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Pakistan strikes $3bn IMF bailout deal Pakistan has struck a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for $3bn of funding. The deal still needs to be approved by the global lender’s board.  Pakistan is facing its worst economic crisis since independence from Britain in 1947. The country’s economy has been struggling after years of mismanagement and then the global energy crisis and the deadly flooding that hit the country last year. To help secure the deal, the South Asian nation’s central bank raised its main interest rate to a record high of 22% on Monday. “The economy has faced…

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Scot Peterson not guilty over Parkland school shooting response Former sheriff’s deputy Scot Peterson has been found not guilty of failing to protect students during a school shooting in Florida in 2018.  Peterson chose to stay outside during the attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, near Miami. The attack is among one of America’s most deadly school shootings. 17 people were killed and 17 were left injured.  Peterson, the school’s resource officer, was found not guilty of 11 charges including felony child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury.  But the verdict was not well received by some of…

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Today’s news summary – Paper Talk Friday’s front pages report on a variety of stories. Several papers lead on the government’s planned shake-up of the NHS. There are also reports on the Rwanda plan being deemed unlawful by the courts. NHS shakeup PM Rishi Sunak will unveil the “most radical” reform in NHS history – including measures to create an army of junior and apprentice roles and speed up clinical training, according to the Daily Telegraph. Health Secretary Steve Barclay writes in the paper that the plan constitutes “the most radical modernisation and reform of the workforce since the NHS…

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