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"We are listening and have listened" says the UK's finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng during a speech at the Conservative Party's annual conference in Birmingham, after announcing a dramatic U-turn on a controversial tax cut for high-earners, part of a debt-driven economic package that has bombed with the markets, electorate and much of the ruling party. SOUNDBITE
Ireland abandons its resistance to a higher tax rate for global multinationals and agrees to sign up to an international agreement to impose a 15 percent levy on the world's biggest companies. SOUNDBITE
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire announces a Franco-German agreement on space policy and launchers at a joint press briefing with Peter Altmaier, German Economy Minister. SOUNDBITES
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leads the nation's condolences to Queen Elizabeth II on the death of her husband Prince Philip, acclaiming his "extraordinary life and work". SOUNDBITE
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