NHS broken by £37 billion investment gap during 2010s, Darzi report finds It missed out on equivalent of 40 new hospitals, lags peers on key resources and digital technologies Cancer mortality rates higher than similar countries Via Ashleigh Furlong >> bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Billionaire Jared Isaacman makes history performing the world’s first commercial space walk from a SpaceX capsule bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

Exclusive: The US and UK governments are discussing allowing Ukraine to deploy British Storm Shadow missiles backed by US navigational data to conduct long-range strikes inside Russian territory, sources tell Bloomberg Story with Natalia Drozdiak >>> bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

China will raise the retirement age for the first time since 1978, a move likely to slow a decline in the labor force and support the economy bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

Thierry Breton, the EU’s influential tech enforcer, resigns --> in a letter to Ursula von der Leyen he says her request for France to provide a different nominee for the commission was “further testimony to questionable governance” bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

Ooof. Meantime: President Emmanuel Macron proposed Stephane Sejourne, France’s outgoing foreign minister, to be the country’s new commissioner for the European Union

The UK government is cracking down on an oil trading empire led by Hossein Shamkhani, whose web of firms have drawn scrutiny for helping move Iranian and Russian crude around the world, sources say bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Markets

EXCLUSIVE: Iraq's prime minister says in an interview the country no longer needs the 2,500 US troops still in the country, stating it can combat ISIS on its own bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

Norway’s currency has lost almost a fifth of its value against the euro since 2022, upsetting a lot of people in one of the world’s richest countries bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Bloomberg Markets

Hundreds of members of Hezbollah, including fighters and medics, were seriously wounded when their pagers exploded, a security source told Reuters. A Hezbollah official said it was the "biggest security breach" in nearly a year of war with Israel. reuters.com/world/middle-e…

The Taiwanese company Gold Apollo denied it manufactured the pagers used in attacks across Lebanon, following media reports that identified the low-profile firm as the supplier of the devices bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Technology

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About a year after BAC signed a contract with Gold Apollo, Hsu says they came with an unusual request: they wanted to design their own products but use his trademark. Hsu also noticed their payment transfers were “strange.” npr.org/2024/09/18/g-s…

‼️ 🇭🇺 The Hungarian government’s position on the "pager issue": authorities have confirmed that the company in question is a trading intermediary, with no manufacturing or operational site in Hungary. It has one manager registered at its declared address, and the referenced

On Bloomberg radio talking about something I didn't think I'd ever be discussing - exploding pagers youtube.com/watch?v=ymlvpp…

A 10-year-old Japanese child stabbed in southern China has died; it may further hit ties strained by historical resentments, territorial disputes and China’s reaction to Japan’s releasing wastewater from a destroyed nuclear power plant bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Bloomberg Politics

The crayon marks on the wall of the sparsely furnished apartment hint at it being a conventional family home. But it is a vital component in Russian efforts to circumvent US energy sanctions. And it’s sitting 90 miles southeast of Mumbai bloomberg.com/news/features/… Bloomberg Politics

“What’s the point of driving our kids nuts studying so hard?” Wu says. “The top-tier graduates can’t find a job, those who come back from overseas can’t find a job.” Pay increases, he says, are no longer tied to effort. “My work is meaningless.” bloomberg.com/news/features/… Bloomberg

EXCLUSIVE: Apple is set to be warned by the EU to open up its highly guarded iPhone operating system to rival technologies, or eventually risk significant fines bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Technology

Poland and the Czech Republic are the latest countries to show how climate change is now an economic issue bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Bloomberg Economics