade talks with the UK earlier this year over a government minister’s visit to Taiwan, the Guardian can disclose.Beijing...
‘Playing in a war zone isn’t for most people’: the British band braving drone strikes and pneumonia to tour Ukraine
How did an Aussie, a Texan, an Irishman and three Cumbrians find themselves on the road on the Ukrainian frontline? For classic rock collective Hardwicke Circus, it was a no-brainer: ‘We thought they’d like to hear some rock’n’roll’ It is late October and, 10...
‘The answer is dig a hole’: why Scotland’s islanders want tunnels instead of ferries
From Shetland to the Western Isles, campaigners argue ageing ferries are driving depopulation – and undersea tunnels are the only 21st-century solutionFor Alec Priest, an instrument technician at Sullom Voe oil terminal on Shetland, the case for digging tunnels under...
‘A place of darkness and light’: the uninhabited Japanese island that became a rabbit paradise
Once host to a poisonous gas research facility, Okunoshima is now an Instagram-friendly tourist destinationThe bunny-ear designs on the window aside, there is little to indicate that the ferry has arrived on an island teeming with rabbits. Then, moments after the...