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With Jackdaw approved, what’s next for the North Sea?

A lot has happened since 1 June 2022, the date when ministers first granted permission to tap the Jackdaw gas field. The Conservatives were halfway through their ill-fated final term of three. Kwasi Kwarteng was the business secretary, with equally ill-fated aspirations for higher office.

World

Austrian, Swiss women kidnapped in Niger are freed — report

An Austrian woman and a Swiss woman kidnapped in Niger have been freed after 18 months in captivity, local reports say.

  • Swiss Eva G., 70, and Austrian Claudia Abbt, 69, freed from Niger captivity
  • Women abducted in January and April 2025, held over a year
  • Libyan al-Masar TV video shows frail women expressing gratitude to Haftar
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