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The British Business Bank, owned by the UK government, is creating a £500 million (around $674 million) economic package to help support diverse and underrepresented fund managers and founders in the country.  Fifty million pounds will be set aside for female-led venture funds, which means the BBB has now committed at least £100 million (around $135 million) to supporting female-led ventures and the government’s Invest in Women Taskforce. Meanwhile, £400 million (around $539 million) will go to backing more diverse fund managers and supporting early-stage companies, as well as helping to boost the talent pipeline to provide those from disadvantaged…

Reuters  —  Violent clashes erupted between far-right groups, local residents and North African migrants in a town in southeastern Spain late on Saturday following an attack on an elderly man by unknown assailants earlier in the week. Five people were hurt and one was arrested during the unrest in Torre-Pacheco, local officials told Reuters, in one of the worst such episodes in the country in recent decades. The town was quieter on Sunday, but government sources said more arrests were expected. Videos posted on social media showed men dressed in clothes bearing far-right symbols and migrants carrying Moroccan flags hurling…

by Mia Taylor Last updated: 4:35 PM ET, Fri July 11, 2025 It has been widely reported that Canadian visitation to the United States has been plummeting amid President Trump’s new tariffs and his talk of annexing our neighbors to the north.But it’s not just Canadians who are apparently put off by President Trump’s policies and rhetoric. A new survey conducted by CNBC reveals that nearly 80 percent of Southeast Asian travelers say the United States is “losing its appeal as a travel destination.”According to the survey, such sentiments are being driven by fears surrounding potential discrimination, actions by the…

TechCrunch All Stage 2025 is almost here — In 2 days, the doors swing open at Boston’s SoWa Power Station. If you’re a founder or investor, this is your last shot to lock in the lowest ticket prices before they vanish at the door. This isn’t your average startup conference. TC All Stage is where high-growth startups get sharper, faster, and more fundable — in just one day. Whether you’re pre-seed or preparing for an IPO, this is the room to be in. Savings of up to $475 are here until the event kicks off on July 15 at 7:30…

CNN  —  Several children were killed in an Israeli airstrike at a water distribution point in central Gaza Sunday, health officials said, one of several deadly incidents in the territory that come as ceasefire talks in Doha falter. Hopes had been high for the latest negotiations but after days of negotiations the two sides accused each other of blocking an agreement while on the ground there has been no let-up in Israel’s military campaign, which resumed when the last ceasefire collapsed in March. The Palestinian health ministry reported Sunday that 139 bodies had been brought to Gaza hospitals in the…

CNN  —  Ukraine’s Security Service said Sunday they had killed Russian special service agents suspected of gunning down a fellow officer in Kyiv earlier this week, saying it believed Russia’s Federal Security Service was responsible. SBU officer Ivan Voronych was shot dead in Kyiv on Thursday morning in what authorities told CNN was an apparent assassination. The suspects – a man and a woman – tried to “lay low” after the shooting, the SBU said in a statement Sunday. However, SBU and National Police officers established their whereabouts in the Kyiv region, the statement added. The head of the SBU,…

A fresh look at business travel spending suggests U.S. companies may be shortchanging their own growth by not investing enough in getting employees back on the road.According to a new study released by the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) in partnership with the American Society of Travel Advisors (ASTA), companies could unlock up to $2.4 trillion in additional revenue with just a modest bump in travel spending. The research shows that an 8.3 percent increase in corporate travel and entertainment (T&E) budgets could drive a six percent jump in sales, making the case that business travel remains a powerful force…

Tuam, Ireland CNN  —  When Annette McKay’s first grandson was born, she thought her mother, Maggie O’Connor, would be over the moon. She had become a great-grandmother. Instead, McKay found her sobbing unconsolably outside her home, crying: “It’s the baby, the baby.” McKay reassured her 70-year-old mother that her great-grandson was healthy. But O’Connor wasn’t talking about him. “Not your baby, my baby,” O’Connor said, revealing a secret she had buried for decades. Her first child, Mary Margaret, died in June 1943, at just 6 months old. It was the first and only time that O’Connor spoke about Mary Margaret,…

PANNONHALMA, Hungary (AP) — Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could wipe out centuries of history.The 1,000-year-old Pannonhalma Archabbey is a sprawling Benedictine monastery that is one of Hungary’s oldest centers of learning and a UNESCO World Heritage site.Restoration workers are removing about 100,000 handbound books from their shelves and carefully placing them in crates, the start of a disinfection process that aims to kill the tiny beetles burrowed into them.The drugstore beetle, also known as the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Love Island USA” will crown the winning couple of its seventh season Sunday evening, culminating a tumultuous summer full of explosive breakups and shock exits.The finale will air on Peacock at 6 p.m. Pacific/9 p.m. Eastern, following a chart-topping run since the season premiered on June 3. The show brings young singles together in a remote villa in Fiji to explore connections with the ultimate goal of finding love. The show, an American spinoff to the UK series, has shaken up reality TV, becoming Peacock’s most watched entertainment series on mobile devices, according to NBC Universal.…