内容摘要：Last month, Ukraine agreed to accept a US proposal for an initial 30-day ceasefire, following talks in Saudi Arabia, while Russia has still to make a decision.

Last month, Ukraine agreed to accept a US proposal for an initial 30-day ceasefire, following talks in Saudi Arabia, while Russia has still to make a decision.

A spokesperson for the University of Derby said they have had to respond to "well-publicised challenges facing the sector".They added the university "remains committed" to investing in high-quality, sustainable research.

"We must ensure our resources are channelled in support of an exceptional student experience and towards research that has the greatest impact in the UK and around the world," they said."In this context, the university is considering plans around the structure and resourcing of our research."While this is likely to result in individual redundancy proposals for some staff, the process remains at consultation stage.

"These proposals only apply to staff in research leadership roles, primarily professors and associate professors, and not all academics at the university."Don't mess with Canada - that's the private message to the US from the very top of Ottawa's political system. Just like nearly a century ago with the infamous American Smoot-Hawley tariffs, Canada got its retaliation in to Donald Trump's import taxes very quickly.

While the White House is claiming Canada's pledge to spend $1.3bn (£1bn) on a border protection plan has given it diplomatic victory in its battle over fentanyl traffic, there was very little conceded that was not already planned by America's northern neighbour.

Crucially, both Mexico and Canada were undeterred by a clear threat in Trump's executive orders that any retaliation would lead to higher tariffs on imports into the US.However, some economists have told the BBC that the government is at least partly to blame for the current sell off.

"It's been a relatively dramatic couple of weeks for the gilts markets and for the pound," Nina Skero, chief executive of the Centre for Economics and Business Research, told the BBC."It's been somewhat of a worldwide phenomenon, but it seems to be particularly intense in the UK."

She pinned the UK's specific problems on a "delayed response to the very heavy tax and spend in the Budget", adding that "we're going to have to wait some months, maybe even some quarters, to see the real impact".Economists and retailers have said measures introduced in the Budget, such as the increase in employers' National Insurance contributions,