A new instant payment system may be coming to a bank near you
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Thousands of UK hospital doctors walk out in the latest pay dispute, crippling health services
Thousands of senior doctors in England are staging a 48-hour walkout to demand better pay and conditions
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Ryanair eyes Ukraine tourism after Russia’s war ends
Ryanair’s boss has pledged to “charge back into Ukraine” once commercial flying reopens and promised investment worth $3bn (£2.3bn) in the wartorn country. Michael O’Leary visited Kyiv on Thursday and said that he soon hoped to reconnect the country’s Lviv and Odesa airports with more than 20 European Union capital cities within eight weeks of the reopening of air space with around 600 weekly flights. “The fastest way to rebuild and restore the Ukrainian economy will be with low-fare air travel,” the chief executive said. “Ryanair intends to invest heavily in Ukraine and lead this aviation recovery by investing up to $3bn and basing up to 30 Boeing Max aircraft at Ukraine’s three main airports in Kyiv, Lviv and Odesa. “Having previously also served Kharkiv and Kherson airports prior to the invasion, Ryanair will return to serving those airports too, as soon as the infrastructure has been restored.” He added that the company will employ hundreds of Ukrainian pilots, cabin crew and IT professionals, and we will look to create thousands of new jobs in aviation for Ukrainian citizens. It is hard to say when commercial flights will be possible to and from Ukraine with restrictions still in place due to the ongoing war with Russia. Ryanair held meetings in Kyiv’s Boryspil International Airport with representatives from Ukraine’s main airports, Kyiv, Lviv and Odesa. Mr O’Leary was joined by Boryspil airport chief executive Oleksiy Dubrevskyy and Ukraine’s communities minister Oleksandr Kubrakov. The latter man said the resumption of flights will be possible “as soon as the security situation allows”. “We are already working on solutions and investment plans to enable aircraft to fly up quickly,” he said. Ryanair noted the “excellent state” of the airport infrastructure after examining terminals, baggage claims and passenger check-ins. The company has said that in the first 12 months after the war, more than 5 million seats to and from Ukraine will be on offer with 10 million per year within five years. Read More Russia-Ukraine war – live: Moscow restricts movement of British diplomats over support for Kyiv UK donated 184,000 more artillery shells to Ukraine than planned, says Wallace Ukraine and Pakistan call for restoring the Black Sea grain deal after talks in Islamabad The Body in the Woods | An Independent TV Original Documentary The harrowing discovery at centre of The Independent’s new documentary
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Q&A: ‘Barbie’ filmmaker Greta Gerwig on art, commerce and embracing the mess
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Oklahoma executes a man for the 1995 butcher knife slaying of a Tulsa woman
Oklahoma has executed a man for stabbing a Tulsa woman to death with a butcher knife in 1995
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Belarus Red Cross says it helped deport Ukrainian children to Belarus
The head of the Belarusian Red Cross has sparked an international outcry with his announcement that the organization is involved in the relocation of Ukrainian children from Russian-occupied areas to Belarus, a stark admission that potentially could make the group complicit in what Ukraine says is a war crime.
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Venezuela's ex-spymaster pleads not guilty to US drug trafficking charges
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Bruno Fernandes named new Manchester United captain
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Wife of Gilgo Beach murders suspect files for divorce
Asa Ellerup's lawyer says her life has been "turned upside down" by Rex Heuermann's alleged crimes.
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Billion-dollar US Powerball ticket sold in California
By Rachel Nostrant A very lucky Powerball player in Southern California has won the multistate lottery's $1 billion
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As temperatures rise, mosquitos are also on the move. Scientists worry that could mean more malaria
As global warming pushes temperatures up, the elevation range where malaria-carrying mosquitoes thrive is rising
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How Much Money Do NFL Waterboys Make?
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