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BP on Wednesday formally appointed Ian Tyler as chair after the surprise dismissal of his predecessor Albert Manifold contributed to leadership upheaval at the oil major.Tyler joined the company’s Board as a non-executive director in April last year and was appointed interim chair on May 26.”Ian brings significant experience providing challenge and support to executive teams, while maintaining strong governance and oversight on behalf of shareholders,” Dame Amanda Blanc, BP’s senior independent director, said Wednesday.The company also announced that Blanc will not stand for re-election at the 2027 annual general meeting and will step down from the board once a…

The weekly ritual that sits at the heart of Westminster’s public image beckons, the half an hour or so of verbal jousting at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs).Prime ministerial memoirs tell the stories of how central a moment it is in the week of any occupant of 10 Downing Street.Sir Tony Blair wrote that “PMQs was the most nerve wracking, discombobulating, nail biting, bowel moving, terror inspiring, courage draining experience in my prime ministerial life, without question”.Now, for the first time, it is Andy Burnham’s turn to feel those nerves. And yet, curiously, the questions at lunchtime may well feel like…

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Tuesday that “too many” data center developers don’t care about the communities where they are building those artificial intelligence-sector projects, which have met with growing opposition nationwide.Shapiro’s comments to CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” came a day after President Donald Trump said the only reason American communities should not want AI data centers “is if they want to end up being backwards and poor.””The reality is, I want CEOs that give a damn about the community where they’re going to be,” said Shapiro, who appeared on CNBC with Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya to talk about…

Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has warned his country will retaliate if the UK imposes sanctions against it over the potential expansion of settlements in the West Bank. Addressing Parliament for the first time as foreign secretary, Ed Miliband said he would introduce a “comprehensive reset” of policy on Israel “in the coming weeks”. He said the government would examine how to stop UK companies “financing, constructing or advertising new settlements” in the occupied West Bank.Responding, Gideon Saar told Hebrew-language news website Ynet: “If Britain acts against Israel, Israel will act against Britain.” “If they act, I think they will…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks after the 2026 G20 Financial meetings on Sept. 1, 2026 in Asheville, North Carolina.CNBCChina was the only Group of 20 member to dissent from a joint statement that “non-market based economies pushing out a never-ending stream of cheap exports is not sustainable,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday.The other G20 members will take action in the coming “days, weeks or months” to “reach a resolution on this unsustainable equilibrium,” Bessent said at a press conference following days of meetings with finance ministers and central bankers in Asheville, North Carolina.The statement, released later Tuesday by the…

Long-term government borrowing costs have risen to a 28-year high, putting further pressure on Prime Minister Andy Burnham ahead of his first Budget next month.The yield on a 30-year gilt — a loan to the British government — rose to 5.89% on Tuesday, the highest since 1998.Borrowing costs in the US, Japan and Europe have hit similar highs in recent days, reflecting investors’ concerns about inflation, state borrowing levels and spending levels by large tech companies on AI.Burnham told the House of Commons his government’s “bedrock”, as it seeks to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, would be “fiscal responsibility”.All of those…

Iranian-made Zolfaghar missiles are displayed at Azadi Square in Tehran on August 2, 2026. Atta Kenare | Afp | Getty ImagesU.S. forces completed another wave of strikes against Iran late Tuesday stateside, hitting multiple sites across the country, in a renewed exchange of fire between the warring parties after a nearly month-long hiatus.In a post on X, the U.S. Central Command said that the targets struck included air defense and communications sites, and radar systems, in retaliation against the “recent attempted attacks” by Iran against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members. Tehran has responded…

The Labour MP for Middlesbrough and Thornaby East, Andy McDonald, told Mahmood that Cleveland Police had the highest rate of crime for any police force in England and Wales.He said the latest figures showed about 123 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents, yet the force had received the “largest percentage reduction” in officers since 2010.”Police numbers are not the only factor, but a force facing the highest demand in the country needs the resources to respond,” he said.He added the £2m would address some of the extra funding needed but he wanted to discuss how funding shortfalls could “urgently and permanently…

The U.S. and Iran traded a new round of attacks Tuesday, with American forces striking Iranian targets around the Strait of Hormuz and Tehran saying it had launched a retaliatory operation targeting U.S. interests across the region.Explosions were seen over the southern Jordanian city of Aqaba as Iran said it was retaliating for the U.S. strikes, according to the Associated Press. It was not immediately clear what caused the explosions or whether Iranian missiles or drones struck targets there.Aqaba is on the Red Sea, south of the U.S. bases targeted over the weekend and sits near Jordan’s borders with Israel…

Andy Burnham has promised to set out plans for “stronger public control” of essential services as he addressed the House of Commons for the first time since taking power. The prime minister said “a series of wrong turns” since the 1980s had seen economic power in the UK privatised and pointed to the water industry as “a leaking monument to that approach – a country run in the private rather than public interest”. He reiterated his belief that political power had been centralised and announced he would be making devolution powers available to more areas in England. Conservative leader Kemi…