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President Joe Biden plans to sign into law a $1.9 trillion stimulus plan aimed at lifting the United States from an economic slump triggered by the year-long coronavirus pandemic on Friday. "We expect that delivery to happen sometime tomorrow and then the president will sign it on Friday," says White House press secretary Jen Psaki. SOUNDBITE
Labour leader Ed Miliband says he will end tax rules that allow the wealthy to reduce the amount they pay the government on money earned overseas, if elected in May. But changing the centuries old law could prove both popular and controversial, as Joel Flynn reports.
Hunter Biden, the son of US President Joe Biden, departs the federal courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware, after pleading not guilty in a tax case as a deal with federal prosecutors derailed. IMAGES
Following a gathering of protesters at a rally organised by opposition leader Raila Odinga, police in full riot gear have been deployed in the streets of Nairobi to disperse them, firing teargas into the crowd. Odinga's Azimio alliance called for anti-government protests over the impact of the new taxes on Kenyans already suffering from a severe cost-of-living crisis. IMAGES
President Joe Biden will unveil a proposed budget on Thursday that would reduce the national deficit by $3 trillion over the next decade, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
"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
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