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Published: 09 September 2026.The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The family of a British father whose body was discovered in Grenada in January has urged authorities in the Caribbean nation to cooperate fully with Metropolitan police investigators in the UK as they continue efforts to establish how he died. Andrew Donald Frederick, 47, was found dead on 4 January at the property where he had been staying in...

Published: 08 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Global oil prices have moved sharply higher towards the psychologically important $100-a-barrel level after attacks on energy facilities in southern Saudi Arabia added to concerns about disruptions to supplies across the Middle East. Brent crude, the international benchmark, climbed above $99 a barrel during Tuesday trading, putting prices at their highest level since July. The latest increase came...

Published: 08 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Councils across England are spending more than £125 million a year to place some of the country’s most vulnerable children in care settings that are not legally registered, an investigation has found, exposing the scale of a rapidly expanding market created by a severe shortage of suitable accommodation. Analysis of local authority payment records covering the past two...

Published: 08 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The UK government is preparing a significant shift in its approach to Israel, with Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband expected to announce measures targeting trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories and to reaffirm Britain’s support for Palestinian rights and a two-state solution. The proposed policy represents a more active British approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and...

Published: 08 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Billionaire hedge fund manager Chris Rokos is preparing to leave the UK and move his tax residency to Greece, according to reports, making him the latest prominent member of Britain’s wealthy financial community to consider relocating amid debate over the country’s tax policies. Rokos, founder of Rokos Capital Management, is reportedly planning to establish an office in Athens...

Published: 08 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. More than 40 major retailers across the UK are preparing to offer up to 100,000 short-term work placements to young people who are not currently in employment, education or training, in an effort to help them gain experience and move towards paid work. The initiative, developed in partnership with the Department for Work and Pensions, is aimed at...

Published: 08 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Australia is preparing legislation that would give social media users aged 16 and over greater control over the algorithms that determine what appears in their online feeds, in a major proposed expansion of the country’s digital safety rules. The draft laws would allow eligible users to switch off algorithmically recommended content and instead view posts primarily from people,...

Published: 08 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. BUENOS AIRES — Argentina is preparing to file criminal charges against Israeli energy company Navitas Petroleum and several of its executives over oil exploration and production activities in the Falkland Islands, escalating a long-running dispute with the United Kingdom over sovereignty of the South Atlantic territory. The planned legal action follows a renewed push by Argentine President Javier...

Published: 08 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. KATHMANDU — Nepal has called on the world’s biggest polluting economies to accept greater responsibility for the consequences of climate change after catastrophic floods and landslides left more than 6,000 people dead or missing in the Himalayan country. The Nepalese government has formally requested $20 million in climate-related compensation from the United Nations fund established to help vulnerable...

Published: 08 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. CAGNES-SUR-MER — Two thieves broke into a museum dedicated to French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir on the French Riviera early Tuesday, stealing four artworks in a raid that authorities estimate could involve works worth about €9 million. The incident took place at the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in southern France, where the painter spent the final years of...