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Jason, 53, said he does not mind HMOs existing, but has concerns over the behaviour of some occupiers.”They’re building flats at the bottom of my street, and I’m worried that it’ll potentially cause trouble.”If there’s people who need housing, that’s fair enough, but if it’s people that are going to cause trouble, no.”They just seem to be coming up all over the place.” South Tyneside Council said it used additional powers to prevent any HMOs from being converted without planning permission. Council leader Paul Mackings, said: “South Tyneside Council already uses all the powers available to us to regulate HMOs…

Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz near the beach of Bandar Abbas, Iran, June 11, 2026. Amirhosein Khorgooi/isna | Via ReutersThe International Maritime Organization has paused its efforts aimed at evacuating ships and seafarers stranded inside the Middle East Gulf after a vessel was attacked in the Gulf of Oman. The pause follows a container ship being struck by an unknown projectile near the coast of Oman on Thursday, with a U.S. official telling MS Now that Iran was behind the attack. The evacuation plan would be temporarily paused “in order to reconfirm that the necessary safety guarantees continue to…

Asian shares fall as Apple’s price hikes dents tech optimism Source link

Google Finance is not a new product—it has been around for 20 years, long enough that it initially relied on Flash to display charts and graphs. The website has gotten a few major updates over the years, but it has never had a mobile app until now. Google has released the first standalone app for Google Finance, which is currently exclusive to Android, with iOS planned for later this year. The app is available globally in the Play Store, but that’s not the only update to Google’s financial tracker. The AI-powered makeover for the Finance website is also leaving beta,…

A Labour MP has been cleared of breaching Parliament’s expenses rules after an investigation into apparent discrepancies over accommodation and travel found he was “careful with spending public money”.The probe by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) found Birmingham MP Tahir Ali even erred “too much on the side of caution”, funding “considerable” costs out of his own pocket when he could have claimed for them.Ipsa opened its investigation into Ali in May 2025, over questions about not only travel and accommodation expenses but office costs.In a report on Thursday, Ipsa’s compliance officer Matt Walker said Ali had committed “no…

Two Federal Reserve officials on Thursday indicated some optimism on inflation, though neither indicated a likelihood that interest rates will change anytime soon.Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said Thursday that inflation is still trending the wrong way though there have been a few bright spots. A little later in the afternoon, New York Fed President John Williams said he expects inflation readings to start trending lower.In a live CNBC interview from his home district, Goolsbee declined to speculate on where he thinks interest rates are headed. However, he said he remains squarely focused on inflation, in remarks that reflected…

SoftBank shares slide after report OpenAI may delay IPO until next year Source link

Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, arrives at a Korean barbecue restaurant for a dinner meeting with SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo, and Naver Chairman Lee Hae-jin in Seoul, South Korea, on June 5, 2026. Chris Jung | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesNvidia CEO Jensen Huang told shareholders on Wednesday that if a commercial opportunity conflicts with U.S. national security, the company would prioritize American interests.”National security comes first,” Huang said in a session shortly after the company’s annual stockholder meeting concluded.He added that if a company wanted to smuggle Nvidia’s chips or systems into countries with…

It was clear then, as we reported at the time, that this was unlikely to be the end of the matter – and so it proved. The elections in May solidified in the minds of countless MPs what many of them had long feared – their leader was deeply, deeply unpopular and costing their party support. The view of Labour MPs, channelling what they saw as the view of the electorate, calcified to a point where Sir Keir’s imminent departure became near inevitable. Against that backdrop, he was powerless to prevent Andy Burnham contesting the by-election triggered in Makerfield in…

The logo of Japanese company SoftBank Group at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2025.Kazuhiro Nogi | AFP | Getty ImagesSoftBank Group plunged more than 11% on Friday, leading a broad selloff in Asian technology stocks, amid mounting concerns over the rising cost of artificial intelligence infrastructure. The Japanese conglomerate led losses across the region after the Nasdaq Composite fell for a fourth straight session overnight. The tech-heavy index dropped 0.46% as a 6% plunge in Apple overshadowed Micron’s stronger-than-expected earnings. Stock Chart IconStock chart iconThe weakness also spilled into Asia’s semiconductor sector. South Korea’s SK Hynix fell more than…