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الحكومة الإسرائيلية: نتنياهو يحاول الحفاظ على تماسك معسكره، وآيزنكوت يسعى لتوسيع دائرة شركائه

من المقرر أن يتسلم الرئيس الإسرائيلي إسحاق هرتسوغ النتائج الرسمية للانتخابات يوم الأربعاء، قبل بدء مشاوراته مع ممثلي الأحزاب للاستماع إلى توصياتهم بشأن الشخصية التي ينبغي تكليفها بتشكيل الحكومة

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The measure slipped into UK budget that could protect spending on children, youth and rough sleeping | Heather Stewart

PDEL, which will ringfence money for preventive policies, marks a welcome and potentially consequential addition John Healey’s debut budget was far from a blockbuster, but it may come to be remembered for the birth of a plucky new character in the tax and spend universe – little PDEL. It may not have the charm of Disney’s Wall-E, but PDEL (pronounced P-Del), or preventative departmental expenditure limit, to give it its full name, marks a welcome, and potentially very consequential, addition. Continue reading...

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The UK’s legal cannabis market is booming – so why can’t this talented artist get any to treat his epilepsy? | Kojo Koram

Companies have rushed to supply the drug as a wellness treatment, but patients with serious illnesses aren’t able to get NHS prescriptions In 2022, a prodigiously talented young artist named Louis Petit was preparing to return to the UK, having been effectively exiled in the Netherlands as a teenager so he could access the medical cannabis he needed to control his epilepsy. Six years earlier, Louis, then 12, had been diagnosed with a rare form of the neurological disease when medical cannabis was still illegal in the UK. But in Rotterdam, where it was legal, doctors helped him discover that a

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