Budget 2017: Double Budget effect on your finances
Here is what we already know about changes to your finances ahead of a second Budget of the year. BBC News – Business
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Syria: Russia again blocks extension of chemical attacks probe
Moscow uses its 11th UN veto since the Syria conflict began to block an investigative body. BBC News – Middle East
Brexit: EU gives May two weeks to act on divorce bill and Ireland
Theresa May is told to put more money on the table and address Irish border concerns within two weeks. BBC News – Europe
Venezuela crisis: Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma flees country
Mayor Antonio Ledezma, who had been under house arrest since 2015, escapes to Colombia. BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean
Chancellor Philip Hammond ‘to target housing and NHS’
Philip Hammond will use the Budget to “attack problems” that lost the Tories votes, a former minister tells Newsnight. BBC News – UK
Ohio Supreme Court Judge Bill O’Neill brags of sex conquests
The jurist, who proclaimed to speak for “all heterosexual males”, provokes a firestorm of ridicule. BBC News – US & Canada